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 Martin® OO-18V using the following sound images:

• P1 was recorded using the M18VN193NTII sound image. This sound image was created using a Martin® OO-18V, Neumann® TLM-193 microphone, and a Fishman Matrix Natural II™.
  
  
• P2 was recorded using the M18VKM84NTII sound image. This sound image was created using a Martin® OO-18V, Neumann® KM-84 microphone, and a Fishman Matrix Natural II™.
  
  
• P3 was recorded using the M18VC64GNTII sound image. This sound image was created using a Martin® OO-18V, Schoeps® CMC64G microphone, and a Fishman Matrix Natural II™.
  
  
• P4 was recorded using the M18VC64GXYNTII sound image. This sound image was created using a Martin® OO-18V, Schoeps® CMC64G XY Pair, and a Fishman Matrix Natural II™.
  
  

To produce this demonstration we used four Aura Acoustic Imaging™ Blenders which were fed directly into the ProTools® interface. The flat pickup was also fed directly into the ProTools® interface. The Aura's had the images shown above loaded into the units. By splitting the signal at the cable into each Aura we were able to record each Aura and the pickup separately and in perfect time-sync with each other. The demonstration above plays each of these tracks in time sync, muting the unselected tracks.

Ed Gerhard was kind enough to come to the Fishman and record this demonstration in our studio. Using his own Martin OO-18V and custom sound images, he demonstrated what the Aura can really do!