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Louder Than Liftoff is proud to introduce Silver Bullet - a unique collaborative effort between Louder Than Liftoff and industry veteran, drBill, that marries drBill's vintage Tone-Amp experimentations with Louder Than Liftoff's modern design approach and aesthetic. This labor of love offers a first-of-its-kind analog topology and workflow that is designed for, and easily integrated into the modern DAW-based studio. The Silver Bullet was designed to enhance and shape tracks to sound like a record during every phase of audio production from composition to the final mixdown.

Place the Universal Audio Apollo x16 at the center of your studio, and it’s guaranteed to turbocharge your productivity. Track and mix with 50% more processing power than previous Apollos, thanks to UA’s powerful 6-core HEXA Core processor. Experience top-shelf sound quality, by way of the Apollo x16’s upgraded elite-class AD/DA conversion and Dual Crystal clocking. Pro users will appreciate native 7.1 surround monitoring support, selectable +24dBu operation, built-in talkback, and more. Beyond that, you get sub-2ms latency and ample expandability, thanks to the Apollo x16’s ultra-fast Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. The Apollo x16 Heritage Edition comes with a premium suite of 10 award-winning plug-in titles, along with the Realtime Analog Classics Plus bundle, arming you with accurate emulations of vintage analog hardware. Finally, the Apollo x16 boasts compatibility with UA’s LUNA software, giving you a tightly integrated recording, editing, and mixing environment, with full software-based control over your interface’s parameters, global console and tape emulations, and advanced real-time tracking. If there was ever a time to upgrade to the newest Apollo, now’s the time!

Many grieve the sound of analog mixing consoles but don’t want to waive the conveniences that modern consoles provide. The Tegeler Audio Tube Summing Mixer gives you the opportunity to bring the sound of analog mixing with the benefits of a digital workflow to the comfort of your own studio.

The analog signal path, tubes, and matching transformers are responsible for processing the signals. The result is a typical analog sound: open & defined, yet warm. The mix is not trapped in the box but opens up the whole room.

With 2 × 20 channels, there are enough inputs available to glue together the most demanding mixes. If 40 inputs aren’t enough for you, several Tube Summing Mixers can be cascaded to increase the input count. As you can use more than one Tube Summing Mixer together, nothing stands in the way of your surround mixes.

To ensure the exact reproducibility of a mix, the Tube Summing Mixer is equipped with a stepped output switch instead of a potentiometer. This allows a practical reduction at -3 dB increments.

If you wish to insert mono signals into the mix, just insert the signal into the lower TRS jack. The mono signal is then automatically distributed to both channels simultaneously making it appear in the phantom center of the mix.

Empower your in-the-box productions with the legendary SSL console workflow courtesy of the Solid State Logic UC1 Advanced Plug-in Controller. With its knob-per-function architecture, the UC1 gives you tactile control over SSL’s renowned Channel Strip and Bus Compressor native plug-ins (included with the purchase of the UC1), and it provides visual feedback via an army of illuminated LED rings. Instantiate Channel Strip on every track in your session — along with a Bus Compressor on your mix bus — and enjoy the experience of working on an SSL 4000 series desk in the comfort of your home or project studio. Boasting a rugged professional design with an all-metal enclosure and a brushed, anodized top plate, the UC1 is both attractive and durable. Plus, it’s simple to integrate into your recording system — it requires only a single USB connection. Interacting with the UC1 is highly intuitive, as well. A high-resolution LCD display and selection encoders allow you to effortlessly navigate between instances of the plug-ins in your DAW, and you can instantly recall presets directly from the front panel. Representing the next evolution in DAW control surfaces, the SSL UC1 Advanced Plug-in Controller will surely invigorate your in-the-box workflow.

The culmination of 40 years of mastering studio ergonomics experience, the new Solid State Logic UF8 controller delivers a new level of user focused design; insightful displays, intelligent fader and control access and function, multiple stand angles for user defined placement, and a production workflow enhancing control layout. The high-spec touch sensitive faders, encoders, and high-resolution colour displays, compliment the premium build quality that belie this new price point for an SSL controller.

