Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
In this week's session, we'll demo the Universal Audio Apollo audio interfaces and their Unison preamp technology. Then we answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- COMICA AD5 dual USB audio interface — B&H, Amazon geni.us/vV6d
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2022, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:46 Beginning of stream
03:15 Agenda
04:40 What is Universal Audio Unison and how does it work?
11:06 A plugin example: Manley VoxBox
26:00 Ways to convert ProRes Raw to Blackmagic Raw for color grading in Da Vinci?
28:03 What is tone control?
28:54 Next generation of Apollo interfaces?
29:50 VoxBox vs. UAD channel strip defaults
30:31 Internal UAD visualizer for signal within Apollo only?
31:32 Is Unison available for all DAWs as a VST?
33:49 Tone control revisited
35:41 MixPre gets crackly when used as audio interface; how to fix?
36:18 Creating a mix minus on the Apollo console app
40:20 Can you use a MixPre as an S/PDIF D/A converter?
40:43 Back to the VoxBox
46:10 Experimenting to avoid over-processing
51:33 Extract Dialogue in Acon Digital Acoustica vs. isolate in Da Vinci Resolve Fairlight
56:30 Announcement: new course in the works!
57:28 Serial compression on dialogue?
59:20 Using a Zoom F6 live: controlling inputs in a DAW
1:04:13 Can you use UAD Apollo interfaces with Logic Pro?
1:04:45 Wrap-Up
1:04:55 End of stream
In this week's session, we'll demo the Universal Audio Apollo audio interfaces and their Unison preamp technology. Then we answer your sound for video questions.
If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F4, F6, F8, and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders. We have a course on sound for live-streaming with the ATEM Mini and just added Introduction to Izotope RX for Dialogue Audio.
Gear I often use or that we mentioned in this episode. The links below are Amazon.com, B&H Photo, Sweetwater, DVE Store, Waves, or other affiliate links. As an affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases:
- COMICA AD5 dual USB audio interface — B&H, Amazon geni.us/vV6d
- Earthworks ETHOS microphone — B&H, Sweetwater geni.us/8G8UdBB
- Sound Devices MixPre II Series Recorders - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/O8e0
- Panasonic GH5 camera - B&H, Amazon geni.us/InspOl
- Canon C200 Camera - B&H geni.us/9Zi4m4a
- Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 lens — B&H, Amazon geni.us/kZyU7e
- ATEM Mini Extreme & Extreme ISO - B&H, DVE Store, Amazon geni.us/b8my
- Allen & Heath SQ5 Digital Mixer - B&H, Sweetwater, Amazon geni.us/sRxFU90
- Rupert Neve Designs Shelford Channel, pre-amp, EQ, compressor - Sweetwater, B&H geni.us/9ZfE77
The intro and outro music for this episode is from Musicbed. Take your films to the next level with music from Musicbed. Sign up for a free account to listen for yourself: geni.us/G7by
Copyright 2022, Curtis Judd
00:00 Start
02:46 Beginning of stream
03:15 Agenda
04:40 What is Universal Audio Unison and how does it work?
11:06 A plugin example: Manley VoxBox
26:00 Ways to convert ProRes Raw to Blackmagic Raw for color grading in Da Vinci?
28:03 What is tone control?
28:54 Next generation of Apollo interfaces?
29:50 VoxBox vs. UAD channel strip defaults
30:31 Internal UAD visualizer for signal within Apollo only?
31:32 Is Unison available for all DAWs as a VST?
33:49 Tone control revisited
35:41 MixPre gets crackly when used as audio interface; how to fix?
36:18 Creating a mix minus on the Apollo console app
40:20 Can you use a MixPre as an S/PDIF D/A converter?
40:43 Back to the VoxBox
46:10 Experimenting to avoid over-processing
51:33 Extract Dialogue in Acon Digital Acoustica vs. isolate in Da Vinci Resolve Fairlight
56:30 Announcement: new course in the works!
57:28 Serial compression on dialogue?
59:20 Using a Zoom F6 live: controlling inputs in a DAW
1:04:13 Can you use UAD Apollo interfaces with Logic Pro?
1:04:45 Wrap-Up
1:04:55 End of stream
