Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
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Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
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J. Annunziato
Love this plugin
This plugin is essential to my arsenal of plugins. Such an open sound, I am very impressed.
W. Bolton
very nice
not tried the hardware, but i like brainworx stuff, having used it a lot before getting into UAD. i don't squash much with compression but this sounds great on the master fader just to glue sounds together and adds some lovely colour.
J. Carroll
?????
For a novice that is experimenting with mastering, this is not the plug in for you. It has no presets for mastering use at all. It's nice to have a few presets to see how each control is being utilized,especially for mastering.
J. H
Incredible
I use this plugin on 90% of everything I master, and just about every track on drums. You wont find a compressor plugin that can be tweaked as much as this one. The Nickel/Iron/Steel switch is amazing as well. It boosts cleanly, but on high gain settings you can still use this plug, and it can distort musically if you need that sound.
P. Lalonde
Very satisfying
The interface can seem to have an overwhelming amount of options at first but it actually has neither too few or too many parameters to deal with. This plugin left me in disbelief at how I could get such good results so quickly without a heavy price tag.
C. Jolley
I love this thing!
My final, go-to compressor and general "transformer" colorizer. I am constantly comparing it to other UA and different vendor compressors and it never fails to impress me with its capabilities and musical character. I think it is especially good on group or master buss applications that need its power. I almost always use it in a mastering situation as well. Paired with the Manley Massive, the Neve 1073, the LA2/1176/Pultec trio and the Ampex plug, it is one of the must have components from UA. In my book, it justifies the purchase of a quad (or octo) card, alone. Well done!
P. Luviè
Great plugin
I've never had the opportunity to use the Shadows Hill Compressor hardware.
However when I put it in a bass track , drum buss , orchestral percussions like taikos or big booms and even in the master buss , it really rocks !
This is one of my favourite plugin .
Great Uad !
Paul
R. Arafat
More than expected
I used to work on the hardware version in a big studio in Egypt three years ago , and since that time I'm trying to find that sharp attack and sweet release in all plugins that I found but no one can reach that peak.., untill I found UAD version of shadow hills and I must say you'll be shocked if you know what did the hardware do coz every knob is doing 99% the same ... Fantastic emulation
A. Pearo
Shadow Hills MCP
I make Big Room, Melbourne Bounce and Trap Music. I've had to demo this plug-in many times before being convinced. It is not one of those "plug and play"/"abc" compressors. It is very clean and unique sounding but requires a lot of experimenting to get satisfactory results. It's basically 2 compressors and a very subtle transformer emulation in one. It Takes a while to figure when to use each of it's parts individually or in combination. I recommend this only to Producers who like to look under the hood and figure how things work otherwise it's a waste of money.
T. Friesecke
Great!
Very great sound!
The only "but":
In the beginning not soooo easy to handle with, but when your into it, it´s nice!
L. Tellez
Shadow hills el mejor Compresor!!!!
Excelente, supermusical, gran contenido harmonico, poderoso y discreto, lo aplico en donde sea, mastering, voces, bajo, drum buss y suena increible, altamente recomendable.
Y. Chistyakov
Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor
powerful compressors in one package. I can not compare with the original, but I like his work. I use mostly for mastering. Plus nostalgic green lamp on the panel is wonderful :)
Thank you UA.
J. Burba
A must have plugin
I have been blown away by this plugin. I love the detail you get from this compressor and you don't have to push it all that hard to see big results! I love having three transformers to pick from and in my opinion it's like having three different compressors in one. Even though it's technically a mastering plugin I've had great success with placing it on almost any stereo bus.
T. Frampton
Excellent!
Excellent plugin. Having used the original previously (and loved it obviously) I really feel they captured the nuances and feel with this one. Using it on almost all of my masters now. Huge fan.
D. Wilson
SHMC Sounds BIG
This thing has just parked on my two buss and will be staying for quite a while I feel : )
A. Cenerini
A shade on the real thing… but still killer.
A friend has the real deal, and I use a Shadow Hills QUAD GAMA on every recording I do, so I am familiar with the manufacturer's products. The plugin lacks much of the character that makes the hardware unit so killer, but is so friendly on DSP resources that I find myself using it a ton regardless… just not in the same way I would use the hardware unit.
M. Harms
Two Compressors in One?!?
Even at high ratios this is one compressor (Mastering or Not) that doesn't Dull or Round off your Transient tips. All compression on or offline does this to your music but companies like Shadowhills and others noticed this is something the future can do without. So a huge Shout to them & Universal Audio for a spot on emulation. The ability to master in different metals is genus in itself. How they made that happen over at Universal Audio is more proof when I spend my money, I get what I paid for 1000%!
B. Busch
Good, not great.
The SHMC didn't blow me away for its intended 2-buss / mastering use. IMHO, this is the least impressive model of the real thing in the UA catalog.
HOWEVER, I did buy it, and after using it a while now on other things, this plug is pretty good in its own right, and I'm finding it more useful to shape and color individual busses and tracks than to use across a whole mix or for mastering. Its a unique compressor, and the Trans options are great for giving different subtle textures to individual tracks.
- 1 star for not being the best emulation. - 1 star for no dig only features like control link or ability to switch the signal path order of the compressors. (I often like fast before slow) And where's Brainworx's signature MS feature??
T. Spratt
Amazing
I love the Steel transformer setting. Just putting on the master bus adds something to the mix that you just can't get from any other plugin.
A. Booth
great character
This plug in is excellent and very difficult to make it sound bad from what I have heard so far. Only used it on my master so far and I'm very happy with it, it adds a nice "character" to the mix and really smooths everything out and tames the top end. I've tried from minimal amounts of compression to large amounts and so far it hasn't sounded bad when used in extreme ways. Really impressed.
