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Hi Dana,
Thank you for the detailed and super-helpful insight – I’ll stick with the Apollo for now.
Following your advice, I’m looking to add a hardware channel strip next and I’m leaning toward getting my own UA 6176.
For a vocals-and-guitars–focused setup, would you consider it essential, or are there other strips you’d recommend instead?
On another note, your “drive the pre, ride the output” note was a gem! I’d overlooked how much the 1176 side can do as a post-drive trim, and honestly have been avoiding using it. It’s a bit of a mystery to me, and I’m not sure how to use the 1176 on vocal & guitar recordings.
Love to hear your thoughts / tips about this piece of machinery and unravel its mystery 🙂
From what I could peice together, I’m thinking of two gain-staging approaches (with and without compression) for vocals and guitars in mind:
A) Keep the 1176 at 1:1 and use its Output to set level while pushing the 610 for color.
B) Apply light compression: set 4:1, aim for ~1-3 dB of GR, then trim with the compressor’s Output.
What do you think?
Thanks so much!