The MiCreator Range From Austrian Audio

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But what do you think just at first look at this product from Austrian Audio. Well, I would say they are reading the tea leaves as they could say, and it's just they have to have a product in this category, it's creator. The creator category is a massive category. It kind of encompasses podcasting, vlogging, you know, songwriting. It's just if you make content, you're a creator. And so this is like we're like, we are creators today because we're making a podcast. So it's this is who they're you know, they need to reach out to. It's no longer the home musician or the home studio. It's the creator. This is the category that's replacing the quote unquote home studio. And so they're entering that market. And if they're you know, they're engineering track record so far as if an any indication, because this is new and none of us have one, you know, I think they'll I think they'll nail it. They haven't really missed a beat on anything they released so far, I you know, and I think they need to be very very careful to make sure that brand stays gold. You know, it's really concerning when companies release something half half baked or just not quite up to par, even though it's at a lower price point. So obviously it's not going to be made in Austria in the same lab as BOC right. You know, that's interesting it's it's got one knob. I wonder if it's like that one thing where we couldn't figure out how to use it, is that the interface is like two buttons and everything happened. Yeah. Well, I'm looking at it closely on screen, and I don't have the software again, but it's got a three position switch on the face of the body of the mic itself, and it's got high low mute, So that needs me to believe that it's just a very simple two position gain switch. Yeah. But it talks about low latency monitoring. Yeah, so it's got some stuff going on, like as a creator as a like it talks about like low latency monitoring without you know, without any trouble. Yeah. Well, it's got a volume slash balance knob, which I would say probably is that. So it's a volume control and it's a blend control, assuming that's what Baal means, unless it could actually be when you plug into the My Creator studio you plug in the my Creator satellite to create stereo mic, maybe that switch actually doubles. Is that to get a blend between left and right? I don't know, right, don't know yet, don't know yet. I'm looking for a manual. It's it's got a nice engineering you know, industrial design, not sexy, just kind of utilitarian looking, a square ish rectangular body, and then the microphone capsule on top, which kind of has that cool retro look, you know, with a capsule is suspended inside our win you know. And it's a nice, nice looking design if it holds up to the abuse of what creators do, which is to be completely frank not take care of their gear. A lot of cases just sort of things you just chuck things in your bag and you know, and I'll talk about another one of our friends, road right, yep. One thing I love about my road wireless MIC's the little wireless mes I have, the Cheapy ones, is they're so light and so so basic that I can just kind of I mean, I stick them in a little bag and throw them in my gear bag, and they're so inconspicuous and they're so simple to operate that when I do need to use them, as long as the battery is charged, and that's important, but as long as they got to charge on them, they they're ready. They're just so easy to deploy, Like within thirty seconds I plugged into my iPhone, I launched the road the road I think they call it Capture Road Capture app. And I'm capturing my mic on my camera, the mic on my talent and both cameras the front in the rear, and I'm automatically shooting video and audio. Is that all down to three files? Does it give you them separately or how does it do it? Yeah? So it's what it's doing. And I would like to control this, but I can't. So what it does is it makes two video files and then each video file has a two track audio to go with it. So each video has both the microphones on isotracks. So what I do is when I bring in to make two videos like front and back or what I can set it up to do that. Yeah. So, like you'll see a video I'm going to release soon which is the interview of the owner of vocal Booth dot com. And I use that feature, so you'll see a video of me and him talking to each other. I'm behind it, he's in front of it, and you'll see it's just switching between the two of us. I'm using software to do this, you know, switch back and forth. And all I had to do was actually isolate the two audio tracks so I could get a better mix because I ended up having both audio tracks on both shots, so I had to kind of isolate them so you didn't have doubles, right, if that makes any sense. But you know, this reminds me of that kind of like creator's tool. Simple USBC plug and go looking at the back of the microphone. Now I'm actually finally saw the rear of it. There's a few more functions, a few more jacks, and well the plug in the satellite mic is one. Yeah, yeah, that'll be the out, and then you get to the satellite mic and then it's got an input on an output. And I'm assuming that what you do there is you get the head phone if I'm monitoring, will come from the out from the satellite. I guess yeah. I mean I look at this as Austrian audio is saying, you know, those road those road systems