Audient MICO
2 Channel Microphone Preamp

Mico is a compact, feature packed twin microphone preamplifier with built-in ultra-high quality analogue digital conversion, making it an ideal front-end for desk-top users.

Bypass your interface’s mic pres and converters and bring world class recordings to your desk top. Mico is a compact, feature packed twin microphone preamplifier with built-in ultra-high quality analogue digital conversion, making it an ideal front-end for desk-top users. The front-end design is Audient's renowned discrete Class A design, also used in the ASP008 and the ASP8024 mixing console - guaranteeing outstanding sonic accuracy and detail.

Vintage character and precise phase alignment at your fingertips. Mico features one channel of the unique HMX harmonic sculpting making the creation of vintage style character and complexity as simple as turning one knob. For recording a single source with twin mics or mic+DI, the Variphase control on Mico's second channel allows precise phase alignment (or creative misalignment) of the two signal paths.

Features:

• Twin ASP008 discrete Class A Mic Pres
• Rear panel Mic/Line inputs on Combi XLR/Jack
• Rear panel line output on XLR
• Switchable Hi-Pass filters - 40Hz, 80Hz, 120Hz
• Phase invert
• Switchable 48V phantom
• -20dB Pad
• 18 to 66dB gain continuously variable

Specifications:

• Channel One:
    -  Front panel DI input - 500kOhms
    -  HMX Harmonic sculpting function
• Channel Two:
    -  Variphase - phase shift between 0-180°
• Analogue to Digital Conversion:
    -  Ultra-high performance 24 bit 44.1/48/96kHz low-jitter internal clock
    -  44.1 to 192kHz using external word clock
    -  AES/EBU, S/PDIF Coaxial and TOSLINK outputs
    -  Word Clock input on BNC
    -  Switchable Word Clock termination