and decide later what mic you want it to be. It’ s wacky how nice their stuff is. So, I started using UA, I mean a really long time ago I was early adopter of the Apollo stuff, and I was using another very popular interface and when I switched to the Apollo, I was shocked how much better it sounded instantly. The imaging was better just in my playback. I became a huge fan, and I loved the practicality of it, and I just kept building my system that way. I’ ve been using the Apollo, my original one was an Apollo 8 with the four mic pres and 4 line-ins, because I really didn’ t need more than that at the time. And I had the light pipe-ins if I needed more pres. And then I ended up buying a couple of the X eight Ps, the eight pre versions. Just killer … sounded amazing!
And then I’ ve had a twin that I would use for desktop inputs and kind of like an overall volume control. I use the mono switch a lot because I’ m pretty militant about phase cohesion and all that phase alignment. And then I liked that I could just unplug that and take it somewhere with me. And then I’ ve got one of their little single channel bus powered units, it’ s called the Solo. It’ s killer. So that’ s a single unison pre with some processing on it. But I have a little setup that I have on a little hydraulic lift table that’ s like a portable laptop table and it has that and a tiny little controller keyboard. And I can just roll that anywhere in my house. I can roll it outside onto the patio and just put my headphones on and work that way. And then take my computer, go down to my big studio where we’ ve got the big tracking room and the big control room and all my amps and I just plug in a Thunderbolt cable and an HDMI cable and it translates exactly to the big studio.
[ WM ] Wow, that’ s amazing.
[ Linc ] So yeah, it’ s just really great. And so they keep making the gear better and better. Then what they did with the Spark stuff … Spark is their subscription service for native plugins. But you can also buy any of the native plugins outright and get native and DSP licenses. So, I can sit here with my in-ears, plugged directly into the headphone jack of my computer and use UA plugins with very little latency, but you’ re getting all their stuff. It’ s just ridiculous.
Now I have the new Gen2 stuff, which is pretty mind-blowing. They’ ve got some really cool room tuning software in there that they’ ve put in. They’ ve dialed it in for Atmos which is a huge deal moving forward. They’ re super cool. I’ ve been stoked with the new features. In my opinion it was going to be hard to get
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