아포지 듀엣 3 LE: 한정판 오디오 인터페이스 리뷰

Apogee Duet 3 LE는 전용 오디오 인터페이스, 독, 플러그인이 포함된 한정판 번들로, 고품질 휴대용 녹음 옵션을 제공합니다.

### 아포지 듀엣 3 LE: 개봉기, 기능 및 리뷰
* 📦 Apogee Duet 3 LE는 특별 한정판 번들로 **Apogee Duet 3 오디오 인터페이스, Duet Dock, Apogee 플러그인 3종**이 포함되어 있으며, **3,000개만 판매**됩니다.
* 🎚 언박싱을 통해 세련되고 잘 만들어진 **Duet 3와 Duet Dock, 그리고 번들 구성품**을 확인할 수 있습니다.
* 🖥 Duet 3는 어쿠스틱 기타와 보컬의 테스트 레코딩을 통해 입증된 것처럼 **간단하면서도 강력한 컨트롤, 온보드 DSP 처리, 고품질 녹음 기능**을 갖추고 있습니다.
* 🎛 이 번들에는 **Duet 3의 녹음 기능을 향상시켜주는 EQ P1A, MEQ5, Clear Mountain Spaces 플러그인**이 포함되어 있습니다.
* 🔊 이 리뷰는 **Duet 3의 음질과 휴대성**을 높이 평가하지만 한정판 번들에 **브레이크아웃 케이블이 없다**는 점을 지적하고 **팬텀 전원 제어 및 로직 통합을 위한 펌웨어 개선 사항**을 제안합니다.

hey everyone, this is Music Tech Help Guy, and today we're going to be unboxing and reviewing the Apogee Duet 3 LE. So, this is a special limited edition bundle that includes the Apogee Duet 3 Audio Interface, the Duet Dock, which allows for greater portability to and from your home studio, and it also comes bundled with three Apogee plugins. But again, this is a limited edition bundle. There are only 3,000 of these that will be made available, and they're being sold exclusively at Guitar Center stores in the US. However, you can buy the Duet 3 and the Dock separately as well if you prefer. So first, let's unbox this bad boy and see what's inside. Then I'll take a closer look at the Duet. I'll break down all of the controls and specs, and then finally, we'll make some test recordings. So let's get right into this. Alright, so let's unbox this thing. So it just comes in a sleeve here. There's sort of this

outer sleeve on the back get some info about it. A 2x4 USBC audio interface onboard DSP. Two instrument inputs to mic line inputs and two balanced outputs. So for uh for speakers or monitors. Comes with the duet dock as well, and this adds an additional headphone jack. All right, here it is, the duet limited edition set and some warranty information. It also comes with three free plugins. So you'll see this card here with uh access code to download and install those plugins. There's a special note from apogee detailing what number this unit is. So like I said before, they're only making 3000 of these. So my unit is 29.95 and then some more warranty stuff. Let's open this up here. Okay, so we've got the duet 3 itself. Oh yeah, that's uh that is Sleek, that's for damn sure, that is Sleek. So it looks like uh sort of like a big knob controller with just one main big knob. Yeah, this thing is solidly built, this is like Glass and Metal the whole

back is rubber so it won't slide around. You've got a headphone port on the front. We've got let's see our probably our dock connector on the back, and then USB-C as well. And let's go ahead and just peel this off here. Oh yeah, that's satisfying. We've got our USB-C cable. I always love this one they do this these days. You've got a USB-C to USB-A adapter. A lot of the newer MacBooks don't even have USB-A, so that's a nice touch. And then the other thing you get here in this bundle that you normally would have to buy separately is the dock, which just makes hooking up everything to this much easier and much simpler. So here's the dock on the back. Here you can see there's an additional headphone jack, and this is a quarter-inch headphone jack. You two mic or line inputs, your two DI inputs for guitar or bass, and then your two speaker outputs, your line level outputs, and then additional through ports for the USB-C. Now one thing I'm surprised

this doesn't come with is uh the sort of cable extension that comes with the normal duet three. I know if you buy the duet 3 on its own, it comes just like this. It doesn't come with the dock. But on the back, there's an additional cable like an extension cable that hooks up to this port, and that contains your XLR, your mic level inputs. It has your outputs. It has your di inputs on it as well. So that's what this is used for. So I'm actually surprised they didn't include that extension cable in this bundle because that would make it even more portable. So that just slides right in. You've got the dock attached to the interface. And one of the things I like here is like if you're using this in your home studio, you want to keep all these ports on the back. Like with most small audio interfaces, they put all the ports on the front. But if you have this as part of like a permanent setup in your home studio, having all this stuff on the back I think is really helpful.

