Introducing Blackstar’s POLAR audio interfaces, designed specifically for anyone who records guitar. Market research shows that most people who use an audio interface to record music at home record guitar.
Blackstar conducted extensive Human Centred Design (HCD) which identified three main challenges people experience when recording guitar directly through an interface: poor feel / response, difficulty setting input levels without clipping and hard to use.
The POLAR interfaces overcome all these challenges making them the ultimate solution for anyone who records guitar.
Features
- 4 channel audio interfaces designed for guitarists.
- High-headroom FET input stage that improves tone and quality of signal and accommodates for wide range of instrument types, effect pedals and microphones.
- ‘Enhance’ feature that introduces electronics into the signal path that replicate the sound of a classic guitar amplifier.
- ‘Enhance’ completely prevents digital clipping for instrument inputs. Drive this interface like it’s a real amp and be free of the fuss of setting the ‘correct’ levels.
- ‘Enhance’ on the microphone or LINE inputs gives natural clarity and air to vocal and acoustic guitar performances.
- The ‘Enhance’ feature negates the need for extra hardware and expensive DI’s to capture high quality guitar signal. It’s all built into POLAR.
- Comes with the St. James Suite, Ableton Live Lite, ReLab LX480 Essentials Reverb, Melodyne Essential and more*.
- High power headphone outputs and monitor output, with independent monitor and headphone control.
- Mic preamp based off of the most renowned vintage studio preamps.
- Comes with POLAR Control mixing software, giving the control to adjust and fine-tune the levels, panning and routing of your monitoring.
- Runs on USB 2.0 bus power, with 48V switch for microphones that require phantom power.
- POLAR 4 also adds MIDI capability and dual headphone outputs
