Apogee ONE USB Microphone and Music Interface

As soon as I opened the box, the Apogee ONE looked amazing, highly polished finish, great solid feel, and ready to go.

I plugged it in, fired up Logic, plugged in my Gibson Les Paul Custom into the Apogee ONE, and oh my, what pristine excellence came into the headphones.

The clarity of the sound is as if I am finally getting value out of the beautiful craftsmanship of my guitar, that coupled with the effects in Logic, it's like who needs amps or pedals anymore, in fact I decided to sell them all.

But the reality of the matter is that none of this would be possible without the Apogee ONE. It is made for your instrument, I haven't tried the built-in mic because I have a condenser USB mic that works great, but you can see what others have to say about it.

Final words: Quality/Feel: 10/10, Setup/Ease of Use: 10/10, Audio Quality: 10/10, Portability: 10/10.

There is nothing more you could want whether at home or on the road.

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I needed the best converters. Analog to digital, as well as digital to analog. This has it. Apogee one is small, bus powered, simple, and built for macbook and logic. Right now I have two old sansui bookshelf speakers (SP-10) hooked up to the output jack on the apogee one. I am using the device to play my digital music, and the one's output amplifier is powerful enough to drive two 8ohm bookshelf speakers. Essentially, these speakers are my monitors because they have a flat response. The point here, though, is that the one's output amp is great, and powerful. Other plus's are, that the input preamp has lots of gain, with little noise floor. Only negatives are that when my laptop's power charger cable is plugged in to the computer, there is some hum. When I unplug the magsafe, there is less hum. When I touch the metal mic connector on the one's breakout cable, there is no hum. This is a ground issue. I can fix it by making a groung wire clip, but it is a circuitry flaw within the utilizing of the grounding on the usb power bus. Also, the usb cable that comes with the One, it's connector, on the device end, which is micro usb, is flimsy. A good cable coupled with a 90 degree micro to standard usb adapter will fix this. Bottom line, for the price, you get the best sounding conversion, with solid compatibility to Mac OS X, a great stereo condenser internal mic, and a simple one input device to record instruments or to power and use any great mic. For the same price, you can get units that have more in's and out's, but they are bigger, more complicated, not as cute, and without a great internal mic. It's a great device, and is perfect next to my black macbook for recording professionally anywhere. Thanks! …More

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