because it just keeps the cable clutter away from your desk. So there it is, that is the Apogee Duet 3 limited edition bundle. It comes with your USB cable, the interface itself, plus the dock, as well as three Apogee plugins, which I'll demonstrate later. Okay, so the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to hook this up to my computer and I'm going to test out all the features and show you how all this works. Okay, so I've got the Duet 3 hooked up to my MacBook Pro over USB. Really, the first thing you want to do is you want to go to apogeedigital.com, register the unit, and then download Apogee Control 2, which is the Control software for the Duet 3, which you're seeing on screen right now. So the Control software is going to give you some additional control options that are not directly on the unit itself, like switching between mic and line and instrument inputs, adding phantom power, and things like that. So first, let me go

over the controls on the duet, and then I'll go over the controls in apogee control. It's a very simple setup. It's like a big knob setup, and you're here right now. You're hearing my voice through the duet, which is why you're seeing this meter here. So, this is the level meter for channel one. There's another meter on the other side for channel 2. So right now, you can see input 1 is selected, and if I turn the big knob, this will pull up the gain. If I pull it down, this will turn down the gain. So you can set the gain just by turning the knob. Now, if I want to move over to Channel 2, I'm just going to press the big knob once, and now we're on channel two. Now, I don't have a mic hooked up to Channel 2, but I can control the gain of Channel 2 just like so. And one of the things I find really cool about this is if you're making stereo

recordings in apogee control. You're going to set the analog level to mic for both channels, set the gain to the same setting, and then click here. This will actually group the two channels together so you have linked preamp gain control if you're trying to make stereo recordings with two microphones. So I'm just going to turn that off for now. And like I said, there's no option out here for phantom power or anything like that. But for each channel in apogee control, you can switch this over to phantom power just by clicking on the 48v. You can turn on a soft limit, and you can also flip the phase. So you can do that for both channels. The other thing you can do is if you want to plug in a DI instrument like guitar or bass, you just click here and you switch this over to instrument level. And now you're going to plug into instrument level input 2 on the back of the dock for your guitar and bass and things like that. And you can

also switch this over to two different line level formats if plus four and negative 10 line level inputs as well. I'm just going to switch this back to mic input though so those are the two inputs. It's very simple to use. If I press the big knob again, this is going to jump over to the speaker outputs. So these are the main TRS outputs on the back. And if I pull this up or down, you'll see that this pulls up or pulls down the speaker level. There's also an indicator here for the speaker level. But what if you wanted to mute the speakers? Well, if you just press and hold, you'll see that the speaker light starts to flash. And you'll also see in Apogee Control that the speakers have been muted. Now to unmute, you just press and hold for a couple of seconds. The light comes up in solid again. And that means that the speaker output is turned on. Now if you press the big knob one more time, this will switch over to your headphone outputs. And you can control the

headphone level. So once again, they're in apigee control. You can see moving up and down. And if you want to mute your headphones, the same thing applies. You just press the big knob for a couple of seconds. And you'll see the HP light is flashing, showing that the headphones are muted. If I want to unmute, I just press and hold for a couple more seconds. It comes back to a solid light. And we're using the headphones again. Press the big knob one more time to cycle back to input one. Now one of the other things that's really cool about this unit is it contains onboard DSP processing. So it actually has its own custom Channel strip that you can use that's built in. So the hardware itself is doing the processing, not your computer. You'll see that there are two additional effects options here up at the Top. If you go into apogee control, there's two options here for print effects rack. So what you do is you just turn this on, and that turns on the effects for that channel.

