Again, the Waves offerings sound great, and are well worth the price of admission. Also, in the UAD set, I have three flavors of the LA2a to work with, each with its own sound. But, when going head to head, UAD LA2a vs CLA La2a, it is my belief that UAD has a clarity and openness that I enjoy more. It does not, to my mind, sound near as well as the CLA LA3a does in the same applications.
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Then I tinker about for a hour or so, and find the Free Molot Compressor is best tool for the job at hand.įor example, in the above question, UAD has a LA3a plugin that is in need of a major update. Often times, I think my new UAD plug is the one for the job. You are right, not every UAD plugin outshines other similar plugins in its class. I own most, if not all the Waves, IK, Slate, UAD, Soundtoys, etc., plugins. It's just psychological, the emulations don't actually sound better than other good emulations out there.I will agree with you to a point.
People who preach about the superiority of UAD plugins are usually people who have spent a lot of money on UAD plugins and hardware and think they are better because they carry official brand names and are expensive. Native Instruments and Slate Digital have great LA-2A and 1176 emulations.Ī piece of advice: If someone says nothing can touch UAD plugins, I would automatically not take that person's opinion seriously. So basically, in my opinion, the waves cla suite is really cool and totally worth it and just sound better than the UAD ones or at the very least same level.Your ears though. So basically, in my opinion, the waves cla suite is really cool and totally worth it and just sound better than the UAD ones or at the very least same level. Waves ssl channel strip is still my goto to put on everything and there is no other channel strip i've tried particularly of ssl variety that even comes close to the layout, gui, sound, and functionality. to me waves peaked like 5-6 years ago, but before that they made killer stuff. the ONLY thing UAD did a really good job on that waves hasn't touched has been the pultec eqs and their new 1073 is vastly superior to the scheps one which sucks. Waves got it right like 10 years ago with emulations. older 10 year old waves emulations still sound best to my ear and tons of new and exciting plug in companies making forward thinking plug ins that actually do things other than endlessly model neve and ssl. Really, even though I have it, UAD is probably the most overrated thing in digital audio, like ever.
The la2a is pretty much the same as the uad one, if anything the uad compresses better, but doesn't have as good of a sound. The cla76 both black and blue smoke any other plug in including UAD.
the hardware one is substantially better to my ears, and to me the best opto compressor is the shadow hills optograph (i like it better than most la2a i've tried except some real old ones - though never knew which revisions they were) I find that you can get like 1-3db of gain reduction and it sounds convincing and at the very least has a really nice tone it imparts. The la2a one is ok, not very good for heavy compression but has a really nice tone to put on vocals or thins that need to get thicker. that includes an army of hardware compressors I currently have, and bunch of 1176s and clones I've gone through and sold because none of them are as good as the cla76. The waves cla 76 blue is still the best compressed i've ever tried (except an actual blue face) for in your face lead vocals in a busy modern pop or rock track.