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The Duet is a 2-channel FireWire audio interface that features the amazing sound quality that made Apogee Electronics famous. With control functions built directly into Apple's Logic Pro, Soundtrack Pro and GarageBand software, Duet empowers you to create professional recordings effortlessly on your Mac.

With Duet, you can plug in guitars, keyboards, and microphones to record your music, or simply experience how much better your favorite tracks in iTunes sound. Duet is compact and powered by FireWire, so you can pack up your studio and go anywhere your music takes you.

Its dual, 1/4" high impedance inputs allow you to combine and record your two favorite instruments, whether it be two guitars, one bass, one guitar, etc., simultaneously using your favorite Core Audio-compatible application. You can also capture vocals with two microphone inputs that have phantom power and 75dB of gain. Whether you're noodling out new ideas, completing a personal tune, documenting a podcast, or recording a live performance, your new little buddy can handle it. The flexible breakout cables come with icons to make it easy to know what goes where, keeping everything in order, out of the way, and properly connected for maximum input and output, with minimal mess.

Duet's bus-powered FireWire interface frees you from the traditional four-wall studio setting. So grab your laptop, find a spot where inspiration takes you, whether it's in the solace of a park or in the echoey confines of a subway tunnel, turn it on, and start doing your thing.

If you don't have Logic Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Garageband, don't panic. Apogee's includes it's own Maestro software, so you'll still be able to work with any Core Audio-compatible application. Maestro allows you to turn the Duet's multifunction control knob into a one-click manager. Maestro will help you manage all of Duet's capabilities and settings, including I/O level, source selection, muting, mic/instrument gain mode, assign MIDI function controls to the controller knob, assign meter display, and more. Speaking of meter display, Duet comes with LED I/O meters to help you monitor your levels for maximum effectiveness.

Duet is not only great for it's input and interface functions, but it delivers amazing sound quality as well. Whether you're listening to your iTunes collection or latest composition through powered speakers connected to the 1/4" outputs or via the headphone jack, you'll not be disappointed by the crystal clear, playback performance.

Apogee Duet FireWire Interface Features:

• Two channels of professional-quality 24-bit/96kHz audio input and output
• Two balanced XLR inputs, with selectable 48V phantom power on each input
• Two unbalanced high impedance instrument inputs
• One high-level stereo headphone output
• Two unbalanced -10 dBV line outputs for powered speakers
• Multi-function controller knob for volume and input gain control and assignable MIDI control
• Multi-segment LED meters to display input or output levels
• FireWire 400, compatible with Mac OS X Core Audio
• Control functions built directly into Apple's Logic Pro, Soundtrack Pro and GarageBand
• Compatible with any Core Audio-compliant audio application
• Apogee's Maestro software for advanced control and low latency mixing
• Breakout Cable
• FireWire Cable
• Apogee Software CD
• User's Guide

Stop flying solo and make Duet your new partner in crime.

Apogee Duet FireWire Interface Specifications:

• System Requirements
• Computer: Mac G4 1GHz or faster, G5 or Intel CPU
• Memory: 1 GB RAM minimum, 2 GB recommended
• OS: 10.4.10 or greater
• (fully compatible with Leopard)
• Connection: FireWire 400 port

Apogee Duet FireWire Interface

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Great product, great warranty

Posted by Ryan from Los Angeles on Oct 16, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Recording/Live Engineer

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, Contemporary Christian

Decided to drop more than pocket change on a serious product and I haven't regretted it.

Unfortunately, I got a defective unit which caused some lovely static-type effect... but Apogee email support worked quickly and determined the problem, which ended up with a brand-new unit in my hands... nice!

The quality of this unit will reveal the other weak links in your signal chain. Never knew how noisy my mics were until I tracked with this little guy. Downside is that there isn't an overabundance of headroom for dynamic sources and there's no effects send/return on the unit itself.

Break-out cables are so-so quality. Baby them because they're thin. But they're still a great, portable solution to having 8 more jacks on the device itself.

Overall, a great, high-quality solution for 2-channel recording on the mac.

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Amazing sound, perfect integration with logic

Posted by Jeremy Burchard from Austin, TX on Aug 12, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Musician, Home Recording Engineer/Producer

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Acoustic, Alternative, Marching Percussion

If you work in Logic, Apogee products are a no-brainer, and if you're operating a small home studio, the Duet is perfect. The preamps are phenomenal, the interface is sleek and easy, and the integration with Logic is absolutely perfect. After using it for the last year, and having experience with other hardware, I can honestly say I will always look to Apogee first. I can't stress how much the preamps make this interface — the sound is unparalleled for the price!

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Why Only Mac??

Posted by MusicByDesign from Tekz-Zarr-Kanna (Texas) on Aug 7, 2009

Experience w/product: I have heard about it

Reviewer's Background: Engineer, Producer, Musician (studio at home)

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, TripHop, Lounge, Electronic Etc..

Ive seen this out for a few years and always thought how nice it is for people to get their hands on an Apogee for this little money. Now they have the baby brother out (The "One") which is great for people who only record one source at a time. So with all this greatness, why would a company of this stature only create their audio interfaces for MAC only? Sure, Macs are great and Ive owned several Macs, I just don't have one now and PC's work just fine for me at almost a fourth of the cost. Anyway, if you have Mac then this is a great way to get world-class conversion for peanuts. One guy mentioned the cheap breakout cable failing on him but here is some good advice. Get that custom breakout box made for the Duet by EMT Labs. Its called the "EMT Labs Duet Breakout" Just google the name and choose the one with mercenary in the name. For around a hundred bucks this breakout box makes the Duet much nicer. Now if only Apogee only liked PC....

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1 knob is almost 2

Posted by Galladam from Canada on Feb 4, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Musician, Recording Engineer

Reviewer's Play Style: Folk, Indie, Rock..etc..

For the price this thing is the best in its class. I have used the Ensemble, and they sound identical. It blows my M-Box Pro out of the water, though the M-Box wins in the hardware software integration field, and Logic still can't top the v.8.0 ProTools. This product is innovative and great for space saving. I use it specifically for the A/D conversion, which could put a baby to sleep, warm and clean. Even if you use ProTools predominantly, get this thing to do some tracking (in Logic Express) and work with Pro Equipment for under 1500 Dollars.

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Get ready to drop another 100$

Posted by Moses from Ca on Jan 15, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: World

After purchasing and using the duet in my home studio for six months or so the inputs on the xlr/cables failed in the middle of a session. Apogee has poorly designed these flimsy breakout cables and to really have a solid performer you'll most likely have to spend another 100$ on the Duet Breakout!

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