you click here on effects, and this opens up the Apogee Symphony ECS Channel strip. So what this is, is it includes a three-band EQ with a high-pass filter. You've got a drive knob, you've got an output trim control, and there's also a built-in compressor in here that can be blended with wet and dry mix. So this is really helpful because you can kind of do some of the processing on your recordings in advance rather than having to do it all with plugins in your DAW. Now if you don't like using input effects for recording, that's totally fine, but like for my voice, maybe I want a little more bottom, depends on my voice here. I can do something like that, maybe I want a little more top end to bring out some of the sibilance, maybe I want to pull up the drive a bit, and then maybe I want to pull in the compressor. I'll pull down the threshold a bit, get a little bit of gain reduction, you can see the gain reduction meter right here, and um, you

know, if I want to use a more extreme setting, I can do that as well. And then I can apply a wet-dry mix to this, so I can apply some parallel processing on input. And there are other presets you can choose from in here as well that are good starting points. You can turn on or off each unit within the channel strip here, so you can turn on or off the EQ, turn on or off the compressor, and then you can also switch the order, the signal flow of the EQ and compressor. So, with this switch up, it's EQ first, compressor second. With the switch down, it's compressor first, EQ second. And as long as you have this option here turned on, these effects will print into your recorded audio signal. If you just want to record a clean signal, make sure these are turned off, and you will no longer hear those effects in the recorded signal. Okay, so it's time to test out the duet and get used to all of its features. The next thing I want to do is I want to make some test

recordings. I'm going to abstain from using the ECS Channel strip, and the reason why is I want to be able to show off the three plugins that are included with the duet 3 later. So I don't want to color the tone in any way, and I also don't want to distract from the natural sound of the preamps. So I'm going to do acoustic guitar, I'm going to do a second take of acoustic guitar layered up, and then I'll do a take of vocals. And I'm using the Jay-Z microphones v67, which is a fairly uncolored mic. It doesn't have an overly bright top end or anything like that, so I think this will be a great mic to sort of showcase the quality of the apogee preamps in the duet 3. [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign foreign [Music] foreign. Okay, so next up I'm going to track some vocals. Once again, I'm not using the ECS

Channel strip at all this is just completely wrong going straight into the preamps on the duet. Again using the v67. [Music] Last night, I went home without you driving in the pouring rain. I've got so many things to say to you, but I never say them in the right way. I know it's hard. I know it's tough. I know we've messed up so many times enough. Just keep on trying, keep on living. Love me like you always did. Just stop the hurting, stop the healing. Live this life 'cause it's worth living. Live this life 'cause it's worth living. [Music] Okay, so now that I've got my test recordings done, let's check out the three plugins that are included in the apogee duet 3le bundle. So what are these included plugins? You get the Clear Mountain spaces Reverb plug-in. You get the Pull Tech EQ p1a, which is a low and high frequency EQ. And then you get the meq5 EQ as well, which is sort of like a

mid-range EQ. So let's start with the EQP-1A. This is one of my favorite types of EQs for acoustic guitar. Let's just solo the left guitar. Let's add a little sparkle to it, maybe a little more bottom end to it. [Music] Foreign [Music] You know, we probably could throw the MEQ-5 on here as well, kind of dip out some of the low-mid boxiness. [Music] Laughs [Music] Maybe I'll add a little more presence in the mid-high range as well. [Music] [Music] Foreign [Music] Okay, cool. Let's add both of these to both guitars. [Music] Okay, let's add some EQ to my voice. Let's start with the EQP-1A. Once again, I'm going to add a little top end and a little bit of a low-end boost as well. [Music] I've got so many things. [Music] No, it's hot then. I can use the MEQ-5 on the vocals as well if I want to maybe.

pull out some of the mid-range, and then I think what I'll do here is either on like one, two, or three k. I'm going to add a bit of a boost just to bring out the diction, uh, the clarity in my voice. Last night [Music]. I've got so many things to say to you, but I never say them in the right way. Okay, I'm gonna create a send off of all three of these channels, and I'll go to bus one, and this will be my Reverb Channel where I'll place the Clear Mountain spaces plugin. And the way Clear Mountain spaces works is it's really three reverbs in one. You have the Apogee Studio mix. This is just like a really heavy Reverb. And then we have, uh, Roscoe. So there's three different reverbs [Music]. Rain. So Apogee Studio is kind of like a room reverb [Music]. Kind of a bigger, more dense Reverb with mix this. And then Roscoe [Music].

