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"A classic compressor for free on Valentine's Day – it must be love!": Universal Audio is giving away an 1176 plugin as a Valentine's gift - here's how to get it and use it

Forget flowers, chocolates or champagne – give your loved one a free vintage compressor plugin instead! Better still, just get it for yourself…

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NAMM 2025: Universal Audio delivers a big update to Luna - its free DAW just got even better

No UA hardware required, so no reason not to download it now and give it a go

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“Presents a supremely intuitive workflow and fantastic quality preamps”: SSL 2+ MKII review

The latest audio interface to get an update steps into the home recording ring

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"I'm not a big amp plugin user beyond recording – but my time with these three changed my playing habits": Universal Audio UAD Dream '65 Reverb, Ruby '63 Top Boost and Lion '68 Super Lead Amplifier plugins review

UA's acclaimed amp modeling pedals are channeled into native plugins – is the recipe right for recording and more?

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“What we are after is not perfection. You’re looking for the flaws… the noise… earth hum. You’re looking for the arm-tight playing… the human aspect”: Opeth’s Mikael Åkerfeldt on inspirations, intuition, shred, and the problem with modern metal

A sprawling story of dark familial secrets, freewheeling prog and Åkerfeldt death growls, solos inspired by Peter Green and Ritchie Blackmore, Opeth bequeath everything a prog-metal fan could ever want on The Last Will And Testament

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"Thumping low-end that doesn’t muddy up, and all the throatiness that the real thing does so well": Universal Audio UAFX Knuckles '92 Dual Rec amp pedal review

Universal Audio's guitar rig take-over bid continues, and this time it's aiming for classic '90s Californian high-gain tone

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“The beauty of Anti is that it is way more than just a 5150 emulation”: Universal Audio Anti 1992 High Gain Amp pedal

Universal Audio finally gets into the high-gain game – and about time

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“The most famous high-gain amp to emerge in 1992 was the 5150, and that’s exactly the character the Anti pedal offers”: Universal Audio UAFX Anti 1992 High Gain Amp pedal review

Universal Audio expands its superlative UAFX amp modelling pedal lineup with a high-gain tribute to a Eddie Van Halen’s fire-breathing Peavey 5150

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"The articulation is sensational even with the overdrive knob cranked, and every note rings true no matter what you’re playing”: Universal Audio UAFX Enigmatic ‘82 Overdrive Special pedal review

Has UA committed heresy with its digitization of the holy grail of guitar tone? We find out…

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"There are few producers who haven’t employed – or lusted after – it at some point or another, such is its legendary status": Why does everyone love the UREI/UA 1176 compressor?

Here’s why the 1176 has made such an impact in the recording world

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“The authentic genre-defining sound of one of the world’s most ferocious high-gain amps”: Universal Audio unveils the UAFX Knuckles ’92, offering monster Dual Rectifier tones in a compact pedal

The Dual Rectifier shaped an era of rock and metal tone and the Knuckles '92 Rev F Dual Rec Amplifier pedal brings its Metallica and Foo Fighters-approved firepower to your pedalboard

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“A modern-day rock and metal classic that delivers the most powerful tones ever to come out of a guitar speaker”: Universal Audio packs classic Mesa/Boogie Rectifier sounds into stompbox form with its Knuckles '92 Dual Rec Amplifier pedal

With six classic microphone and cabinet configurations, and the original amp's green, orange, and red channel voicings, the new UAFX pedal aims to supply the authentic high-gain tones of punk, rock, and metal

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“I almost think of it as audio archaeology”: Universal Audio CEO Bill Putnam Jr on the brand’s decades-long quest to capture the spirit of classic studio gear in software

With the launch of a new generation of Apollo interfaces, one of the music tech industry’s most iconic brands shows no signs of slowing down

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“The world's most authentic amp models, no UA hardware required”: Universal Audio takes its Edge-approved amp pedals to the digital realm for the first time with $299 plugins

The UAFX Dream ’65 and Ruby ’63 pedals – which The Edge used during U2's Sphere residency – have been digitized alongside the Marshall-inspired Lion ’68

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“The world’s most authentic amp models, no UA hardware required”: Universal Audio releases its industry standard UAFX amp modelling pedals as plugins

The Dream ’65, Lion ’68 and Ruby ’63 brought golden age Fender, Marshall and Vox tube amp tones to our pedalboards – and are now available to run natively on Mac and Windows

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“Like having a seasoned engineer in a classic analogue studio”: Universal Audio unveils new vocal production plugin Topline Vocal Suite

Billed as an “all-in-one vocal chain”, Topline Vocal Suite fuses UA’s classic analogue emulation with contemporary vocal tuning

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“Built for the stars, ready for your studio”: Universal Audio launches the next generation of Apollo X audio interfaces with auto-gain and onboard monitor correction

The Apollo X Gen 2 range promises to make recording and monitoring easier and more accurate with assistive features, while building on the stellar sound UA is known for

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"There are few producers who haven’t employed – or lusted after – it at some point or another, such is its legendary status": Why does everyone love the UREI/UA 1176 compressor?

Here’s why the 1176 has made such an impact in the recording world, and how you can rack one up for peanuts and use it on your music

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“The magic that made these amps so legendary with more customization than we've ever put in a pedal”: Universal Audio’s Enigmatic ’82 is now the Dumble pedal amp to beat – offering iconic mods and three decades worth of ODS sounds in one stompbox

The latest UAFX pedal was made after the firm closely inspected a host of Overdrive Special amps, and offers in-app tweakability for a Dumble replica like no other

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“The sound of the most elusive guitar amps ever made”: Universal Audio unveils the UAFX Enigmatic ’82 Overdrive Special Amp– a Dumble-in-a-box for “heavenly” tones in the style of SRV, Joe Bonamassa, John Mayer et al

These are bold claims but Universal Audio has earned them with the success of its UAFX amp pedal lineup. And the Enigmatic ’82 might just be its most exciting release yet

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“Unleash bone-crushing riffs, searing leads, crystalline cleans, and everything in between”: UAFX’s amp modelling stompbox lineup takes a turn for the brutal with the high-gain Anti 1992

UAFX takes on a modern metal classic amp with the Peavey 5150-inspired Anti 1992 your all-in-one compact solution for scooped chug and Swedish death metal savagery

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“The most authentic emulation of the amp ever placed in a stompbox”: Universal Audio repackages Eddie Van Halen’s iconic Peavey 5150 in pedal form – with a built-in noise gate and overdrive

The latest entry to Universal's The Edge-backed, highly praised pedal amp family sets its sights on harnessing the tones of an influential modern metal and heavy rock stalwart

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Universal Audio is giving the $199 Century Tube Channel Strip plugin away for free - but not for long

"Get warm, vintage sounds from sterile-sounding digital tracks"

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Which audio interfaces do the pros use?

We've taken a sniff around the studios of 9 production powerhouses and creators to see what's at the centre of their setups

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"This is really a 'what if we just...' type of plugin": Universal Audio's new plugin packs three legendary bits of analogue gear into a single channel strip

The LA-6176 Signature Channel Strip brings together an emulation of UA's classic 6176 Channel Strip with its beloved 1176 and LA-2A compressors

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