PolarPilot App
Free

Wireless Control for your OC818

The Austrian Audio PolarPilot app turns your smartphone (iOS or Android) into a full-featured remote control for the OC818 large-diaphragm condenser microphone.

Available for

Revolutionize your workflow

Simply insert the OCR8 dongle into the microphone, pair it with your phone over Bluetooth, and you’re ready to go. Using this powerful free app, you can change the OC818’s polar patterns and other functions all in real time and without so much as leaving your chair.

  • Our free Austrian Audio mobile app (Android and iOS) allows real-time wireless control over your polar patterns, high-pass, and pad in realtime via Bluetooth
  • Save, recall, and share favourite settings
  • Discover and create 255 discrete polar patterns
  • One setting may be stored in the OC818 for use without the PolarPilot app
  • The OC818 is always pure analogue: only the analogue bias voltages are being governed remotely
  • Switching also is always analogue
  • No digital in either the audio or bias paths—it’s everything you want, with none of what you don’t
  • 60-second OC818 clipping monitor/logger
  • Wireless control from the comfort of your chair

Issues with Android 13 (as of June 21st 2023): We are currently in the last stages of testing newly updated versions of the Austrian Audio suite of plugins, and this test cycle includes an update to Polar Pilot (Android App) for Android 13.  This update will be published shortly.

What Friends Are Saying
phil speiser

“For my productions it’s imperative to capture the sound of an instrument in all its naturalness including any background noises”.

Since swapping out my overheads for the OC818s, my mixes have never had such a defined top end.

Adrian Hall

I was at the legendary Rockfield Studios in January, recording a full band setup, and have the OC818 in dual capsule mode in front of the kit.

Steven uses OC818 and CC8 in his studio.

What I love the most from Austrian Audio microphones is that I´m able to get the same clean and defined audio I get in the studio to stages!.

As a performing artist, my voice and its clarity are everything.

Billy Joel was right, Vienna was indeed waiting for me!.