Sound Machine Wood Works®
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Easily transform your acoustic’s piezo pickup into a multi-miked acoustic.
The Wood Works plug-in for UAD-2 and Apollo interfaces gives you exceptional studio microphone sound from any piezo-equipped acoustic guitar. Now you can easily track multi-dimensional acoustic tones in real time — even in situations that would challenge physical microphones.
Wood Works also allows you to “re-mic” your guitar tracks as you mix — refocusing or radically reshaping them at any stage of the mix, even if your guitar was recorded in a less-than-perfect environment or a live performance.Record your acoustic guitar direct, in real time with microphone quality sound using Apollo Twin, DUO, or QUAD
Use any UAD-2 hardware to re-voice pre-recorded acoustic guitar, transforming its resonance and character
Record stunning acoustic tracks in noisy environments and onstage without bleed
Mix multiple mic voicings for rich, complex tones without re-tracking
Learn how to Add Depth to DI Acoustic Guitars
Grammy-winning engineer F. Reid Shippen (Dierks Bentley, Keith Urban) and the Sound Machine Wood Works plug‑in.
Customer Reviews
G. Romeyn
July 10, 2022
Just what I need!
For my nylon acoustic guitar and even my electric guitars there are now many possibilities for recording and so I'm very content with this plugin!...
Read MoreY. Zolberg
June 13, 2022
So brilliant!!
Bringing back to life my old recordings. I once used a guitar recorded with a smartphone and the result was very surprising! I do not...
Read MoreW. Hare
May 11, 2022
Great Tool
It has a lot of different instrument choices. It's like having a locker full of acoustic guitars. Great sounds, I foresee using this a lot....
Read MoreA. Paulick-Thiel
January 14, 2022
Great for a specific use
This tool actually works wonders to fix those "plunky" DI acoustic guitar signals. I'm currently using it while remixing some old live recordings – and I'm really pleased! I...
Read MoreV. Van den Abbeele
January 14, 2022
With silent guitare from Yamaha
It does really add that extra real accoustic body in a natural way. The result is just great. I think by the way, that this is the best use case. I'm glad I did...
Read MoreJ. SCOTLAND
November 1, 2021
Great mic'd acoustic sounds without the hassle!
Brilliant! I use this with my silent acoustic guitar and Apollo solo. The sounds is very realistic and quick to set up....
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Key Features
Gives true microphone quality sound to direct recordings of acoustic guitars
Provides the rich resonance and vibrancy that is missing from unprocessed acoustic guitar pickups
No time consuming set up; provides consistent premium sound every time you monitor or record acoustic guitar
Provides creative options to re-voice the source acoustic guitar's resonance and other acoustic properties
Freedom to re-mic as you mix, changing and adding microphones as needed to fit your production
Straightforward controls for virtual neck and body microphone level and pan, and input and output levels
Voicings matched to jumbo, dreadnought, and studio (small body) guitars
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Customer Reviews
Sound Machine Wood Works
W. Narczyński
Pretty useless, extremely overpriced
This plugin takes white noise, amplifies it and colors into disturbing noise. Only useful if you have very low noise instrument. Most of the budget must have gone into the superb graphics.
G. Romeyn
Just what I need!
For my nylon acoustic guitar and even my electric guitars there are now many possibilities for recording and so I'm very content with this plugin!
P. Tryding
Well
Not one of UAs best. Faking real acoustic miced up in a room is very hard. This is proves that point again. Now… get the Neve 1073/84 instead. Thats crazy good.
Y. Zolberg
So brilliant!!
Bringing back to life my old recordings. I once used a guitar recorded with a smartphone and the result was very surprising! I do not know of any other plugin that knows how to do this
W. Hare
Great Tool
It has a lot of different instrument choices. It's like having a locker full of acoustic guitars. Great sounds, I foresee using this a lot.
A. Paulick-Thiel
Great for a specific use
This tool actually works wonders to fix those "plunky" DI acoustic guitar signals. I'm currently using it while remixing some old live recordings – and I'm really pleased! I will surely use it again to make scratch takes and home-demos sound much better, or any time replacing a DI acoustic guitar just doesn't vibe with the live take. I've been trying it on other "abrupt" direct signals, like drum machines or certain percussive synth sounds, to see if it brings in some "wood" or "physicality", though so far it only works impressively for DI acoustic guitars. Would it work well on a DI for a double-bass? I haven't tried yet. Wood Works is a very specific tool, which is amazing for its intended purpose should you need it.
