 Hey, it's George from voiceover body shop here at NAMM 2018 again with another innovative and awesome vendor This time we're over at the Apigee booth where they're Re-releasing a mic that a lot of you guys already know about But it's got some important new features and here to tell us about is Brad. How you doing Brad? I'm good. Good Thanks for joining us today. So the Apigee mic it's back. It's now called the pluses out of skull Yeah, we have Mike plus so we've actually had three generations of Mike There was Apigee Mike the original Apigee Mike 96k and now we have Apigee Mike plus So with Mike you got a very high quality product that you can connect straight to your iPhone or straight to your Mac No setup or fuss required and you had truly a professional quality channel Now I think a lot of USB mics get a bad rap because a lot of them are you know built for convenience Built for affordability and that's an important part of it But for us we never want to sacrifice quality end of the day if we build something at Apigee And no matter what price point is that you can guarantee it's gonna be professional quality What takes this one to the next level so the mic has a lot of the features that people loved about the original mic So but Mike plus kind of takes a new level. So you have the same shape You still have iOS connectivity so Mac connectivity. We now have PC connectivity windows. Yeah All the windows users out there can finally use Apigee products But we fixed a big thing that was a challenge for a lot of a lot of mic users Before which was on the new iOS devices as many people know you don't have a headphone output So they will look at the mic They would connect it to their iPad or iPhone and said, okay Well, how do I hear it now? How do I listen to it? Or if I'm you know overdubbing How do I hear my other tracks while I'm recording? So what we did was we included a headphone jack at the bottom here So now you can connect your headphones straight to it And so you can monitor straight out of that both your recorded signal and your input signal So the other weakness on the iPhone's and iPads is latency You know the processes are getting better and better But there's still a little bit of latency that could be distracting especially for singers and voice-over artists Yes, if you're monitoring yourself, you'd hear yourself, but it's slightly delayed a little bit weird So we now have this great direct monitoring feature and specifically what we call our blend feature Meaning you could blend both your recorded signal with your with the input signal from the microphone Thanks to this control here, so you'll see now we have the input metering which is kind of nice on there We didn't have the input metering on the original mic But now we have this great little blend feature which allows you to control again How much of your input signal is blended with your recording signal? You have a gain wheel on it similar but a little bit different from the original mic which was on the side But this headphone out again just gives you that option for zero latency monitoring price-wise The mic plus is 249 the mic 96k was 229, so you know $20 difference you have a variety of new features I think that's pretty worth it. Whenever we do a new product. We never take the same formulas Over again, so we always look for ways to make it better new and improved mic capsule We have better dynamic range on this you can really capture a wider sort of range of instruments for music recording, but voices also You don't have to worry about it distorting if you handle quite a bit more on on that front The other nice thing is we include now a USB C cable So for all the people out there with devices with the USB C input who are tired of dealing with adapters We have that cable in the box for you Hey, there you go Android compatibility yet. No, unfortunately not and and frankly we watched the Android market and look We're not opposed to it and many people think that we're we're sort of you know Tied to the iPhone and we're not we just We we love iOS because there's some real Stabilities and real benefits there that make it such a seamless experience you connect it it works You open any app it continues to work guarantee exactly if we can get that with Android believe me We will absolutely support that platform the moment. We just don't have it yet So got you got you very nice. Well, it's great scene in here in the flesh and We look forward to testing one on our show because that's what we do. Thank you so much. Check it out on our website as well Great. Thanks so much Brad See you guys later