Can Universal Audio match the original Fairchild Limiter – Plugin Review
Tosh from Wij Productions take a look at the Fairchild Limiter Collection for the Universal Audio powered plugins platform. The original fetches $30k+ how does this measure up
The Fairchild 670 and 660 are the most coveted vintage compressor/limiters in the world, with good reason. These 20-tube tone titans — which now fetch upwards of $50,000 — impart an unmistakable silky warmth heard on hundreds of hit records from the Beatles and Pink Floyd, to Miles Davis and countless Motown classics. Now your vocal tracks, drum bus, and entire mix can benefit from the world’s most accurate plug-in recreations of these one-of-a-kind compressors.
- Give your tracks and mixes classic Fairchild tube warmth and character
- Get the only plug-in that accurately emulates Fairchild’s tube-driven gain control, compression curves, and tube amp and transformer sections — making it indistinguishable from the original hardware
- Duplicate the famed Ocean Way Studios’ compression sound with circuit-modeled recreations of their golden reference units
- Complete your “Big Three” compressor arsenal, alongside the LA-2A and 1176 plug-ins
The very first Fairchild limiter that audio genius Rein Narma created on Les Paul’s kitchen table transformed the sound of recording forever. Soon, these 20-tube, 14-transformer, 67-pound behemoths were embraced by world-class studios, many of which still employ their vintage Fairchilds despite the increasing difficulty in maintaining these tube-driven tone machines.
For a half-century, the Fairchild 670 — and its aggressive little brother, the Fairchild 660 — have defined popular music’s most revered vocal and drum sounds. In fact, the world’s elite mixers often employ a 670 simply for the “glow” it brings to their final mixes, even without the compression circuitry engaged.
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