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Nashville, TN, June 2020 – Austrian Audio’s versatile OC818 microphone has been certified by the Music Engineering and Technology Alliance (METAlliance). Austrian Audio, a METAlliance ProPartner, is respected as one of the new progressive manufacturers of high quality studio microphones.

Handcrafted in Vienna, the Austrian Audio OC818 is a revolutionary multi-pattern dual-output large-diaphragm condenser microphone with optional wireless control. Onboard, the OC818 offers a choice of four selectable polar patterns, 10dB and 20dB pads, and three switchable high-pass filter options.
METAlliance co-found Elliot Scheiner commented, “I would consider this new microphone to be fashioned after a mic that we might have encountered years ago. It's a mic that you put up on either an instrument or voice, and you find out that what you're listening to requires nothing in the line. No equalization and probably no compression or limiting. I was totally blown away how the mic sounds. This has to be one of the more beautiful sounding microphones to be created.”
With Austrian Audio's open-source PolarDesigner plug-in (Mac and Windows), the engineer can craft custom polar patterns for up to five different frequency bands. In addition, the PolarPilot mobile app (iOS, Android) gives users real-time wireless remote control over polar patterns, high-pass filter options, and pad settings via the optional OCR8 Bluetooth dongle.
METAlliance co-founder Chuck Ainlay remarked, “Considering the lineage of Austrian Audio, expectations were very high when auditioning the OC818 and I wasn’t let down. It’s quality of build and sonics should make it an instant classic, while innovations such as the Bluetooth dongle to control the polar pattern remotely and the polar designer plug-in set this microphone in a class of it’s own..”
George Massenburg added, “I’ve been using the OC818, and as usual, I’m using it on almost everything, and at every opportunity in every possible configuration. It’s terrific on lead vocals, strings & woodwinds, jazz drum overheads. It’s also very helpful to have a remotely controllable pattern adjustment. I’ve come to realize that I don’t always need to automatically set up for cardioid, because often I don’t need the rejection, and straight-ahead omni sounds a lot better.”
Austrian Audio CEO Martin Seidl said, “We are honored to have our OC818 recognized and certified by this prestigious alliance. It is our company’s aim to manufacture products that offer the highest levels of quality in the recording chain, which is very much in line with the METAlliance’s ethos. It’s very encouraging to have this recognition from such respected recording engineers.”
The METAlliance Pro Partnership is a group of companies that share the founders' belief that a call for quality is important. It is limited, by invitation, to those companies that provide products and services deemed worthy of consideration by professionals.
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Vienna, Austria - June 25, 2020 - Called ‘We Are,’ the song’s lyrics speak of unity, peace, love and togetherness – a message Austrian Audio is keen to get behind at a time when all live music events have come to a halt, and while front line workers work tirelessly to battle the pandemic.

Looking ahead to a brighter future, the lyrics speak for themselves: “The future’s in my hands, if I poured it into love / What if you were that one, the one that could change the course? / One beat one heart, one life, one love.”
“The lock-down hit all of us in the music industry,” said Austrian Audio CEO, Martin Seidl. “After the initial shock, we sat down with the Austrian Audio family, our friends and great brand ambassadors. The idea was born to not only do what we are best at: be creative, but to also let good vibes outshine the daily bad news. We want to encourage positivity and hope at this distressing time and look forward to the day that the music scene is back on its feet.
“Divinity Roxx immediately supported the idea and contributed her song, ‘We Are’ to kickstart this important project. The lyrics perfectly paint a picture of better days and the idea of coming together: ‘We are what we’ve been waiting for / Put your hands in the sky and reach out for the stars’. And so we did, all together, with a group of world class musicians and with help from the Austrian Audio team.
“We – all being part of this great music industry – do have the most powerful tools on hand regarding triggering emotions. That is our passion, our instruments and our music. So here we are: separated by distances and restrictions, we are still playing together, for the music to come.”
