User Manual

Townsend Labs Sphere L22 Precision Microphone System Guide Installation and Configuration

Instantiation in the Apollo Console

If you connected Sphere to a Universal Audio Apollo recording interface, use the Console application

for monitor and record with Sphere.

To instantiate the Sphere plug-in in the Apollo Console:

1. Open Console, locate the channel pair connected to the Sphere mic, and confirm that the chan-

nels are linked and 48 V phantom power is enabled.

2. Select the

Townsend Labs Sphere, Putnam Mic Collection, or Ocean Way Mic Collection plug-in as

the first channel insert (see Figure 2-3 left).

Console allows you to choose whether to monitor or record the Sphere plug-in output.

Figure 2-3 Apollo strip with Sphere as first channel insert, 48V active (left); UAD REC button active (right)

3. Click the UAD REC button to commit the selected microphone settings to disk during recording (see

Figure 2-3 right).

- Or -

4. Click the

UAD MON button if you plan to insert the Sphere plug-in in your DAW later.

This lets you change microphone settings after recording.