Played with it this morning and it's gonna be all over my mixes. it's truly phenomenal. It's way beyond ambience and reverb. it captures a vibe that's hard to describe.

I’m using this right now. Simply stunning.

Phewww. I was Mixing something today with a retro Drum Sample which had a very 80's Disco kinda vibe and sound. It came to me completely dry. I started messing around with Sound City till I found a sound which I liked. Tried to emulate that with Pro R, Revibe & Valhalla. Pro R was very close but Sound City rounded the Drums in a very nice way. And I did not even mess with the Filters or Compression or anything. It was just a combination of Close and Room Mic 2. What a beautiful looking Plugin with a such an inspiring sound. The title of this Video is exactly how it should be defined.

That is one beautiful looking plugin! If you let an architect and a acoustic consultant design engineer create an audio plugin you get this, that 3D interface is kind of neat and quite functional.

Would be cool to see it used on a whole mix

This might be, already, a top 5 UA plugin. And that is saying A LOT!

I got the same sense of "that's incredible" awe as I did when first very recently listening to Vienna MIR Pro 3D. For that one, I had never heard an orchestral plugin produce such a real sounding soundstage and "I'm there!" sensation. For this one, the variable character of that particular room and its varied mic settings are beautifully apparent.

Wow, this is a seriously gorgeous piece of kit, would love to see a full-length demo. Gonna start saving up my pennies ...

This is a very cool concept that feels very innovative and fresh to me. Yes, it's taking a lot of familiar concepts, but it's building a product that winds up doing something quite unique and also useful. It goes well beyond what IK's Sunset Sound does but not in a gimmicky, tacked on way. Would not be surprised to see more "virtual studio" plugin concepts coming to market.

Can't wait to run PianoVerse through that! I'm doing some soul music tracks for Sync now so this captures that time period.

The best part is the preservation of a great acoustical facility with the ability to use the acoustical space in your home projects. Studios like that are becoming an endangered species...

Thanks for yet another great review... Love your perspectives..

Very good plugin super easy to use and get a sound you want fast. The compressor is magic.

Awesome, thanks a lot Wytse!

Yeah this plugin is a game changer for home recording. Just got it not long ago and it blows my mind how VSTs just sound even better. Specially if you're looking for that warmer, bigger, tone loaded sound. Great video brotha! Cheers!

I wish you would have been my uncle when i was young. It's really smooth to learn something here.

This plugin in fact is exactly like the Ocean Way plugin but on steroids. Ocean Way was really a secret weapon of UAD users. Didn't get much hype but loved by many. The re-mic setting on Ocean Way and now this are incredible. It's not just a reverb plugin. I wouldn't even call it a room simulation, plugins like Sunset Studio from IK Multimedia can not do what these do even though they are room simulations. I've never been able to find another plugin that could do what Ocean Way did. Maybe a convolution reverb could maybe get close but then you don't have the ability to move the mics in and out.

We use the crap out of the Oceanway plugin. It works especially well if you have a mic source dedicated for its use. I'll setup a pair of close room mics that i feed into the plugin which then allows the room mics to translate to what theyre doing a lot better than say sending a kick and snare through it. Can't wait to try this out. Thanks for the look into this one!

What a fun plugin, sounds like it has some special type processing

I work for years with Waves, Softube and other devs. And now use UAD Spark, I can't leave it, I use on all my productions, really surprise me on how great sounds each plugin's from UAD. Thanks.

i really hope this goes on sale some time soon, the more reverbs to colour instruments the better, and the fact i could have the sound of a room so iconic is incredibly cool, if im not mistaken this is the same room the drums for smells like teen spirit was recorded in, same studio at least, in terms of the time alignment too this could probably sound supercool delayed 20ms or so, thats a trick used by steve albini a lot on room mics iirc and it makes drums sound HUGE

I just tried this on vocals a week ago. It is very impressive

uad engineers are the masters of reverb. another great idea from uad. awesome!

Great Video, I Love This Plugin!

These plugs are killer. I use their remic from the Ocean Way plug all the time to make small drum rooms sound like big rooms.

Great video as usual! I'd like to hear more comparisons of audio with the plugin on and off. Would also be cool to hear the plugin in the context of an entire mix.

Thanks ... realy cool! nice review.. lov this one..

This is going to be one of the most used/loved plugins ever.. it really is useful. need to remix every track I've every done now ha ha

I can’t wait to run home after work and compare this to the Capital Sound plugin and the Hitsville plugins and then the IK Multimedia Fame and Sunset Studio plugins! But judging from your video it sounds stunning!

Sounds great. Nice work. Nothing wrong with being a UA fan🎉❤

nice ... now I kinda want this for AIR Studios Lyndhurst Hall! 😅

I bought this and on a PC it uses a ton of CPU. On my Ryzen 5950X it uses a quarter of the CPU for 1 instance.

Just picked it up as 1/2 of the 2-plug Bundle for $99 along with the Distressor. Also grabbed the API Vision Channel Strip since the other 2 channel strips I had were pre-Apollo/Unison versions (Neve 88RS and UAD 4K). The UAD 4k is what the SSL 4000 E was before Universal Audio licensed the branding from SSL. It's been a long time since I've mixed using my UAD cards, so once I've got everything all setup again, I'll be comparing the trials of the "new" 88RS and SSL 4000 E to see how they compare to the older versions. Based on how much I paid for each of those, it borders on criminal to have to buy them again...

Yes a demo video of this plugin would be cool, but I’m already sold and bought it yesterday because they had a promo, 2 plugins for 99$, so I got this native and also the Ravel piano plugin. Both are normally worth over 300$ each.

IK Multimedia... Sunset Sound. Incredible! 😎

This plug-in appears to have VIBE! ;-)

Before you all lose your mind, compare this ASAP to UAD Oceanway Studios it’s the same concepts I want to hear side-by-side I want to hear which is one sounds better let’s go ! Somebody do it please ASAP. Thank you.

Not cheap but cheaper than a flight to Los Angeles. Sounds ace!

Cracking plugin! We sensed that you liked it, a lot, without selling out, fully ;)

Well this beats most every convolution verb I've heard. Easy to use, but there's going to be serious option anxiety happening!?!?!? UA hit a home run at the 400' mark!! 🤗👏👏👏.........but with a price tag to match! 🤷‍♂

7:34 "I don't have a lot to bitch about... yet"! What a great classic line!

thanks for the video - great as always! would be nice to see an in depth tutorial, similar to the Fairchild one you did. :)

Ik bespeur enig enthousiasme in deze video. Die uitgebreide plugin review gaat er, denk ik, dus hoe dan ook komen 😊

It reminds me of a much deeper version of Little Silver Bullet. It just does some kind of thing to make your recording sound great.

Paired this with ik's new ODS collection today. 👌🔥

It’s interesting because when you watch the documentary they say it really has a feel.

Great Review! But too short:) You can just hear the sounds of Fleetwood Mac, Nirvana Tom Petty and so many more. By the way, XLN audio has captured the sound of Sound of Sound City’s drum room nicely in its Fairfax drum expansions.

4:39 thought mf abt to be spittin bars here

So its a Hi pass low pass tape type compressor/Saturation plugin..👍🏾 with a captured sound from a particular era of music.

A full tutorial would be amazing, please do!

It’s an interesting plug-in, the way describe it is it’s “phasey” but the phase issues brings a lot of vibe if you have it set right. I didn’t like it at first and then after a while I pressed bypass and was like “wait, where did the magic go!!!”

Im 10 seconds in to the video and saw your nail color. Swamp green. Looking forward to the rest of the video but DUDE. CALL ME A LEMON.

Using it on synths to create a spacey feeling.

For people that have limited options for "room" micing this is the bee's knees.

I own the plugin and am having some great results. My question is simply how is the plugin routed? Do you buss all of the drum tracks to one stereo buss and then add an insert to that buss? Or do you send a signal from each drum to a buss with sound city on it?

I think you had it on 100% wet for most of the piano testing - which is why it sounded so dark and far away. But still it sounded like a real space.

Are these plugins just IRs?

