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UAD Sound City Studios Black Friday pricing is 80% off at $49, ending Nov 30, 2026, for the Universal Audio plugin that puts your tracks inside Sound City's Studio A.
The plugin works with any soundcard on Mac and PC. You choose a source, and it places drums, guitars, vocals, synths and more in the same room, with the same mics, console and outboard gear used on records by Nirvana, Metallica, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty and Rage Against the Machine.
The maker says it voiced the room from original multitrack recordings cut at Sound City. It also says the setup guidance came from engineers who used the studio every day.
Pick vocals, drums, guitar, ensembles or piano and you get room and mic setups ready to go. Presets range from the big reflective sound on Nirvana's Nevermind to Tom Petty's intimate "wood" corner.
For guitars, you can re-mic with a choice of placed cabinets and room mics.
Want to go past the historic setups? With dynamic room modeling, you can reposition vintage ribbon and condenser microphones by AKG, Neumann and RCA while the audio plays.
The console section covers the British desk that anchored Room A from the early '70s. You get its 3-band EQ and compressor on any source.
Two extra processors round out the outboard section: a Rev E 1176 limiter, plus a Dolby A301 noise reduction unit modeled for the very first time, which is a multiband EQ/limiter that Sound City engineers reportedly pushed hard, and UA says it delivers anything from polished to boosted backing vocals and punchy, explosive drums.
The echo chamber is the last stop. It is the natural, open-sounding reverb the maker links to Queens of the Stone Age, Phoebe Bridgers and Death Cab for Cutie. You can shape the space with placed pairs of dynamic, small-diaphragm condenser and ribbon mics.
The full feature list:
The purchase includes the UAD Native version, which runs on your Mac or PC without any UA hardware.
UA says Sound City Studios is available only from them.
Yes. The UAD Sound City Studios Black Friday deal takes 80% off, bringing the plugin to $49. The offer ends Nov 30, 2026. The purchase includes the UAD Native version, so no UA hardware is needed.
No. The purchase includes UAD Native, which runs on your Mac or PC without any UA hardware. The maker says the plugin is now compatible with any soundcard on Mac and PC.
You get Sound City's Room A with its mic locker, cabinet and mic setups for guitar, the British console's 3-band EQ and inline compression, 1176 limiting, Dolby A-style effects, and the echo chamber.
Yes. With the room modeled dynamically, you can move vintage ribbon and condenser microphones by AKG, Neumann and RCA around the space as the audio plays. That gets you room sounds beyond the original recording positions, per the maker.
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