Inside is Rode’s Revolution Preamp, along with an analog-to-digital converter supporting up to 192 kHz. As we’ve seen from other recent Rode microphones, like November’s NT-USB+, there’s also APHEX audio processing running on the onboard DSP. With the Rode Central and Rode Connect apps, it means a native compressor, noise gate, two-step high-pass filter, and Rode’s Aural Exciter and Big Bottom effects, though you’ll need to be making use of the USB-C connection in order to access them all.
For speed of tweaking, there’s Rode’s VoxLab editor: offering up a trio of controls, for Depth, Sparkle, and Punch. Alternatively, those with more granular changes in mind can adjust a broader range of settings within the advanced editor. Up to eight NT1 5th Generation microphones can be plugged in via USB-C simultaneously, with support for both Windows and macOS.
As for the capsule, that’s the 1-inch HF6, which Rode introduced back in the NT1 4th Generation. It has a tight cardioid polar pattern, with 4dBa of self-noise, a 20Hz-20kHz frequency range, and is billed as being as capable with vocals as it is with instruments.
