Apogee Duet Audio interface... Should I get it?

posssu · Post by **posssu** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 5:07 am

I use Duet with my MBP and it's hands down the best audio interface I've ever had. I hadn't had a single problem with it and I get really low latencies compared to for example my Presonus Firepod. I can honestly really recommend it - the jog wheel works really well and is really really handy.

Can't tell you about the clarity of the preamps, I'm not an expert on that, but I can tell you that your room doesn't matter too much when you're recording with a Shure 57, because it's a dynamic microphone and won't pick up much else than what's near it (=your voice). Also, maybe someone else knows about this better, but since your Shure is a dynamic microphone, it doesn't pick up too much details anyway, so I don't know if you really get the best possible audio quality with it, no matter how good your preamps are. What I mean by this is that I think you're mic is the first one that might come into way, if you really want hifi-quality.

But, what I've read, Duet really has good preamps.

dhilsabeck · Post by **dhilsabeck** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:32 am

jj0b wrote: On a Mac if I want to be able to have a pre-listen output you can create an aggregate audio device. this works fine for me.

I detail how to create an aggregate device on my blog at:

http://www.musicalgeometry.com/archives/41

Very cool. Thank you.

CWoodOne · Post by **CWoodOne** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:17 pm

Yhtomit wrote:latency is not so good actually. No hickups etc but 32 samples is not really 32 samples of latency..

Agreed. Latency is better inside Logic Pro than in Ableton, where it's only decent. One point to consider is that the Duet is Mac only, whereas other equipment is cross platform

Dr Dub · Post by **Dr Dub** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:33 pm

Does anybody know if the duet works with asio4all under Windows?

Because for me being not cross platform is a deal-breaker.

Even if you are on a Mac now.

t1mp · Post by **t1mp** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:53 pm

its mac only

jj0b · Post by **jj0b** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:56 pm

dhilsabeck wrote:
jj0b wrote: On a Mac if I want to be able to have a pre-listen output you can create an aggregate audio device. this works fine for me.

I detail how to create an aggregate device on my blog at:

http://www.musicalgeometry.com/archives/41

Very cool. Thank you.

You're welcome.