Musikmesse 2010: Universal Audio Intros "TWIN-FINITY" Four-Channel Mic Pre/DI
Universal Audio‘s been rolling out some killer plug-ins recently, and today announces its latest hardware product — the 4-710D Four-Channel “Twin-finity” Mic Preamp & DI with Dynamics. The new analog hardware boasts four channels of tone-blending mic pre’s plus true-bypass 1176-style compression and 24-Bit, 192kHz A/D conversion.
Based on the original 710 Twin-Finity preamp — favored by engineers including Al Schmitt (Jackson Browne, Dr. John, Diana Krall) and Matt Boudreau (The Samples, Sean O’Brien) — each of the four mic preamp channels allows for continuously variable tone between 100% tube and 100% solid-state.
Other notable 4-710D features include:
– Newly designed 1176-style compression/soft-limiting circuit per mic channel
– Eight channels of high-quality 24-Bit, 192kHz A/D conversion
– Digital output via dual ADAT optical or AES/EBU DB-25
– Monolithic balanced output stage
– Balanced send/return inserts
The 4-710D is expected to be released worldwide in Q3 2010; Pricing remains TBD.