The Audioarts Voice 1 provides peak vocal performance across the entire vocal range with high-performance downward expander, adaptable de-esser, and smooth sounding broadband compressor to create a powerful and authoritative presence on-air. This voice processor has it all at a value price, including WheatNet IP and AES67 connectivity, remote control, password protection and real time clock and presets—complete with scheduler.
Voice 1 features Super Quiet ™ mic preamps followed by symmetrical voice correction, optimized high-frequency EQ, targeted filtering, and the latest in proven psychoacoustical algorithm technology for a warm, yet robust vocal presence.
With noise figures within 1dB of the theoretical minimum, Wheatstone mic processors have a fairly high input impedance, high available gain and substantial headroom. The gain setting is digitally recallable, and can follow changes in presets. 48V phantom power (for most condenser microphones and a small handful of active ribbon microphones) is selectable.
As an example, Voice 1 has 32dB of input headroom, which is comparable to the best recording consoles — meaning one has to try very hard to break it!
The Voice 1 gate’s sidechain is filtered to voice frequencies, radically reducing false triggering with those attendant annoying bursts of noise. In particular, table and microphone ‘bumps’ won’t wake up the gate. Fine control over attenuation depth, threshold, and closing time affords transparent operation.
Rather than just a button, there is full control over the de-esser’s threshold (where it decides how much ‘ess’ is enough), the center frequency, and recovery time. Not so obvious is that the Voice 1 de-esser attenuates only the frequency range sensed, unlike the wholesale broadband attenuation of many other units. This makes its action much less obvious.
The shelving sections are a mathematically exact emulation of a classic (1950s) Baxandall tone-control circuit, but with modern twists. The turnover frequencies are continuously variable, allowing fine-tuning of proximity-effect reduction at the low-frequency end, and choice of ‘air’ EQ (extreme high frequencies) or far more aggressive ‘presence’ EQ (high mids) — or anything in between. This is a highly versatile combination. Two fully parametric sections permit more surgical sonic control; although operationally identical to others, these circuits are more complex than standard ‘cookbook’ parametric sections, with the intention of offering EQ that does what one would expect equalization to do, rather than baldly perform as normal. The key to the equalizer overall is that through carefully chosen defaults, ‘shapes’, and sonic characteristics, things just fall to hand nicely to accomplish what the operator wants with minimum effort, rather than making him fight for it.
In Voice 1, the A/D converter and all the processing runs at 96kHz. This is done for three reasons, none of which involve extended bandwidth:
For the ideal sound, no adjustment is more than two mouse clicks away. And unlike other processors, every processing control is available and labeled for exactly what it does, giving you the ultimate power to create your ideal sound.
The Voice 1 remote control screen includes real-time displays of gain reduction as well as a frequency-domain graph that shows the spectral characteristics of your audio. Every screen also includes accurate metering of input and output peak and average levels. Tabs across the top of the GUI software allow immediate access to each section of the processing.
You have control over parametric EQ, de-esser, filters, compressor, and downward expander. There are also high and low pass filters and an overall output limiter (so you are ready if a screamer steps behind the mic). Voice 1 Control Software is password protected and runs on an external PC as well as from the front panel OLED display and can be controlled remotely from anywhere there is an internet connection.
If you have a Wheatstone, Audioarts, or VoxPro product, you’re an important member of the Wheatstone family and we want to hear from you, whether you have questions or need technical support, we are here for you.
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Company
600 Industrial Dr.
New Bern, NC 28562 USA
Main office +1 (252) 638-7000
Fax main office +1 (252) 637-1285
We are open Monday through Friday,
9:00 AM to 5:30 PM EST