British audio company Audient has teamed up with leading cab simulation pioneers, twonotes audio engineering to present Sono, the ultimate audio interface for guitarists.
Combining Audient’s award-winning analogue and digital conversion recording technology with the world’s best speaker-cab simulation from twonotes, Sono is home to the ultimate valve guitar preamp. Featuring an on-board 12AX7 analogue valve and 3-band Tone control alongside twonotes Torpedo power amp modelling and cab simulation, Sono provides countless tonal options for guitarists, whether they’re recording, practising or gigging.
“With twonotes, the creative possibilities are endless and you can really start dialling in the tones you hear in your head,” says marketing manager, Andy Allen. “Choose from a wide range of guitar and bass cab models based on classics such as the Marshall 4×12, Fender 2×12 or Ampeg Fridge, with more tones downloadable from Torpedo Remote if needed. You can even customise everything from the room type, microphone model and placement too, and once you’re happy with your sound, you can store your favourite presets onboard Sono and play them in standalone mode at any time – without the need for a computer.”
With near zero latency, Sono doesn’t get in the way of creativity. Monitor mix allows blending between the guitar input signal and DAW playback, ensuring delay-free recording, playback, and monitoring, enabling the artist to stay in the creative zone with none of the latency problems you get when tracking with software.
In addition, Audient encourages Sono users to integrate their existing pedalboard. Andy explains, “Plug in your favourite distortion, reverb and delay pedals directly into Sono’s D.I, dial up a tone and instantly start recording or jamming without the need to mic up and play through a noisy amp (or annoy your neighbours).
“However, if you do want to record in the more traditional sense, Sono will always record a clean D.I signal, so you can capture your performances as creativity strikes and reamp through your favourite hardware amps later without the need to buy a dedicated re-amp box,” says Andy.
Guillaume Pille, twonotes owner, has been a fan of Audient for some time. “Audient interfaces have long been in our list of benchmark products used to try out our plugins and hardware units,” he says. “Today, the whole twonotes team is very excited to present what we think is the perfect interface, not only for the guitarist and bassist, but also for any musician who wants to bring colour into his recordings.”
Alongside the more guitar-centric features, Sono is a powerful interface in its own right, with two Audient console mic pres for studio quality recordings, expandability up to 10 inputs via ADAT for recording drums, class-leading converters as well as the unique ‘to valve’ feature. “Try routing vocal microphones or synths through the classic valve preamp, analogue EQ and twonotes processing and start creating crazy new sounds or simply add that classic analogue warmth to your recordings,” adds Andy.
“Sono is all about developing creativity and providing an easy-to-use gateway into the world of professional audio recording. It really is a fun tool for guitarists and engineers alike. With Sono anything is possible.”
Sono is expected to ship in the first quarter of 2019 and will retail at USA MAP $449.
About Audient
With a proud heritage of award-winning audio excellence stretching back to 1997, Audient continues to develop exciting and innovative products for the audio recording market. The hallmark of quality begins with intelligent design, developing into solidly built products with pristine sound quality and inspiring features.
A philosophy of providing world-class, affordable and accessible technology with the aim to capture and enhance creativity has seen Audient build a strong community of creative users in professional and home studios worldwide. Impeccable performance and reliability can be seen throughout the versatile product range, from the flagship ASP8024|HE Heritage Edition studio console through the iD USB audio interfaces, the ASP series of rackmount mic pres and the compact analogue desk, ASP4816.
Audient operates from its headquarters in Hampshire, England.
