02/04/2026
If you ever wonder what the hell I'm doing looking over the Hollywood Bowl at my lab at Little Labs, the VOG is a hardware creation I designed in that lab 17 years ago. Today I’m doing the same thing, designing a new product, the THAT70SEQ (but more on that product later). Back to the VOG…
Shortly after the hardware release, Universal Audio's genius Dr. Dave Berners (MIT, Cal Tech, Stanford PhD) modeled the VOG using my schematics into a very popular plug-in, which was just made native today, meaning it runs without the UA hardware on all computer platforms! Thank you, Universal Audio!
The way UAD plugins are created is not to just recreate what the hardware does, but to model the exact electronic components used in the hardware. Why this makes a difference is that, just as you can recreate the EQ curves of a Pultec, it's not just the EQ curves that make a Pultec a Pultec. My hardware VOG was a big breakthrough for me when I discovered a way to achieve extreme roll-off and super-high-Q resonance simultaneously, using only a single capacitor and amplifier in the audio signal path. Open-sounding, musical, clear, extreme low-frequency sculpting was the result! Modeling the plugins the way Dr. Dave Berners and the UAD team does is what sets Universal Audio apart from many other plug-in makers, and you do hear the difference. UAD plug-ins are superb!
In this video, Drew Mazurek at UA did a fantastic job of showing off what the VOG does. The hardware is exactly the same, and you can still purchase the Hardware if you prefer hardware. Enjoy!
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