Universal Audio Apollo Twin Thunderbolt Audio Interface Impressions!  #Helpful Post

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TLD hope you guys are doing well this

past week I got a chance to check out

NAMM 2014 which essentially is the music

equivalent of CES where companies get

together and show off the gear for the

new year

now for those who aren't aware before I

got into video actually came from a

music and audio background so I've

always had a soft spot not only for new

gear but for audio as well which is why

I'm constantly trying to improve not

only video quality but get the best

possible audio quality I can for these

videos so what you're looking at is the

Apollo twin by Universal audio and not

only do they make arguably the best

hardware emulation plugins on the planet

they do a killer job of bridging the gap

between technology and music so the

Apollo twin is essentially the little

brother of the original Apollo and

Apollo 16 obviously it's smaller more

compact and meant to sit on your desk as

opposed to a rack mount setup as you can

see aesthetically it is beautiful

brushed aluminum and it just screams

attention to detail on the front you can

see everything is nicely laid out

there's a level knob and switch right

smack in the middle the input and output

monitors are extremely easy to read and

you can see down below we have access to

tons of parameters ranging from input

selection a low-cut filter phantom power

an input pad and then the ability to

link the unit now as far as the ins and

the outs right there on the front

there's a headphone output to the left

of that there's a high Z input and this

is what you'd use to plug in your guitar

or bass to record directly on the

flipside there are two mics / line

inputs and these are killer preamps

they're super low noise and have a

ridiculously wide dynamic range of a

hundred and eighteen decibels following

that there are monitor and line outputs

the power input and a single thunderbolt

connection so no USB or firewire but I

would assume that you can probably use a

firewire 2 Thunderbolt converter and I

will look into that for my full review

of the unit now right there above the

power switch there's also an optical in

so you can actually add up to 8

additional inputs through an 8 @

connection now additionally there's a

few things that separate this from other

interfaces one of them being built in

processing so this comes in a solo or

dual configuration and just think of it

the same way you think of computer cores

or the cores on a phone the more you

have more power you have and it's gonna

actually take the load off of your

computer so even if you're using

something like a MacBook Air you're not

gonna have to stress about the computer

maxing out and being taxed by the

plugins because this is going to take

the load off your computers hands on top

of that like I mentioned

make arguably the best hardware

emulation plugins in the world and the

cool thing is with the power built into

this unit you can actually use those to

track or monitor your recordings in real

time not after the fact or

post-processing so if you're tracking a

guitar for example you could plug

directly into an API strip you can throw

in some of their softube

app modeling and the cool thing is you

have the option to record exactly what

you hear into a wet signal like you

would with older analog gear or you can

kind of preview it and still record a

dry signal and then tweak it after the

fact and from there the plugins keep

going there's tons of compressors from

Fairchild you have SSL Studer pultec the

list goes on and what's cool with these

is they actually introduced unison

preamp technology and what that means in

simple terms is the plug-in actually

adjust the preamp circuit itself so

based off what plug-in you're using

it'll actually change the impedance the

gain structure and adjust the physical

hardware preamp to actually better suit

the virtual plug-in that you're using on

your computer so yeah I'm pretty excited

to check this out if you guys are

looking forward to the review or have

any questions definitely leave me a

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various models all linked down below

along with the gear that I use to make

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