Blackstar
Blackstar Polar 4 Audio Interface
POLAR is THE audio interface that is specially designed to enhance your guitar DI signal in a way that brings back the coveted feel and response of playing through a real valve guitar amplifier.
Polar 4 features 4 high headroom FET input channels for instrument, line and microphone, a high output headphone amp, +48V phantom power for condenser microphones, balanced outputs for professional monitoring, visual level meters and the proprietary “Enhance” switch.
Polar 4 Features:
- 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 (worth $129), 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.
*Free download upon registration of the product. Contents subject to change.
Specifications:
Number of Microphone Preamps - 4
Phantom Power - Yes, 48V
Instrument Inputs - 4
Line Inputs - 4
Line Outputs - 4
Headphone Outputs - 2
Loopback - Yes
Connectivity - USB Type-C
Protocol - USB 2.0
Form Factor - Desktop
Simultaneous I/O - 6 x 6 (including Loopback inputs)
A/D Resolution - 24-bit/192 kHz
Bus Powered - Yes (960mA)
Supported Sample Rates - 44.1kHz, 48kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz