{"id":23971,"date":"2025-10-03T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/?p=23971"},"modified":"2025-10-03T16:46:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T16:46:53","slug":"universal-audio-revives-the-showman-64-now-as-a-free-plugin-limited-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/2025\/10\/03\/universal-audio-revives-the-showman-64-now-as-a-free-plugin-limited-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Audio revives the Showman \u201964: now as a free plugin (limited time)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>By Dara Christine \u2013 October 3, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>UA transforms the iconic 100W Fender Showman into a plugin that faithfully captures its clean headroom, vibrato, and sonic power. Best of all: it\u2019s free to download\u2014for now.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Legendary roots under the hood<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Universal Audio has once again cracked open the time capsule to deliver a pinpoint recreation of one of the cleanest, most unfiltered amps of the \u201960s: the 1964 Fender Showman. Originally built to power closed-back cabinets with brute force and zero reverb, this 100-watt beast had massive headroom and stayed clean even when pushed. In plugin form, UA nails the circuit architecture \u2014 from the solid-state rectifier that keeps the low end tight when you crank it, to the subtle, organic movement of the built-in vibrato<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No bells or whistles, just what the original had: Volume, a 3-band EQ (Bass, Mid, Treble), Speed and Intensity for the vibrato, and the classic Normal\/Bright switch that brings in that extra sparkle from the \u201960s. You also get input and output gain staging and a Room control to add natural ambience \u2014 ideal for studio realism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This plugin shines wherever you need clean tones with personality: surf, country, blues, classic rock, or as a strong foundation for layering drive. UA includes smart presets labeled \u201cRhythm,\u201d \u201cWarm,\u201d \u201cModern,\u201d and \u201cCountry\u201d to get you going. It\u2019s not trying to be clever \u2014 it just does the job, right. And yeah, the Showman has serious history: think The Beach Boys, Keith Richards, and anyone else who wanted stage-level clean tone before \u201chi-fi\u201d was a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The best part? It\u2019s free (for now)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Showtime \u201964 runs inside any major DAW (VST, AU, AAX) or as a native UA app. You can activate it on up to three devices. It\u2019s available as a <strong>free download for a limited time<\/strong>, after which it becomes part of UA\u2019s Spark subscription platform \u2014 but you still get a 14-day full-access trial even after that.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jlvid_container\"><iframe title=\"FREE Guitar Amp: Meet Showtime &#039;64 Tube Amp Plug-in\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D9FdPTntTeI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dara Christine \u2013 October 3, 2025 UA transforms the iconic 100W Fender Showman into a plugin that faithfully captures its clean headroom, vibrato, and sonic power. Best of all: it\u2019s free to download\u2014for now. Legendary roots under the hood Universal Audio has once again cracked open the time capsule to deliver a pinpoint recreation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[102,101,100,99,103],"class_list":["post-23971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","tag-100w-fender-showman","tag-gear","tag-showman-64","tag-universal-audio","tag-vibrato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23971"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23975,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23971\/revisions\/23975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guitarmadrid.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}