Ozomatli

Recording with ONE

While beginning to work on their new record with producer Tony Berg, six-piece Los Angeles-based group, Ozomatli, took time out to record with Apogee’s new USB music interface, ONE. Within 2 hours, Ozomatli wrote, arranged, and recorded an entire song using only a Mac, GarageBand, a single external mic and ONE.

The guitar, conga, tambourine, and even the keyboard (mic’ing the keyboards built-in speaker) were all recorded using ONE’s internal condenser microphone. The 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, the vocals were recorded via a standard dynamic mic into the XLR input. 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 the new record.

"Apogee never disappoints me. Every GOOD professional studio you go to has Apogee products. From the people that brought you Rosetta and Big Ben, comes ONE, a top quality sounding audio interface. Not to mention the very low latency. With other small affordable interfaces this has been a problem, but not with ONE. And its size is very convenient for me since I travel and record so much on the road, and it still manages to give me eff'ing amazing sound quality." -Asdru Sierra, Ozomatli

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