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The iCON Pro Audio, a professional-grade musical equipment provider has announced the availability of its LivePod Plus Live Streaming Audio Processing Interface. It is the world’s first smartphone-sized micro studio for live streaming and recording device.
The new device is very compact, bringing real-time vocal processing and sound effects at the touch of a button, easy-to-use. The iCON Pro Audio’s LivePod Plus Live Streaming Audio Processing Interface literally fits into the palm of its user’s hand while letting them change effects at the touch of a button. It has a custom DSP (Digital Signal Processor) with four 24-bit DSP (Digital Signal Processing) cores and a 16-bit CPU (Central Processing Unit) unleashing advanced digital voice parallel operational processing.
It has color-coded, backlit buttons, there is instant access to eight DSP-derived presets perfectly suitable for singing and speaking in a variety of styles such as the self-explanatory (blue backlit) POP, Karaoke, MC, Live, Bypass, Pitch, Hi Tone, and Lo Tone, along with echo adjustment available on select presets. The three green-colored backlit buttons positioned above allow Hi (high), Mid, and Low adjustable tone effects to dial in the desired sound, while the adjacent Vocal Tune orange-colored backlit button automatically shifts vocal pitch to tune it accordingly (with a stick-on ‘template’ to assist).
Elsewhere, eight built-in samples — Fun, Laugh, LOL (laugh out loud), Siren, Thrill, Air-horn, Clap, and Slap, as indicated by the associated emojis on their respective light blue backlit buttons. Continuing in a downward direction, the red-colored row of backlit buttons below those quick-fire sample triggers include Dry Wet — sending a signal to the main output without and with effects, respectively — alongside Loop Back and Voice Over controls, the latter ducking audio when background music is present. Further front facia-sited features include eight-LED (Light Emitting Diode) mic gain level metering and eight-LED line in gain level metering (for the topside-sited 3.5mm stereo line input socket, labelled BGM IN — indicating background music input), while a four-colour LED indicates battery level — clearly crucial for any portable device, hand-held or otherwise.
The micro studio device is also available as part of the LivePod Plus Live Stream Toolkit (bundled with iCON Pro Audio’s C1 condenser microphone, MB-02 tabletop microphone stand, Scan-7 in-ear monitoring headphones, two tabletop LivePod Plus/smartphone stands, and all necessary cables).
Price and availability
The iCON Pro Audio’s LivePod Plus Live Streaming Audio Processing Interface is now available through the Bhphotovideo.com, priced at $229.99, and the Live Stream Toolkit cost $349.99.
Icon Pro Audio has also introduced the Duo44 Live 4×4 Livestream USB Audio/MIDI Interface for $169.99 is now also available to buy via the Bhphotovideo.com website.
Back in April this year, the Blackmagic Design has updated its ATEM Mini HDMI live stream switcher with the launch of the ATEM Mini Pro. The Pro model has a number of additional features relative to its predecessor.
