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Used Universal Audio audio interfaces

Bill Putnam Sr., the engineer often called the father of modern recording, started Universal Audio in Hollywood in 1958 to build gear for his United Recording studios, beginning with tube processors like the 610 preamp. His company grew into UREI, which brought out the solid-state 1176 limiter in 1967 and that same year took over Teletronix, maker of Jim Lawrence's LA-2A. Putnam sold up in the mid-1980s. In 1999 his sons Bill Jr. and Jim revived the name, reissued the 1176LN and the LA-2A, and started modelling classic gear as UAD plug-ins that run on dedicated DSP chips. The first Apollo arrived in 2012 with that DSP built in, so you can record through the models with near-zero latency, and Unison preamp modelling followed in 2014. Used Apollos run from the one-chip Solo to six-chip racks. Check the connection first, because the USB models are Windows only and the Thunderbolt 2 ones need an adapter on a modern Mac.

8 models we cover.