UA's long-awaited digital re-creation of Neve's 33609 bus compressor will be released and available to purchase with version 4.4 of the UAD drivers and software. The 33609 is unique among the UAD's fine collection of vintage compressors, as it is their first model of a diode-bridge type compressor, as well as UAD's first dedicated bus compressor model.
The Neve 33609 started its life as various mono bus compressors installed in Neve consoles in the late '60s and early '70s. After a few refinements, the company introduced the 33609 bus compressor. It was followed a couple of years later by the 33609C and finally the 33609J.
Modeling this masterpiece was not easy, but Universal Audio's engineering team worked the
usual magic. When you put the 33609 on a drum bus, UAD think you'll agree that
it is a stellar compressor, whether or not you've heard the real thing. Besides
what your ears tell you, another indicator of the sheer magnitude of modeling
such a complex analogue circuit is the fact that one stereo instance takes around
70% of a UAD-1 processor at 44.1kHz! You can barely fit two mono versions as
well. But don't worry, Universal Audio made an SE version, which can get 9 mono and 7 stereo instances at 44.1kHz.
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