Aston Microphones

The Aston story

Every new Aston Microphone is an event; an industry-shaking rethink of what has gone before. We don’t bring out mics to play catch-up with other brands, we design and build from ground-up, always refusing to believe that world-class sound has to mean dream-shattering price tags. In its short history the brand has won industry awards from all quarters, including the coveted NAMM TEC Award for ‘Best Microphone’ (Aston Stealth 2020).

We are the only mainstream microphone company still manufacturing many of our products in the UK, using locally sourced components where possible. Many of our team are musicians and as such our microphones are infused with this little island’s huge musical heritage. British sound has long been a driver of popular music; from the Beatles to Brit Pop, from Pink Floyd to Punk, the audio gear used - the spitting valve amps and the coal-fired mixing desks - had a sonic character today’s engineers still crave. The digital age may have made most areas of music production easier, quicker and more affordable than ever, but the quest for that sonic holy grail of warmth, granularity and presence has put even more onus on capturing the performance superbly, at source.