FATSO™ Jr. / Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor
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Get the rich sound of magnetic tape, class A transformers, and tube circuits.
Able to warmly burnish frequencies and transients, or crush them with thick saturation, the FATSO Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces exhaustively emulates the iconic, industry standard Empirical Labs hardware.
Used by legendary engineers Ed Cherney, Al Schmitt, and Brendan O'Brien, the FATSO can also increase the apparent volume of your source material. The FATSO plug-in is officially endorsed and scrutinized for accuracy by its designer, Dave Derr.Now You Can
Inject your tracks and mixes with the warm, musical qualities of magnetic tape, tubes, and class A transformers
Lightly color, or destroy, drums, vocals, and more with tube and tape saturation
Harness “plug-in only” Tranny Saturation, Sidechain Filtering, and Stereo/Mono controls
Dial-in a wealth of analog textures with Warmth and Spank controls
Powered Plug-In Overview
FATSO Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor plug-in
Go From Tame — to Trashed
The FATSO plug-in offers a wide palette of possibilities for adding fat analog character and cohesiveness to your DAW tracks. It’s also a creative tool, able to add varying degrees of saturation — from subtle to severe — on any source. The FATSO's Input control lets you dial in shades of harmonic generation and distortion, while the Tranny and Warmth features provide varying amounts of of tape and tube tone.
Plug-In Only Features
The FATSO plug-in’s versatility is greatly expanded with the addition of Dave Derr's custom mods. The FATSO Sr. offers a “Tranny” saturation control, Sidechain Filtering and deeper compression parameters including Threshold, Attack and Release. These special FATSO Sr. mods are only available with the UAD Powered Plug-In version of this essential studio tool.
“The Fatso is our secret weapon for warming up abrasive soft synths.”
– The Glitch Mob
“The FATSO is a 'must own' UAD plug-in. I love it on the kick and bass tracks. It's also amazing in the master buss chain.”
– Ivan Barias (Musiq Soulchild, Jill Scott, Estelle)
“The UAD FATSO really brings back the bottom-end warmth to a vocal that's lost its way.”
– Dean Coleman
“When you need something to really punch but still have warmth, the UAD FATSO is my weapon of choice.”
– Richard Devine
“The UAD FATSO is my favorite tool for warming up guitars and bringing out harmonic content.”
– Billy Bush (Garbage)Customer Reviews
P. Duffy
March 25, 2020
Give your kick some girth!
I love sending my kicks to this - just does something really magical and makes them sound...well...fat!
Read MoreJ. Akre
March 1, 2020
Fatso JR/SR
WOW and Dang! It's like a 5 lb hammer, yet extremely versatile.
Read MoreL. Meade
January 20, 2020
BITCHIN'
Never been more satisfied from grabbing a Fatsos tranny knob and cranking it.
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Key Features
Recreates the warm, musical qualities of magnetic recording tape, tubes, and class A transformers
Licensed and endorsed by Empirical Labs, created by Universal Audio
Clipping, Warmth, Tranny, and Compression Select allow for a wide variety of analog tonal shaping possibilities
Additional UAD plug-in exclusive, FATSO Sr., provides original concept developed by Empirical Labs’ Dave Derr
FATSO Sr. features include Tranny Saturation, Sidechain Filtering plus Threshold, Attack, and Release
Stereo or Mono operation with independent Left/Right controls
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Customer Reviews
FATSO™ Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor
P. Duffy
Give your kick some girth!
I love sending my kicks to this - just does something really magical and makes them sound...well...fat!
J. Akre
Fatso JR/SR
WOW and Dang! It's like a 5 lb hammer, yet extremely versatile.
L. Meade
BITCHIN'
Never been more satisfied from grabbing a Fatsos tranny knob and cranking it.
D. Yudin
Very interesting for brass
Very interesting work in brass bus
D. Perini
Fatso
Fatso is a must!
t. billonare
this is perfect
i use on bass everytime
g. cudjoe
Awesome
I heard so much about this plugin but always put it off until now! Great plugin, a must have.
a. emiri
great Guys at UA
I own a FATSO Hardware too....it's very very difficult to find differences with the UAD2 FATSO™ Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor....Great Guys at UA...
Greetings from MilanoD. Lacroix
Amazing
Truly an amazing tool i recommend anyone working post production invest in. You wont be disappointed!!!!!
s. simmonds
Great comp
Works like the real one ... sounds awesome
A. Stapleton
WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!
I can honestly say this thing has changed my mixes in a huuuge way! Its sound can be subtle or extreme depending on your settings. It's so good I'm thinking of getting another DSP octo-core. The Fatso is demanding on the dsp. but you get what you expect from its processing. I own some of the best UAD plugins and this plugin made me feel like I could've have done without some of the compressors I bought. They're all great but the Fatso is quite unique. :-) It does what it's supposed to!
R. Khan
Mr Bombastic, baby fantastic!
Bombastic in all the right places. This thing’s got power. You can drive it quite hard, probably beyond the needs of most but the capability is there. I like the ‘warmth’ button feature, gradual clicks simply get you to the level of warmth you want. This feature is in addition to the regular dial knobs and doesn’t have to be used but I really like it—instant warmth!
If you want a compressor, put this on your must try list.S. Yakimovich
FATSO™ Jr./Sr. Tape Sim. & Compressor
Cool plugin. They can pump any track. Add ribbon warmth and saturation. My score is 5 out of 5.
C. Camden
Get this.
This is simply magic on a drum bus. Worth it for that alone for me.
C. Davies
Great sound!
I bought this because I needed to fill the '4 items for the 3 price' offer, on a whim, and LOVING it. adds so much more than just compression. I use it now on almost everything for a nice thick warm sound.
D. Fries
Good Compressor!
Good with drums, guitar, banjo, but not for everything.
UAD User
Brings A Vintage Vibe
I was looking for a way to turn my modern sounding drum loops into an early 70’s singer/songwriter vibe. This really warmed things up in a musical way.
l. morrish-thomas
Does incredible things to the drum bus
Just makes drums sit really nicely in the mix. With this you can carefully adjust how much transients get tamed. The tranny section is really useful for translation onto small speakers too as it brings the harmonics out of the low frequency information
j. colin
Essential for every engineer
When things get thin call on the fatso! Loveeee it!
UAD User
Great Parallel Drums Compressor
Versatile on the mix bus for in your face aggression, drums bus, and my favorite implementation compression on a parallel drums bus and tucking it back in. Also something Andrew Scheps does on a lot of his mixes. He calls that P Drums bus: Fatso.
