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  • Overview
  • Features
  • Customer Reviews
  • 4.7/5
    (400)
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$199.00

Compression with attitude for guitars, vocals, and drums.

The Teletronix LA‑3A compressor is an iconic "secret weapon" limiter, famous for pushing sounds right to the front of your speakers with a unique, aggressive character.

Modeled from a unit in UA’s vintage collection, the Teletronix LA‑3A Audio Leveler plug-in gives you all the tone and pugnacious dynamics control of the rare hardware.

Included Versions

UAD Native
Runs on your Mac or PC without UA hardware.

Apollo Realtime & UAD‑2
Runs accelerated on Apollo interfaces and UAD‑2 hardware.

UAD Native plug-ins run on both macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer and Windows 10 and 11. Go to our UA Support page for system requirements.

  • Get the unique tone of the definitive solid-state optical compressor
  • Add energy and harmonics to vocals and acoustic guitars
  • Inject grit and texture to bass guitar and soft synths
  • Punch up your drums using the HF Emphasis sidechain filter and parallel Dry/Wet Mix

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TAKE A LISTEN

Get In-Your-Face Optical Compression Tones

Get In-Your-Face Optical Compression Tones

By giving you faster limiting than the tube-driven smooth operator Teletronix LA‑2A with the clarity of the iconic solid‑state 1176, the Teletronix LA‑3A plug-in offers bold, mid‑forward compression, guaranteed to make your sounds pop.

Easily Get Pro Limiting on Drums

Easily Get Pro Limiting on Drums

Use the HF Emphasis sidechain filter to punch up your drum bus with legendary LA‑3A tone, without triggering the threshold of the compressor with the kick drum. Plus, the Dry/Wet Mix control gives you quick parallel compression on a synth or piano track, seasoning your productions with legendary Teletronix LA‑3A attitude.

Key Features

Use any audio interface, with both UAD Native and Apollo Realtime/UAD-2 versions included

Get the unique tone of the definitive solid-state optical compressor

Add energy and harmonics to vocals and acoustic guitars

Inject grit and texture to bass guitar and soft synths

Punch up your drums using the HF Emphasis sidechain filter and parallel Dry/Wet Mix

Customer Reviews

Teletronix® LA-3A Classic Audio Leveler

Overall Rating

4.7/5
(400)

o. ikavalko

January 25, 2024

Teletronix la-3a

Lately this had been good limiter with mix knob. I’ve been useing other la-3a modeling plugin, but it lacked mix knob. I liked very much transparent sound of this plugin, altough I never have use a real hardware one. But this do job well

L. Leonard

January 24, 2024

Good

It is perfect for guitar and vocals,has a solid character,easy to use and finally CPU friendly:)

K. Johnson

January 21, 2024

Brings things forward in the mix

Great on guitar. Doesn't color too much, but brings it forward in the mix.

D. Salazar

January 19, 2024

Great Piece!!!

Firstly, this plugin could be said to give a good presence and character to the guitars, basses and even certain "Experiments" on drums, to give that quality by just moving 2 knobs, I think the plugin is on the right way.

Highly recommended.

j. last

January 6, 2024

My Guitars!!

WOW!! My guitars are really standing out...again thanks UAD for letting us bedroom producers with little money make good music too.

J. Sims

January 5, 2024

LA3A Magic

Having used the hardware units back in my analog day's This plugin gives me what the hardware units do. It almost feels like stealing to get this quality at this price.

J. Love

January 3, 2024

Everything I expected!

It does the LA 3A thing flawlessly. Beautiful on acustic guitar and will be a strong link in that chain.
Very nicely done UA !

U. Soto

January 1, 2024

A MUST HAVE FOR GUITARS!

THREW THIS ON ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND LET ME TELL YA, IT'S AMAZING! I'VE ALSO HEARD IT'S GOOD ON OTHER THINGS LIKE VOCALS BUT FOR ME IT WAS A DEFINITE WINNER FOR ACOUSTIC GUITARS. WELL DONE UA!

J. Barry

December 28, 2023

Sweet compressor!

Adds a unique color to the tone. Very subtle but lovely. I high

A. Ogarev

December 25, 2023

Teletronix® LA-3A Classic Audio Leveler

super)

A. Puron

December 19, 2023

Buenísimo

Hace muy bien. Su trabajo muy contento con este plugins ! Cumple las espectativas y yo lo uso para terminar de redondear un sonido ya sea artificial o voz !

L. Merwan

December 12, 2023

A gem for enthusiasts of authentic analog sound !

The Helios Type 69 plug-in is simply extraordinary! Its faithful emulation of the original hardware provides an outstanding sonic richness, perfect for shaping sources with a vintage attitude.

M. Evans

December 9, 2023

Satisfied Customer !

I'm new to UA and I am very pleased with the pro quality plugins, nice job!

E. Starzhynskiy

December 9, 2023

Comb your guitars!

This is magic for guitars and not only. It works flawlessly, I recommend it!

K. L

November 24, 2023

Nice on electric guitars

Super useful to tame heavy electric guitars

A. Moreno

November 23, 2023

Sorprendente

En una palabra , increíble

J. SANMARTI

October 30, 2023

Fantastic!

Love this, simply great leveler to reach natural for your recordings!!

B. Garden

October 26, 2023

Best thing for Electric Guitars and Vocals

Brings such a polished forward character to anything you put it on. Makes vocals amazing and also heaps good on Electric Guitar. Super impressed. Not getting it off my mixes anytime soon

G. VENL

October 16, 2023

a sS u p e r tT o o l

Okay, if I'm completely honest, I should have had this LA-3A from my very first mix... a super tool

C. Gonzalez Bueno

October 13, 2023

The Best To My Ears!!!

I've tested many LA-3A plugins before I finally tested the UAD version. The competitors are no match (competitors are amazing). UA version gives this sense of 3D that I don't get from others emulations.