are cute, but we make good mics. So let's let's do the same idea. Forget it the wireless mics. This is really more for musician creators. So let's be able to have two mics but all plugged into one USB. This is a little bit of a roadcaster. I think it does. It's a little bit of a road type, yeah, because it's recording both the lavalleer mic and the close up mic. I guess the lab or the satellite mic, which looks like he records both. Yeah, the satellite mic looks like just another of the same capsule, just without the rest of the brains. It's just a little it's got a TRRS microphone cable and it goes to the to the slave. It's like a master slave. We don't use that anymore doing yes, it terms anymore, but it's kind of like there's a the primary, secondary or whatever you want to call it. M M. That's sort of interesting, interesting product. We'll try and get our hands on something at least one or two of those, just to check them out. Also, next in the next few weeks, someone is sending me sending me an ISO booth. I think you've actually you've done a demo on those sending you an ISO booth. So if they're sending it to you and it's for isolation, yeah, that already makes me concerned that it's not going to be very good at isolating. Well, you know the big thing you stick your head inside the booth? Yeah, yeah, yeah, the the ISO the gray one that makes you want to vomit once you're in there for a while. Probably we'll find out when I get it, but it's going to be shipped to me in the next week or so, so we'll rush your cheek. Yes, are we divulging who this is yet? Are we going to wait until you've used it and then you're gonna mention it? We'll wait till I've used it. I just want to check it out. Isn't it isobox isobox? Yeah, yes, Yeah, they're going to send you there their new cheaper one, the ISO box too, I think is cooled. We're going to send you ISO box two. Yeah, okay, aren't those things like eight hundred dollars? I did a video review of that how long ago? Five years ago? They're going to send you one of those. Yeah, you did the one. I think you did the Isovox one. Is that correct? I did the Isovox two five. I just had the video loaded right now on my screen. Wow. Yeah, because that's crazy. The distributor that brings in Austrian audio into Australia, I've got them. Yeah, that thing, the Isovox two is like a thousand dollars. Yeah, so just it's just going to come down for a week. I'll play with it and then we'll use it on one of the upcoming episodes and see what we think. Also an update on the passport via. I've seen a bit of correspondence flicking back with the forwards, mainly to you, George, how's it looking? Yeah, well, you know, the bottom line is I mean being I think Mike is very being, very transparent, but this is the truth is that he had a backlog of product to ship because of a part supply issue. So that really took the energy away from our product for a few months that we thought he would have been working on our product. So that means that, you know, our product is still in essentially it's in design phase. Like we we birth the we're the in visionaries, in visionaries, the vision visionaries for what we wanted, but you know, it comes down to actual circuit design and that is what it takes to get this thing really built. And so Michael is in that stage. He's in the circuit design stage. We were hoping this would have happened three months ago. It didn't because he's been trying to basically relaunch and re deliver or deliver a whole bunch of their products because of a USB chip problem. Yeah, and so they had to they had to get they had to literally redesigned the boards for four products, get them, get them back into production, get them delivered and shipped. So they've done that. So now if you do want to go buy a micport Pro three, they're actually shipping. They're no longer on pre order as they've been for quite a while, as well as the mixer face and the portcaster and things like that. So that's that's the English channel, I think is not. Yeah, and well there's another one that's the English channel, which I hear a little Birdie said that we might have something to to test out at some point. I think one is being shipped to Robbo. I know that. I'm pretty sure that's happening, so that could be interesting. The English channel is a fully analog piece, right that is not that's a amp. Is it a pre amp andy Q or just a pre amp and limits a compress a pre amp? I think it's called everything basically is a channel strip. I get a double check because you know, they also have the soapbox and there's a little bit of an overlap in terms of what does what, So I'm double checking that right now. But the English Channel, Oh well, the English Channel is he only sent one to robo, right, you didn't send him out all over the I don't know. I thought he asked for my address, but I could be wrong. Yeah, but the English Channel, and he didn't ask for mine as far as I know. Oh okay, oh mind these fighting words. The English Channel includes a studio mic pre dynamics processor with GAIT compressor and DSER and parametric EQ with sonic enhancer, and a streaming USB audio interface with SD card recorder. So it's essentially it's a little mini rack of three products. That's the English Channel. Yeah, I didn't realized English Channel. I had a recorder on it. Well it's the soapbox, the black Cab and the portcaster. Yep, only one or link together. Well yeah, all all combined in a cool little rack that