I do like the Fat Channel Pultec and find it to be interchangeable with the sea of other ones floating around in my plugin folder, but if I’m gonna get a birthday present I wanna know what YOU think. Have you used it? What do you think? I like the RC and VT plugins from the channel strip collection well enough but don’t find myself using the Fat Channel 1176 over the UAD takes. I’ve been searching around and can’t find any reviews anywhere of the Fat Channel FC-670. I really like the Legacy 670 but hey, she gets me a plugin of my choice every year and why not get another? The Puigchild feels oddly sterile for a 670. The Klanghelm is cool but seems to add a weird midrangey thing that I’m not completely in love with. I already have the UAD legacy 670, Klanghelm MJUC, and just picked up the Puigchild on the recent $1 Waves sale. I’ve been lucky enough to use the real thing and understand that no plugin will compare perfectly with it, especially as they’re decades old and each one is different, so I’m not looking for miracles here.

It really improved everything for me.So my birthday is coming up and I’ve been searching for a decent Fairchild 670 plugin to have my partner pick up as a present. If you are on a serious budget and get a killer deal like I did, then they are fine and you can easily make good records with them, but the UAD versions really opened up my whole world after coming from all Waves. But the UAD LA2A is far and away better, even the mkI. Like the CLA LA3A and UAD LA3A are fairly close. Maybe the Waves are closer to the mkI versions of those depending on the usage. I had the Waves CLA versions of the 1176, LA2A, LA3A and those were decent, but not even close to the UAD mkII versions. The Waves just sounds a little more 'mushy' to me, where the UAD is more punchy, which some may like more or less. The Waves SSL buss comp is probably the most respectable, but even that I prefer the UAD version since it has more life to it.

And the mkI SSL channel strips don't even seem to get much love on this board! Does that mean the Waves were terrible? No, but to my ear the UAD versions were better. UAD just sounded better in every respect.

I have never used the real thing, but I will say that in direct comparisons of just these plugins, I thought the UAD versions were more transparent, had less artifacts and overall more dynamic range. the UAD (now mkI) SSL-both the channel strips and the buss comp. When I first moved to UAD from Waves, I did a lot of comparisons on my own tracks using the Waves SSL vs.

Waves puigchild vs uad fairchild