Universal Audio Apollo Twin X DUO Heritage Edition

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The workflow takes some getting used to coming from outside the UAD ecosystem, and it’s a while before you’ll get things set up exactly how you want them but in our opinion, it’s totally worth the time and financial investment. With its gentle, program dependent optical compression and meticulously designed tube amplifier, the LA-2A is the go-to compressor for professional mixers around the world — especially for vocals.

Introduced in 1969, the Ampeg SVT bass amp is still the reigning king of high-powered tube bass tone. Letting you record through preamps from Neve, API, Manley, and more — with near-zero latency — Apollo Twin X is born to make records.Following a high-quality range of vintage emulations and innovative plugins, it is obvious that Universal Audio don’t settle for second best and strive to give you their all. Apollo interfaces are compatible with any DAW offering low-latency recording via their Console interface. The thing that sets Apollo’s audio interfaces apart from conventional units is the onboard DSP acceleration. The quality of the apollo unison pre-amps and emulations and also the UAD plugins make arranging songs much easier. With its elite-class conversion, the Apollo Twin X DUO outperforms standard audio interfaces, ensuring superior sound reproduction.

When he's not downloading the latest VSTs or justifying yet another guitar pedal purchase, you'll find him making a racket with Northern noise hounds JACKALS. The UAD Apollo Twin has been the go-to audio interface for many musicians and producers looking to record and mix music to a high level. While designed in a lovely desktop format, it features a host of inputs and outputs with the option to expand via ADAT. A Universal Audio exclusive, Unison is a proprietary hardware-software integration that nails the tone of these sought-after tube and solid-state mic pres — including their input impedance, gain stage “sweet spots,” and component-level circuit behaviours. Whilst we live in the digital age of DSP and modelling, musicians are always utilizing these modern technological achievements to hark back to the age of analogue recording.

These premium Heritage Edition titles are in addition to Apollo Twin X's included "Realtime Analog Classics" bundle, giving you the most accurate library of classic analogue emulations included with any professional audio interface. Interest will accrue from the date of purchase but will not show until the expiry of the deferred payment period(after 12 months). This allows you to run the DSP-powered plugins from Apollo, with exclusive emulations from Neve, Lexicon, Capitol Studios, API, Manley, Ampex, Fender and more. Andertons Music Company acts as a credit broker and not a lender and only offers credit products from Secure Trust Bank PLC trading as V12 Retail Finance.

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With access to UAD plugins and the ability to be used with other devices for greater I/O and processing, it's the perfect start to a pro-grade home studio. We don’t get close to the DSP limit on a single track, although as a tester we load up two of the Fender Tweed amp emulation presets side by side to see how far up the DSP meter we can go, hitting 91% with some channel strips, compressors, delays, and reverbs thrown into the mix. On the front panel, you have a Hi-Z input for electric guitars and a studio headphone out for easy access. Exclusive Heritage Edition Plugin Bundle - While preserving all the capabilities found in the Apollo Twin X Duo, the Heritage Edition elevates your plugin arsenal by introducing five fresh, acclaimed UAD plugin titles alongside the existing UAD analogue plugin bundle. And it goes a step further, with a software suite of 5 award-winning UAD plug-in titles, featuring Collections from Teletronix,® Pultec,® and UA.

Apollo Twin X Heritage Edition features two Unison-enabled mic preamps, letting you track through exacting mic preamp emulations from Neve, API, Manley, SSL, Avalon, Helios, and Universal Audio. You can also purchase a variety of extensions for it such as Neve Console Summing and the Minimoog instrument separately. Letting you record through preamps from Neve, API, Manley, and more — with near‑zero latency — Apollo Twin X is born to make records. To improve on the previous generation of desktop Apollo interfaces’ class-leading audio conversion, UA engineers redesigned the Twin’s audio conversion to deliver a striking 127 dB dynamic range and -117 dB THD+N, giving Apollo Twin X a spacious, organic sound that easily rivals dedicated high-end converters. Whether it’s a plugin that models a vintage compressor or a floor modeller that recreates the warmth and sag of a tube amp, many of the old ways still reign supreme over modern music.

Allowing you to design the room just as you hear it, the RealVerb Pro goes beyond simply big/small or dark/bright, giving your sources distortion-free, smoothing diffusion control and ultra-long reverb tail. Andertons Music Company is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority, firm registration number 716155. The groundbreaking emulations have been meticulously crafted to sound as close to the original as possible.