Jesus, I'm surprised by that chamber, I didn't expect that. I thought it wouldn't hit like their capitol hills and motown chambers as it's only a part of the plugin..... But it does Hahah

So, is this thing better than Ocean Way?

Tip of da Week: If you change a value, you have to wait until the upper bar stops flashing. Only then is the setting active.

what's the difference between this and ocean way

Is this where Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters recorded their 100% full analog path album you can buy on tape and vinyl+?

Every now and then something gets made in the world that you just know people are still gonna be talking about in a hundred years...This is one of those things!!!...

I see this is IR based, so what's the impact on CPU?

Do I need to record in an anechoic chamber to use this? 🤔🤪

What I find weird about this is that when the plugin is active, it almost sounds like the sound is coming out of speakers and that's what we hear. I have the Waves Ocean Way Studio Emulation which is made to have the sound of that control room in your headphones so you can ave a better spacial awareness of your mix and can hear how the mix sounds through near field and mid/far field speakers. And this right here has the same effect I feel like. To me it doesn't sound like a drumset in a room. It sounds like I am listening to a drumset in a room via speakers in the control room. Or am I misinterpreting the intent of the plugin ?

LETS TAKE A CLOSER LOOK!!!

I'll stick with IKs Fame. Less options for me to waste time fiddling with and it just sounds right thanks to the engineers placing all the mics where they originally were.

WOW

Klevgrand also has such a plugin (Rum). The options are clearly more limited, but the quality offered is more than good and the price is worth it (which cannot be said about the UA, because for me it is unfortunately far too expensive).

I mean, you know that IK Multimedia sells similar plugins for Sunset Sound (where the Beach Boys recorded) and the Stoneroom studio (where Genesis used to record), right?

Please tell me where I can find that piano track. It’s killer. It sounds like Harry Connick Jr, but I don’t think it is…

crazy

Interesting 🤔

C24 is a stereo mic.

Cheap trick, go to cancel your Spark subscription and you’ll get it offered for half price forever as long as you don’t cancel. I have this and it sounds decent when used well.

How is this on the CPU??

When is the twitch livestream coming? I’d sub to that

white sea! how come you havent done a video on mir pro 3d yet??? its incredible

What i want to knows is, where is the apollo version? I am starting to get this feeling that at some point UAD will replace all their DSP based audio interfaces with Non DSP versions. If this is the case then prices for the non dsp versions should be significantly reduced.

I want to tell everyone in the White Sea chat, It’s okay to like stuff.

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Hey Altiverb - do it!

🤯

You sound happier in this video

don't really know if you win money from uad but this plugin demands very high cpu. When you do reviews it is nice to talk about pro & con, not just selling the plugin.

Plögin? Pönk?

this is gonna make my edm troll music even more unique

I downloaded the demo and.. jesus christ. I don't want to pay £350 for a glorified reverb. I don't. I do not. I absolutely do not. I don't need any more channel strip or analogue EQ emulations emulations, so that bit is kind of useless for me. But it is That Sound, and for stuff like adding room sound to drums it is absolutely glorious and light-years ahead of anything else I have, and I have some really nice reverbs. I kind of hate that I'm seriously considering spending that much on what is setting off every single snake oil alarm bell in my head at once.

8:09 I'm......i think *falls*

this or the new spitfire AIR STUDIOS REVERB ?

קנית ?

Finaly something interesting from UAD. Too bad they think plugins sell at 350$. A plugin isn't worth more than 99$.

Not sure if you're aware of Benn Jordan, but he just released a video saying he wasn't going to be doing gear reviews anymore because of all the abusive conduct of viewers (death threats and whatnot). Have you experienced similar things reviewing mainly software?

I don’t get it

That's too complicated for me - I like the much simpler Tverb from Eventide - same concept (Tony Visconty "invented" this with Hereos with David Bowie)

'another long commercial..

Low price 😂😂

Demo’d it and it really sounds strange, unlike any room I’ve ever been in, and sounds so phasey and gross. Hard pass.

Why does he cower in shame? Because he is supposed to shit on plugins?