Aston Microphones Starlight Small Diaphragm Condenser Microphone - Single

Aston Microphones Starlight Small Diaphragm Condenser Microphone Overview: The Aston Starlight is the first ever laser targeting pencil microphone, allowing for recall of mic position in studio use, and incredibly quick and easy set up in live applications This truly astonishing microphone also showcases Aston’s unique variable voice switching for sound contouring, a nearly indestructible build quality, our signature sintered head, and Aston’s, now famous, tumbled 100% stainless steel chassis.

The Starlight features a 20mm cardioid capsule hand-picked by a panel of more than 50 top producers in double blind listening tests conducted during 2016 Features: Laser The addition of a Class 2 laser to our Starlight SDC, with on/off switch, allows the user to recall mic positions in the studio so set up can be easily replicated.

It also means, for touring bands, that mic positions can be marked off on drums etc, and set-up becomes a breeze It’s a world’s first and a big leap in helping to get a consistent sound whatever the situation.

Sintered Metal Head Sintering is not new to the mic world, though seldom used… but we’ve taken the technology a step or 2 further than ever before We tested many thicknesses of sintered head, as well as the average size of the sinter spheres, and combined that with nickel plate which is controlled to only a few nanometres thickness to achieve near perfect acoustic porosity.

In addition the head is virtually indestructible, so like all Aston mics, it can take any amount of studio or even live use and will never let you down Voice Switching Yet another remarkable step-up in technology, performance and cool features! The Starlight has 3 modes of operation, courtesy of some very fancy front-end filtering between the capsule and PCB.

You can chose between Vintage, Modern and Hybrid settings to get the perfect tone response for your application… guitar cab, drums, strings, even vocals… whatever the application you’ll get a perfect fit for your music, and each setting has been carefully tuned to give superb top-flight performance, way beyond Starlight’s price point Chassis Now deeply rooted as part of Aston’s beautiful engineered looks, and rugged un-killable performance, Starlight utilises a 1.5mm solid stainless steel chassis, tumbled for up to 4 hours to achieve our signature finish.

Beauty, and a beast! Discrete Mic Amp Circuit (PCB) Starlight employs an extremely fine-tuned discrete mic amp circuit with high-spec components, to achieve an extremely sensitive, low noise design with loads of headroom This allows the Starlight to handle quiet or very loud sources without compromising noise or tonal performance.

Crucially, the higher output level of the Starlight’s output stage allows microphone preamps to operate with lower gain, where their distortion performance is at its best The final result is a beautifully clean and detailed sound.

The Starlight’s voicing control employs inductive active filters at the front-end of the microphone circuit to alter the response of the capsule without adding any noise to the circuit The benefit of this means that the voicing switch is effectively the equivalent of changing the capsule to achieve different tonal characteristics and frequency response.

Eco-Friendly Packaging We have put our hearts and minds into creating the most beautiful performance pieces possible with each Aston product When it comes to packaging we believe simplicity is king.

Protective, re-useable, environmentally sensible packaging that doesn’t cost the earth Specifications: Transducer Type: Capacitor Acoustic Operating Principle: Pressure Gradient Directional Polar Pattern: Cardioid Frequency Response: 20Hz – 20kHz (+/- 10dB) Equivalent Noise Level: 15dB A-Weighted Sensitivity at 1kHz into 1kohm: 42.1mV/Pa Maximum SPL for THD 0.5%: 130dB/ 140dB/ 150dB Signal-to-Noise Ratio (rel.

94dB SPL): 79dB A-Weighted Pad Switch: -20dB/-10dB/0dB Low-Cut Filters: 80Hz, 140Hz Power: 48 Volt Phantom power (+/- 4 Volts) is required for operation Made in China.This product is non-returnable under all circumstances. However, it is fully covered under the manufacturer's standard warranty plan for a period of one (1) year from the date of purchase.

All product-related issues — including transit damage, manufacturing defects, or product malfunction will be handled through BAJAAO and will be resolved under the manufacturer's standard warranty policy.