Austrian Audio OC818 Live Set Large-Diaphragm Multi-Polar Patterns Microphone

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.

The OC818 Mic System Revolutionising your Workflow

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

PolarDesigner
•Design the polar pattern of your dreams• Craft different polar pattern responses across 1-5 crossover bands
• Store, recall, and share presets
• Powerful terminator AI for eliminating or rescuing selected frequencies and instruments
• EQ control for imprinting the tonality of free-field or diffuse-field idealised responses
• Solo/mute each band
• Full automation
• Phase linear
• Optimised for use with the OC818 in Dual Output mode, however works with any dual output source
• Ideal for busy sessions: tune instrument pickup during the mix stage
• Formats: VST3, AAX, AU (OSX 64 Bit / Windows 32 & 64 Bit)
• Mac requirements: OSX 10.7 or later
• Windows requirements: Windows 7 or later

AmbiCreator
• Create an ambisonic B-format signal with two OC818 microphones

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.