I copied the acoustic guitar performance from the second verse and stacked it on the first verse. So what I did was I opened a new track which I labeled "acoustic guitar doubled". Not the case here!!! The acoustic guitar was begging to be doubled and panned hard left and right. Don't get me wrong, this recording approach is perfectly fine when working with a solo artist whose mixes should be focused on his vocals and his acoustic guitar (think Jason Mraz, Jack Johnson) and the rest of the band just back-up his performance. I did notice though that with all the layers of pads, electric guitars, pianos and strings going on over different parts of the song which made it dynamic in a very pop-ish way the acoustic guitar was recorded as a plain mono one-mic one-track. It seemed obvious after the first listen that it was a pretty standard approach: a catchy, snappy, rock/pop song mix. The Fatso UAD2 plug-in retails for $299, which was £183 at the time of writing, while the EMT 250 emulation costs $249 (£151).OK, I was checking out the rough mix the Pro Tool session came with to understand what direction were they trying to go to with the song. These are available in PCIe format for desktop computers and Express Card format for compatible laptops. In true UA style, they’ve sourced a ‘golden unit’ from Ocean Way studios and modelled every nuance to create an emulation that EMT have endorsed.Īs with all new UAD plug-ins, users will need a UAD2 DSP card to run the Fatso and EMT 250 processors. Universal Audio have also introduced an emulation of the EMT 250 digital reverb for their UAD2 platform. With Universal Audio’s excellent track record of emulating high-end hardware, UAD2 users are likely to be in for an exclusive treat with Fatso. hardware includes controls for harmonic generation and soft clipping, high-frequency saturation, transformer and tape-head emulation, and soft-knee compression, all of which are faithfully modelled in the plug-in release. The plug-in version has been created with the help of Empirical Labs’ designer Dave Derr, who has also assisted Universal Audio in emulating his previously unavailable concept version of the hardware Fatso Jr, known as the Fatso Sr., which comes bundled in the software package. Fatso is designed to give users the “wonderfully warm and pleasing sound of magnetic recording tape, class-A transformers, and tube circuits,” and will be of use to anyone who wants to achieve the sound of classic analogue outboard in their DAW software. Universal Audio have scored a first for their UAD2 DSP system, with the only official emulation of Empirical Labs Fatso Jr.
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