UAD Sound City Studios Plug‑In
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Get the authentic sound of the world's most famous rock & roll studio.
Produce music in one of the most famous recording studios in history — including the room, mics, iconic console, and outboard gear — as heard on classic records from Nirvana, Metallica, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty, Rage Against the Machine, and more.*
Add the vibe and character of this legendary space to your drums, guitars, vocals, synths and more — right in your own bedroom or home studio.Versions incluses
UAD Native
Fonctionne sur votre Mac ou PC sans le matériel d’UA.Configuration système requise : les plug-ins UAD natifs fonctionnent sur macOS 10.15 Catalina ou une version ultérieure, ainsi que sur Windows 10 et 11. Consultez notre page d’aide dédiée pour connaître la configuration système requise.
- Place your drums, guitars, vocals, and more inside Sound City Studios' famous Studio A
- Transform your sources with a collection of vintage hit-making mics
- Sculpt perfect guitar tones with expertly placed cabinet and mic setups
- Get the authentic tone of an iconic '70s custom British console, including 3-band EQ and inline compression, based on the legendary Sound City Studios' desk
- Smash your tracks with Sound City Studios' collection of analog outboard gear including "secret weapon" Dolby A-style effects**, 1176 limiting, and more
- Put your sources in Sound City Studios' lush-sounding reverb chamber
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Immerse Yourself in a Historic Room
Sound City Studios' famous Studio A is the birthplace of hundreds of hit records. Voiced with original multitrack recordings cut at Sound City Studios, we expertly captured the distinct "warts and all" character — with historical setup guidance from engineers who used it everyday — so you can easily put your productions in the same space where magic was made.
Easily Find Your Sweet Spot
Simply choose your source — vocals, drums, guitar, ensembles, or piano — and get proven room and mic setups, from the big reflective sound used on Nirvana's Nevermind to Tom Petty's intimate "wood" corner.* You can even re-mic your guitars with a selection of perfectly placed cabinets and room mics.
Reposition Vintage Mics with Dynamic Room Modeling
Go far beyond historic setups and customize your space by moving a stunning collection of classic condenser and ribbon mics from AKG, Neumann, and RCA — in realtime for authentic room sounds beyond the original chart-topping positions.**
Explore a Legendary Custom British Console
The centerpiece of Studio A since the early '70s, Sound City Studios' custom-made console artfully colored everything that ran through it. Now you can get the same satisfying analog character and tone with perfect emulations of a vintage British 3-band EQ and bus compressor on all your sources.
Crush, Gate, or Add "Air" with Secret Weapon Compression
Along with the legendary limiting of the iconic Rev E 1176 compressor, Sound City Studios gives you the first-ever emulation of the Dolby A301** noise reduction system — a multiband EQ/limiter used and abused by Sound City Studios' engineers — so you can get the same glossy-to-hyped background vocals and explosive drum sounds heard on decades of hit records.
Add Chart-Topping Ambience with Iconic Reverb Chamber
Put the finishing touch on your tracks with the same natural, open-sounding reverb used by Queens of the Stone Age, Phoebe Bridgers, Death Cab for Cutie, and more. Plus, you can season your ambient space using perfectly placed pairs of dynamic, small-diaphragm condenser, and ribbon mics.*
*Use of artist names does not constitute official endorsement of Sound City Studios software.
**All trademarks are property of their respective owners and used only to represent the effects modeled as part of Sound City Studio software.
Disclaimer: The famous Sound City Studios is located in Van Nuys, California where it was originally founded. Sound City Studios has no affiliation with Sound City Amplification, LLC. For information on Sound City Amplification products visit their website at soundcityamp.com.
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“The UAD Sound City Studios plug‑in sounds amazing, letting you put your performances into one of the greatest sounding studios of all time!”
– Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters)
“The UAD Sound City Studios plug‑in sounds just the way I remember that room – and heck, I even own one of Sound City’s original AKG C24 microphones from the good old days.”
– Sylvia Massy (Tool, Johnny Cash, System of a Down)
“There’s an explosive magic to Sound City's live room that‘s electrified so many seminal records. UA not only captured the sound of that room, but has gone to great lengths to model the outboard gear that’s integral to those recordings.”
– Billy Bush (Garbage, Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney)
“The UAD Sound City Studios plug‑in can put any sound into the legendary studio's live room. The ability to change the mics and their positions is fantastic, you can really dial the room sound.”
– Richard Rainey (U2, Paul McCartney, Van Morrison)
“I’m doing percussion overdubs in hotel rooms on tour, and Sound City Studios makes everything sound finished. It’s nuts.”
– Joey Waronker (Atoms for Peace, Beck, Other Lives)
“Some of my favorite albums were recorded at Sound City, so it’s amazing to have such a faithful reproduction at my fingertips.”
– Jeff Balding (Taylor Swift, The Eagles, Florida Georgia Line)
“The Sound City Studios plug‑in adds life and vibe to dry drum tracks with its great mic configurations. And the console section sounds fantastic!”
– Mark Needham (The Killers, Neon Trees, P!nk)
“The UAD Sound City Studios plug‑in is more than just a room emulation – it’s a toolkit that can take your tracks to a whole new level of sonic Nirvana!”
– Adam Whittaker (The Damned, The Saw Doctors, Evergreen)
“UAD Sound City Studios is the perfect acoustic "space" plug-in, and its compression, reverb chamber, and EQ sections make it all-encompassing for re-amping.”
– Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, U2, Jason Mraz, Morrissey)Avis clients
J. Gooch
21 avril 2024
Great Ambience Reverb. Sounds like great records
Using this through UAD spark has been a treat. I was originally confused by the layout but a YouTube video quickly helped me out and now my drums, vox, guitars, and bass sound way more...
En lire plusD. Thompson
18 avril 2024
Must have for drums
Utilizing Sound City Re-Mic on drums from various drummers around the world, I'm getting consistent and phenomenal drums sounds. It's a must have for me....
En lire plusD. Silva
4 avril 2024
Sounds come to life
The amount of life that gives this plugin to your tracks is amazing. It's easy to overdoit, but from subtle sound city space emulation, to extreme 3d production tool this has served me...
En lire plusR. Tavares
3 avril 2024
Simply WOW !
This plugin is insane ! I've use it on drums, acoustic guitars and vocals. You can feel the vibe of the Sound City Studio in your ears when mixing ! Love it !...
En lire plusS. Tanner
31 mars 2024
Famous Ambience
I am using a lot of virtually Instruments like Keyboards and Drums. The Sound City Studios Plug-In gives them more live and...
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Avis clients
UAD Sound City Studios Plug-In
J. Gooch
Great Ambience Reverb. Sounds like great records
Using this through UAD spark has been a treat. I was originally confused by the layout but a YouTube video quickly helped me out and now my drums, vox, guitars, and bass sound way more alive and more like a record without much fuss. Only complaint is that I appear to be affected by the CPU bug spike as well. Really hope this gets fixed soon as I’d love to use this as a new go to reverb but can’t at the moment due to this issue. Well done though overall!
M. Fiskvik
Why not Apollo enabled?
Amazing plugn, but I don't know the descision behind not making it apollo enabled? Why invest in DSP power when you can't use it.......
D. Thompson
Must have for drums
Utilizing Sound City Re-Mic on drums from various drummers around the world, I'm getting consistent and phenomenal drums sounds. It's a must have for me.
M. Ota
clear wide
プラグインのリバーブは機械的な音が多い中、こちらはスタジオでの輪郭を加えるとても良い印象です。
D. Saghafi
Great Sound CPU Intensive
This plug-in sounds amazing! However, it's so CPU intensive that I'm only able to use one or two instances. CPU spiking occurs all the time and I'm experiencing stuttering when I play back my track. I am unable to use the chamber or compression effects because of the CPU issues. Please fix this problem. Once fix this plugin will be amazing.
D. Silva
Sounds come to life
The amount of life that gives this plugin to your tracks is amazing. It's easy to overdoit, but from subtle sound city space emulation, to extreme 3d production tool this has served me great.
The one downside it's the CPU usage, but I understand the price my CPU has to pay to get that space emulation with all the extra tools.R. Tavares
Simply WOW !
This plugin is insane !
I've use it on drums, acoustic guitars and vocals. You can feel the vibe of the Sound City Studio in your ears when mixing ! Love it !O. Altit
Gorgeous sound and interface but way too CPU intensive
LUNA Pro struggles to open session with 2 instances of Sound City on my MacBook Pro M1
S. Tanner
Famous Ambience
I am using a lot of virtually Instruments like Keyboards and Drums.
The Sound City Studios Plug-In gives them more live and room. Very nice.D. Lawrence
You don’t know mixing
I just placed this on 3 instruments in my track. Wow. Anyone who says this sounds bad simply doesn’t know how to mix. The plugin is a solid 10 out of 5 stars. I’ve never put it on a track an decided not to go with it. Once it’s opened it goes on everything.
F. Green
Just the right space
I’ve used Sound City Studios plug on guitars, drums, vocals , and more. Gives the perfect controlled spatial texture of a recording studio… perfectly controlled bleed… totally manipulable!! With a great choice of classic microphones!! Love this plug!!
J. Kelly
A lot of options here!
Play around and find out!
J. Kelly
A lot of options here!
Play around and find out!
A. Yeats
Great Room Emulation
Way more flexible than Ocean Way and the included effects chain really makes a huge difference !
B. Flacher
Klingt unglaublich echt
Es ist wahrscheinlich das beste Raumsimulationsplugin, das ich in meinen 15 Jahren Audio-Produktion benutzt hab.
Ich wünschte, dass UAD die plugininternen Effekte, speziell hier die Compressor-Sektion, als Standalone anbieten würde.
Ad CPU:
Es stimmt schon, Sound City Studios wird etwas in die Jahre gekommene Computer recht schnell an ihre Grenzen bringen. Hat man aber eine relativ neue Workstation (13900K- in meinem Studio) konnte ich keinerlei Probleme hinsichtlich CPU feststellen. Ich hatte 7 Instanzen des Plugins in einem MIx mit über 80 Spuren gefahren. CPU Auslastung mit dem Plugin (7Stück) knapp 30 %. Ohne 24 %.
Am M3 Max im Home-Setup siehts ähnlich aus. Keine Probleme bisher.
Für mich: Top!A. Niculescu
Great but takes a lot of CPU
This is really cool but when you have a lot of plugins loaded, this one just kills my CPU and makes my project's sound breaking a lot. i7 10th gen + 64ram + ssd. Cannot be used in complex projects.
B. Mallea
Very nice reverb
Its a good one
M. Tieku
One word
Stunning!
J. Olsen
Stunning Sound
This space sounds stunning. Please port this to UAD as well, so we can offload CPU.
L. Leonard
Impressive Studio Recording Simulator
Unable to reach this recording studio sound without this plugin!
Interesting to compare with Ocean Way Studios,Sound City Studios has much more instruments opptions and clear sounds to me.
It's beautiful!
