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.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
M. Breu
June 25, 2024
More Than Just a Tape Sim
It sounds great, but also makes it easier and faster when you want the same distressor settings for two channels, instead of trying to copy your settings. I got it on sale, I've really...
Read MoreI. Sveinungsen
June 6, 2024
Smooth transients
Fantastic musical compressor . Gives a varm touch .
Read MoreM. Morgan-El
May 30, 2024
Nice and Warm
I put this on my drum bus paired with the API 550 A. Oh my lord. Drums hitting harder than ever. UAD doesn’t miss.
Read MoreJ. Freeman
May 28, 2024
Beautiful sound!
I’ve been working with it for a short time, however it’s an amazing piece for my overheads tracks. The four stars are because...
Read MoreG. Schoonmaker
May 26, 2024
Sounds great. UI could use a refresh.
Sounds great. UI could use a refresh with updated/hi-res graphics.
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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
M. Breu
More Than Just a Tape Sim
It sounds great, but also makes it easier and faster when you want the same distressor settings for two channels, instead of trying to copy your settings. I got it on sale, I've really been liking it.
I. Sveinungsen
Smooth transients
Fantastic musical compressor . Gives a varm touch .
M. Morgan-El
Nice and Warm
I put this on my drum bus paired with the API 550 A. Oh my lord. Drums hitting harder than ever. UAD doesn’t miss.
S. Saied
Sweet and Fat
Very cool plug-in. Presets are great.
J. Freeman
Beautiful sound!
I’ve been working with it for a short time, however it’s an amazing piece for my overheads tracks. The four stars are because it would be great to have it native since there is no more support for my UAD-2 Satellite FireWire.
G. Schoonmaker
Sounds great. UI could use a refresh.
Sounds great. UI could use a refresh with updated/hi-res graphics.
H. Zunkel
Good Sound but GUI is too small
Good sound but GUI too small
H. Zunkel
Good Sound but GUI is too small
Good sound but GUI too small
P. Pierini
You must have this
If you don't own the hardware you must have at least this plugin! Absolutely indispensable!
A. Machanocher
Great
Um dos melhores plugins do mundo
A. Machanocher
Great
Um dos melhores plugins do mundo
U. Soto
WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO BUY THIS?!
DANG! DID NOT EXPECT TO LIKE THIS PLUGIN THIS MUCH. I HAVE TONS OF TAPE EMULATION PLUGINS BUT THERE'S JUST SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT THIS ONE.
T. bryan
WONDERFUL EMULATION
Wow, another emulation that is true to the original Empirical Labs sound. Keep up the good work...
J. Ruziev
Great
Warm Sound
B. Lehaney
Love this plugin
This plugin adds punch and colour. Love what it adds to my guitars.
T. TzwSVsOw
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j. nieva
Amazing tone!
I love everything about Fatso.It provides instant warmth, lots of harmonics and weight to your source. Perfect on parallel processing.
A. Lee
So fat FATSO
Very versatile - from warm & thick drum bus tones to crushed & punchy parallel channels. We NEED a native version so it can be all over the session.
A. Little
Love it
Can’t stress enough how much I love this plugin …thank you to the UAD team for all the hard work to make our jobs easier
