The company philosophy reflects Aspen's own passion for tone, and emphasizes the organic, intangible sonic qualities that most other companies ignore. As far as I'm concerned, the only measuring tools that really matter are your ears. That traditionalist stance is almost a renegade approach today. I'm happy to admit that we're renegades. Project studios will gain access to versatile, high performance mics at prices unthinkable before now.
Large facilities can broaden their mic lockers with an extraordinary range of new tonal textures.
For Aspen, that's the key. If all mics sounded exactly the same, the recording process would be extremely boring. A microphone is an instrument that imparts its own personality to a recording. All the great engineers know this fact and use it to their advantage. They avoid sterile, faceless mics.