If you have ever wanted to experience the Aura for yourself, here is your chance! Using the interactive demonstration below you can hear for yourself how the Aura Acoustic Imaging Blender brings the sound only a microphone can bring to an acoustic instrument.

Once the demonstration has loaded you will see an Aura™ display in front of you. The sound clip will start playing automatically and continuously loop while the demo is running. The music that you first hear is the pickup only. This is represented in the green status bar at the top of the Aura.

To listen to the sound of the guitar playing with the Aura effect enabled, click the Effect On/Off button (under the Fishman logo). You will see a green light above the button glowing and instantly hear what makes this product amazing.

The demo has four separate sound images to listen and compare to. To change the image selection, simple press the Up or Down button located near the bottom right of the panel. The LED display will indicate which image you have selected and the status panel above will provide some detail as well. At any time you can hit the Effect On/Off button and compare the pickup sound to the sound images in the Aura™.

One final feature of the demo is the ability to mute the music playing. Please note that this will not stop the music, only mute it. When the mute is turned off the music will resume as if it never stopped.

To record this demonstration we used ProTools|HD® software and hardware. The guitar used to record this demonstration was a CA® Bluegrass Performer using the following sound images:

• P1 was recorded using the CABPE47FPP sound image. This sound image was created using a CA® Bluegrass, Soundelux® E47 microphone, and a Fishman Prefix Premium™.
  
  
• P2 was recorded using the CABPB58AFPP sound image. This sound image was created using a CA® Bluegrass, Shure® Beta 58A microphone, and a Fishman Prefix Premium™.
  
  
• P3 was recorded using the CABPCMC64GXYFPP sound image. This sound image was created using a CA® Bluegrass, 2x Schopes® CMC64G (XY setup) microphone, and a Fishman Prefix Premium™.
  
  
• P4 was recorded using the CABP4011FPP sound image. This sound image was created using a CA® Bluegrass, DPA® 4011 microphone, and a Fishman Prefix Premium™.
  
  

To produce this demonstration we used five Aura Acoustic Imaging™ Blenders which were fed directly into the ProTools® interface via the XLR output. Each Aura was blended to "A" ( All Aura effect ). The pickup was fed through the fifth Aura, EQ flat with the blend set to "P" ( All Pickup ). Each Aura had the sound images loaded and configured according to the list above. To keep the recordings in perfect sync with each other, the pickup output is split 5 ways into each Aura device using a 1/4" split cable.

This interactive demonstration was played by Joe Barbieri in customer support (often refered to as JoeB). Joe is also one of our sound engineers responsible for creating sound images for the Fishman Aura website.