Ocean Way Studios
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Ocean Way Studios
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F. Cabanillas
watch it,it can drain you dsp
I love it,I love the way instruments and vocals sound with it,and i know i need more time working with it because it might seem simple,but it is not a simple reverb at all....the big downfall is that you need almost a full UA satellite quad dedicated to it,it drains dsp....
J. Bordner
Remarkable, one-of-a-kind
I just started using Ocean Way to bring life to DI bass tracks, sampled drums and pianos, etc., and have been more than pleased. This is an effect that would take me hours to dial in with an ordinary reverb, if it could be done at all. Instant realism. I almost gave it 4 stars because I wish I had a bit more control over mic placement, but I assume that would take some real rocket-science style math, and might not really change the plug's capability anyway. A great plug-in.
T. Koeroglu
Good Musicians and Good Rooms!
I am really happy with a room sounds. Acoustic Guitar Piezo Rescue Plug In' Thanks UA...Happy New Year...!...Peace:)
S. Goodison
Quality effect!
I love this plugin's reverb mode, it can give a real ambience or a huge powerful spacious sound to a drum kit. I haven't had much chance to play with the re-mic mode yet, but I will definitely be exploring it as much as possible.
Demo it, play with it a lot, try the rooms, mics, distances and see what it can do. There's so much to get through in just 1 plugin.
J. Aguirre
Ocean Way Brought Me Back
I haven't bought a UAD plugin since before the UAD-2 existed but this plugin convinced me to upgrade to the UAD-2 and try it out. I don't regret spending the money because I know the value of an acoustic space and a good room. Sample Modeling have excellent brass solo and ensemble instruments and this helps put them in a studio with other orchestra libraries I have and helps blend them beyond belief. If you haven't tried this plugin yet especially for orchestral instruments, I highly recommend trying it out for the purpose of blending libraries together. So worth the money and IMO priceless
UAD User
Ocean Way Reverb
It's the best sounding reverb plugin out there.
Well crafted and easy to use.
F. Walbrun
great tool
I really do like the ocean way plugin. Turns your digital stuff into a fat analog sounding world.
F. Sonnauer
Ocean Way/perfect room replacer
I have the Ocean Way Rooms for three weeks now and I´m goin to love it. It`s a perfect tool for replacing, as example drums, if u don`t like your drum room mics, take your close mics and build your own room, great.
But sometimes if you don`t have a perfekt equalized signal it`s not so easy to find a good sound, I think room A is a bit muffly and then I´m getting problems in the midrange of the mix. But you can fix that easy with a eq or maybe you guys don`t have that kind of problem, but I like to control the room frequencies with a Multiband behind the ocean way, it becomes more dynamic.
At least I have to experiment much more with this tool, it`s a must have Room plugin.
Have fun
Greatings Franz
Raum20 Tonstudio München
c. yeorae
i love uad
i love uadi love uadi love uadi love uad
A. Crowley
Feels like you are there, moving the mics around in the room
Used re-mic mode with a 414 - close your eyes with headphones on and you are there in the room, moving the mics around. You can hear the surface of the walls and the cab at the end of the room. I've heard good convolution etc. reverbs which create ambience etc. before but never felt I was there in the room moving the mics around. Fancy a C12, omni maybe? Just click the switch.
The way the phases change and interact and really give a true three dimension to the sound.
One thing, using re-mic mode, on the presets the close mic is often a metre or two away from source, so they can seem very wet. I think this may confuse people at first. Just pull that first mic close and it springs into life :)
T. Vines
Space without having space
In a home project studio acoustics is always a fight. This plugin, when used on a very dry signal, gives the illusion of having been recorded in a fine acoustic space. It's a wonderful choice to have available in your DAW.
E. Halterman
Nice space!
Overall I liked it and used it with some success in certain situations. For sure better than the DreamVerb, but please UAD, take it to the next level and give us a convolution reverb that will be #1 on this planet... thanks!
J. Escalona
Exciting to an extent.
A beast on drums. Doesn't work on everything though. Use it sparsely. Takes up a lot of DSP and space in a mix.
S. Muscio
Very Impressive
I demo'd this plugin and wasn't so impressed at first. Then bought a new apollo and was able to demo it again. For whatever reason I was shocked at how well it "glued" my drum tracks together. It does it so well it's the only thing I've used it on. I love the control over the mic placement. It's very easy to fine tune your room to your liking. Two thumbs up
E. Sevmont
Great on virtual instruments!
This reverb sounds amazing with the re-mic setting on virtual strings and pianos, I haven't had the chance to use it as a faux room tone for drums, but I have a hunch it will be great, particularly for virtual drums or drums recorded in a not so great room. It hasn't worked for me so great on vocals and real instruments yet, not bad but not what I was looking for, perhaps in the future after I purchase it I'll spend more time experimenting different alternatives! Looking forward to hear how it sounds great with cabs too!
M. Ferreira
LOVE IT..
AMAZING ROOM AND MICROPHONE MODELS
A. Gamez
Small Live Room? No problem
If you are like me, chances are your live room for tracking is not as big as you would want it to. You have to learn how to use it adequately but when you do, you will never have the small live room problem again. It is great to add a "REAL" depth to your sound, I love to use it in re amp mode inserted on my room mic track. I can easily tweak the distance to get the desire space I want. FANTASTIC, this thing on drum room is a beast!
J. Barriuso
Superb ambience plugin
Hi, it´s been about a month since I´m using Ocean, and I have two main things to comment.
As a reverb I´ve used in some tracks, and feel it´s very good, but could not tell the difference with other superb reverbs, I just think it sounds great and does its job, but using a significant DSP power.
BUT the main thing I´m using Ocean with, and I would really recommend, is as an ambience generator in the master. Anything you put inside the rooms, playing a bit with mic combinations (I really like the far distant ones) carries your song, or whatever you play; instantly into a live performance. Just add claps and you feel you are into a great sound medium sized room live performance. I feel it´s superb with classic and jazz music.
UAD User
No more Dry Season
This plugin will add color and tone to whatever you put it on. With so many variations and presets to choose from, you'll have the ability to make something sound like it's "Straight Outta Heaven." You can't get a fresh natural room sound effect unless you have this plugin.
Shout out to Universal Audio for making superb plugins.
V. Manoukian
The best room emulation I have ever heard!
My drum room is well treated and fairly dry. Adding this plugin took it to another level. I have altiverb and thought it was grainy sounding in comparison. I demoed the the Ocean Way plugom it sounded like a real room. Great job!!
