Great recording tool

I wanted something mobile and powerful. I got it. I like UAD stuff and have a UAD-2 PCIe card so I knew the quality of the plugs already. I am a happy UAD customer and support Sweetwater's business for my music needs because they go out of their way to provide customers with their gear with a great combination of support and quality. Best online store for music gear, bar none.

The missing ingredient

Adding this unit to your gear arsenal is a must. Extremely accurate emulations of excellent analog gear makes any track sound polished. i purchased the Duo Core and it works great for my rig, but definitely go with the Quad if you have the cash. UAD has great deals on plugins all the time so it's really easy to save on great EQ/Compressor/Reverbs. I like being able to have the unit dashboard running with my DAW so I can see how much processing power is available and make sure nothing crashes on me. The processing power this unit adds to my projects is great, the only con I can think of about the Duo I have is that it can't run quite as many simultaneous plugins as the Quad can, but it's easy to work around that by getting your settings where you want them and then printing tracks with the effects and moving on. Since I've been using this unit, I don't look at my mixes and think that there's something missing anymore. This fills in all the holes and makes any track sound 10 times better.

Issues with Liquid 56

Although I love this box, trying to use it with the Liquid Saffire daisy chained is torture. It randomly stops working/freaks out with gross digital artifacts even during mixdown. When I use my built in output or m-box, things are working swimmingly, but that means I have to sacrifice using most of my favorite outboard gear along with the UAD.