Whether you’re building a podcasting studio or you just need more microphones, the Blackmagic Design ATEM Microphone Converter allows audio-input expansion for your ATEM Television Studio by converting four analog XLR inputs to MADI.
Equipped with two BNC MADI I/O ports, the Microphone Converter simply plugs into the ATEM Television Studio MADI port, so there’s no complex setup required—and additional units can even be daisy chained for more sources.
The four XLR-1/4″ combo analog inputs are mic-/line-selectable and provide 48V phantom power.
The ATEM Microphone Converter utilizes 32-bit float digital preamps and eight ADCs per input to capture clip-free, 24-bit / 48 kHz recordings with an extremely low noise floor, a wide dynamic range, and very low distortion—no matter how loud or quiet a performance gets.
A convenient HDMI output with scrolling audio waveforms enables you to connect a display to monitor the status of your audio.
USB and Ethernet ports allow for remote admin and software updates via the ATEM Software Control app.
HDMI Monitoring with Scrolling Audio Waveforms
- The ATEM Microphone Converter also includes an HDMI video monitoring output, so you can connect a simple TV or computer monitor for a full status display.
- It enables you to display four scrolling waveforms over the last 60 seconds of recording time, which is informative to watch.
- There are also audio meters to show the levels at the input connectors.
- Each channel also includes a custom label set via the software utility.
- There are also indicators to show the switch settings for mic-/line-input selection and phantom power.
- Plus if you daisy-chain converters, the monitoring output will adapt and display more than four channels.
- You can even set a converter name that will be displayed on the monitoring.