AUDIENT: ANOTHER IRON IN THE FIRE

27 April 2015

Not just another eight-wide rackmount preamp. Aside from the eight console mic pres and two discrete JFET instrument inputs, ASP800 also has two ‘Retro Channels’ featuring tone controls HMX and Iron. “Audient tends to be known for our super clean mic pres, but that doesn’t mean we don’t understand the importance of adding colour,” noted an Audient spokesman. HMX is a custom harmonic distortion designed to emulate the sweet, thick tones often associated with 1960s tube designs, while Audient’s brand new British transformer saturator, Iron adds sparkle, replicating the transformer ‘zing’ of the British console sound of the 1970s. Both controls add interesting new colours to the sonic palette. Key features also include 118dB Burr-Brown A/D converter, ADAT connectivity, a wordclock input, a -15dB pad per channel and balanced analogue line outputs.

More info: audient.com/products/asp800

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