 Day two at NAMM 2018 with voiceover body shop Maybe you're familiar with isotope, which is a great sound processing software that a lot of people use to clean up their audio and George and I were very surprised to hear that they have created a piece of hardware and to talk to us about it is Lexi Morgan. Hi Lexi. Good morning Tell us about this Interesting little unit you guys have come up with I'd be happy to tell you about spires So we call this spire studio. This is like you mentioned our first hardware piece What we really were intrigued to do was, you know We love good audio and we love recording and we want to make more people feel comfortable recording and make recording simple So what we wanted to do was make something that you can just set down and get really great recordings out of So what you have I'll go over kind of the bits and pieces up front You have an omnidirectional capsule mic So it does pick up a bit more but the idea behind it is it's actually tilted up So like we assume most people will kind of sit like this and maybe have a guitar and be singing so it's picking up both Both the singing and your guitar And then in the back we worked with grace designs for these two combo jacks so you can XLR in or you can quarter inch in or eighth engine and What you see here is our phantom power just in case while we do offer a mic some people especially singers Kind of prefer the ones that they perform with So we wanted to be able to offer phantom power for that and you can see we have two headphone jacks here. So you're monitoring And then some of the cooler features and in fact my favorite is this one called sound check So sound check is really great Once you hit it what it's doing right now is it's kind of it's setting our level so it's checking your level for you And making it sort of trouble-free and hands off exactly So once you start recording, you're not going to do any sort of clipping And it's something we know just from experience that you know Gain staging is hard and difficult to do and not everyone has that audio engineering experience to do it or do it well And as you can see what I'm doing right now is I can just arm the next track So this is our first track and by just pressing record again. I've armed the second So again something that we've simplified and made easier for folks that don't really understand that process There's also a lot of features We have the spire app, which is a free iOS app. It is iOS only currently But definitely hoping to expand but with the app you get a lot more. So like look at here We have the recording effects. So definitely got some amp modeling there for guitarists some room shapes And basically right now we'd be auditioning it if we were monitoring So you can go up you can go down and say you like it You just press this button and now it's going to be zero latency Adapting so it's not a post production effect. It's happening as you're doing it because what is really special about spire Is it emits its own Wi-Fi signal? So you actually go into your settings and connect to it via Wi-Fi So this means you can use it on the road You can use it if you're you know in a cabin in the middle of nowhere It doesn't really have that loss and the other great thing is you're recording in both spots So our engineers like to call it phone in the ocean So if something happens to one of these you still have all of your recordings another feature that I really love is You know We're really agnostic with how you want to get this out in the world if you're feeling really comfortable You can throw it right up on SoundCloud or say you want to share with a contributor. You can send out individual tracks or Or a totally mixed-down track. You can you can forward somewhere exactly. What's retail on something like this? This is currently retailing for 349 you can buy it direct on spire.live, but you could also buy from one of our partners We work with Sweetwater, B&H, Sam Ash, all the great folks out there. So definitely check us out Lexi Lexi, thank you so much for talking to us this morning in this beautiful van It sounds so good in here Thanks so much. It was great talking to you