Expandable to a 32 channel control surface with integration for all major DAW platforms, UF8 is ideally suited to music creation, production and mixing, post production and webcasting. The new SSL 360° control software manages multi-controller configurations, customised user keys, and DAW switching across multiple layers, allowing for seamless switching between numerous sessions.

With UF8 at the heart of your studio setup, you can effortlessly navigate through large sessions and focus on the music, instead of the mouse. Hi-res displays with constant visual feedback and intuitive layout of controls allow you to stay creative for longer. Put some feel back into your mixing with UF8's 100 mm high-quality motorised faders, perfect for balancing multiple tracks at once or riding your reverb sends. Scale your system up to 32 faders (4 UF8s), for the full SSL mix experience.

Whether you need to solo tracks quickly or access your most used editing functions from the touch of a button, UF8 will help you create more engaging content for your audiences, faster and more efficiently. It's perfect for finessing your dialogue automation rides and assigning all your essential session shortcuts to the user-keys for enhanced productivity, tailored to suit your post workflow.

Features High-Quality 100 mm Touch Sensitive Faders High-Resolution Colour Displays 8 Endless Rotary Encoders Custom Workflows Intelligent Multi-Purpose CHANNEL Encoder Mouse Scroll Emulation Integrates With All Major DAWs Switch Control Between 3 Simultaneously Connected DAWs Powered by the SSL 360° Mac/PC Application Expandable System Includes SSL Native Vocalstrip 2 & Drumstrip plug-ins

If you’re ready to take control of your DAW-based production setup, Sweetwater has a product that will supercharge your workflow. The Solid State Logic UF8 is an advanced DAW control surface with eight motorized, touch-sensitive faders; nine push/push rotary encoders; and eight high-resolution LCD TFT displays. SSL has been making world-class recording consoles for decades, and their extensive expertise is evident in the meticulous design of the UF8. Its professional pedigree is manifest throughout the design — from the just-right feel of its soft-touch rubber RGB backlit buttons to the robustness of its sleek, all-metal chassis. The system is expandable with up to four UF8s for 32 channels of DAW control. Connecting via high-speed USB and powered by SSL’s dedicated 360° software, the UF8 offers easy, streamlined operation along with powerful functionality.

Eventide Anthology XII packs 50 years of pioneering audio technology into an all-encompassing plug-in bundle. Anthology XII spans more than 4,500 presets across its 31 included plug-ins, culled from Eventide's near-endless well of iconic effects. You get old-school hardware staples, such as the iconic H910, H949, and H3000 Harmonizers, plus Instant Phaser, Instant Flanger, Omnipressor, and SP2016 reverbs. This bundle boasts groundbreaking Structural Effects like SplitEQ and Physion, along with coveted Eventide algorithms like Blackhole and Undulator. You also get one-of-a-kind tools like Tony Visconti's Tverb and Octavox. There are countless Eventide devotees here at Sweetwater — with some of us going back to the 1970s. And we've found Anthology XII to be the most complete bundle the company has ever offered. If you want to add the unmistakable Eventide sound to your next project, Anthology XII has everything you could possibly want — and more.

The Complete Bundle includes the entire collection of SSL Native plug-ins:

Channel Strip and Bus Compressor FlexVerb and X-EQ 2 X-Comp and Drumstrip Vocalstrip and X-Phase X-ValveComp and X-Saturator

The SSL Complete Bundle features the (updated) classic “Channel Strip 2” and “Bus Compressor 2” plug-ins, putting the renowned SSL sound into your DAW.

The bundle also features an array of precision mixing/mastering tools such as X-EQ 2, X-Comp, X-Saturator, FlexVerb, LMC+, the recently released Fusion Vintage Drive and Fusion Stereo Image, the X-Echo and the Fusion HF Compressor, Violet EQ and Transformer as well as the new X-Delay among others.