sort of like an ambient ethereal reverb. So let's actually use a little bit of all three of these: some Apogee Studio for a little more body, mix this for some density, and then Rosco for some ambience. Last night I went home without you, driving in the pouring rain. Rain got so many, many but I never say the men in the right way. I know it's hard, I know it's tough, I know we've messed up so many times enough. Just keep on trying, keep on living, love me like you always did. Just stop the hurting, stop the healing, live this life 'cause it's worth living, live this life 'cause it's worth living. Okay, there you go, those are the three included plugins that come with the Apogee Duet 3 limited edition bundle: the EQ P1A and the MEQ5 from Pull Tech, along with Clear Mountain's Spaces. Okay, so that's the unboxing, the overview of the features, and some test recordings with the Duet 3. At this point, I just want to give you some final thoughts and a

final review of this product. Okay, so right up front, I'll let you know I'm a little biased with Apogee products. I absolutely love Apogee products. I spent several thousand dollars on a Symphony I/O for my home studio, and I absolutely love it. I do not regret buying that unit. I really love the sound of their clean preamps. But like my Symphony I/O and Symphony Desktop reviews I've done previously, I absolutely love the Duet 3. It's probably one of the best-sounding portable interfaces I've ever used. So I absolutely love it. Now, with that said, I do have some minor criticisms of the Duet and also some criticisms of the Limited Edition package as a whole. The first is Apogee products are not cheap. This is definitely not what I would consider a budget-friendly product, even though it's a small format product. It's still studio quality, and that's one of the things I actually really like about Apogee.

be something you might use in your home studio, but you know that you're getting really high-quality conversion, really high-quality preamps built right in. Number two, this is really my biggest complaint. The limited edition bundle doesn't come with the breakout cable. I think I called it an adapter or an extension cable earlier. It's a breakout cable. And when you buy the duet on its own, it comes with a breakout cable that you can plug in right here. And that breakout cable has all of your XLRS on it. It has all of your inputs and outputs. So if I think of like the ideal user for this product, I think of someone who keeps it in the dock at home, has all of their peripherals connected, their microphones, their speakers, all that kind of stuff, the computer, all connected at home permanently. But then when they want to take it on the go, they just pull it out of the dock, they grab their breakout cable, and they take that with them to make site recordings, to do recordings on the go, maybe a podcast on.

the go or something like that. So I think they kind of missed the mark there. But if you want to buy the breakout cable separately, it's 65 bucks. So it's not like horribly expensive. So I'll probably end up getting one of those because that's sort of my use case for this product. Another minor thing, there's no phantom power on the unit itself. You have to turn phantom power on in the Apogee Control software. And again, I think this might be something that can be fixed in firmware. Like remember I showed you, you can press and hold the main button here to mute the speakers and to mute the headphones. Why can't I switch to input 1 and then press and hold to turn on phantom power, then switch over to Channel 2, press and hold to turn on phantom power? That would just give you one more control on the unit itself rather than having to access this completely in software. In my final complaint, it's really a minor, minor thing, but one of the things I love about

most apogee products is that the device controls for the product will show up in logic pro. So you can turn on phantom power, you can turn on a filter, you can face flip, you can adjust the preamp gain. That's one of the reasons why I love the symphony i/o and the symphony desktop so much is because all of those device controls show up in logic. If you're a logic user for this product, for some reason only the preamp gain shows up in Logic. The phantom power, the filter, the face flip, those don't show up in logic. So once again, you're having to go back to the apogee Control software for that. But again, hopefully this is just, you know, a future firmware fix. But other than those four minor things, I absolutely love this little interface. It's super portable. I'm definitely going to buy the breakout cable, and I'm definitely going to be keeping this because like I said before, my use case for this is not as a daily driver. It's something that I can hook up

permanently to my laptop in my other office, and then when I need to do site recordings, or I need to do some work on the go, I can just pull it out of the dock, bring the breakout cable with me, bring my laptop, or even bring my iPad, and take that elsewhere and finish my work, or do my recording work, or do site recording work. So for me, that's why the breakout cable is so necessary because it gives you full portability. It just allows you to use it as a dedicated unit at home or in your studio, and then pull it out and easily just take this and the breakout cable elsewhere to do site recordings or work on the go. If you're interested in checking out the duet 3 for yourself or the limited edition bundle for yourself, I'll leave links in the video description and comments below. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, please leave it a thumbs up and subscribe to the channel to see more content like this. As always, thank you so much for the support.

