Recording Acoustic Guitars with ONE

Accomplished producer and musician Clay Sears records his guitar in a hotel room in London with just ONE's internal microphone, his MacBook Pro and Logic 9 while on tour with Janet Jackson. It was all recorded next to a noisy street with zero external processing, and the 'percussion' is just Clay smacking the guitar while he's playing.

Download Acoustic Guitar.AIFF file approx. 30MB

Recording Vocals with ONE

Singer/Songwriter Rachel Geller records her song "Blue" entirely with ONE and her laptop at Apogee's Berkeley Street Studios. Being affordable, high-quality and easy-to-use, Apogee's ONE has proved to be the missing link for Rachel between receiving and sending finished tracks to her producers in the most efficient way.

Download Mix .AIFF file approx. 35MB

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Guitar Legend Tommy Emmanuel Records with ONE

With an astounding rendition of his native Australia’s “Waltzing Matilda,” legendary guitarist Tommy Emmanuel records a live performance with just Apogee’s ONE, his laptop, and a room speckled with a few jaw-dropped admirers.

Download .AIFF file approx. 20MB

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Using ONE to record an entire song in GarageBand

“Forever” is a complete song demonstrating ONE’s amazing potential. Each instrument was recorded using ONE’s internal condenser microphone with the exception of bass and electric guitar, which were recorded direct using ONE’s instrument input. Using careful placement, vocals, acoustic guitar and drums were all recorded in mono. Once tracking was complete “Forever” was edited and mixed in GarageBand. Download the GarageBand session file to see exactly what we did.

Download GarageBand session approx. 520MB

Download .AIFF file approx. 54MB

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Ozomatli Records Entire Song with ONE

Los Angeles based group, Ozomatli, records with Apogee’s new USB music interface, ONE. Within 2 hours, Ozomatli wrote, arranged, and recorded an entire song using a Mac, GarageBand, a single external mic and ONE. Guitar, conga, tambourine, and even keyboard (mic’ing the keyboards built in speaker) were all recorded using ONE’s internal condenser microphone. Bass and Requinto guitar were recorded direct, using ONE’s 1/4” Hi-Z instrument input. Taking advantage of ONE’s 65 dB microphone preamp, vocals were recorded via a standard dynamic mic into the XLR input. It was mixed in Logic. Shortly after this session the group hit the road, now each equipped with a ONE and a Mac laptop in order to continue pre-production for their new record.

Download Logic Session approx. 319MB

Download .AIFF file approx. 38MB

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Capturing Bach with ONE

With her 1782 Gragnani confidently in hand as if an extension of herself, LA-based musician Christine Wu played Johann Sebastian Bach’s classic violin solo with impressive ease and infectious enjoyment to a handful of lucky Apogee ears.

With notes and emotion authentically captured with the built-in microphone, the recording attests to ONE’s high-fidelity capabilities even with a 230 year-old vintage classical violin.

Download .AIFF file approx. 20MB

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When recording drums in mono using ONE’s internal microphone, ONE was placed between the rack tom and floor tom facing the snare drum. This allowed ONE to be in the center of the entire kit capturing all drums equally.

Drums (Mono) .AIFF file approx. 5MB

Recording Cello Entirely with Apogee’s ONE

"Pretty Far Gone” was recorded entirely with Apogee’s ONE- including cello, guitar and vocals- captured solely by its internal condenser microphone, premium converters and mic preamp.

With soothing cello, solid and rhythmic acoustic guitar and harmonizing vocals, a song about drinking Jagermeister has never been so intoxicating.

Download GarageBand session approx. 145MB

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When recording acoustic guitar in mono using ONE’s internal microphone, ONE was placed one foot away from the fret board around the twelfth fret. We started with ONE directly in front of the twelfth fret but then moved it down the fret board a bit to get away from the sound hole.

Classical Guitar performed by Jose Luis Guerrero

Acoustic Guitar Strumming .AIFF file approx. 4MB

Acoustic Guitar Fingerpicking .AIFF file approx. 3MB

Classical Guitar Fingerpicking.AIFF file approx. 4MB

When recording Trumpet using ONE’s internal microphone, ONE was placed at bell height while the player stood off access at a 45 degree angle about 2 feet from ONE. The reason for standing off axis is that pointing the bell directly at the internal microphone caused the signal be a bit bright. Once the player moved off axis we arrived at the tone we were looking for.

Trumpet performed by Stewart Cole

Trumpet .AIFF file approx. 2MB

Trumpet Mute .AIFF file approx. 3MB

When recording B3 using ONE’s internal microphone, ONE was placed roughly 1.5 feet away and level with the center of the leslie.

B3 .AIFF file approx. 5MB