CONTROL WHAT OTHERS CAN’T.
PolarDesigner
Free
Advanced Polar Pattern Control Software for Dual-Output Microphones
Stop choosing polar patterns. Start designing them. PolarDesigner gives you real-time control over your microphone’s direction across frequency — shaping proximity, eliminating spill, and sculpting your sound at the source. Built for OC818 and OC-S10. And – it’s for free.
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DESIGN YOUR MIC. NOT JUST YOUR SOUND.
PolarDesigner changes what a microphone can be. Instead of choosing a fixed polar pattern, you design it – shaping direction across up to five frequency bands in real time.
Control proximity. Eliminate spill. Sculpt your sound at the source with a level of precision no hardware alone can deliver.
Built for the OC818 and OC-S10, PolarDesigner unlocks a new dimension of recording – where the microphone adapts to your mix, not the other way around.
CONTROL WHAT OTHERS CAN’T.
Bleed. Room. Mud. Spill from the hi-hat into your snare mic. Vocals picking up too much room. Low-end building up as the singer moves closer. The problems you’ve been fighting forever – and never really fixing. Traditional microphones force you to compromise. Choose a polar pattern, live with the side effects, fix the rest in the mix. That’s the old way.
PolarDesigner changes the game. Shape your microphone’s directionality across frequencies to reject bleed exactly where it happens. Control proximity without sacrificing tone. Open up your sound without opening up the room.
Whether you’re tracking, mixing, or pushing creative boundaries, PolarDesigner gives you control over space, balance, and focus in ways no traditional microphone ever could.
Stop working around your microphone. Start controlling it.
SHAPE THE PHYSICS OF YOUR MIC.
PolarDesigner gives you direct control over how your microphone behaves – not just overall, but across frequency. Split the signal into up to five bands and design the polar pattern of each one independently. Tight lows. Open highs. Focus exactly where you need it.
Let the Terminator-function with its intelligent algorithms do the heavy lifting: detect spill, eliminate it, or lock onto your target and maximize it. Go even further and optimize the full target-to-spill ratio – automatically.
Take control of proximity effect instead of fighting it. Keep your tonal balance consistent, no matter how you shape direction. Switch to zero-latency mode for tracking, or go full precision when dialing in your sound.
This isn’t EQ. This isn’t post-processing. This is direct control over the physics of your microphone.
THIS ONLY WORKS AS A SYSTEM.
PolarDesigner isn’t just software. It’s part of a system built around Austrian Audio’s dual-diaphragm microphones – the OC818 and OC-S10.
By capturing the front and rear diaphragm signals separately, these microphones deliver the raw information PolarDesigner needs to reshape directionality after the recording. Not simulated. Not approximated. Real acoustic control, unlocked in post.
This is what sets it apart. No other microphone system gives you this level of control over polar patterns, proximity, and spill – across frequency, in real time.
One system. One workflow. Total control.
What Friends Are Saying
The OC818 can be used to change the directivity of the same take multiple times using the PolarDesigner plug-in.
Masahiro Shinbo
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