Plug-In Shadow Hills
Mastering Compressor
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Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
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C. Dowling
Has been just the ticket...
I'm late to the party with this one, but I'm in agreement with C. Allrich --- a light touch will get one far when employing the plug appropriately. It's been one of the secret weapons I'm using to master an ECM-ish guitar trio album. The clients are very happy and so am I. I can't help but thinking that those that are "confused" by the controls haven't taken five minutes to RTFM and understand the signal flow, etc. Agreed it doesn't completely nail the hardware, but it can still work wonders and provide the right sense of depth and dimensionality and glue that will sweeten many a mix or master.
I. Papagiannidis
must have !
fantastic comp for mixing and mastering . great for vox drums guitars and everything!!!!
thank you UAD team for that great plugin
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B. thompson
I use it
On everything! on every track
M. Altieri
Absolute Special!
excellent machine but is set well, once you find the right balance between opto and vca have the sound you are looking for. I do not exaggerate with the compression try the "glue" of the sound, and trying find it!It has its own sound to me or you love him or hate him. I personally love it !!!
T. Subpleng
Great Mastering Compressor
I choose Shadow Hill in First Custom Bundle set 299$ . Easy to use 2 compressor in 1 and 3 output transformer .
It use little bit dsp. I can many plugin in Group bus . Very good Plugin .
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Smooth, loud, beautiful, a bit complex
I demo'ed this, and when (if?) this goes on sale it will be mine. The price is steep for me. The sound is great though. It does take a bit to figure out how to use it though. I absolutely LOVED this on mixbuss.
M. Fudge
Subtle Mix Bus Glue
This is not a tool for squashing and smashing stuff. Although I'm sure it can do that (I've never tried yet) what it really shines at is mix bus processing with 1-2dB of gain reduction on each side. The transformer switching is nice but it is subtle (like the real thing) and you're going to need great monitoring to truly appreciate it. The fact that the DSP load is so low makes it an ideal choice when DSP is being consumed by other effects or users with less than a Quad/Octo.
t. chenpan
Best UAD plugin!
I bought my UAD apollo just for this plugin..It's AMAZING!!!!
S. Szabó
Freedom and magic
Although I can't compare the plug-in version to the hardware, I know that the Shadow Hills Mastering compressor makes incredibly good things in my mixes. I fondly use it for drum ambience, vocal compression, and of course in master bus. The optical and discrete sections give me great independece in the usage of the tool. You can enchant a mix with it.
J. Annunziato
Love this plugin
This plugin is essential to my arsenal of plugins. Such an open sound, I am very impressed.
J. Annunziato
Love this plugin
This plugin is essential to my arsenal of plugins. Such an open sound, I am very impressed.
W. Bolton
very nice
not tried the hardware, but i like brainworx stuff, having used it a lot before getting into UAD. i don't squash much with compression but this sounds great on the master fader just to glue sounds together and adds some lovely colour.
J. Carroll
?????
For a novice that is experimenting with mastering, this is not the plug in for you. It has no presets for mastering use at all. It's nice to have a few presets to see how each control is being utilized,especially for mastering.
J. H
Incredible
I use this plugin on 90% of everything I master, and just about every track on drums. You wont find a compressor plugin that can be tweaked as much as this one. The Nickel/Iron/Steel switch is amazing as well. It boosts cleanly, but on high gain settings you can still use this plug, and it can distort musically if you need that sound.
P. Lalonde
Very satisfying
The interface can seem to have an overwhelming amount of options at first but it actually has neither too few or too many parameters to deal with. This plugin left me in disbelief at how I could get such good results so quickly without a heavy price tag.
C. Jolley
I love this thing!
My final, go-to compressor and general "transformer" colorizer. I am constantly comparing it to other UA and different vendor compressors and it never fails to impress me with its capabilities and musical character. I think it is especially good on group or master buss applications that need its power. I almost always use it in a mastering situation as well. Paired with the Manley Massive, the Neve 1073, the LA2/1176/Pultec trio and the Ampex plug, it is one of the must have components from UA. In my book, it justifies the purchase of a quad (or octo) card, alone. Well done!
P. Luviè
Great plugin
I've never had the opportunity to use the Shadows Hill Compressor hardware.
However when I put it in a bass track , drum buss , orchestral percussions like taikos or big booms and even in the master buss , it really rocks !
This is one of my favourite plugin .
Great Uad !
Paul
R. Arafat
More than expected
I used to work on the hardware version in a big studio in Egypt three years ago , and since that time I'm trying to find that sharp attack and sweet release in all plugins that I found but no one can reach that peak.., untill I found UAD version of shadow hills and I must say you'll be shocked if you know what did the hardware do coz every knob is doing 99% the same ... Fantastic emulation
A. Pearo
Shadow Hills MCP
I make Big Room, Melbourne Bounce and Trap Music. I've had to demo this plug-in many times before being convinced. It is not one of those "plug and play"/"abc" compressors. It is very clean and unique sounding but requires a lot of experimenting to get satisfactory results. It's basically 2 compressors and a very subtle transformer emulation in one. It Takes a while to figure when to use each of it's parts individually or in combination. I recommend this only to Producers who like to look under the hood and figure how things work otherwise it's a waste of money.
T. Friesecke
Great!
Very great sound!
The only "but":
In the beginning not soooo easy to handle with, but when your into it, it´s nice!