When the former AKG designers founded their own company, Austrian Audio, in the summer of 2017, they set themselves the ambitious goal of bringing cutting-edge audio technology back to the Austrian capital Vienna. The dual-capsule Austrian Audio OC818 is a highly sensitive, low-resolution condenser microphone with a freely selectable directional pattern.
The unique ceramic CKR12 capsule of the large-diaphragm OC818 microphone is based on the best measured specimens of the legendary AKG CK12 capsule, familiar from both the tube microphone C12 and the newer C414 models. All Austrian Audio OC18 and OC818 microphones have the same one-decibel resolution, so they can be used in stereo pairs and grouped together. The microphones are fully analogue in signal path.
The real novelty, however, is the remote control of the two-capsule OC818 microphone, and the use of the single-capsule OC18 model in various combinations with it. The Polarpilot and PolarDesigner apps, as well as the OCR8 Bluetooth controller, allow the microphones to be tailored to the specific needs and space in a completely new way, with PolarDesigner and the OCR818 microphone even allowing the final directional pattern to be finalised in the final mix.
Features:
- Freely adjustable orientation pattern: sphere, heart, hyperheart, figure of eight
- Impedance: 2 x 275 Ohms
- Frequency range: 20 - 20 000 Hz
- Sensitivity: 13 mV/Pa
- Max SPL: 148 dB SPL (158 dB SPL w/ pad)
- Pad switch: -10 dB, -20 dB
- Operating voltage: 48V phantom
- Microprocessor-controlled and stabilized bias voltages
- Two different analogue high-pass filters with three different cut-off frequencies (40 Hz, 80 Hz, 160 Hz)
- Two different analog attenuation levels
- 1 decibel accuracy compatible with other OC18 and OC818 microphones
- Connector: 3-pin XLR
- Dimensions: 157 x 63 x 35 mm
- Weight: 335 g
- Set includes flexible shock mount, microphone clip, windscreen, mini XLR adapter and case
- Large diaphragm condenser microphone
- Directional pattern: Freely adjustable
- Factory calibrated bias voltage
- Two different types of high-pass filters
