The New Viennese Original

Engineered and manufactured in Austria, The OC818 is Austrian Audio’s premier, professional, large diaphragm microphone. Its high sensitivity, low self-noise and ability to handle everything from a whisper to extreme SPLs make it the most advanced microphone for studio, broadcast and live applications. As the unique ceramic capsule design is so consistent, any OC818 is match-paired with any other OC818, and when in cardioid mode, it can also be match-paired with any OC18, its affordable, smaller sibling.

Key Features

 ♦ Handmade CKR12 ceramic capsule

Made to the same critical dimensions as the classic CK12 capsules

 ♦ Multiple polar patterns

Cardioid, omnidirectional & custom programmable

 ♦ Microprocessor control of polarisation voltages

Allows remote controlled polar pattern settings

 ♦ Two different analogue high-pass filters with three settings

40 Hz, 80 Hz, 160 Hz

 ♦ Two different types of analogue pads

-10 dB, -20 dB

 ♦ Dual outputs

for recording each diaphragm separately

PolarPilot App

Our free PolarPilot app (Android and iOS) allows real-time wireless control over your analogue patterns, high-pass, and pad in realtime via Bluetooth

 • Save, recall, and share favourite settings

 • Discover and create 255 discrete polar patterns

 • One setting may be stored in OC818 for use without the PolarPilot app

 • The OC818 is always pure analogue: only the analogue bias voltages are being governed remotely

 • Switching also is always analogue

 • No digital in either the audio or bias paths. It’s everything you want, with none of what you don’t

 • 60 second OC818 clipping monitor/logger

 • Wireless control from the comfort of your chair

The Heart of the OC818

CKR12 Ceramic Capsule

Making Passion Heard

We bring passion to everything we do, and nobody brings more than our engineering team. Every CKR12 ceramic capsule is handmade in-house at our facility in Vienna and now we are developing the next generation of transducer and microphone builders to serve our expanding customer-base.

Warranty

This item is sold without the Sound Pure 3-year warranty (used / B-stock / dealer-exempt). Coverage terms for items in this category live in Terms & Conditions, Section 27.

Returns

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