Taking the vocal lead on the uplifting track is singer and bassist, Divinity Roxx, inspiring listeners to focus on their inner strength to overcome adversity. 'We Are’ also features the talents of a number of members of the Austrian Audio family:
Divinity Roxx: author, bassist, singer (musical director for The Beyoncè Experience). Kat Dyson: guitar, vocals (Sheila E, Zucchero, Prince, Cindy Lauper, Natalie Cole, Ziggy Marley and many others). Mike Scott: guitar (Prince, Justin Timberlake, Maroon 5, Rihanna and many others). Adam Gontier: vocals (Three Days Grace, Saint Asonia, Thousand Foot Krutch, Big Dirty Band, Apocalyptica). Polo Jones: bass (Zucchero, Sting, Pavarotti, Eric Clapton, Bruce Springsteen and many others). Thomas Lang: drums (Falco, Peter Gabriel, Sugababes, Robbie Williams, Nik Kershaw and many others). Yakob Rabitsch: electronic drums (Grammy-nominated producer, writer and instrumentalist for 6lack and many others). Derek Brown: saxophone (saxophone innovator known for BEATBoX SAX). Ulrich Drechsler: saxophone (Cafè Drechsler, Liminal Zone and many others). Jimmy Green: guitar (Mike Rutherford, Nick Davis, Paul Reeve and many others). Hectic Da BackPacka: emcee, HipHoppa. Andy Baum: vocals (Hallucination Company, Andy Baum & The Trix, composer for TV and movie productions). Eric Papilaya: vocals, emcee (new album, 'Giganten'). Wenzel Beck: vocals, guitars (up and coming songwriter). Austrian Audio Choir Adrian Hall: small percussion, mixing/mastering (Black Eyed Peas, Alicia Keys, Depeche Mode, Linkin Park, Robbie Williams and many others). Barbara Seidl: video editor, promo & trailer production Walter Rührig: Austrian Audio AR, Producer Following an idea of Martin Seidl: CEO Austrian Audio Austrian Audio Homepage

Aston Microphones are used the world over by countless artists, engineers and producers who rely on their incredible sound quality and near indestructible build for their work.
Every Aston mic to date has been developed in conjunction with the Aston 33 panel, a 600 strong group of many of the top industry professionals in the business who, through a series of blind listening tests, have ensured that each mic produced has outperformed all the competition, including big brand mics costing 10 times as much.

Now it’s YOUR turn!
Aston Element will be the first microphone in the world to have a sound crafted by the public, the musicians, engineers and producers who will eventually be using it to create their own musical magic. Aston have taken the mic to prototype stage – now here’s the chance to have your say on how the final version will sound. By registering to take part you can become a member of a voting panel who take part in a series of blind-listening tests.
There will be several stages of public voting between late April and July 2020. At each stage you will be able to listen to 5 takes for each of 3 audio sources (male vocal, female vocal and acoustic guitar) recorded on prototypes of the new Aston, alongside a number of competitors’ mics. Then you’ll rate them, from best to worst. But here’s the thing – you won’t know which sound files are which, or even which mics are being used in the test!
After each voting stage Aston’s design team will modify the prototypes in line with the voting results and the blind-listening test process will be repeated. Only when the new Aston mic is consistently voted the best sounding microphone will the Element be signed off for production. This whole process is being peer reviewed by participating magazines and a team of independent professional engineers and producers.
This is a unique chance for you to contribute to the sound design of a professional studio microphone.
Link to Aston Voting Site
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Vienna, Austria (April 9, 2020) - Musician Derek Brown recently tested out an Austrian Audio OC818 microphone, using it to capture his unique style of saxophone playing – dubbed ‘BEATBoX SAX’.
Part beatbox, part instrument-slap technique, and part saxophone playing, Brown has turned BEATBoX SAX into a phenomenon – his YouTube music videos and tutorials are enormously popular among saxophonists and music lovers alike, racking up over 150,000 Youtube subscriptions.
Previously the director of jazz studies at Abilene Christian University for six years, Brown received his BM in Music Performance (Classical and Jazz) from Hope College in 2006, and his MM in Jazz Studies at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music in 2008.
Crossing genres from jazz, to classical, to funk (and without using any looping or electronic effects), Brown’s unique playing style was born out of a love of blending musical genres.
“I grew up with a very normal way of playing the saxophone,” he said. “I studied classical music and I started liking jazz. I went to university and I studied all the techniques and different ways of improvising. I was always feeling a bit lost, thinking ‘what’s my new thing to say on this?’ Am I a jazz musician? Am I a classical musician? Am I a pop musician?”
Brown decided that he didn’t need to choose - the result being a unique blend of jazz and pop-style saxophone playing, combined with instrument-slapping techniques.
Requiring a microphone that was up to the challenge, Brown tested an Austrian Audio OC818:
“It was great; it is everything I look for in a mic,” he said. “I had a very quiet signal and it seemed to pick up all the different things I'm doing on the saxophone, which is very important because everything I do – even though it sounds like it’s being looped or has an electronic effect – it’s not, it’s all acoustic. So I need a microphone that is going to pick up every little detail, from the ring scratching that I’m doing, to all the intricate sounds coming out of the belt, and my voice. This was a perfect mic; it had a great sound to it. It seemed to produce a very natural-sounding saxophone.”
Brown also likes that the OC818 microphones are handmade in Vienna:
“I love the idea that these are being created in Austria,” he enthused. “I know it’s very easy to have things outsourced to other countries, so I love that this tradition is being continued. I can't wait to see what Austrian Audio comes up with next.”
