Aaton's Cantar-X3 pushes the limits of sound recording

Presented at the MicroSalon in Paris last February, it builds on the principles of the popular Aaton X2 recorder, incorporating new features such as a greater number of tracks, analog and digital inputs, both AES and IP.

What does the latest Oscar-winning film have in common? Twelve years of slavery, the next movie Grand Budapest Hotel, y The Legend of Michael Koolhaas, which recently won the César for best sound?

That in all of them the Cantar X2 field audio recorder has been used. Eve. For the last decade, this recorder has been a reference for audio recording in the field.

Presented at the MicroSalon in Paris last February, it builds on the principles of the popular Aaton X2 recorder, incorporating new features.

It combines the ergonomics of the

Its avionic aluminum casing allows you to keep your electronics, based on military-grade components, free of water and dust. Expanded linear faders, smooth rotary knobs and silent switches are other features of the new recorder.

External devices can be simultaneously connected to the Cantar X3 via widely used audio and computer connectors adding new capabilities to this machine to be scalable for years to come.

Tim White, and sound mixer, defends that "as a Cantar X2 user, I have become accustomed to the best quality sound available in a portable recorder. I look forward to the new
Founded in Grenoble, France in the early 1970s, Aaton managed to make a name for itself in audio pickup. In June 2013, Transvideo, the French monitor manufacturer, acquired Aaron through its holding company Ithaki, thus creating Aaton Digital.