The original hardware has found favour in many of the world’s most celebrated recording studios and, as UAD’s emulation joins the ranks of its Unison-enabled preamps, you can now track recordings through it (vocals sound particularly great, as do hardware synths) or ‘re-preamp-lify’ existing audio recordings by adding the V76 as an insert at the top of a channel-strip of effects. Here’s a preamp which really does sound like analogue in action, with UAD’s emulation the only officially-endorsed plugin of this hardware to date, with each stage of its behaviour meticulously modeled. The UAD platform isn’t short of classic preamp emulations and joining the Neve 1073 and SSL E-Channel ranks (to name but two) comes a less known but justifiably coveted choice the V76 Preamp, whose hardware was developed by the German Institute of Broadcast Technology (IRT).Īs with most classic preamps, its sound isn’t determined by an extended feature set or chameleon-like flexibility, but rather features a reputation built on the singular quality of its warm, ‘hi-fi’ tube sonic character.
