Teenage Engineering Thinks Differently
In many ways, the world of music gear is quite conservative.
There are endless variations on the same old studio mixer designs, microphones, and synthesizers.
It ends up with a mismatch between what people really want to buy and what is actually on sale.
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Enter Teenage Engineering, the Swedish design company that consistently invents new and genuinely useful twists on music gear.
For example, itsOP-1 synthesizeris an all-in-one music studio, complete with a virtual four-track tape recorder.
The OP-1 F costs around $2,000.
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Almost all mixers, what you might know as mixing desks, are old-fashioned affairs.
Yes, I realize how ridiculous this all sounds, but it’s true.
The TX-6 is so small that it can actually be tricky to turn the knobs.
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And it costs $1,199.
You might be seeing a pattern here.
Teenage Engineering rethinks basic tools until it comes up with surprising and often delightful answers.
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And this may be why nobody ever seems to copy this approach.
Teenage Engineering CM-15 Field Mic
Enter the new CM-15 Field Mic.
The first thing you’ll notice is how good it looks, which is a departure from the norm.
“They’ve crammed quite a bit of tech in a small space.
Large diaphragm condenser[s] are really not super travel friendly.
But then we get to the features.
USB mics are often (but not always) fairly pedestrian in quality, intended for budget podcasting setups.
If you guessed that the CM-15 Field Mic has both (mini) XLRandUSB, you’d be correct.
And it’s USB-C, which is nice.
External controls boil down to setting the analog gain (amplification) to high, medium, or low.
Everything else is handled in software from the connected computer (if using).
In fact, “way more useful than the norm” could be its slogan.
