Scotts Valley, CA (November 9, 2026)—Universal Audio has released Capitol Studios, a new native room modeling and reverb plug-in for macOS and Windows.
Capitol Studios has been a cornerstone of recorded music since the Capitol Tower opened in Hollywood, Calif., 1956, its studios designed to match the building’s futuristic ambition, with precise acoustics and subterranean echo chambers. Now, with UA’s Capitol Studios, musicians and producers can mix vocals, drums, guitars and more in Capitol Studios A and B—home to records by everyone from Frank Sinatra and Bob Marley to Green Day and Daft Punk. The plug-in brings the studio’s rooms, microphones, processors, consoles and famed underground echo chambers into any DAW.
“Capitol Studios remains an integral part of record-making history, and we wanted to capture what makes these rooms special,” says Will Shanks, senior product designer at Universal Audio. “Together with the Capitol team, we’re bringing the sound of these iconic rooms to more musicians and producers, wherever they create.”
With the new plug-in, available at the company’s website, through authorized UA retailers and included with a UAD Spark Studio subscription, users can track vocals and instruments “in the same rooms Frank Sinatra and Billie Eilish recorded in,” the developer says, and hear tracks through vintage microphones with setups curated by Capitol alum Steve Genewick. Users can move mics around the room and hear the space respond in real time, and send strings, horns and vocal groups through the time-tested, three-mic Decca Tree orchestral array used on countless albums.
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Users can also mix through Capitol’s priceless large-format British consoles and trusted in-house analog gear while the four underground reverb chambers beneath Capitol Tower add space and depth. The plug-in includes presets dialed in by past and present Capitol engineers, producers and musicians who know these rooms best.