they all lock into and connect together to make it feel like one product. I think it's all those together. Oh is he sending you the whole string? Holy shit? I don't know, but that would be pretty that would be pretty slamming. I was the most in testing the soapbox, because that's kind of like a dB X two eighty six. I think I think the pre amp is the most interesting one, if it's a decent external pre amp. Yeah, well, the soapboxes, the pre amp. The black CAB is a five band spectral processor EQ. It's just a it's a it's a five band. It's a three. Well, they call it a five band. Black Cab is just a three. It's a it's a I'm looking at it right now. It's a three band parametric Q gain and you must have a high shelf and a low shell. Oh yeah, yeah it does. Yeah, well no, it's got Yeah, it's got a pad that makes it five bands. Yeah. And then and then there's the uh the podcaster is the recorder side of the whole thing. Yeah, it's interesting with with centrons because I've sort of been scouting around as well, because I got an email from Michael's that sort of inspired me to go down a rabbit hole on the Google, and I found some really interesting reviews. But on mix a face that was written by sound on Sound magazine, and anyone that knows sound on sound notes that authority in that they're good. Yeah. Yeah, I mean the reproach, would you say, I would say pretty well beyond approach. Yeah, and they brave about Centron's products. So that was quite nice to read it to see. Yeah, I know that a lot of the reviews. I mean, it's probably more likely to find a pretty honest review in these traditional print magazines than I would say you're going to find on a YouTube channel these days. I mean, I know that YouTubers are being forced to divulge. You know that the product was sent to them, but that is part of the whole. Like those that want to give the most impartial reviews tend to be the ones that actually go buy the products. Yeah, right, And so it's getting increasingly difficult to find reviews of brand new products that were not gifted to the reviewer. I can tell you you that we we I I bought the mixer face really okay by Weaver? He's got to mix a face from memory as well, isn't he? Did he get? He? May? I don't recall particularly, but I think so. I think he. You know, he has always been an early adopter. Whenever something new came out that was portable, he was all over it. Yeah, so I'm sure he had one. Yeah, well, if that's the case, then I should be I should put my hand up and say I bought my OC eight one night. Yes you did. Yes, that's what started the wrong thing. It was because I just bought the thing and loved it. That was the beginning of you know, getting into bedside to speak with them, and uh, yeah, I bought my road wireless mikes. Good work. It's about the cheapest thing they made. But you know, I bought my road wireless mikes, but I didn't buy this guy, which I do like. To be honest, I think the NTG five has been quite a good mic. Yeah, I you know, now we're on a new topic. But I do really when I recommend product, I do try to divulge that I know or I have some kind of a relationship with that vendor. You know, I do try to say that if it makes sense in the context. But you know, it's just you know, it's proving your integrity. It's like unless if you don't, I mean, if you're listening to us right now honestly, and you don't know who we are. First of all, Google US, okay, and second of all, we all have worked in this industry a really long time. We have very large client bases of trusted people, and if we're gonna shill a product that was given to us by these vendors, we're going to use them. You're going to hear them, and you're going to get our God's honest thought about those products period. Like we have No, there's no reason we don't need We're not going to go out of business because we told you something didn't sound I'm good, it ain't going to happen. Like We're just going to keep right on chugging whether we like something or not. So we're always going to be very straightforward with what works and what doesn't, you know what I mean. So, but the thing is, if it's something good, you want to share that information with people. I mean, I know the Ulstring audio, particularly the Oscegate one ete, I know quite a few people have bought them on my recommendation and love them. So it's not they've bought them and just gone on great, thanks for that, just showed us in case and you haven't gotten any commission or anything for that. No, in fact, we should talk about that. Yes, indeed, no we don't. We don't. We get product, we get to use it, we get to use it in the real world. We get to do our shows with the products. You hear us using the products, we talk about them. That benefits them, the vendor or the manufacturer. That benefits us because we get to use the stuff and talk about it with authority, and it benefits hopefully you guys too, because you're going to hear us say what we like, what we don't like, and you know what works, what doesn't, and you know that kind of thing. So hopefully everybody wins and they find that there's some integrity. There's going to be people out there who say, well, you know, screw those guys. They got that thing for free. I've immediately written them off as an authority on that product or impartial reviewer. And that's fine. What are you going to do? Yeah, yeah, yeah, And we do get stuff for free, and you know, we're quite happy to disclose that, but