Aston Stealth Broadcast pairs the Stealth microphone with the purpose-designed Stealth Side Mount

The addition of this articulating mounting system means the TEC Award-winning mic, already a favourite in the studio, is set to be a fixture for all broadcast applications, including podcasting, video production and serious gaming.

Stealth’s four switchable voices allow you to change sounds in situ, without changing mics. And each voice has a discrete signal path, no modelling or EQ trickery, think ‘ four world-class mics in one’. And it operates in either passive or active mode, with a built-in Class A pre amp delivering 40dB clean boost – no need for an additional costly gain lifting device. The pre amp automatically activates when 48v phantom power is detected.

The chassis is designed to provide exceptional off-axis rejection, while ingenious internal shock absorption reduces handling and vibration noise. Add Aston’s legendary build-quality and you have a true beast of a microphone.

Stealth was developed in partnership with 92 top engineers, producers and artists (known as the ‘Aston 33’ after the founding members) who participated in a series of blind listening tests to decide the best possible sounds. The resulting four voice settings, Vocal 1, Vocal 2, Guitar and Dark, offer a range of superlative sounds to suit pretty much any application.'

The Aston Sound

Right from the start of ‘project Aston’, we engaged with some of the top audio professionals in the industry to create a development panel to be our ears, while we focussed on perfecting every tiny detail in our mics, to finally produce what we believe to be the very best products in their class.

Four settings, four different voices

Think of Stealth as four professional microphones in one. Each setting has been voiced by a panel of more than 90 top flight audio engineers and producers on the Aston 33 panel through a series of double-blind listening tests, beating not only every mic in its class, but some far more expensive ‘industry standard’ mics.

There are 2 vocal settings, optimised for different vocal tones, a guitar setting which is equally suited to Spanish guitar, Electric guitar cab and steel string acoustic, and a dark, vintage setting, reminiscent of classic ribbon mics.

Mics which apply ‘flattering’ - but destructive - pre EQ make professional post-processing almost impossible. Stealth, however, provides a choice of four pure, high quality signal paths. The voice settings are not EQ filters, they are contour networks, meaning the bulk of the signal does not pass through any sort of filter circuitry. The whole signal is slightly attenuated, with some frequencies being added back in at a higher level. This results in much lower phase distortion than conventional filter designs.

Active & Passive modes with 48V Autodetect function