ASP880 becomes first Audient launch since acquisition

UK-based manufacturer Audient has unveiled its first new product since the company was acquired by Simon Blackwood at the end of 2013. Named the ASP880, the eight channel microphone preamplifier and ADC has captured the attention of DAW users with the manufacturer promising to turn home-recorded sessions into ‘world class recordings’.

Boasting eight of the manufacturer’s console mic pres, the 1U ASP880 also offers newly designed Burr Brown AD converter technology, variable input impedance and variable high pass filters plus eight insert points between the microphone preamps and the converters. Two channels of Class-A JFET DI instrument inputs are onboard plus digital outputs comprising ADAT, AES and S/PDIF.

According to Audient chief technology officer Tom Waterman, the unit is ‘the perfect front end to any DAW system’.

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