UAD Helios Type 69 Preamp and EQ Collect – Digital Delivery

Helios Type 69: Unmistakable Analog Attitude

• The sound of rock royalty: Delivers the fat midrange, assertive growl, and unmistakable attitude used to craft iconic albums by Bob Marley, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix.

• Famed studio heritage: Recreates the custom console circuits famously housed at Olympic Studios in London, Musicland in Munich, and the legendary Rolling Stones mobile recording truck.

• Golden-unit accuracy: Developed by faithfully emulating two hand-selected original Type 69 “golden units” to capture their distinct, colorful character.

• Sonic enhancement: Injects classic attitude, broad-stroke warmth, and heavy transient punch into vocals, electric guitars, acoustic drums, and bass lines.

Bold and Colorful Analog EQ

• Assertive three-band EQ: Perfectly emulates the original hardware’s unique passive equalizer network.

• Musical saturation behaviors: Recreates the rich harmonic distortion that occurs within the EQ circuitry, keeping radical frequency boosts sounding smooth and ultra-musical even at extreme settings.

• Colorful midrange band: Legendary for its ability to pull electric guitars, synthesizers, and lead vocals forward in a dense mix with a distinct, pleasing bite.

Thick, Solid Low-End Foundation

• Four low-frequency filters: Outfitted with four uniquely voiced low-frequency boost curves to construct a wide, rock-solid bass foundation.

• Seminal low-end character: Delivers the exact low-frequency response found on foundational rock, pop, and vintage reggae recordings.

• Fixed low-cut cleanup: Features a fixed 50 Hz low-cut mode to instantly clean up muddy sub-bass rumble on drum overheads, room microphones, and acoustic acoustic tracks.

Vintage Tracking with Unison Technology

• Hardware-software synergy: Pairs seamlessly with Apollo audio interfaces to utilize Universal Audio’s revolutionary Unison mic preamp technology.

• Bi-directional circuit matching: Matches the exact line/mic input impedance, gain-stage “sweet spots,” and component-level circuit behaviors of the vintage hardware desk.

• Real-time processing: Allows you to track your instruments directly “through” a vintage Helios console in real time with near-zero latency.

Tech Specs

• MAC: Supported

• WINDOWS: Supported