Description
The UA 175B & 176 Tube Compressor Collection gives you the rich tube gain reduction character and sonic flexibility of UA founder Bill Putnam Sr.'s groundbreaking limiters.
Get the rich tube compression that changed recording.
Often cited among the crowning achievements of audio pioneer and UA founder Bill Putnam Sr., the 175B and 176 compressors are prized for their rich tube gain reduction character and sonic flexibility. Now you can get the same legendary sounds as the rare hardware with the only authentic plug-in emulation of the original UA 175B and 176 compressors.
- Add vintage compression and detail to vocals, drums, guitars, and more with one of Bill Putnam Sr.'s most coveted designs
- Spice up synths with harmonically rich tube amplifier and transformer saturation
- Creatively enhance the dynamics of your most important sources with 2:1, 4:1, 8:1 and 12:1 ratio controls
- Get perfect drum and vocal sounds easily with Dry/Wet Mix parallel processing and Headroom controls
Add a Legendary Limiter to your Studio
Introduced in the early 1960s — and used on thousands of seminal records — the UA 175B and 176 were the first compressors purpose-built for studio recording and mixing music, giving engineers groundbreaking fast attack time and independently variable Attack and Release controls.
Experience Deep Tube Sonics
Based on a pair of UA's 1960s golden units, the UA 175B and 176 Tube Compressor Collection gives you all the ultra-musical harmonics and colorful saturation of these original units — down to their magical feedback compression circuit — giving you softer compression at lower input levels and harder, nearly brickwall limiting at higher levels.
Get the Rich Sound of an All-Around Champ
Perfect for vocals, drums, guitars, and more, the UA 175B and 176 plug-ins give you all the character and juice of the originals — indistinguishable from the target hardware in blind listening tests. Easily add depth to room mics or a drum bus, give your guitars definition, park a bass in a mix, and inject vocals with energy. You can even turn off the compression and use the 175B/176 plug-ins as a "tone box," lending rich tube textures galore.
Key Benefits
- Add vintage compression and detail to vocals, drums, guitars, and more with one of Bill Putnam Sr.'s most coveted designs
- Spice up synths with harmonically rich tube amplifier and transformer saturation
- Creatively enhance the dynamics of your most important sources with 2:1, 4:1, 8:1 and 12:1 ratio controls
- Harness plug-in-only features like Dry/Wet Mix parallel processing and Headroom for user‑customizable operating level
- Use with any audio interface, no UA hardware required
Native UAD System Requirements
Included Version
UAD Native Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.
UAD Spark and Native UAD System Requirements
- (Mac) macOS 10.15 Catalina, 11 Big Sur, 12 Monterey, or 13 Ventura
- (Windows) Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit editions)
- Intel, AMD or Apple silicon processor
- Internet connection to download software and authorize native UAD plug-ins
- Free iLok account with iLok Cloud or iLok USB (2nd generation or higher)
- Free UA Connect application for managing native UAD plug-ins
Native UAD Instruments Requirements
- Sample-based UAD instruments require SSD storage with:
- APFS formatting (Mac)
- NTFS formatting (Windows)
- 1 GB to 10 GB available SSD storage (space requirement varies per UAD Instrument)
- Individual UAD Instrument storage requirements are listed on UA Connect’s UAD Plug-Ins tab
Notes
Operating systems not listed above are untested. Although untested operating systems may work, they are not supported by Universal Audio.
Pre-release and beta versions of operating systems are not supported.
Native UAD plug-ins on Apple silicon Macs automatically run natively on Apple silicon in DAWs that support native Apple silicon.
Windows running via Bootcamp on Mac systems are not supported.