4/6/2023 0 Comments Fotomagico 5 reviewsIt’s really a lazy approach.įor example, in the Univeral Audio app’s folder, there’s a documentation directory that contains 109 PDFs for every variation of hardware they sell. The driver software (which you absolutely positively must install in order to use the device) is 3.64GB! Instead of creating targeted apps for each piece of hardware they sell, it appears that they include every piece of software any of their products might need. To call it bloatware would be an insult to bloatware everywhere. The big problem with the Universal Audio Apollo Solo is the software. Huge Download Hundreds of UAD Plugins I Do Not Own in My Way in Audio Hijack But after a year and a half of working with Universal Audio trying to get their help with it, I need to vent to you if only for the therapy.īefore I go on my rant though, I do want to say that this is probably a perfectly good device but I am just the wrong customer for this device. I never like to do that because I think it’s more constructive to tell the company what I don’t like so they have a chance to improve it. It has been suggested to me many times that I should tell you about products that are terrible. The Universal Audio Solo was delightful in that way.īut I hated just about everything else about the Solo. One of the great joys of Thunderbolt is that it’s so fast you can monitor your own voice with an imperceptible lag. With my previous USB interface, if I monitored my own voice while recording there was a significant lag which makes your head kind of explode. constantly told me how much he loved the clarity of my recordings. The slight hiss I used to hear on my previous interface was gone. Gone were the clicks in my audio when recording with ScreenFlow. Over time, I’ve come to loathe that interface.ĭon’t get me wrong, the $700 Solo absolutely solved the problem I had. Looking back at what I wrote, it is very clear to me that I was in the honeymoon period with the Solo from Universal Audio. ![]() When I got the Solo in 2020, I told you that I LOVED it. The main things it had going for it was that it was small and Thunderbolt 3. Why don’t they call it the Duo? Compared to other options the Solo is not high priced, but at $700 it was really expensive to me. I didn’t get the mute button I wanted, and the device Kenneth suggested that came closest was the Universal Audio Apollo Solo which oddly has two XLR inputs. I also positively absolutely needed a mute button on the front. ![]() I also said I wanted it to be small, and not cost a house payment. I also wanted it to be Thunderbolt 3, none of this old and busted Thunderbolt 2 nonsense. Most interfaces have at least two and usually way more than two. I wanted an interface with only one XLR input. I was assigned to Kenneth and I explained my requirements. You get your own personal salesperson whose job it is to make sure you understand what’s available and help you find the right solution. I had never worked with Sweetwater before, but they have almost a concierge-feeling service. He suggested I speak with the folks at Sweetwater. Brissette is the editor who makes my screencasts look so good, and he’s also a musician, so I asked his advice about finding a new Thunderbolt 3 interface. I went on a hunt for a Thunderbolt 3 interface. It seemed silly to me to jump forward in technology from USB to Thunderbolt and then purchase something that’s already the older format. I started doing research and found that most Thunderbolt interfaces were Thunderbolt 2, so I’d need an adapter to plug them into my Mac since it supported Thunderbolt 3 with a USB-C connector. When I started podcasting, USB was the only way to go.ĭave suggested that perhaps a Thunderbolt interface would work better for me. My big girl microphone is a fancy-pants Heil PR40 which has an XLR connector on it, so to plug it into a computer you need either a mixer (which is way more complexity than I wanted) or an interface. ![]() I talked to Dave Hamilton about the problem and he suggested that it could be that my USB mic interface just can’t keep up with the data rate I was pushing through it. ![]() ScreenFlow has a built-in voice-over tool, so I can rerecord my audio while watching the video go by, but it’s tedious and very time consuming. So when I finally sit down to record, it’s very discouraging to have to rerecord segments because of problems with the audio. I spend a lot of time outlining what I want to say as I learn the tool I’m going to teach. The clicks didn’t happen when recording audio for the NosillaCast or Chit Chat Across the Pond only when recording video.Ĭreating my video tutorials for ScreenCastsOnline is really hard. Going from Apollo Solo to XLR Wave is Anger to JoyĪbout a year and a half ago I started noticing clicks on my audio when I was recording video tutorials for ScreenCastsOnline using ScreenFlow.
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