see universal audio . for the album by the delgados see universal audio album . universal audio inc. type privately held company industry pro audio founded evanston illinois founder bill putnam headquarters scotts valley california united states products audio signal processing hardware and digital signal processing software owner bill putnam jr. website http www.uaudio.com universal audio is a designer and manufacturer of audio signal processing hardware and dsp software founded in 1958 by bill putnam . the current incarnation of the company was re established in 1999 by brothers jim putnam and bill putnam jr. universal audio merged with kind of loud technologies to achieve two goals reproduce classic analog recording equipment designed by their father and his colleagues and research and design new recording tools in the spirit of vintage analog technology . 1 today universal audio continues in the tradition established by bill putnam sr. replicating modern versions of the classic urei and teletronix designs . universal audio also manufactures dsp cards and audio plugins for music production under the uad 2 platform . they ve garnered several tec award nominations and a futuremusic platinum award for their work with putnam s son bill jr. serving as ceo . references edit universal audio history external links edit official website official company history retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title universal audio company & oldid 687303868 categories audio equipment manufacturersmusic equipment manufacturerssoftware companies based in californiaprivately held companies based in illinois navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 24 october 2015 at 17 59 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view