Handmade in Vienna, the OC818 is a multi-pattern dual-output condenser microphone equipped with a world-first: optional wireless control. At the heart of the range is the patent-pending, handmade CKR12 ceramic capsule, made to the same critical dimensions as the legendary CK12 capsules. However, the CKR12 goes further still, utilising a revolutionary new material offering far more stability, meaning every OC818 is inherently paired with any other OC818, or even Austrian Audio’s OC18 mic.

SANTA MONICA, CA, USA: launched last year to widespread critical acclaim as the world’s first bus-powered modeling microphone, cleverly combining the ease and convenience of a digital mic with the flexibility and sound quality of a recording studio, Antelope Audio is proud to enhance Edge Go’s Synergy Core capability — centred around a single ARM- based DSP (Digital Signal Processor) plus custom-designed FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) chip architecture (following in the trailblazing formative footsteps of its innovative Discrete 4 Synergy Core, Discrete 8 Synergy Core, Orion Studio Synergy Core, and Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interface namesakes) — via various vocal-oriented virtual effects emulations available as paid software expansions, while also adding seven new vintage mic models for free, as of April 2…
Simply speaking, Synergy Core combines the phenomenal parallel computational capabilities of FPGA processing with industry-standard DSP, as brought into play on Antelope Audio’s game-changing Discrete 4 Synergy Core, Discrete 8 Synergy Core, Orion Studio Synergy Core, and — most recently — Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interfaces. All are capable of latency-free direct monitoring with effects when recording as a direct result, readily allowing users to hear already processed signals in real-time — even before pressing record, and acting as a time-saver and creative workflow enhancer in the process. Another added user benefit comes courtesy of offloading the host CPU (Central Processing Unit) from effects processing when mixing and/or mastering, making it perfectly possible to work with larger DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) sessions without compromising channel count or creativity with effects processing.

Having ‘hinted’ at Edge Go’s Synergy Core capability late last year when announcing availability of Auto-Tune Synergy as a custom-designed software plug-in that leverages the next-generation hardware acceleration of the Synergy Core platform to deliver the legendary Auto-Tune® pitch correction and vocal effects with ultra- low latency, Antelope Audio has hereby effectively enhanced Edge Go’s Synergy Core capability still further via various vocal-oriented virtual effects emulations.
Entering the radical realm of the world’s first bus-powered modeling microphone for the first time, Antelope Audio’s Opto-2A carefully captures all the subtleties and nuances of an iconic Sixties-vintage electro-optical compressor that needs no introduction. Its continued use in broadcast and recording studios worldwide over half a century after its inception is testament to its audio engineering excellence. Exceptionally warm sound and a gentle compression character have endeared it to generations of artists and producers, possibly gracing more hit records than any other outboard unit in hardware history. Having said that, key to its unique personality is the T4 optical attenuator, the outcome of time spent developing optical sensors for the US military. Its sonic signature is the two-stage release, greatly contributing to its smooth and musical compression. Clearly, Opto-2A is similarly simple to dial in, with only GAIN and PEAK REDUCTION controls needed to tweak the resultant sound, and now the authentic-sounding Synergy Core effect that is Opto-2A is available to a whole new realm of users as a paid software expansion for owners of Edge Go.
Meanwhile, MG4+ faithfully recreates the superlative sound of an acclaimed 500 Series EQ module making its presence felt sonically on hundreds of top charting records from the likes of Madonna, Snoop Dogg, and many more well-known faces of popular music. MG4+ also authentically emulates its innovative SKY BAND — but boosted by offering 10 (2.5, 3.5, 5, 7, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, and 40 kHz) settings above and beyond the original hardware’s five — to add the kind of expensive-sounding gloss and sheen typically heard on hit recordings benefitting from high-flying production teams and expensive equipment. Enhancements continue with an additional master GAIN control not present on the original hardware. However, since this six-band EQ is also notable for its highly-linear phase operation — far from easily achievable in the analogue domain, it stands to reason that MG4+ manages that, too, preserving any audio being fed through it without suffering from any phase-shifting artefacts. As such, purity and clarity combine, perfectly powered by Antelope Audio’s latency- and CPU-free Synergy Core effects processing — perfect for enthusiastic Edge Go users seeking latency-free direct monitoring with effects when recording. Helpfully, hearing an already processed voice without any distracting latency makes for faster creative decision-making, which is clearly a winner in itself.
Antelope Audio’s Adaptive Vibrato’s virtual effect development derived from closely examining some tried-and-tested circuits before incorporating those impressions into a virtual unit delivering a veritable vibrato toy box — complete with LATCH and TRIGGER MODE; RATE and DEPTH controls; five-way WAVE modulation; DELAY and RISE controls; THRESHOLD and ENDFREQ controls; plus control over the DRY/WET MIX. Antelope Audio’s appropriately-named Adaptive Vibrato is another notable new (to Edge Go) Synergy Core effect to be reckoned with!
