Apogee Duet Alternatives

[NBarnes21]

RME Babyface. Owned the duet and much prefer the Babyface. top notch pres and converters and expandable via ADAT, Rock solid drivers and great software.

[funky monkey]

Definitely RME BabyFace.

The mic pres are good and the converters are top notch!! And the Totalmix FX is really powerful, worthing checking out!!!

[cinealta]

Metric Halo ULN-2.

[Joe Porto]

Replaced my Duet with an Mbox3 and never looked back....

[creegstor]

Originally Posted by cinealta

Metric Halo ULN-2.

This seems to be at a completely different price point and with a much larger feature set, no?

[edwinhurwitz]

Originally Posted by creegstor

This seems to be at a completely different price point and with a much larger feature set, no?

All true, but that doesn't mean it's not a good alternative. Still bus powerable, 2 channel analog in, etc.

[Melgueil]

Originally Posted by creegstor

This seems to be at a completely different price point and with a much larger feature set, no?

Correct. I've owned a ULN-2 for several years - it is not a peer with the Apogee Duet. Very different animals. ULN-2 is FW and not USB. It has an extensive feature set more suited to a full blown studio setting. Also ULN-2 despite it`s moniker is in my own experience is not really mobile in that it cannot be bus powered by many MacBooks. It`s a fabulous unit, but I would not consider it a Duet replacement. It is also roughly 3x the price.

Cdlt