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The Blue Microphones Spark SL & ESI U22 Recording Bundle is the best place to start your home recording or streaming journey with everything you need to get up and running. Including the Blue Blackout Spark SL XLR Condenser Microphone, a solid-state condenser microphone that delivers immaculate and transparent audio quality, perfect for the modern-day streamer, podcaster, content creator and musician. Designed for premium performance, the Blackout Spark SL XLR features a transformerless output design with discrete JFET circuitry that captures everything that hits the microphone with incredible accuracy and transparency, letting you hear exactly what has been recorded.
Additionally featuring the ESI U22XT USB Audio Interface, a professional-grade 24-bit digital interface featuring a microphone preamp with +48v phantom power, a Hi-Z instrument input, headphone output and line I/O. This highly versatile interface delivers exceptional audio quality with a range of inputs and outputs at an affordable price tag. The interface features two analog input and 2 analog output channels with RCA connection plus XLR inputs for the microphone preamp. It also provides support for low latency drivers including ASIO 2.0 and CoreAudio.
Coming complete with a high-quality Boom Microphone stand, 3m Microphone XLR cable and Popshield, you can position your microphone to achieve the best recording angle in any environment and reduce any plosives in your performance to maintain a clean and consistent signal.
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The core of the Blackout Spark SL is a custom solid-state JFET design that ensures the capsules backplate is evenly charged, delivering consistent and detailed sound at all times. Combined with the discrete Class-A circuitry and transformerless output stage, the Blackout Spark SL delivers an incredibly transparent sound, meaning you hear exactly what is recorded through the microphone with no signal loss. This allows you to hear in unrivalled accuracy your sound source, letting you make more informed decisions on your microphone placement and mixing choices. For streamers and podcasters, this is the ultimate solution for bringing your listeners and viewers closer to your content, allowing them to feel like they are in the room and gaming alongside you!
The Blackout Spark SL is a cardioid mic and is designed to reject off-axis sound arriving at the back of the capsule, allowing you to have the cleanest recording possible, putting your instrument at the front of the mix. The hand-tuned capsule and custom Class-A discrete circuitry ensure optimal audio quality when it comes to recording. The response ranges from a richly present midrange with a deep bottom and smooth top end exceptional presence and clarity. The refined sonic accuracy and streamlined build ensure you capture every nuance of your source material, whether it be vocals or instruments. This will become a staple of your microphone collection, allowing you the possibility to record any instrument in a session with ease. Use it on a vocal performance for a big sound with maximum fullness and brightness, use on an electric guitar cabinet to capture the grit and energy, or even on drums for attack and definition.
This highly versatile USB audio interface features a range of expansive inputs and outputs, providing you with all the connectivity needed for recording a wide range of devices. The ESI U22XT features a microphone preamp with XLR input and +48v Phantom Power support for dynamic and condenser microphones.
This is perfect for recording studio-grade vocal tracks allowing you to utilise the 24-bit/96khZ sample rate to its full potential. There is also a Hi-Z instrument input with a 1/4'' connector allowing you to directly record guitar and bass signals via the interface. There is also a line input and output, with the input featuring an RCA connector and the output featuring a balanced 1/4'' TRS connector. There is also a headphone output with 1/4'' connector for monitoring purposes which can be controlled on the front panel.
The unit features support for a range of professional audio drivers for Window and Mac including ASIO 2.0, MME, WDM, DirectWIRE and CoreAudio. The interface is also USB bus powered which means there is no need for an external power supply, combine this with its compact and portable design and you have a highly portable interface, perfect for musicians on the move.
Additionally, the interface comes complete with inTone 2 ESI Edition from Audified and Bitwig 8-Track software to allow you to get set up and start recording out of the box.
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