Small Format Analogue Recording Console
Big sound, small footprint.
The ASP4816-HE offers everything the Standard Edition has but with a few more tricks up its sleeve in the form of Vintage Mix Bus Processing, John Hardy Op Amps on the mix bus output, powerful new additions to the mix bus compressor and so much more.
The Heritage Edition is an in-line, fully analogue recording and mixing console providing everything you’d expect from a large format recording console but in a space-friendly footprint. Designed from the ground up by David Dearden and featuring his legendary analog circuitry, the ASP4816-HE is the perfect centrepiece for production studios.
16 x Audient Console
Mic Preamps
48
Inputs
4 Band
Splittable EQ
Mix Bus
Compressor
Vintage Mix
Bus Processing
Inline
Architecture
Audient Console Mic Pres
The professional sound you deserve
Designed to deliver ultra-low noise and low distortion with a touch of classic analogue warmth, ASP4816-HE’s 16 discrete hybrid Class-A preamps are ready to handle any microphone, instrument or source you can throw at it.
With a flexible topology offering up to 60dB of gain and an incredibly wide bandwidth ensuring your transient detail is accurately preserved in stunning resolution, the Audient preamp gives you a versatile and flexible solution ready for any session.
How does it sound?
The Audient mic pre is a high grade hybrid discrete and op amp design that delivers a clean, accurate and detailed translation of your source.
Now that’s quiet
With a noise floor 30,000 times quieter than the signal level your recordings will be captured with stunning clarity.
VCA Bus Compressor
Bring it all together
Often likened to classic analogue boards from the 80s, the Audient mix bus compressor does far more than just control levels, it adds weight, depth and warmth to your mix as well as helping to glue your production together for a more polished result.
Featuring adjustable ratio control, auto-release settings, a VU gain reduction meter for better visual feedback and the much coveted sidechained high pass filter Bass Expand – designed to let you tighten up your mixes and add punch without compromising your low end.
Vintage Mix Bus Processing
Classic analogue sound
Add colour and shape your mixes with the Vintage Mix Bus Processor. A discrete transformer drive produces a weighty, harmonically exciting and ever-so-slightly gritty sound, letting you add character to your mixes. Whilst a Low Bump and High Lift EQ let you shape the response of the console to the style of music you are working on.
The mix bus summing amplifiers have been significantly upgraded to the renowned American John Hardy 990 discrete transistor amplifiers, the “American Muscle Car” of opamp design. Offering increased dynamics, sweet spot and punch, as well as reducing the noise of the console – ensuring your mix bus benefits from total clarity with a little bit of character.
The console you’ve always wanted.
4-Band Audient EQ
Powerful, musical, splittable
The massively flexible Dearden designed EQ offers two fully parametric bands that span from 40Hz to 20kHz, are adjustable from -15db to + 15dB and offer an adjustable Q control. These are flanked by low and high shelving EQ bands with the ability to engage the ‘Air’ button for that often needed finishing sheen.
Splittable EQ
The EQ can also be split across both the short and long faders, meaning you can EQ both your mic inputs and DAW returns at the same time, making it incredibly easy to start building your mix from the moment you start recording.
I/O
Make a connection
The ASP4816-HE features an astounding amount of connectivity for such a compact frame size. With 48 channels, over 40 insert points, 8 sends and 8 groups available on mixdown the ASP4816-HE will handle the most comprehensive of mixing and tracking tasks.
Your workflow, your way
And with so many sends, buses and inserts available, when partnered with a suitable patchbay the ASP4816-HE offers an incredible number of routing options for creative bouncing, summing and parallel processing all with none of the problematic phase and latency issues that digital systems can have.
Workflow
Flexible Routing
The ASP4816-HE makes signal flow a breeze with flexible routing, one knob per function, no menus or hidden features and no need to worry about latency – making working on the console fast, intuitive and most importantly, fun!
In-line Architecture
The console’s in-line architecture will let you start building your mix as you’re tracking. By using the long and short faders you can create separate record and monitor paths on one channel strip, all while being able access the consoles splittable EQ and aux sends, ideal for getting it right from the start.
Monitoring Control
All within an arm’s reach
A fully featured monitor control section offers full artist communication, foot-switch enabled talkback control, solo in front, powerful source selection and loud speaker control with a short passive signal path for incredibly clear and accurate monitoring. The Heritage Edition also benefits from a monitoring grade headphone output solely for the engineer.
4 x Stereo Monitor Outputs
1 x Headphone Output
Main Mix + 3 x Stereo Sources
2 x Foldback Outputs
Mono Summing
Talkback Functionality
Footprint
Bigger isn’t always better
At around 1m x 1m, the ASP4816-HE utilises clever circuit board design to provide you with the versatility and sound of a large format recording console but in a beautiful, space-conscious package. Making it the ideal analogue console solution for even the smallest of studios.
3 Year Limited Warranty
All of our products come with a three-year limited warranty guaranteeing you further protection and peace of mind when you choose Audient.
Low Power Consumption
No external power source
Plugging directly into the mains without the need for a noisy external power source makes the ASP4816-HE one of the most efficient and quiet small format recording consoles on the market.
The Design
A real head turner
Redesigned from the ground up to not only look amazing at the core of your studio, but to make navigating around the console easier than ever. With a new colourway, all-new cool-white metering, easy to read labelling and a UK handmade wooden armrest, the ASP4816-HE not only looks premium but feels it too.
