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UAD Powered Plug-Ins Manual - 57 - Using UAD Powered Plug-Ins
Solution: Send the output of the unprocessed instrument tracks (but not the
horn tracks or the Precision Limiter return) to a different group/bus, and put
one DelayComp with a Plugs value of 1 and a Sample value of 64 on this
group/bus that contains the dry non-horn tracks. If you put 2 Precision Limiters
stacked in series on the horn bus, the unprocessed bus DelayComp Plugs
value would be 2, and the Sample value would be 128.
Here’s another example with the same situation, but with a session sample
rate of 96kHz. Solution: Send the output of the unprocessed instrument tracks
(but not the horn tracks or the Precision Limiter return) to a different
group/bus. Insert one DelayComp with a Plugs value of 1and a Samples
value of 128, and another DelayComp with a Plugs value of 0 and a Samples
value of 12 (i.e. 140 – 128) on the group/bus that contains the dry non-horn-
tracks. The latency of both groups/buses is now the same, so the playback
timing is correctly aligned.
Note: You can keep it simple: Use the Precision Limiter only on outputs (as its
design was intended), or only in hosts that have full plugin delay compensa-
tion!
Compensating for Precision Equalizer, Helios 69, Neve 1073, and Neve 1081
These special equalizers use an internal sample rate of 192kHz to facilitate
their amazing sonic quality. This upsampling results in a slightly larger latency
than other UAD plugins. Therefore, they require slightly more compensation to
remain perfectly synchronized with other tracks. This is not an issue if these
plugins are used for program material on the output bus, where latency is not
a consideration. However, if they are used elsewhere in the signal chain and
the host does not automatically compensate for latency at that point in the sig-
nal chain, they require slightly more compensation to remain perfectly syn-
chronized with other tracks.
Therefore, when using the DelayComp or TrackAdv plugin to manually com-
pensate for these special equalizer plugins, enter the Samples value from
Table 4 on page 58 (in addition to the appropriate “Plugs” value) for each in-
stance of the EQ plugin.
Important: Compensating for Precision EQ, Helios 69, Neve 1073, and
Neve 1081 is not required if the host application supports full plugin delay
compensation throughout the entire signal path, or when it is used only on the
outputs. See “Host PDC Implementation” on page 50.