It's not the cheapest product here – far from it – but the HypeMiC does ship with a neat travel case, a robust tripod and a pop filter. The headphone port at the base of the HypeMiC provides the opportunity to directly monitor your input signal with zero latency, but you can also blend in the output from your DAW. A chunky gain wheel enables easy and immediate gain adjustment, guided by a triple LED meter that lights up red when overloaded. The HypeMiC also gives you fine control over the recording process. We found the results to be quite remarkable, almost magical. Real-world uses include everything from injecting life into delicate instrument recordings to isolating quiet vocals from busy backgrounds.
Three settings are available – Shape, Squeeze and Smash – each progressively adding more compression to your input. The stand-out feature is the HypeMiC's analogue compressor, which evens out soft and loud sound sources.
It's one of the best thought-out solutions we've ever come across for vocalists, podcasters and musicians who want to record with their iOS devices. We were blown away by the Apogee HypeMiC when we reviewed it at the tail end of 2021.
