I’m releasing a video on Friday, November 5, 2021 on the YouTube channel explaining why I bought an Apollo Solo, which is a top of the line audio recording interface.  Since shooting the video, I’ve had a few hours to play with it, and I have a few thoughts really quickly:

  1. The audio quality out of the headphone amp is outstanding – best I’ve ever heard.
  2. This is not an easy device to learn and use.  You better be comfy with computers and software.
  3. The UA plugins sound outstanding and it really is true – you can’t hear any latency.  Does what it says it does.
  4. It’s confusing to use the Apollo Solo with my DAW (Logic Pro.). I was using the UA plugins in Logic and got a message that I’d run out of Solo CPU.  But I was running them on the computer.  What gives?  Obviously I’m doing it wrong.  And….
  5. Be prepared to watch a ton of tutorial videos.  See number 2.

I’m not complaining – I work with computers for a living.  I don’t mind the complicated stuff.  But it’s definitely slowing me up and it’d be nice if it were a little easier.

All things considered, I’m very happy with it.  It sounds great and I can’t wait to try out all of the plugins and see what sounds best on my voice.  Thanksgiving vacation can’t come soon enough – neither can the weekend!