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First Look: Aphex Microphone X USB Mic & IN2 Audio Interface (Hands On)

2013-01-29
hey guys welcome to techyv tomorrow I am Elric now here I'm at the FX booth and earlier I talked to a guy named Jim about two of their latest products this is the into and the microphone X now let's jump over and talk to Jim and see what these products are all about okay so the end two as a desktop recording interface 4x4 interface two analog channels two digital channels via s/pdif the analogue side has two Class A microphone preamps to optical compressors phantom power instrument inputs and XLR inputs for your microphones on the back so when you combine the class-a Mike grease the optical compression the head pod for class headphone amplification you're really getting three or four products in one so what class a slider class a Mike breeze head pod for headphone amplifier head five bars up for a deck award tonight know who's going to be average street price for these things for music about 500 bucks monitor bucks yeah that's pretty nifty now this pot it can hook up by what different ways here on the back here connects to your computer via a USB there's MIDI ports on the back for your legacy keyboards or whatnot analog outputs to your monitors s/pdif digital i/o and they'll say your microphone inputs now this will work with any type of audio interface as well I think if you like going and you're trying to use like any of the Apple software is to be seamlessly integrated into using it yeah absolutely Mac Windows Pro Tools logic performer or whatever anything just yeah on the go yeah and then we got another product up here this is the microphone X microphone X you guys to the side here so Jim what's the big thing about the microphone X is it but you know it friends with Wolverine from x-men or what it could be but I can't talk about that good secret this is a USB microphone with Apex analog processing up front so before you even get to the conversion you've got an apex optical compressor and an apex big bottom and an apex exciter so you get an optimal signal compressed totally enhanced before you even get to the conversion and then the conversion is 20 up to 24 96 yes it's pretty much like a microphone only high res totally effects already built in yes a wide and high-end south near both exactly exactly and right the end to works with whatever software you you have Mac or PC doesn't matter all these products currently available on the market as we speak are they coming out the mic will be coming out in May the into will be coming out in June and what will be the price in the microphone next when it comes up about 300 bucks 300 bucks yeah all right well there you have it folks with lots of great new products the people at a fix thanks to Jim here for showing us and we'll see you guys back on here on tech up tomorrow thanks a lot Jim thanks have a great show
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