You’ve likely invested heavily in the best gaming equipment to make sure your games never lag or freeze during a crucial moment, don’t overlook your sound system. And it doesn’t have to be expensive. But your microphone matters.
Whether you’re a Twitch legend with thousands of viewers or connecting with others while battling it out in Call of Duty: Vanguard, you don’t want your words to be distorted by a gaming headset with an average microphone.
Enter the AKG Ara, a two-pattern USB-C condenser microphone built for streaming, recording, or capturing audio at a 24-bit, 96kHz resolution for crystal-clear speech clarity and stunning vocal and instrument tracks, with the ability to handle up to 120 dB max SPL. Gamers will experience a level of sonic depth beyond anything headsets can deliver. It’s exactly the type of technology gamers and streamers will want to have on hand to connect to their opponents, teammates, and followers.
Perhaps even more appealing? The $99 price tag delivers pro-level results at a fraction, making this compact mic enticing for novices gamers and esports professionals alike. AKG mics are the go-to classics in studios and stages around the world, and now, they’re fully accessible to podcasters, vloggers, gamers, and musicians looking for superior, high fidelity sound from the convenience and ease of USB connectivity to their personal devices.
ARA is built with dual pickup patterns that let you focus on a single voice or instrument… or every voice in the room. Easily switch between patterns to suit your needs: The directional Front (cardioid) pattern can focus on sound directly in front of the mic while rejecting sound from other sides, or use the Front + Back (omni) pattern to pick up sounds all around the mic, such as recording interviews with multiple speakers or a band performing as a group.
Monitor sound in real-time with the 3.5mm stereo headphone jack for zero-latency monitoring. With a set of headphones (choose your favorites) you can hear exactly what the mic is picking up and connect to your computer to add backing tracks to mix in the live sound, which is great for musicians or vocalists.
The Ara has a modern, contemporary design with a compact, durable metal body that can be taken and plugged in essentially anywhere. It has wide compatibility with MAC and Windows computers, Gaming consoles, Android and iOS devices via USB. It has easily accessible front-of-mic controls like headphone volume control, microphone mute with LED indicator and a pattern selector that puts you in easy control of the sound.
The Ara is extremely portable and compact. It comes with an integrated desktop base stand, which can be unscrewed and attached to a standard microphone stand or desktop boom arm.
Finally, better sound and quality recordings are nothing without how they are eventually mixed together, the Ara comes with a free subscription to Ableton Live 11 Lite, software that helps artists and sound mixers compose, record, arrange, mix, and master for unlimited creativity in adding in effects, instruments and creating new sounds.
