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today's video is brought to you by Squarespace hey guys johnathan here with 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 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