Apogee Duet 3 Limited Edition // Unboxing + Comprehensive Overview

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Apogee Duet 3 LE는 오디오 인터페이스, Duet Dock 및 3개의 Apogee 플러그인이 포함된 특별 한정판 번들로, 3,000개만 판매됩니다.

이 번들에는 휴대성과 추가 헤드폰 잭이 포함되어 있지만, Duet 3와 Dock을 별도로 구매하는 것도 옵션입니다.

Duet 3는 세련된 디자인, 견고한 구조, 편리한 독으로 쉽게 연결할 수 있지만 독립형 Duet 3에 포함된 케이블 연장 기능은 없습니다.

아포지 듀엣 3 한정판 번들 리뷰

Apogee Duet 3 한정판 번들에는 인터페이스, 독, USB 케이블, Apogee 플러그인 3개가 포함되어 있습니다.

com에서 장치를 등록하고 Apogee Control 2 소프트웨어를 다운로드해야 합니다.

이 인터페이스를 통해 입력 게인, 팬텀 파워, 악기 레벨을 쉽게 제어할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라 스테레오 녹음 및 스피커/헤드폰 출력 레벨에 대한 옵션도 제공합니다.

듀엣 3: 온보드 DSP 프로세싱 및 레코딩 테스트

Duet 3 오디오 인터페이스는 노브를 길게 눌러 헤드폰을 제어하고 음소거할 수 있으며, EQ, 드라이브, 출력 트림 및 컴프레서를 위한 맞춤형 채널 스트립과 함께 온보드 DSP 프로세싱을 제공합니다.

이 장치의 DSP 프로세싱을 통해 사전 녹음 오디오 조정과 녹음된 오디오 신호에 효과를 인쇄하는 기능을 사용할 수 있습니다.

사용자는 어쿠스틱 기타와 보컬을 테스트 녹음하여 Duet 3의 아포지 프리앰프의 품질을 보여줄 계획이며, 프리앰프의 자연스러운 사운드를 보여주기 위해 ECS 채널 스트립 사용을 자제했습니다.

Apogee Duet 3 LE 번들에는 Clear Mountain Spaces 리버브 플러그인, Pull Tech EQ P1A, MEQ5 EQ가 포함되어 있습니다.

이 플러그인은 어쿠스틱 기타와 보컬에 시연되어 오디오에 반짝임과 선명함을 더하는 기능을 선보입니다.

클리어 마운틴 스페이스 플러그인은 세 가지 리버브를 하나로 통합하여 다양한 커스터마이징이 가능한 리버브 효과를 제공합니다.

아포지 듀엣 3 한정판의 극찬 리뷰

이 리뷰어는 Apogee 제품에 상당히 편향되어 있으며, 특히 Duet 3의 음질과 휴대성을 높이 평가합니다.

그러나 제품의 높은 가격, 한정판 패키지에 브레이크아웃 케이블이 없다는 점, 장치 자체에 팬텀 전원 제어 기능이 없다는 점을 비판합니다.

사소한 비판에도 불구하고 리뷰어는 여전히 제품에 대한 강한 애정을 표현하고 있습니다.

대부분의 Apogee 제품에 대한 장치 컨트롤은 Logic Pro에 표시되므로 사용자가 편리하게 사용할 수 있습니다.

하지만 Duet 3의 경우 프리앰프 게인만 Logic에 표시되므로 다른 컨트롤을 사용하려면 Apogee Control 소프트웨어를 사용해야 합니다.

브레이크아웃 케이블은 완벽한 휴대성을 위해 필수적이며, 집/스튜디오에서 사용하다가 이동 중 작업이나 녹음을 위해 다른 장소로 쉽게 가져갈 수 있습니다.