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In this exclusive roundtable, we asked five outstanding engineer/producers, all regular users of Universal Audio equipment, to rewind to their early experiences with tape, and discuss how they’ve reintroduced the virtues of tape into their work in new and exciting ways using UAD magnetic tape recorder plug-ins.

Producer/Drummer Joey Waronker Tracks The New Pornographers' A.C. Newman with Apollo Interfaces and its included Realtime Analog Classics Bundle.

In this Apollo Artist Session, watch producer/engineer Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits) record electronic soul singer Jamie Lidell and his band through the Apollo interface and Unison™-enabled UAD Powered Plug-Ins as they perform “Walk Right Back” at Nashville’s Blackbird Studio.

Jacquire King, Celebrated Producer-Engineer for Tom Waits, Norah Jones and Kings of Leon, Pushes Apollo to Its Limits with an All-Star Cast at Blackbird Studios.

In this Apollo Artist Session, watch legendary producer Just Blaze (Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar) track and mix Phony Ppl’s “Why iii Love the Moon” through Apollo 8p High-Resolution Interfaces at UA's Studio 610 in Scotts Valley, California.

When it comes to smelting hip-hop platinum in the studio, Just Blaze knows just what is required. The New Jersey-based producer gained notoriety with his early work on Jay-Z’s The Blueprint and The Black Album, and his recent credits are a who’s who of hip-hop royalty, including work on Beyonce’s Lemonade, as well as productions for Snoop Dogg, Ghostface Killah, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Eminem, and many more.

In this video, watch producer/engineer Fab Dupont (Jennifer Lopez, Mark Ronson) install a multi-unit Apollo system and show you how to easily set it up with your DAW and record with UAD plug-ins in Console 2.0. Featuring the band DEDE.

Four heavyweight mixers — RAC, Eric “ET” Thorngren, Kevin Killen, and Tucker Martine — reveal how they craft their reverb textures and how you can avoid making common reverb mistakes.