I'm curious to see what some of you folks think about the sound of this unit. I got a short drum clip and ran it through the UAD 1176 emulation and the G1176 on roughly equal settings. Second, sadly I don't have an actual UA 1176 to compare it against, but I do have a UAD-2 and the 1176 emulation, so I made some test recordings. I can always bounce the VST, record the output of the compressor and align by hand, but I'm hoping there is a better way that I'm missing. I also used Lundahl input and output transformers.įirst, how do you folks use outboard gear and avoid phase problems, specifically with VSTi's? When I run a drum VST like Superior Drummer2 and try to set up parallel compression by using the external insert plugin in Sonar I can't seem to eliminate phase problems regardless of the settings I use in the EI plugin.

The G1176 is a FET compressor taken from the original UREI 1176 designs (specifically, it's based on the UREI 1176 LN rev#F).

So a couple days ago I finished building a G1176.

Ua 1176 compressor plugin