Free software
Bundled with a free suite of creative software including Cubase LE and Cubasis LE for iOS, alongside industry leading plugins and virtual instruments, you can start recording as soon as you open the box.
Small Format Analogue
Recording Console
Big sound,
small footprint.
The ASP4816-HE offers everything the Standard Edition has, but with a few more tricks up its sleeve. Vintage Mix Bus Processing, John Hardy Op Amps on the mix bus output, powerful new additions to the mix bus compressor and so much more.
The Heritage Edition is an in-line, fully analogue recording and mixing console providing everything you’d expect from a large format recording console but in a space-friendly footprint. Designed from the ground up by David Dearden and featuring his legendary analog circuitry, the ASP4816-HE is the perfect centrepiece for production studios.
Audient Console Mic Preamps
The professional sound you deserve
Designed to deliver ultra-low noise and low distortion with a touch of classic analogue warmth, ASP4816-HE’s 16 discrete hybrid Class-A preamps are ready to handle any microphone, instrument or source you can throw at it.
With a flexible topology offering up to 60dB of gain and an incredibly wide bandwidth ensuring your transient detail is accurately preserved in stunning resolution, the Audient preamp gives you a versatile and flexible solution ready for any session
How does it sound?
With a flexible topology offering up to 60dB of gain and an incredibly wide bandwidth ensuring your transient detail is accurately preserved in stunning resolution, the Audient preamp gives you a versatile and flexible solution ready for any session.
Now that’s quiet
With a noise floor 30,000 times quieter than the signal level your recordings will be captured with stunning clarity.
VCA Bus Compressor
Bring it all together
Often likened to classic analogue boards from the 80s, the Audient mix bus compressor does far more than just control levels, it adds weight, depth and warmth to your mix as well as helping to glue your production together for a more polished result.
Vintage Mix Bus Processing
Classic analogue sound
Add colour and shape your mixes with the Vintage mix bus processor. A discrete transformer drive produces a weighty, harmonically exciting and ever-so-slightly gritty sound, letting you add character to your mixes. Whilst a Low Bump and High Lift EQ let you shape the response of the console to the style of music you are working on.
The mix bus summing amplifiers have been significantly upgraded to the renowned American John Hardy 990 discrete transistor amplifiers, the “American Muscle Car” of opamp design. Offering increased dynamics, sweet spot and punch, as well as reducing the noise of the console – ensuring your mix bus benefits from total clarity with a little bit of character.
The console you’ve always wanted
4-Band Audient EQ
Powerful, musical, splittable
The massively flexible Dearden designed EQ offers two fully parametric bands that span from 40Hz to 20kHz, are adjustable from -15db to + 15dB and offer an adjustable Q control. These are flanked by low and high shelving EQ bands with the ability to engage the ‘Air’ button for that often needed finishing sheen.
Splittable EQ
The EQ can also be split across both the short and long faders, meaning you can EQ both your mic inputs and DAW returns at the same time, making it incredibly easy to start building your mix from the moment you start recording.
I/O
Make a connection
The ASP4816-HE features an astounding amount of connectivity for such a compact frame size. With 48 channels, over 40 insert ponts, 8 sends and 8 groups available on mixdown the ASP4816-HE will handle the most comprehensive of mixing and tracking tasks.
And with so many sends, buses and inserts available, when partnered with a suitable patchbay the ASP4816-HE offers an incredible number of routing options for creative bouncing, summing and parallel processing all with none of the problematic phase and latency issues that digital systems can have.
Workflow
Flexible Routing
The ASP4816-HE makes signal flow a breeze with flexible routing, one knob per function, no menus or hidden features and no need to worry about latency – making working on the console fast, intuitive and most importantly, fun!
In-line Architecture
The console’s in-line architecture will let you start building your mix as you’re tracking. By using the long and short faders you can create separate record and monitor paths on one channel strip, all while being able access the consoles splittable EQ and aux sends, ideal for getting it right from the start.
Monitoring Control
All within an
arm’s reach
A fully featured monitor control section offers full artist communication, foot-switch enabled talkback control, solo in front, powerful source selection and loud speaker control with a short passive signal path for incredibly clear and accurate monitoring. The Heritage Edition also benefits from a monitoring grade headphone output solely for the engineer.
4 x Stereo
Monitor
Outputs
1 x Headphone
Output
Mono
Summing
Main Mix +
3 x Stereo
Sources
Talkback
Functionality
2 x Foldback
Ouputs
Footprint
Bigger isn’t always better
At around 1m x 1m, the ASP4816-HE utilises clever circuit board design to provide you with the versatility and sound of a large format recording console but in a beautiful, space-conscious package. Making it the ideal analogue console solution for even the smallest of studios.
Low Power Consumption
No external power source
Plugging directly into the mains without the need for a noisy external power source makes the ASP4816-HE one of the most efficient and quiet small format recording consoles on the market.
All of our products come with a three-year limited warranty guaranteeing you further protection and peace of mind when you choose Audient.
The Design
A real head-turner
Redesigned from the ground up to not only look amazing at the core of your studio, but to make navigating around the console easier than ever. With a new colourway, all-new cool-white metering, easy to read labelling and a UK handmade wooden armrest, the ASP4816-HE not only looks premium but feels it too.
Create instantly
Bundled with a free suite of creative software including Cubase LE and Cubasis LE for iOS, alongside industry leading plugins and virtual instruments, you can start recording as soon as you open the box.
