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Aston Microphones Starlight

High-performance Cardioid Condenser Microphone

The Aston Starlight is the first ever laser targeting pencil microphone, allowing for recall of mic position in studio use, and incredibly quick and easy set up in live applications. This truly astonishing microphone also showcases Aston’s unique variable voice switching for sound contouring, a nearly indestructible build quality, Aston's signature sintered head, and, now famous, tumbled 100% stainless steel chassis.

Laser-alignment for placement accuracy and recording recall

The addition of a Class 2 laser to our Starlight SDC, with on/off switch, allows the user to recall mic positions in the studio so set up can be easily replicated. It also means, for touring bands, that mic positions can be marked off on drums etc, and set-up becomes a breeze. It’s a world’s first and a big leap in helping to get a consistent sound whatever the situation.

Sintered Metal Head

Innovative design helps shape acoustic response and provides almost indestructible capsule protection. Sintering is not new to the mic world, though seldom used, but Aston has taken the technology a step or 2 further than ever before. Thousands of tiny brass spheres are fused and then nickel plated to exact standards, giving a perfect acoustic response for the capsule, while filtering unwanted plosives, wind, dirt etc. Aston tested many thicknesses of sintered head, as well as the average size of the sinter spheres, and combined that with nickel plate which is controlled to only a few nanometres thickness to achieve near perfect acoustic porosity. In addition, the head is virtually indestructible, so like all Aston mics, it can take any amount of studio or even live use and will never let you down.

Voice Switching

3-position voicing switch: Vintage, Modern and hybrid settings for ultimate flexibility. Yet another remarkable step-up in technology, performance and cool features! The Starlight has 3 modes of operation, courtesy of some very fancy front-end filtering between the capsule and PCB. You can chose between Vintage, Modern and Hybrid settings to get the perfect tone response for your application… guitar cab, drums, strings, even vocals… whatever the application you’ll get a perfect fit for your music, and each setting has been carefully tuned to give superb top-flight performance, way beyond Starlight’s price point.

Chassis

1.5mm solid stainless steel laser cut and etched body. Now deeply rooted as part of Aston’s beautiful engineered looks, and rugged un-killable performance, Starlight utilises a 1.5mm solid stainless steel chassis, tumbled for up to 4 hours to achieve Aston’s signature finish. Beauty - and a beast!

Capsule – The Aston Sound

The Starlight features a gold-sputtered cardioid capsule and, just like all Aston microphones, this was hand-picked by a panel of more than 50 top producers during double blind listening tests conducted during 2016.

Discrete Mic Amp Circuit (PCB) - market leading electronic design.

Starlight employs an extremely fine-tuned discrete mic amp circuit with high-spec components, to achieve an extremely sensitive, low noise design with loads of headroom. This allows the Starlight to handle quiet or very loud sources without compromising noise or tonal performance. Crucially, the higher output level of the Starlight’s output stage allows microphone preamps to operate with lower gain, where their distortion performance is at its best. The final result is a beautifully clean and detailed sound.
The Starlight’s voicing control employs inductive active filters at the front-end of the microphone circuit to alter the response of the capsule without adding any noise to the circuit. The benefit of this means that the voicing switch is effectively the equivalent of changing the capsule to achieve different tonal characteristics and frequency response.

Main Features

- Laser-alignment sight for placement accuracy and recording recall, powered by 48V Phantom
- Sintered metal head - unique & innovative design protects capsule and provides excellent acoustic properties
- Gold-sputtered 20mm capsule, chosen in blind tests by a panel of 50 top producers
- PCB - market-leading electronic design
- 1.5mm solid stainless steel, laser-cut and etched chassis
- 3-position voicing switch: Vintage, Modern and hybrid settings
- Pad switch: -20dB/ -10dB/ 0dB
- 3-position Low-Cut Filter
- Well-designed, re-usable and recyclable packaging

CAUTION: CLASS 2 LASER DEVICE. DO NOT STARE INTO THE BEAM.

 

Additional information
  • Name
    Aston Microphones Starlight
  • Product type
    Microphone
  • Manufacturer
    Aston Microphones
  • Condition
    new
  • MPN
    AST-STAR
  • EAN
    5060458750082
  • Model
    Starlight
Shipping and Warranty

    We ship worldwide on daily basis, with DHL, DPD, FedEx and freight carrier. All in-stock items are usually shipped within 24h upon receipt of payment, mostly on the same working day. Of course, all orders are checked by our qualified personnel and professionally packaged for shipping. Express delivery options are available upon request.

    We stand behind the flawless quality and function of our products and provide you an extended warranty of 3 years for regular brand new items, as well as 2 years for B-stock or demo items and 1 year for second hand equipment.

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