Hey, what is sound tech if not something you can intentionally misuse, at random? Some things never change. Let’s pause, though, and reflect – some of the most famous sound engineers in history were mucking about with the buttons on their insanely expensive gear. That lets you just color the sound with the 1176, but I think it may be missing on the IK. They also found a “no button mode” – that is that they could get all the buttons to release at once. You get the most popular rev, revision E of the 1176LN (low-noise, signifying that Brad improved the circuitry).Īnd crucially, IK did a good job of the “all button mode” or more serious-sounding “British mode.” That’s a fancy way of saying that sound engineers discovered that they could mash all the compression ratio buttons together at once, and get a unique, squashed sound. That said, if you don’t have an 1176 amplifier, this one is a versatile and characteristic dynamics processor you can use all over the place. That one deviates from the original hardware by adding a dry control (for parallel compression) and a sidechain input (for… various ideas).

For instance, in addition to the UA plug-ins, I’m a big fan of the Native Instruments – Softube collaboration on the Vc 76. IK Multimedia’s recreation here is accurate but pretty basic – it’s an older plug-in, so it’s possible you have a better rendition already in your arsenal. So if you want a faithful copy, you can get either a hardware reissue or software DSP-based recreation from UA themselves. original, with later revisions by UA’s Brad Plunkett. The important thing about that technical detail is that it also colors the sound in a way that a lot of people then – and now – find pleasing. It uses a FET (field effect transistor) wired in a feedback configuration to reduce gain. Uh… we’re glad they went back to the original name.) (At the time, UA was operating under the name UREI, or United Recording Electronics Industries. The 1176 is a 1976 classic from Universal Audio.

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