Universal Audio Century Tube Channel Strip Plug-In

Universal Audio UADX-CENTURY-CHANNEL-STRIP Overview

The Century Tube Channel Strip Plug-In from Universal Audio is a vintage-style channel strip with a streamlined control set that s designed to help you capture terrific sounding performances quickly whenever inspiration strikes. With an organic tube mic preamp, transparent dynamics control, and intuitively voiced EQ, the Century plug-in enhances any DAW workflow, but is exceptionally well suited to UA interface users, allowing you to stay in the creative zone while you record and helping you capture first-take magic with stunning results. This first-pass tool makes recording vocals, guitars, synths, and just about anything else a snap.

This plug-in software download includes a native version that will run on Mac and Windows computers without UA hardware, as well as a second version that runs accelerated on Apollo interfaces and UAD-2 hardware.

An Outstanding Tube Mic Pre for Your Vocals

The Century Tube Channel Strip s mic preamp will give your vocals the warmth and detail that only a tube mic pre can provide. The stunning range of tones, from subtle to saturated, will coax inspiring performances no matter the genre. Use the Low/High gain switch to match the Century s Tube Preamp to your microphone, with the Low setting complementing more modern condensers, while the High position excels with dynamic and ribbon microphones.

Unison Technology for Apollo Interfaces

Century Tube Channel Strip blurs the lines between analog and digital, giving you all of the important impedance, gain-staging sweet spots, and circuit behaviors of a vintage tube preamp, thanks to UA s groundbreaking Unison technology. The secret is Unison s bidirectional control and communication from the Century Tube Channel Strip plug-in to the digitally controlled mic preamps in Apollo.

Easy EQ Seasoning for Vocals, Guitar, and More

With its intuitive musically voiced three-band EQ, the Century Tube Channel Strip is perfect for quickly bringing out the details in a breathy vocal, adding some punch to an overdriven electric guitar, or giving an acoustic rhythm guitar propulsive sizzle and shine.

Get Optimal Compression Quickly

Featuring a classic optical leveler, the Century Tube Channel Strip s dynamics section takes the guesswork out of compression settings with a single knob. Quickly tame a dynamic vocal or bass performance, and add energy and harmonics to acoustic guitars or piano all with a twist of a knob. The Century s leveler can also compress as an effect, adding grit and texture to keys and soft synths, with character and vibe to spare.

Add Character and Color to Your Mixes

Of course the Century Tube Channel Strip plug-in isn t just for realtime recording with Apollo you can also run it natively in your DAW to give your vocals, guitars, and synths, vintage-inspired tone and character without ever leaving the box.