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    AUDIENT iD44

    Apr 04, 2019 6 minutes

    £499

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    Audient’s designer David Dearden has been in the console business since the 1980s and co-founded Audient a couple of decades ago to focus on big analogue consoles, while the rest of the market went digital crazy. As such, many Audient consoles have found their way into prestigious studios and have quickly gained a reputation for providing a rich, yet true sound. I’m not really here to talk consoles, as we’re looking at the company’s new iD44 interface, but I mention them as both interfaces and consoles are linked.

    One of Dearden’s developments was the ASP8024 preamp, which helped give his desks their rich sound. This is now used in all Audient interfaces as the input mic pre, so you get a quality console sound at the fraction of the cost, within a channel-strip-and-interface combo.

    All models in the iD range use these preamps and we’ve looked at several, including the iD14 and iD22. The new iD44

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