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Impact Twin Details

Two mic preamps featuring IMPACT III™ Technology
With these two pristine mic preamps you never have to worry about recording quality again
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Product manager Thomas Valter talks about the pristine preamps in Impact Twin. The preamp is a crucial part of your path when recording audio. That's why Impact Twin is equipped with 2 outstanding preamps based on IMPACT IIITM technology.
Channel Tools
Quickly and easily optimize the tone of your recordings with Impact Twin’s built-in channel tools
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The Channel Tools that come with Impact Twin include the very easy to use compressor. Thomas is demonstrating the compressor on a saxophone track but it has presets optimized for various different instruments such as guitar, bass, trumpet, snare and de-essing styles for the male and female voice.
Hi-Z Guitar optimized inputs
Ensure the tone of your guitars is beautifully preserved with two front-panel mounted Hi-Z guitar-optimized inputs
Direct Monitor Reverb
A simple way to add reverb at the monitor stage so the singer can enjoy quality reverb through their headphones
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In this video Thomas explains the Direct Monitor Reverb feature. Impact Twin comes with Direct Monitor Reverb and it can be added to your performer's mix to create a nice recording environment.
iCheck
The iCheck (Integrity Check) feature provides a shortcut for revealing artifacts of data reduction - essential when encoding mp3 or AAC files
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When data reducing your audio with mp3 or AAC codecs, the part that is most affected is the stereo signal. Engaging the iCheck feature will make Impact Twin play back the part of your signal that is only present in either the left or right channel, revealing the artifacts of data reduction in your stereo signal. Thomas shows us some good examples. You can compare the data reduced and uncompressed side audio in the following two .wav files

Beethoven Linear
Beethoven 128 kBit/S
Included plug-ins (M40 reverb, ResFilter, Assimilator)
Impact Twin comes bundled with pristine TC effects processing. The M40 Studio Reverb is based on an algorithm from our acclaimed Reverb 4000 processor. The multi-purpose ResFilter provides ultra-fat filter sound. The Assimilator EQ curve assimilation tool lets you quickly grab an EQ curve from any sound and apply it to your own
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The M40 Studio Reverb is included with most of TC's audio interfaces and also with Impact Twin. You can hear some sound examples in this video. ResFilter is also included with Impact Twin and is a really cool plug-in that offers you ultra fat filtering effects. Throw in resonance, 6, 12 and 24 dB slopes for even more stunning sounds. Thomas shows you how it can be used in this video.
Quick compressor access and feedback
Access the crucial compressor setting directly from Impact Twin’s front panel – the light ring instantly shows gain reduction
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The compressor and reverb that comes with Impact Twin can easily be accessed from the front panel of Impact Twin. Turning the knob controls the amount of compression and pushing it will turn the compressor on and off. The light ring also indicates the amount of gain reduction when using the compressor. The knob will also control the different reverb parameters.
JetPLL jitter reduction
Everybody talks about analog sound quality, but what about digital? With built-in JetPLL jitter reduction technology, Impact Twin ensures superb audio quality all the way through the device
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The digital audio routing inside Impact Twin is handled by the DICE II chip which is also developed by TC Electronic. DIgital audio quality is as important if not more important than analog because it affects how the converters perform
192/24 HD Conversion
Impact Twin’s HD Convertors let you select your conversion rate – all the way from 44.1kHz right up to High Definition 192kHz for the ultimate in pristine audio capture, maintaining the essential transients of your sound.
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A very important factor when recording audio into your digital audio workstation is converting your audio from analog to digital. Impact Twin is equipped with 2 AKM converters that work perfectly together with the IMPACT III preamps.
Ableton Live Lite 8 TC Electronic Edition included
Bundled with Impact Twin is Ableton Live Lite 8 TC Electronic Edition
14/14 I/O (4 analog, 10 digital I/O)
14 ins and 14 outs give the flexibility to record and monitor just about any device you can think of
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Impact Twin has very flexible connect options. It features 14 ins/ 14 outs where 4 are analog and 10 are digital via SPDIF, adat and TOS. Input 1 and 2 can be accessed both from the front and the rear of Impact Twin and can be toggled via a button on the front panel.
Free Fabrik R and Fabrik C
PowerCore owners have two more reasons to celebrate as TC Electronic is giving away two incredible reverb and compression plug-ins for the award-winning platform!
PowerCore X8
PowerCore X8 provides a massive amount of power, with 8 fast DSPs and oodles of RAM. It is ideal for high-end production environments where unsurpassed quality and processing capabilities are required.
Impact Twin Review - Professional Audio
Mit dem Impact Twin läutet TC Electronic eine neue Generation innerhalb seiner Produktlinie von Firewire Audio-Interfaces ein.

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