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Here’s everything you need to get going with Apollo Twin USB and Ableton Live on a Windows computer. Set up the driver, configure I/O, learn the Apollo Console, low latency monitoring, headphones and more.

Multi-grammy winning mastering engineers Bob Katz, Emily Lazar, and Peter Doell discuss their work process, go-to UAD plug-ins, and approaches to lending final-touch magic to projects.

The Marshall 1962 Bluesbreaker plug-in is is the first emulation of the iconic 2x12 combo used on the landmark 1966 album, Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton. In this UAD Tones & Techniques video, you’ll learn how to dial in the Marshall Bluesbreaker 1962 plug-in to quickly craft legendary sounds and textures.

The Oxide Tape Recorder plug-in for UAD-2 hardware and Apollo interfaces gives you the clarity, punch, and glue that only magnetic tape can. In this 5-Minute UAD Tips video, you'll learn how Oxide can easily add cohesion to your drum bus, shape bass guitar, and sit electric guitars perfectly in the mix.

Beyond the gorgeous dance-pop veneer of Passion Pit’s latest album, Kindred, is a complex, deeply layered world of overlapping synth textures and nuanced beat architecture. Frontman Michael Angelakos breaks down the group’s creative process and how Apollo and UAD plug-ins act as a main ingredient.

Eskmo (AKA Brendan Angelides) is a Los Angeles-based multi-genre composer. Here, learn how Angelides used UAD plug-ins on the track “The Light of One Thousand Furnaces.”

Engineer/producer Michael Ilbert has mixed records by the Cardigans, the Hives, Supergrass, and In Flames, but it's his work on Taylor Swift's Red and 1989 that have garnered him multiple Grammy nominations. Here, Ilbert discusses what UAD Powered Plug-Ins bring to his A-list international hit parade.

With hundreds of different brands, models, shapes, sizes, variations, and configurations to choose from, it’s no wonder mic preamps are among the most misunderstood pieces of the audio signal chain. Here are the Top 5 reasons mic preamps matter