Audient ASP880 8-Channel Class-A Microphone Preamp And Adc

Audient ASP880 8-Channel Class-A Microphone Preamp And Adc

The Audient ASP880 is professionally designed intended for professional recording studios, it is built capable of offering eight Class-A microphone preamplifiers from the company's consoles designed by David Dearden via XLR/TRS combo connectors as well as Burr Brown analog to digital conversion in an all-metal 1RU 19" rackmountable enclosure. It also comes featuring a pair of front panel Class-A JFET 1/4" DI instrument inputs for recording guitars, keyboards, drum machines, and more.

Each channel comes featuring a selectable +48V phantom power button, a selectable pad, a selectable polarity reverse switch, a variable high-pass filter, and a switch for inserting a signal processor between the preamplifier and A/D converter. A front-panel button is intended for giving you the ability to select and lock the sample rate of the converter at 44.1, 48, 88.2, or 96 kHz. Digital outputs are provided by rear-panel ADAT, AES, and SPDIF connections. A word-clock input is also included.

Mic Pres

Uses renowned Class-A console mic-pre design that was optimized over the course of 18 years by David Dearden

A/D Converter

Uses high-grade Burr Brown conversion

Plug and Play

Offers eight channels of mic-pre and line inputs as well as two discrete JFET DI inputs

Analog Insert

Allows you to insert signal processors between the preamplifier and the A/D converter

HPF

Allows you to selectively attenuate unwanted low frequencies

Variable Impedance

Allows you to match the preamplifier to ribbon microphones

Construction

Features all-metal construction and hand-milled aluminum knobs