we're not going to lie to anybody about the product just because we've got it for free. I mean, if it's free and it's junk, we'll say it's junk, you know. So yeah, but we you know, like the product of the Austrian Audio thing. When I approached them to come on as a sponsor. I was expecting a big no, but no, they were happy to listen to the podcast and we're happy to get involved. So going back, do you remember why you approach them? Quitt quite their attention to you. Well, first of all, I had been reading about these microphones coming out, and I was actually the barbecue a friend's place, and the guy who is the distributor for Austrian Audio now had told me some time ago that he said, I've got something special up my sleeve that's coming out. We're going to be distributing this new microphone. And I'd forgotten all about that, and I saw him at the barbecue and I said, oh, Mark, you know, I've seen this great new mic you know, it looks fantastic. It's called the Austrian Audio. Oh C eight one eight. He goes, mate, that's the one we're bringing in. Went, holy shit, you're kidding. It looks great. He goes, It's fantastic. And then they did a bit of a launch just when Covid had kicked off unfortunately, and I went to this function, Yeah God, and it was all the products launched exactly months before the freaking pandemic. We're trying to sell a portable product when ye traveling. But I went to this function that Group Technologies here in Australia are put on. So they had Austrian Audio down there. They had a whole bunch of other products they bring into Australia from Europe and all over the place. And I met Martin, who's the CEO of Austrian Audio. He was there just talking to people and demonstrating product and so I had a good chat with him and he was telling me about, you know, the how Austrian Audio happened and what the you know, the capsule they put into the OC eight one eight was actually from all the R and D they were doing at AKG trying to replicate the C twelve, and you know, it's all the stuff about microphones that they got from famous people just to try and get some kind of sonic signature from the C twelve that they could base their new OC eight one eight on. So that was when I first got it, and I bought one and just loved it and kind of went from there really And then so I was talking to the guys here and I said, it would be really nice if they became a sponsor. Would they be interested and it's like I talked to Walter in Austria and see what he says. So I did, and they said, yeah's the old fashion way, old fashion way. I didn't use a hand and paper to write a letter. No, but you just you had a relationship, you made a connect, you made a connection, you made a relationship, you made it. You just reached out, yep. And that's how it works. Whereas a lot of influencers are. It doesn't work that way at all. The influencers just getting inundated with emails from the marketing departments of all these different products saying we view our product please, you know. And that's not at all what happened. And now we have things work around here, partly because we're kind of in terms of the Internet of you know, personalities, we're small potatoes. We you know, we are not We do not have twenty fifty one hundred three million followers like it ain't gonna happen. So it just there's not there's not that motivation for companies to get these products into our hands like ban Drew you know, and from Podcastage and those guys, you know, Nor do we want to be in that position either those guys, it's a grind for them. I've talked to Mike DelGaudio the Booth, Chunky and other guys like them, and it's a grind for them. It's just, oh crap, I gotta get I have four more of these things to get reviewed in the next month, you know, or whatever it is. It becomes just sort of a grind. And we're not in that position either, which I'm really grateful for that. We don't have to. It's just not part of how we do things and how we make money. We just get product, we talk about it, use it, and then we just do our thing. Yeah, and we're not just a product reviewer either. I mean we're not at all brains trust. This is your first time listening to us, Go back a year or two, take a listen. That's right. Yeah, it needs more of a brains trust in a place where people been listening and just use us as a resource to get some information about anything they might want to do in their home studio. Yeah. But yeah, including buying an Austrian audio microphone. I've gotten some really good like just you know, anecdotal just in just literally a man on the street. People I meet at events, great compliments about the show. Oh that's well, that's good, just like I just you know, I really enjoy your shows that you do, podcasts, pro audio, sweet podcast. You know, it resonates with people. I am told about this show and I was shown I should have the Joseph Brando's Promo Masterclass, and three different people at lunch there were like, hey, I love that show, you know, so it's great people are hearing it. They really they really enjoy it and it resonates with them and there's some value that they're getting from the show. So well, I do know that this is quite a few dealers in Chicago that resonates with them as well. Definitely Thanks and Austrian. Audio recorded using Source Connects, edited by Andrew Peaters and mixed by Voodoo Radio Imaging. Take support from George the Techdom. 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