A master processor designed for today's hybrid studio, Fusion delivers five powerful analog coloration tools — Vintage Drive, Violet EQ, HF Compressor, Stereo Image enhancer, and SSL Transformer — from the legendary console company Solid State Logic. Fusion provides the finishing touches for your productions with its compelling tonal and spacial enhancement, adding a touch of analog magic to your mix bus or stereo stems. Rounding out the feature set are a highpass filter with three selectable cutoff frequencies, stereo/mid-side insert sends and returns, peak hold metering, and more. Fusion's five analog processors can be used discretely or combined.

Since the first SSL 4000 B console was released in the late 1970s, Solid State Logic's famed Bus Compressor has been the audio engineer's tool of choice for gluing a mix together. The Solid State Logic Bus+ continues in this fabled tradition, packing five decades of analog-fueled dynamic punch into a convenient rackmount piece of hardware. The Bus+ boasts an authentic SSL Bus Compressor with multiple modes based on the XLogic, early 4K, and more for maximum sonic flexibility. The Bus+ also includes the D-EQ, a powerful 2-band analog dynamic equalizer for added sound shaping. Both the Bus Compressor and D-EQ are jam-packed with versatile features, enabling you to mold your mixes into an endless variety of sonic textures. The Bus+ contains 100% analog circuitry, with stepped, digitally controlled front-panel pots. This 2-channel processor gives you four modes of operation, external sidechain I/O, configurable processing order, sleep and auto-sleep modes, and a whole lot more. If you've been waiting to pull the trigger on an SSL-style bus comp, now's the time — the Solid State Logic Bus+ is their most advanced compressor to date.

The Roland VRC-01 AeroCaster makes livestreaming a cinch, even when you're dealing with multiple sources. This A/V mixer foregoes the spaghetti-like mess of cables normally associated with multi-camera streaming, enabling you to create a clean wireless setup with pro-level production quality. With the VRC-01, an iPad, and a few smartphones, you'll have everything you need to begin streaming to YouTube, Facebook Live, Twitch, or a custom RTMP channel over Wi-Fi or 4G/5G. You can switch up to four smart devices simultaneously, along with the camera on the host iPad, and you can wirelessly share screens from computers and mobile devices. You also get eye-popping transition effects, and you can save and recall 30 scenes with titles, graphics, and picture-in-picture windows. A media pool allows you to integrate video, audio, photos, and graphics stored on your iPad; you also get a bevy of great-sounding audio effects. Beyond that, we also like the easy-to-use hardware control surface and audio interface with two XLR inputs, a 3.5 mm stereo input, and headphones and monitor outputs. For online talk shows, music performances, live commerce, remote education, and beyond, Sweetwater content creators have found that the Roland VRC-01 AeroCaster packs a lot of power into its streamlined setup.

Rode has been at the forefront of modern mic design since the company debuted the NT1. Now, the company has set its sights on creating a pair of headphones that provide outstanding audio, all-day comfort, and sleek good looks — all at an accessible price. The ergonomically-designed, closed-back ear cups come loaded with custom-matched drivers that flaunt an amazingly accurate frequency response from 5Hz to 35kHz. They showcase excellent imaging and have the clarity you need to pick out every element in a mix. You’ll enjoy a comfortable listening experience from the moment you put them on, thanks to the memory foam padding and CoolTech gel. You can attach the cable to any side you want, which is a major plus. The NTH-100s are a lights-out choice for streamers, podcasters, musicians, and pleasure listening alike. They serve up audio as it’s meant to be heard.

Place the Universal Audio Apollo x6 at the center of your studio, and it’s guaranteed to turbocharge your productivity. Track and mix with 50% more processing power than previous Apollos, thanks to UA’s powerful 6-core HEXA Core processor. Experience top-shelf sound quality, by way of the Apollo x6’s upgraded elite-class AD/DA conversion and Dual Crystal clocking. Pro users will appreciate native 5.1 surround monitoring support, selectable +24dBu operation, built-in talkback, and more. Dual Unison preamps allow you to track through models of the industry’s most legendary hardware. Beyond that, you get sub-2ms latency and ample expandability, thanks to the Apollo x6’s ultra-fast Thunderbolt 3 connectivity. The Apollo x6 Heritage Edition comes with a premium suite of 10 award-winning plug-in titles, along with the Realtime Analog Classics Plus bundle, arming you with accurate emulations of vintage analog hardware. Finally, the Apollo x6 boasts compatibility with UA’s LUNA software, giving you a tightly integrated recording, editing, and mixing environment, with full software-based control over your interface’s parameters, global console and tape emulations, and advanced real-time tracking. If there was ever a time to upgrade to the newest Apollo, now’s the time!

