Universal Audio Century Tube Channel Strip

Vintage vibes instantly.  

With a vintage-inspired tube mic preamp, transparent dynamics control, and intuitively voiced EQ, the Century Tube Preamp plug?in lets you stay in the creative zone while you record and mix, helping you capture inspiration with stunning results.

The Perfect Tube Mic Pre for your Vocals

The Century Tube Channel Strip's mic preamp will give your vocals the warmth and detail that only a tube mic pre can provide. The stunning range of tones, from subtle to saturated, will coax inspiring performances no matter the genre. Use the Low/High gain switch to match the Century's Tube Preamp to your microphone, with the Low setting complementing more modern condensers, while the High position excels with dynamic and ribbon microphones.

Unison Technology for Apollo

Century Tube Channel Strip blurs the lines between analog and digital, giving you all of the important impedance, gain staging “sweet spots,” and circuit behaviors of a vintage tube preamp, thanks to UA's groundbreaking Unison technology. The secret is Unison’s bi?directional control and communication from the Century Tube Channel Strip plug?in to the digitally controlled mic preamps in Apollo.

Easy EQ Seasoning for Vocals, Guitar, and More

With its intuitive, musically voiced, three-band EQ, the Century Tube Channel Strip is perfect for quickly bringing out the details in a breathy vocal, adding some punch to an overdriven electric guitar, or giving an acoustic rhythm guitar propulsive sizzle and shine.

Get Optimal Compression Quickly

Featuring a classic optical leveler, the Century Tube Channel Strip’s dynamics section takes the guesswork out of compression settings with a single knob. Quickly tame a dynamic vocal or bass performance, and add energy and harmonics to acoustic guitars or piano — all with a twist of a knob. The Century’s leveler can also compress as effect, adding grit and texture to keys and soft synths with character and vibe to spare.

Add Character and Color to your Mixes

Of course, the Century Tube Channel Strip plug?in isn’t just for realtime recording with Apollo. You can also run it natively in your DAW and give your vocals, guitars, and synths, vintage?inspired tone and character, without ever leaving the box.

Please, note that an iLok account is required, but no physical dongle is necessary, you will register the serial in your UAD account and they will deposit the license in your Ilok.

Features

• Record and mix with the world's only authentic plug-in emulation of Capitol Studios' prized underground echo chambers
• Add dense, natural reverberation to vocals or drums far beyond plate, digital, or simple convolution reverb
• Create new sounds by repositioning Capitol Chambers' microphones using UA's Dynamic Room Modeling
• Audition current and historical chamber configurations, plus all new setups
• Harness the chamber's entire signal chain including amplifiers, speakers, custom preamps, and mics
• Quickly pull up presets from legendary Grammy-winning engineers of Ray Charles, Radiohead, Steely Dan, Madonna, and more

Compatibility

 MAC OSX    WINDOWS

 Windows Requirements

• Host application compatible with:
  
  • AAX Native plugins
  • VST plugins
  • VST3 plugins

• Windows 10 or Windows 11 (64-bit editions)
• Intel or AMD
  

 Mac Requirements

• Host application compatible with:
  
  • AAX Native plugins
  • Audio-Unit plugins
  • VST plugins
  • VST3 plugins

• Mac OS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, or Sonoma 14
• Intel, AMD or Apple silicon processor