

Offers include any three plug-ins for $399, any six for $799, or any ten for $1199.

Apollo comes bundled with UAD’s Realtime Analog Classics bundle: the UA 610-B microphone preamp, RAW distortion pedal, Amp Room Essentials by Softube, UA’s own RealVerb Pro and several Precision plug-ins, as well as “legacy versions”-now superseded by upgraded versions, but still great-sounding on their own-including the Teletronix LA-2A Leveling Amplifier and 1176SE/LN Limiting Amplifiers, Fairchild 670 Compressor, and Pultec Pro EQ plug-ins.Īs a new user to the Apollo, you get spe-cial discounts on extra plug-ins from UA’s online store. After all of the software and firmware updates are installed, the registration page opens.

The installation process was equally straightforward. I’m currently running Mac OS X 10.11 on a 2013 iMac with a 2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 processor and 16 GB of RAM. Installing the Apollo was a very simple and quick process-unbox, power on, connect via Thunderbolt. In this article, I’m going to describe my experiences as a first-time Apollo user, and focus on the features that make it such a powerful platform for guitarists and bassists recording from home. reviewed the Apollo 8p in our March 2016 issue, and gave a very detailed explanation of the technical specs and upgrades in the newest generation of Apollo interfaces.

As a recording engineer by day and a guitar player by night, I’ve always been very interested in this line of interfaces, but never had the opportunity to try one for myself. Apollo combines UA’s sought-after micro-phone preamps, digital converter design, and powerful DSP-based UAD-2 plug-in technology, all in one box. The Apollo recording interfaces were first introduced in 2012 by Universal Audio. including comparing the new Softube Marshall JMP 2203 plug-in to the real thing