You wouldn’t walk through mud wearing your brand-new all-white sneakers. So, why would you plug your high-dollar audio equipment into dirty power? At Sweetwater, that's not an option! Protect your hard-earned gear with the Black Lion Audio PG-2, a 14-outlet power conditioner that employs premium Panasonic and Wima capacitors to filter out performance-robbing high-frequency noise, along with a power absorption rating of 2775 joules to safeguard against gear-wrecking power spikes and surges. The PG-2 packs a dozen switched outlets onto its back panel, along with two unswitched outlets on the front for convenience. You'll also find a 5V/1A USB charging outlet on the front for keeping phones and tablets juiced up during production. The PG-2's outlets are individually optimized for digital, analog, and high-power devices. You also benefit from a 2-stage power up/power down system. What’s more, the PG-2's high-power outlets are time delayed to protect your speakers and power amplifiers from unwanted popping when you fire up and power down your gear. Finally, the PG-2 features a useful front-panel LED display and status LED indicators.

Looking for an easy and small solution to headphone distribution issues? The ultra-compact Behringer MicroAMP HA400 is a great sounding, simple solution. Simply plug in your stereo or mono mix and then connect up to four headphones, each with their own volume controls. It doesn't get any easier. Use the Behringer MicroAMP HA400 headphone amp to get the signal out to your headphones.

1-ch 500 Series Compressor with Auto Fast Attack, Anti Log Circuit, Negative Ratios, Gain Reduction Limiter, and THD Boost Harmonic Enhancement

The mpressor 500 brings the signal-shaping prowess of elysia’s acclaimed rackmount mpressor to the 500 Series format. Streamlined for the space constraints of a single-wide module, the mpressor 500 is mono and lacks the EQ circuitry of its bigger brother, but as a compressor, it delivers the powerful punch, flexible dynamics shaping, and highly detailed Class A sonics you expect. Its sound and versatility make the mpressor 500 ideal for both recording and mixing, and its special features give it capabilities far beyond most conventional compressors. Like its 19-inch rackmount sibling, the mpressor 500 features negative ratios, extreme time constants, Anti Log release, and elysia’s proprietary gain reduction limiting. Unique to the 500 Series modules is switchable THD Boost harmonic enhancement, which lets you dial in delightfully gritty saturation and signal coloration.

The original dbx 160A is a compressor standard in studios around the world, and now you can pack that same powerful dynamics control into your 500 series rack with the dbx 560A compressor/limiter module. Engineers at Sweetwater have long respected the 160A's ability to tame audio peaks and solidify tracks with precision and transparency. From subtle smoothing to extreme brickwall limiting, the 560A does it all and sounds great doing it. When you need a dynamics processor you can turn to in any tracking, mixing, or live sound situation, check out the dbx 560A compressor/limiter 500 series module.

The Zoom H1n's dead-simple stereo pickup with unlimited overdubs makes archiving music performances, dialogue, and sound for film easier than ever. The Zoom H1n is the successor to the acclaimed H1. Upgraded features include dedicated one-touch buttons for recording, playback, and audio settings; a new 1.25" backlit LCD that reads easily in any lighting condition; slate and test tone generators for simpler A/V sync; auto-record and self-timer functions; a front-facing speaker; and adjustable playback speed for transcription and notation. Whether you use the phase-coherent onboard stereo XY mics or plug in your own sound source via the 1/8" stereo mic/line jack, the Zoom H1n captures your world in glorious 24/96 hi-fi. Note: requires an SD card for recording (sold separately).

