Apollo x8
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Apollo x8
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T. Ameloot
Beyond my wildest expectations
I really love this interface. Top specs, amazing sound quality, and above all: the Unison preamps are nothing short of amazing. Good stuff!
S. Alcala
Beyond amazed
Best interface I’ve ever owned. I am definitely sticking with universal audio for life.
UAD User
Superb audio quality
Major upgrade from my previous audio interface.thank you uad
m. leblanc
Carte parfaite
Uad est synonyme de qualité. Carte de son Apollo 8x. Parfait
S. Ra
Nice appearance and perfect specs
It's an audio interface with the best specs and a nice appearance.
It has some scratches on its appearance and it's a pity that Windows WDM doesn't support multichannel surround, but it's still very nice and efficient audio interface.
C. Chrysogelos
Quality
I've paired my Apollo Twin (Silver) with an Apollo x8 and i'm more than happy i did that. At first i thought it was a placebo of the new gear but the truth is that the sound is has more depth and it's tighter on the low end. The converters and mic pre's are amazing and super clear. Amazing work UA!
D. Chapman
Not quite as I'd hoped for!
Console 2.0 is so far behind the likes of RME that it makes the routing side quite difficult for live use! Only 4 stereo busses in Console is less than most analogue desks from the 70s, and the converter clarity (to my ears, at least) wasn't an improvement on my current RME UFX. Indeed, I've gone back to RME for this purpose.
C. ortiz
best upgrade
huge upgrade from my previous interface day and night
a. wedeen
Awesome
Greatunit. Love it
a. wedeen
Awesome
Greatunit. Love it
G. Thayer
A great front end!
The x8 is a wonderful front end for the studio. The mic pre's are clean and crisp, and the I/O options make it easy to route audio to any piece of gear in the room.
C. Velandia
Amazing
Coming from the Apollo Twin MKII, this thing is a spaceship. All I need is 4 inputs, so I was trying to decide between the x4 or the x6, but the x8 has always been such a studio signature for UAD that I pulled the trigger. The extra DSP and inputs have been great. Also love the ability to use alternate monitors, to reference my tracks back and forth between my Adams and my Rokits.
C. Velandia
Amazing
Coming from the Apollo Twin MKII, this thing is a spaceship. All I need is 4 inputs, so I was trying to decide between the x4 or the x6, but the x8 has always been such a studio signature for UAD that I pulled the trigger. The extra DSP and inputs have been great. Also love the ability to use alternate monitors, to reference my tracks back and forth between my Adams and my Rokits.
S. Jacobs
TOO crisp!!!
As a user of a Twin Quad MK2, this was even a bigger step up for mixing. The conversion is just TOO crisp and I am making more informed mix decisions than I did before when I just had the twin MK2. Probably the best addition to my setup since I purchased the Townsend Labs Sphere L22 microphone.
R. Rahm
Love it
Awesome piece of gear amazing power and speed. Of course all the UAD plug ins are top notch.
J. Hölter
Pure Quality!
Great interface amazing converters. I had to buy a new motherboad with thunderbolt but than it was realy easy to get it working even on windows. totally fine for the price
R. Boucher
Excellent purchase!
I always like my Apollo Duo Firewire, but the Apollo x8 is a very nice upgrade!
L. Keller
Incredible piece of gear!
Amazing converters. Very "open" sounding. Amazing preamps, with the added bonus of modeling classic preamp designs using the Unison enabled plugins. Amazing plugins that are emulations of classic analog gear. It is all just... amazing. You can NOT go wrong with UAD.
C. Yang
Amazing gear!
So far, the Apollo for the first time while continues to use the devices rme.
I was surprised at the first medium low sound of tear gas wafted, but a clear when he heard the song, a sound.
Second, UAD Plugins.
The effective immediate response was stunning, especially at the delicateness of the Riverb plug-ins.
The third is the headphone amplifier. This equipment has a really good headphone output.
Overall, the great device must be a spotless.
s. matthews
If you’re interested in UAD gear. Don’t hesitate
This isn’t my first piece of uad hardware. I had a uad apollo 16 which I was using to route outboard hardware. I sold that and bought the Apollo x8 because I have absolutely no need to use hardware when I have access to uad plugins. I still have an Apollo Twin which I use as my monitor controller. Universal Audio was also offering a free uad-2 satellite with the purchase of an Apollo x8. The aftercare service with universal audio is also exemplary. Which is a very important part of any studio gear purchase. The plugins sold by uad are some of the best on the market. Plus they can be run on the units internally. Then there’s the unison preamps. The neve 1073 preamp outdo pretty much every hardware preamp clone. So if you’re reading this review in order to get a better picture of uad gear why are you still here? Shouldn’t you be down the store buying some uad gear. It’s a no brainier.