Aphex Model 230 Master Voice Channel processor
The Aphex 230 Master Voice Channel processor is designed to help podcasters overcome artifacts generated through the podcasting recording, encoding, and playback process. The 230 Master voice Channel compensates for background noise and "bad room" situations via a Logic assisted noise gate. There's also a "Big Bottom" feature to add low end, a de-esser, plus a soft mute option for cutting out coughs and sniffles. All told, it's quite a tempting package for podcasters who use spare rooms,
temporary studios, or any other "non-dedicated" recording environment.
INTERVIEWER: Hello again. AES 2006 here in San Francisco. I'm here with Marvin Caesar, president of Aphex Audio, and we're here to talk about one of the new rack units that Aphex has rolled out, and this is the Aphex model 230, the Master Voice Processor. The Master Voice Processor, aimed squarely at as many users as it can be aimed at, of course, but Marvin was just talking about the specific application for broadcasters and podcasters in particular who may be working with medium quality microphone components and signal paths. Take it away.
MARVIN CAESAR: One of the biggest problems for podcasters is the playback media is very restrictive: smaller computer speakers, everything gets bit-rate reduced so you have a lot of artifacts that are present and actually get generated through the whole system. And, what the Master Voice Channel does, it actually packages the audio in a way that the destruction that is caused by the delivery system is actually minimized, and the result is a much more intelligible, much bigger sounding, much more natural sounding voice. So, what people have noticed is that they achieve that quality without having to work the microphone very closely, so that's the advantage.
INTERVIEWER: And a lot of podcasters, of course, haven't really been trained in vocal technique, microphone technique, and there's a lot of moving off axis it's called, and this unit compensates for this.
MARVIN CAESAR: Well that's absolutely true, and one of the other things is that they don't have studios that are very quiet, and so you always hear the kid crying in the background, the dog barking, and one of the most important things in this is the logic-assisted gate, which does in sound like it's working bu it very nicely attenuates the background noise, and if anybody has every used a gate before, you can hear the beginning of the word chopped off and chattering, and this doesn't do that.
INTERVIEWER: Terrific. And the model again is the 27, 2S17?
MARVIN CAESAR: No. It's the model 230.
INTERVIEWER: 230. The Model 230 from Aphex.
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