Guitar tone processor with Bluetooth® music streaming for any sound system.

Plug Your Guitar Into More of Your Life
With AMPLIFi TT, you can reclaim life's in-between moments to become a better player or just have some fun! Connect to your existing setup and play, practice or record in any space.

Transform Any Room Into a Jam Space
Turn any speaker system into a guitar amp. Stream your music library over Bluetooth. Launch the included AMPLIFi Remote app to jam

Get Great Tone Instantly
Pick a song from your music library and get a matched guitar tone automatically. Access thousands of tones from the cloud. Rate and share tones with the largest online community of guitarists

Play Over 200 Amps and Effects
Tap into Line 6 modeling used on hundreds of hit records. Dial in your signature sound visually on your mobile device. Record your guitar to your Mac or PC over USB

AMPLIFi TT Hardware Features
More than 200 amps and effects. 4 onboard presets (100 with FBV) with built-in tuner. Bluetooth remote control and streaming audio. Low-latency USB recording to Mac and PC

AMPLIFi Remote App Features
Full remote control of amp and effects parameters. Automatic tone matching to your music library. Share and rate tones in the cloud. Compatible with iOS and Android

Guitar tone processor with Bluetooth® music streaming for any sound system.

Plug Your Guitar Into More of Your Life
With AMPLIFi TT, you can reclaim life's in-between moments to become a better player or just have some fun! Connect to your existing setup and play, practice or record in any space.

Transform Any Room Into a Jam Space
Turn any speaker system into a guitar amp. Stream your music library over Bluetooth. Launch the included AMPLIFi Remote app to jam

Get Great Tone Instantly
Pick a song from your music library and get a matched guitar tone automatically. Access thousands of tones from the cloud. Rate and share tones with the largest online community of guitarists

Play Over 200 Amps and Effects
Tap into Line 6 modeling used on hundreds of hit records. Dial in your signature sound visually on your mobile device. Record your guitar to your Mac or PC over USB

AMPLIFi TT Hardware Features
More than 200 amps and effects. 4 onboard presets (100 with FBV) with built-in tuner. Bluetooth remote control and streaming audio. Low-latency USB recording to Mac and PC

AMPLIFi Remote App Features
Full remote control of amp and effects parameters. Automatic tone matching to your music library. Share and rate tones in the cloud. Compatible with iOS and Android

The Behringer Powerplay 16 P16-M digital stereo personal monitor mixer is your affordable personal monitoring solution. As a performer, you know what you need to hear in order to perform your best. The P16-M's intuitive user interface makes it easy for musicians and singers to dial in their perfect monitor mix. And if you've got a really big show to do, it's a comfort to know you can daisy-chain up to 48 of them. Take it from Sweetwater, if you want a personal monitoring solution with features and performance rivaling systems costing much more, check out Behringer's Powerplay 16 P16-M.

Incredible feel and impact! Featuring the most drum capable module ever, the Strike Pro Special Edition is a standard-setting electronic drum kit that features a full-sized 20-inch kick and latest-generation mesh heads for unequaled response. The full-sized kick gives drummers an unprecedented degree of response and impact—unmatched by any other electronic kit—enabling the Strike Pro Special Edition to absolutely redefine the playing experience and realism for electronic drums.

The Strike Pro SE 6-piece electronic drum kit combines dramatic aesthetics, natural response, and superior sound for a unique drumming experience that bridges the acoustic and electronic drum worlds. Each feature of the Strike Pro SE is designed to immerse drummers in the moment and inspire brilliant performances. Hybrid wood shells, tunable mesh heads, and distinctive black hardware contribute to Strike Pro SE’s familiar look and feel, and its quiet design means you can practice well into the night without bothering the neighbors. The Strike Pro sound module puts over 136 complete drum kits at your fingertips for every imaginable genre and style. Plus, you can load and edit custom samples to build your own signature sets. Drummers at Sweetwater know their electronic kits, and they’re impressed by the versatility and responsiveness of the Alesis Strike Pro SE Kit, a real stunner that’s a pleasure to play.