Universal Audio release 710 Twin-Finity and AE version of 1176
The 710 Twin-Finity Single Channel, Tube & Solid-State, Tone-Blending Preamp is a looker (but doesn’t look very UA). The main feature of this unit is the “Tone-Blending†knob which is continually variable from 100% Tube to 100% Solid-State. I got to say that I’m skeptic against these type of units, but who knows? It might be good. It’s supposedly aimed towards DAW users. The UA 710 Twin-Finity is designed and built in the USA, will have an MSRP of US$999, an estimated street price of US$799, and will include a single or dual-unit 19†pro rack mount kit. The 710 Twin-Finity will ship worldwide in July 2008.
710 Twin-Finity Features:
Vacuum Tube(12AX7) & Solid-State Dual-Path Preamp
UA Sonic Quality, Twin-Finityâ„¢ Phase-aligned Tone-Blending
Dual Gain Stages: Wire with Gain to Creamy to Crunchy
Class A, High-Headroom, High Gain (70dB+) Mic Pre & DI
Metal Chassis, Designed & Made in the USA, Rack-Kit Included
1176AE
Here’s a unit most Pro Tools users will recognize regardless of interest in hardware or not. The 1176AE is a custom, limited-run, “hod-rodded†version of the 1176. Only 500 1176AE units will be made available worldwide.
About the Twin-finity: I also was a bit skeptic thinking that this was another unit giving you the possibility to add 2nd and or 3rd harmonics to the sound. However, on the website I read that this unit is actually 2 preamps (a tube and a solid state) that you can blend. Now that sounds like something new. I know the twintopology by millenia media, but that’s an tube OR Solid State unit.
Now, if the would make a unit that had a opto compressor on board that had the possibility to blend in the uncompressed sound I would buy it yesterday….:)
By J~P ~ May 17, 2008 kl 3:34 pm