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New 1176 Plugins from UAD

In 2001 Universal Audio started it's line of plugins/DSP cards with a model of its own UA 1176. Their model of the 1176 was very good, but as you'd expect they've learned a lot over the last 10 years and a number of their recent plugins are more complex. A lot of people have been lobbying for them to go back and redo their old plugins and it looks like they've been listening.

Thank You Universal Audio

I just got an email from UA. I don't think they intended it to be shared with everyone otherwise there would have been a weblink. I just wanted to share the gist of the email. Essentially they were letting UAD-1 and UAD-1e users know that as of the next update to UAD drivers, the UAD-1 and UAD-1e cards will no longer be supported. Nice though that they are offering a generous trade in option.

UA 4-710d - Thoughts and opinions?

I'm seriously considering getting one of these. Before my aI'm was at SSL Alpha VHD or ISA 428 but my sales rep asked me to consider this.
With 1176 style compression on each channel, variable tube distortion and an AD converter to expand my FF 800 it seems like a pretty solid deal.

But how does it sound?