Universal Audio 710 Twin-Finity

I have been working as a VO artist for many years in the production of audiobooks, commercials and dubbing for animation and games. When the pandemic started, and it became necessary to adapt to the new professional situation - I created my own recording studio at home. Surprisingly, not many people at the time wanted to help me complete the necessary equipment.... so I took an interest in it myself. It was then that I also started to get to know my voice from the other side - that of the sound engineer.

At first, I was limited to audio interface and various VST packages. Over time, as I matured in my new role and learned to listen, I was ready to expand the studio from the technical side. To jump into a higher level of quality sound work.

Learning from experience, I stopped asking and started observing - what they have out there in those big recording studios. Don't be shocked - this very pre-amp, only in the four-channel version. But I don't need four. One is enough. And now, I'm scrambling like a hedgehog in a haberdashery.

I recommend it like I don't know what.

After trying to get some use out of the 710 Twin-Finity for some time I decided to sell it. There are a few reasons that made me do so:

- it is a good preamp for a beginner, with no other outboard preamps. I have many preamps, so it wasn't really an interesting addition. The 710 does not have any special character.

- the solid state side of the 710 is very clean (a good thing in my opinion), but the tube side is also very clean, to a point that I could hardly hear the difference on many sources.

- when pushed into distortion it would start to sound harsh and raspy, not nicely adding warm harmonics. From a tube preamp you would expect the opposite.

- the self noise of the 710 was not as low as I would like (for classical and acoustic recordings). There are better options in this field from makes at similar costs per channel.

The guy who bought it from me was very happy with it though, as I asked half the price of a new one and it was in a pristine state, as I had hardly used it. When used as a clean preamp only it is very good, so he got himself a good piece for a pleasant price.