When it comes to music creation, Universal Audio is one of my favorite companies. They deliver top-notch audio plug-ins and they still have a hand in creating some of the best hardware in the business.

[ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]The latest shipping hardware product from Universal Audio is the 4-710d Four-Channel “Twin-finity” Mic Preamp & DI with Dynamics. The Twin-finity is an incredible looking unit that combines tube and solid state tones.

The tone blending features of the Twin-finity gives you an almost limitless amount of tones that you can create.

The Twin-finity gives you four TEC 710 Twin-Finity microphone/line preamps; dual-path 285-volt Class-A tube and transimpedance solid-state preamps; phase-aligned tone-blending of tube and solid state circuits, creamy to crunchy; newly designed 1176-style compression circuit per preamp channel; and eight channels of ultra high-quality 24-bit A/D conversion.

The 4-710d is available now and costs $1999.