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Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection
Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

4.8 (846)

Discover the rich sound of the world's most famous compressors.

  • Give your tracks and mixes classic Fairchild tube warmth and character
  • Add harmonics and punch to vocals, drums, and more using Fairchild’s tube-driven gain control and transformer sections
  • Tweak compression easily with simple Wet/Dry, Sidechain Filter, and Headroom controls
  • Enjoy the only accurate emulations of “golden-reference” vintage Fairchilds

Runs natively on your macOS or Windows computer, or accelerated on Apollo audio interfaces or UAD Accelerators. View full system requirements.

Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection

$299

$299

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Discover the Rich Sound of the World's most Famous Compressors

The Fairchild Tube Limiter Collection gives you the silky warm compression heard on hundreds of hit records from The Beatles and Pink Floyd to countless Motown classics.* Now you can add the same analog "glow" to your vocals, drums, and entire mix with the most accurate emulations ever made of these iconic tube compressors.

Add the Iconic Tone of Two Limiters

Renowned for its aggressiveness, the 660 punches up piano, bass, and guitar, tracks, while the flagship 670 is a full stereo compressor that injects vibe and color onto channels, final mixes, and even masters.

The Closest You Can Get to Vintage Fairchilds in a Plug‑In

Far beyond other Fairchild emulations, only the UAD Fairchild Collection is based on accurate circuit models of “golden‑reference” units from legendary Ocean Way Studios, giving you all the rich tube tone of the unattainable iconic hardware.

Blend Sounds with the Wet/Dry Mix Control

The Mix control lets you blend your unprocessed signal with the compressed signal, opening worlds of textural possibilities on everything from a drum bus to a mix bus.

Enhance Drums with Sidechain Filters

Punch up your drum bus without triggering the threshold of the compressor with the kick drum, for drums with max impact using the Fairchild's Sidechain Filters.

Add Grit with the Headroom Control

The Headroom (HR) control can be increased to make mastering applications a breeze, raising the gain reduction threshold and lowering distortion, or decreasing headroom for grittier textures that work on everything from vocals and drums to guitar and bass.

What They Say

I'm blown away. [The UAD Fairchild Collection plug-ins] perfectly model not only the compression behavior, but the actual sound. This is a big step forward.

Peter Mokran

Christina Aguilera, The Flaming Lips

I use the Fairchild 670 plug-in on parallel drum buses in lat/vert mode to enhance the tone, add depth, and control the stereo image in ways that no other plug-in can.

Ryan West

Eminem, Kid Cudi, Jay-Z

The much sought after Fairchild 660 and 670 are now accessible to UAD/Apollo users, allowing them to enjoy an audio treat that had previously only been available to a select few.

Steve Levine

Culture Club, Beach Boys, Ziggy Marley

Reviews

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846 reviews
  • DG
    D. G.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 week ago
    The Legend

    I heard so much about this compressor, and when I finally acquired it, I understood what’s it’s all about. Smooth like silk and butter.

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  • KD
    K. D.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 weeks ago
    Klaus

    I love uad

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  • KF
    K. F.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Fiarchild 670

    Excellent color, and works AWESOME in the mastering chain. You can easily master to -6 LUFS incorporating this plugin.

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  • JR
    J. R.
    Verified Buyer
    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    1 month ago
    Fairchild 670 Collection.

    This is THE Royal Variable Mu King. The tone this compressor delivers is incredible, it gives exceptional body in the low end and those highs come to the fore, it's great for sustained elements like vocals, bass, but don't be fooled, drums sound amazing, to the point where you can crush them and they still sound amazing. Jazz loves this compressor as much as I love UA. Thanks for this wonderful plugin. ❤️

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  • JR
    J. R.
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    I recommend this product
    Rated 5 out of 5 stars
    2 months ago
    Fairchild Collection

    The beauty of character and tone that the Fairchild collection provides is UNIQUE, it is impressive how it handles the sustain of the audio with those slow releases. Definitely the UA Fairchild emulation is ideal for vocals, bass and drums, giving it a punch without crushing the transients. Definitely a must have.

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Frequently Asked Questions

No. These plug-ins run natively on your computer. No UA hardware is required.

Yes, 14-day plug-in demos are available. Find eligible plug‑ins

We provide three activations per license. We support activation on your computer or on an iLok USB key.

For every UAD plug-in that supports native and Apollo/UAD-2 versions, you get a license for both upon purchase, or the option to get it through an upgrade.

Native plug-ins are supported on macOS and Windows systems. See our Native UAD System Requirements article for full system requirements. An iLok account is required for managing your native plug-in licenses. We support iLok USB keys for portability, but one is not required.

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