Hello, dear iPhonedo viewers! Today I'm here to review a product that I've been testing for a while!
Some of you have been asking me what it is, It is Apogee's Duet!
Here it is! Apogee, duet!
(intro song)
(Lines from a Turkish movie) - Hey! Play the attack horn!
- I forgot how that tune goes, how was it? - Let me remind you!
- Yes, remind me! - Dat diri dat - WRONG!
- Dat diri dit dit diiri!
What is Apogee?
"What is Apogee and what does it do?" is the question I've been getting lately.
Apogee Duet, is an high end, professional audio interface. And it is just a perfect product!
As you can see it is very tiny and portable. It has one clickable dial and two touch sensitive buttons on it.
You may remember the brand Apogee from one of their other famous product: Jam.
Jam is another audio interface built for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
Works with audio recording programs such as GarageBand.
On the other hand, this guy duet records higher quality sound and can be connected to mac, has two inputs and outputs
One of the best features duet has, since the values on inputs and outputs are indicated with numbers
if you like to go back to a recording and you remember the the input value of your instrument, it saves you from a lot of trouble.
Generally audio interfaces don't have this quality. So you have to find the audio levels by trial and error.
But with this product, that problem is gone!
You can see that it is adjusting the sound level on my phone right now and also it is charging it!
(unboxing)
Lets take a look at the box first. It says it is for iPad, iPhone and Mac.
On the backside there are diagrams showing how to connect it and what ports duet has.
Ajdustable touchpads and main control knob.
headphone out, midi, analog in and out, power and usb port.
And this is the way you may connect duet.
On this side of the box, there is a photo demonstrating the typical usage of the duet. And the things inside the box is mentioned here.
Here you can read the compatibility of duet.
It says: thank you for choosing Apogee Duet!
Kindly opening the box. Here it is! Apogee Duet! It is very cool looking!
This is how the knob click and here are the touchpads.
Let's see what else is in here. Look a secret compartment!
A guide and tons of various cables!
If you're tidy like me, the cable organizing velcro is your best friend.
Various plugs for different countries! This is really cool too!
This is the analog in and out cable, get's connected right here and as you can plug your cables here.
These two are really cool and big. I don't know why but it reminds me of the bull statue in Istanbul.
If you're going to use duet with you mac, you can download the latest duet software from apogee's website.
with this software download you get the maestro application, the firmware updater and of course the uninstall application.
After the install and restart, when you launch the maestro application, you'll see...
... that you can do all the adjustments from here. Here we see the "soft limit" which works really good.
Output settings, phantom power and such adjustments can be done here.
You can find the same application as iPhone/iPad app and it works the same way.
Here you can adjust what you like the touchpads to do
When connected to a Mac, duet can be powered just by the usb port.
The click on the knob takes you to input 1 and 2 then speaker and headphones.
It is really easy to use your Apogee duet with your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch.
After downloading maestro from App Store, who can stop you from creating music?
Duet charges not just your iPhone but also your iPad too and that's just beautiful!
Plus it's own midi input on duet, compared to how you can traditionally connect midi to iDevices is far better.
Because on top of midi you can connect other instruments and still charge your device.
And after getting used to the controls, everything starts feeling very easy.
Let's say you want to record your electric guitar. Now I'm going to plug this guitar directly right into duet.
There is nothing in between this guitar and the duet. Let's see what happens.
Normally, there must be a noise while I'm not playing. But with this it is all clear!
I'm even gonna turn the noise gate completely off.
Let's switch amps
Now let's take out the old iRig device.
Let's record one track using duet and the other with iRig. I'm gonna just hit one chord. Then we can compare the results.
Apogee Duet - the sound you're hearing is the sound captured by GarageBand, not the camera mic.
iRig (again, you're hearing the audio captured by garageband)
While I have such a high quality audio interface, oh!
While I have such a high quality audio interface here, to see what it can do, I've decided to record a song with it.
The "Retina iPad Mini Song" you heard on my previous video is recorded using the duet but that's a crowded recording.
You may not really get the quality with such recording.
So I sat down and though about what I can record.
So I've picked a song by someone who I admire endlessly.
I've picked a song by Yavuz Çetin. Yavuz Çetin holds a very important place in my life. I used to watch him play live.
Words cannot express how much I admired him and his music.
And this song of his, has only one acoustic guitar and vocals. So you can hear everything very clearly.
You can even hear how the pick hits the guitar, how my hand hits the guitar.
I give you, "Toy World".
Toy world, toy world.
This game is very simple You should play it too
Break it, spill it, fix it, break it Start all over again.
We're still children in reality.
Some play the soldier,
Some play the thief and the cop,
Some play "the married couple"
So, I'm gonna play "the musician". Now.
Some kids are never nice
They always ruin the games
They always make the other kids sad
The rules of the game end up being broken.
Some play hide and seek,
Some play chase,
Some play the doctor,
So, I'm going to play "the musician". Now.
Yes, dear friends, here we are at the end of another episode.
Please comment down below about what you think about this episode.
What do you think about Apogee Duet? Do you have/use it? Or do you use similar products?
If you do, what is it? and are you happy with it?
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Until next time, take good care of yourselves!
And goodbye!
I have to mention that during this air punching while closing the episodes finally went wrong and I punched the camera.
Now it needs to go to service.
Don't be a weirdo, get an apogee
You can use this during Turkish weddings.
- Hello! Brother Remzi! I hear this Apache thingy machine! Get me two of those! OK?
I'm gonna be recording the ultimate artist Ajdar. Of course! It's is super hight quality, pure like water!
Go ask Huseyin at the store he knows it! Tell him to wrap two for me! Look! Bring them to me!