推荐型号：ICON upod nano、MOBILE· U VST、MOBILE· U MINI VST

 

Users who have played voice chat rooms should have heard of the brand Aiken, but although Aiken claims to originate from the United States, it is only registered in the United States, and it is actually affiliated with Taiwan Aiken Digital Music Channel Co., Ltd., and the main market is also in China, so it is not strictly an American brand.

 

Although Aiken has existed as early as 1995, it was unknown until 2012, which has to talk about the characteristics of Aiken products. Strictly speaking, the positioning of Aiken sound card should be an entry-level recording card, although it is lower than RME, Yamaha and other brand sound cards, but it is essentially the same type of product, the recording sound card at that time was not like today through the rack software to achieve live sound and other functions, only the recording function, the use is single, but the domestic crowd of people who play recording is very small, so Aiken has not been famous.

 

It wasn't until the rack software began to be popularized that the recording sound card could also realize some of the functions of the live broadcast sound card through the rack software (host software), and the domestic live broadcast market also began to explode. In terms of the current online sales of sound cards, Aiken leads with a 22.6% share.

 

Aiken's whole line is the main external sound card with live broadcast function, except for a few products, the price is not lower than the same type of products of the first-line brand, the overall cost performance is still relatively low, the advantage is that the number of products is larger, the variety is relatively rich, because there is a native hardware ASIO function, so the compatibility with the rack software is better. However, the inherent defect of this kind of live broadcast sound card is that it is highly dependent on the rack software, and once the rack software has a problem, the effect cannot be guaranteed, and the debugging of the rack software is also a troublesome thing.

 

The ICON upod nano is unique in ICON's sound card lineup because it does not belong to the professional recording sound card mentioned earlier. upod nano supports hardware reverberation function,It can be used as a mobile phone live sound card without a computer,You don't need to rely on rack software,But the sound quality is more average,only16bit/48Khz,In addition, it does not support hardware ASIO,So it can't be equipped with a rack to achieve more functions,Scalability is relatively poor,599The price of yuan is the lowest level in the Aiken sound card,Beginner live broadcast users can still buy it to test the water。