It's a mature and incredibly useful technology that can allow reverbs to go places that purely algorithmic ones cannot. Sides supervised the creation of Universal Audio's Ocean Way Studios by providing his renowned mic collection and his intimate knowledge of the studios' A and B rooms.Ĭonvolution is a technology that allows us to capture an audio snapshot of a piece of gear (see Waves' Q-Clone and Acustica's Nebula platform), or a place (AudioEase's Altiverb ) it has also become an integral component of software amp modelers allowing for impulse responses (or IRs) - the raw material of the convolution process.
United was originally designed and built by M.T.
Oh, and not just any 'studio facility,' but Allen Sides' Ocean Way (formerly, and now again, United Recording). The boffins at Universal Audio had a genius idea to take convolution to the next level by capturing the sound of multiple rooms in a single studio facility, from various positions in the rooms, and using a whole host of mic pairs at each position. But this simple description does a huge disservice to what the plug-in can actually do. Universal Audio's Ocean Way Studios for their UAD platform is a room emulation this is the most basic fact when trying to describe the plug-in.