With Space Flanger, owners of Edge Go can creatively set the following controls to apply a distinctly modern twist to a popular pioneering effect to the sound of any vocalist or instrumentalist: GAIN — adjust input volume (-12dB to +12dB); WAVE — choose between triangle and sine wave modulation; FEEDBACK — adjust the amount of output signal being fed back into the input (produces resonance); DELAY — adjust the offset between the source and delayed signal (in milliseconds); RATE — adjust the frequency of the modulating wave (perceived as a change in modulation speed); DEPTH — adjust the amplitude of the modulating wave (perceived as volume change); and MIX — blend between the DRY (unaffected) and WET (processed) signal.
Similarly, Antelope Audio’s Synergy Core-powered Vari-Speed Tremolo really represents a fresh and versatile virtual take on vintage tremolos, courtesy of its five-position WAVE selector and the addition of a VARI-SPEED RATE knob. Needless to say, by adjusting how quickly the frequency of the modulating wave varies, Vari-Speed Tremolo users — including owners of Edge Go, of course — can spice up their tremolo effects with a welcomed touch of unpredictability.
Ultimately, expecting the unexpected is often the way forward for owners of Antelope Audio’s high-end professional audio equipment. Edge Go comes complete with no fewer than 18 vintage mic emulations — including seven (Berlin K86, Berlin 47 TU, Berlin V563, Berlin/Halske MN25, Berlin M251, Minnesota 20, and Illinois 7B) new ones — embedded as realtime Synergy Core-based, CPU-free software within Edge Go’s onboard processing and also as AAX-, AU-, and VST-compatible plug-ins for post-production, together with 20 real-time effects (including Auto-Tune Synergy), so is no exception to this unwritten rule! Record or stream live with the kind of fidelity only a professional large diaphragm condenser microphone with high-end audio converters can deliver — sample rates start at 44.1kHz and go all the way up to 192kHz, with a wide and open 117dB dynamic range. Results are polished and immediate, thanks to authentic-sounding effects and presets produced by top audio pros. Powered by a macOS 10.12 Sierra- or above-running Mac (2012 or newer with available USB 2.0/USB3.0/3.1 port) or Windows 10-running PC (with available USB 2.0/USB3.0/3.1 port), Edge Go does not require 48V phantom power to function. Forget about preamps, mixers, and power supplies — simply plug it in and start recording... with various vocal-oriented effects now available as paid software expansions for this truly Synergy Core-capable creative wonder! Why not expand Edge Go’s generous capabilities, then? There is no need to break the bank in doing so.
Edge Go comes complete with all necessary cables, a rugged shock-mount, an adjustable pop filter, and a sleek desktop mount — all packed in a portable, sturdy suitcase, and available for purchase (priced at an RRP of $1,295.00 USD/€1,295.00 EUR) through Antelope Audio’s growing global network of authorised dealers (https://en.antelopeaudio.com/dealers/). Or order online directly from Antelope Audio via the dedicated Edge Go webpage (https://en.antelopeaudio.com/products/edge-go/), which also includes more in-depth information.
Opto-2A is available for Edge Go (and also Antelope Audio’s acclaimed Discrete 4 Synergy Core, Discrete 8 Synergy Core, Orion Studio Synergy Core, and Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interfaces), priced at $75.00 USD/€75.00 EUR directly from here: https://en.antelopeaudio.com/products/Opto-2A/
MG4+ is available for Edge Go (and also Antelope Audio’s acclaimed Discrete 4 Synergy Core, Discrete 8 Synergy Core, Orion Studio Synergy Core, and Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interfaces), priced at $125.00 USD/€125.00 EUR directly from here: https://en.antelopeaudio.com/products/mg4plus/
Adaptive Vibrato is available for Edge Go (and also Antelope Audio’s acclaimed Discrete 4 Synergy Core, Discrete 8 Synergy Core, Orion Studio Synergy Core, and Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interfaces), priced at $55.00 USD/€55.00 EUR directly from here: https://en.antelopeaudio.com/products/adaptive-vibrato/
Space Flanger is available for Edge Go (and also Antelope Audio’s acclaimed Discrete 4 Synergy Core, Discrete 8 Synergy Core, Orion Studio Synergy Core, and Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interfaces), priced at $55.00 USD/€55.00 EUR directly from here: https://en.antelopeaudio.com/products/space-flanger/
Vari-Speed Tremolo is available for Edge Go (and also Antelope Audio’s acclaimed Discrete 4 Synergy Core, Discrete 8 Synergy Core, Orion Studio Synergy Core, and Zen Tour Synergy Core audio interfaces), priced at $55.00 USD/€55.00 EUR directly from here: https://en.antelopeaudio.com/products/vari-speed-tremolo/