V. Van den Abbeele
With silent guitare from Yamaha
It does really add that extra real accoustic body in a natural way. The result is just great. I think by the way, that this is the best use case. I'm glad I did buy it. Good job guys!
J. SCOTLAND
Great mic'd acoustic sounds without the hassle!
Brilliant! I use this with my silent acoustic guitar and Apollo solo. The sounds is very realistic and quick to set up. Monitoring the sound has no noticable latency, which makes it a lot of fun to monitor while recording.
S. Verlaguet
Really efficient
Wonderful plugin espacially if you record an acoustic guitar using a piezo instead of using mics. The sound"palette" is very large, the sound very realistic , it is perfect in the mix. very useful and very efficient in many situation, love it., really nice tool
S. May
Taming a Difficult child
This works so well when you have that difficult guitar that has some stubborn issues that need to be calmed and nurtured turning problem child into saint
I. Macaulay
Essential for home recording with acoustic
No need to set up mics, plug in and start recording. I absolutely love how easy this makes it to get inspiration recorded without messing about setting things up. Good variety of tonal options, some options sound to me like old mono recordings, real vibey and warm
A. Eisele
Great for untreated spaces
Had difficulty recording acoustic guitars in my untreated home studio in NYC. Now I use Wood Works to transform my DI acoustic guitars into usable recordings; and it's all done in real-time. This is exactly the type of scenario for which the UAD platform is valuable to me.
Wish the user interface were more straight-forward (not this gimmicky steampunk thing) and offered more options, such as basic EQ.
If you record acoustic guitars in untreated spaces, noisy environments, and without the best mics like me, then I think Wood Works is a very useful tool.D. Murphy
Put some acoustic into that DI
Amazed this works so well, but it really does make a huge difference. Perfect for my needs.
J. Gómez
New sounds from my acoustic electric
Im using it to record various layers of acoustics, very easy to use.
D. Linderoth
I was really sceptic....
... and if you are on a budget like me with NO chance of recording your acoustic guitar with microphones, this really sounded too good to be true. After watching some reviews on the interweb but with some "horrid" playing but with some valid points made from time to time it was demo time
I activated the 14-day demo and tried it out for a couple of days with different results but learning it so now I really recommend the Sound Machine Wood Works - it really does work. For me it is too expensive at the usual price but I was lucky to find out about it during the recent sale.
My bad! I wish I'd known about it earlier. I only recorded with a Martin OM-21 with an LR Baggs Anthem pup and that's the only caveat I see for other users since some reviews report different outcomes with different piezo-equipped guitars. Anthem system and it's quite easy to tweak and find a sound that suits the track and your playing style. Some variations are similar but it worked quite well with both fingerpicking/flatpicking and strumming. So 5 stars it is.C. Brown
Easy Way Ao Add Character
This plugin offers a great way to ad unique character to any acoustic recording. Works well with Di and especially well with mic recordings. Thanks folks, keep'em coming.
E. Lewis
Gone is the piezoelectric boing and thwacking
Loving this plugin. Now I’ve got 3 inputs 1) Rhodes large diaphragm condenser, SE Ribbon and this plugin on my DI channel. I’ve never had such realistic and clean acoustic. My custom shop Taylor 6 string, 12 strings and Takamine classical all sound honest to their pedigree. Gone is the piezoelectric boing rubberband thwak. Thank you!!!!!
Now my studio is permanently set to record acoustics.R. Kei
not a perfect changes from electric to acoustic but it's useful
It's not a perfect changes from electric to acoustic but, it has so many possibilities
to make some kind of different sound for guitars.
If you expect a perfect change from electric to acoustic, don't take this
But if you find some kind of unique hybrid guitar tones, this will be so useful to you.J. Santos
SMWW com Godin
Até que enfim consegui fazer meu Godin soar como um violão de verdade. Tô amando!!
J. Sugarev
Works great for electric violin too.
It's not for everyone but it sure does what few other plugins do. Exactly the sort I thing I'm looking for from UA.
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