With its products conceived, designed and manufactured in the UK, Aston Microphones is a new British microphone and accessory brand that is set to launch with two custom-crafted condenser mics and two reflection filter products, as well as two retail bundles.

The Aston team is led by James Young, Philip Smith, Alan Gavin and Jack Munro, who have developed the microphones in conjunction with a listening team of top producers and mix engineers, using blind AB tests and focus groups throughout R&D.

Young, along with deceased business partner Mitch Carey, was responsible for conceiving the Reflexion Filter when managing the Global Sales & Marketing at sE Electronics: ‘A big frustration has been the lack of any real development in reflection filter technology in the last decade since the release of the first model by sE back in 2006,’ he says. ‘At Aston, we want to take a real step forward from this old technology.’

The design team ‘went back to the drawing board’ with their take on a Reflexion Filter type product. This part of the Aston project has been led by Jack Munro, engineer and design architect son of Andy Munro, from start to finish. He has worked closely with his father to ensure that not only does the Aston reflection filter look more like a Philip Starke design than a utilitarian studio piece but that it has performance to match.

Based on established principles of acoustic design and proving concept before production, Aston reckons to have ‘virtually eliminated all of the failings of other brand designs, improving absorption, controlling specific reflection frequencies to thicken vocals naturally, and radically improving isolation from room ambience’.

Aston also intends the retail price points to be ‘competitive with any Chinese-made brand, and much less so than many European and American counterparts’.

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