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there are all kinds of interface devices out there on the market all the way from low introductory ones up to ones that cost thousands of dollars and when you're beginning a musician it is really hard to choose a great product and not you know break the bank at the same time now personally one of the reasons I've used Mac for a long time as I love Universal audio products I love the Apollo before the Apollo I had different products from them and they've always been my favorite but one thing about them is they've never really worked in the windows world they've always been a Mac based thing well now they've got new products that have come out they've had that one that that people excuse me the predecessor this particular one it was a USB 3 type product a little bit buggy with some stuff sometimes it worked great sometimes it didn't there was a lot of dropout and stuff so I was kind mmm now this particular one is the universal audio arrow now the arrow is pretty much an entry-level product and it works with just what both windows 10 but it has to have the update the anniversary of data or won't work just to mention that real quick or it works with a Mac so it works in either environment and this particular product is actually going to lead into another video where I build a system that's completely PC and completely dedicated to being my DAW and recording music which would be pretty cool now this little things about 500 bucks 24 bit 192 Kurtz recording ability has really solid dan80 converters inside of it everything really quality about this but the really cool thing I think about it is when you buy it you get a bunch of plugins right off the bat that are actually worth more and cost more on their site than the kid the device itself so as soon as you buy this device and you install in your computer you'll get all this access to these different applications which are pretty cool and you can plug your guitar and it's got guitar emulation it's got delay all kinds of nice stuff and if you want to build upon your library you can do it and if you decide that you really like this particular product you can always upgrade it to another one so okay so enough fun facts let's unbox this the front of the box is pretty simple you get a picture of the device telling you it's the Thunderbolt 3 from Mac and Windows Universal Audio all right that's all there there on the backside it's just basically telling you that you're getting a bunch of plugins for free when you buy this I'll talk up a little bit more about that in a second though but that's pretty much all there is to the box now inside the box pop open the cap you see the unit itself will pop that out of there now one thing I'm gonna complain about right off the bat though and this kind of made me kind of angry is it requires a Thunderbolt 3 cable well it doesn't come to the Thunderbolt 3 cable you have to buy one I mean that's kind of silly they should have included that so the unit itself and this little getting started guide thing right here this is really all that comes inside the box so it's a very very bare minimum you know good thing is though you don't require a separate power so that's kind of cool so you not to worry about your power or anything like that so here's do you know I'm go ahead just kill this little tag off it here a weird sticky stuffs right there weird sticky stuff all right there we go from the unit can't follow the floor it's pretty funny so ok right here are all your meters for checking everything out when you're working very clearly easy to see single knob here all of your controls are down here you can choose your input choose different things you preamp your monitor on the front if your headphone jack your input jack also inside powering this unit is the UAD 2 solo processor so there's a single processor inside this unit which is probably why it's under $500 because the next one above it is about $900 and that's their twin so this particularly it looks really nice nice and clean you guys can see that simple inputs on the back are you 2 mic inputs your stereo output to your speakers the Thunderbolt cable and like I said a minute ago it's really clear don't need a separate power you'll get all your power right through the Thunderbolt cable so no other messy cable will be lying around one thing that's really cool like I said the beginning of the video is right out of the box you get a bunch of analog emulator plugins including the world's only authentic tell atronics la-2a you also get the 1176 ln a bunch of pull technique use and you also get the Unison enabled you a 6-10 be tube preamp and online in their website you can expand your library of plugins just massively I myself own almost every plugin that they have I've been collecting them over the years and it really makes a great recording studio when you have these plugins for guitarist and bassist arrow includes units and technology on its front panel instrument input giving you access to amplifiers like the Fender 55 tweed deluxe the amp eggby 15 end bass amplifier eaton WT 800 bass amplifier and now it even includes the marshall plexi classic and all these plugins work at near zero latency so this is really good for songwriting and for recording if you're wondering if this particular unit will work with you or computer well it works like I said before with both Macs and PCs it does need a Thunderbolt 3 cable that they sell separately which is kind of a bummer it requires Mac OS 10 point 2 sierra or 10.13 high sierra it requires Windows 10 with the anniversary update that's the 64-bit Edition requires 6 gigabytes of storage and it's actually recommended that you have a quad core i7 or better processor even better than an i7 the future you'll also need an internet connection so you can download the software and authorize all of your UAD plugins ok so not a lot in the box well there's not much because you download pretty much everything off of the internet but the device itself is very solid built it's not gonna break on you has just enough connections to be simple I mean let's just face it there's not much on it those two XLR parts on the back you've got a single entry single out in the back and stereo for your speakers plus the power through the Thunderbolt I mean there's really not a lot to the unit like I said before the very beginning of the video I'm a fan of Universal Audio products I just am I've been using them for years and I can't wait to build this PC and see how well this works in the Windows environment because it works great with Windows 10 I'm going to be a very very happy camper I'm gonna tell you guys will be seeing me come back doing the full review on this product and talking to you guys about that now there are a few things that I have heard and which I expect to run into there's not a whole lot of processing power inside as compared to like an Apollo because there's only like a single chip inside of it instead of a quad chip environment so when you're doing a lot of virtual instruments and stuff like that you may run out of power with this particular union that's something I'm expecting to run into but here's the thing always somewhere there's a sacrifice now if you go out and you listen to any of those Focusrite products or any of those other products MOTU any of those products and you compare the sound probably to this they're not going to be the same the sound quality and Universal Audio stuff is just amazing The Killers recorded their album completely on a Mac using that so it's really nice stuff so my next video is going to be the PC for this project and then we'll see how everything works together and if it's a total thumbs up I'm Elric thanks for watching you guys down below we'll have a link where you guys can check out more stuff about this or even check out more videos online about the UA Aero peace