Yamaha’s new audio mixer for avid gamers has an easier interface and cheaper worth

Yamaha has a brand new audio mixer for avid gamers and streamers. Practically three years after the launch of the corporate’s first gaming-specific soundboard, the corporate’s new ZG02 provides a devoted USB-C port for gaming consoles, a extra streamlined profile and a lower cost ($200 in comparison with the ZG01’s $300).

Yamaha desires to ascertain its ZG line as extra simple and accessible than choices from rival audio corporations with gazes equally fastened on the Twitch and Discord units (Rode and Roland additionally courtroom avid gamers and streamers). “Whereas different sport mixing options will be cumbersome and complicated, the ZG02 affords a extra tactile, compact and intuitive mixing expertise with customizable results controls,” Yamaha shopper audio director Alex Sadeghian wrote in a press launch.

Along with its on-the-fly sound, chat and voice changes, the Yamaha ZG02 contains aggressive gaming “focus” modes and 3D encompass sound. It has software-based mic settings and voice results, together with compression, limiter, reverb, pitch and a radio voice filter. As well as, you may assign your favourite shortcuts to its bodily buttons within the (free) companion app for Home windows and macOS.

The mixer helps gaming headsets with built-in or devoted mics by an XLR / TRS combo jack on its rear (and has 48V of phantom energy for condenser mics). It features a “versatile USB interface” for Home windows and macOS computer systems, and its console-specific USB-C port works with PS5 / PS4 and Nintendo Swap.

The ZG01 features a USB driver that permits you to route audio to 2 completely different apps (for instance, Discord and OBS / Streamlabs). Yamaha additionally touts compatibility with the Elgato Stream Deck lineup. The $200 ZG02 is offered beginning as we speak within the US at Yamaha’s web site.