Product Function
1. Basics
1.1 Microphone Gain
The microphone supports both manual and automatic gain adjustment modes to meet different usage requirements.
● Manual Gain: Drag the slider to adjust the microphone input gain, with an adjustable range from -18dB to 18dB.
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● Automatic Gain Control (ALC): Automatically adjusts the microphone gain to ensure balanced sound output and prevent low volume or overload distortion. Three gain levels are available: Short Distance, Medium Distance, and Long Distance. Select the appropriate level based on your speaking volume and distance from the microphone.
⚠️Note: Enabling Automatic Gain Control will affect the performance of the compressor and limiter, so these two functions will be temporarily disabled.
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1.2 Noise Concellation
The PM450 Gen2 supports two noise reduction modes: Preset Noise Reduction and Custom Noise Reduction.
● Preset Noise Concellation: Offers three noise reduction levels—Slight, Moderate, and Aggressive—to adapt to different noisy environments.
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● Custom Noise Concellation: If the preset modes do not meet your needs, you can manually adjust the noise reduction level in Custom Noise Reduction mode, with an adjustable range from ndB to mdB.
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1.3 Reverb
Reverb function is provided, supporting both Preset Reverb and Custom Reverb modes.
● Preset Reverb: 10 preset reverb levels are available for quick adjustment based on personal preferences.
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● Custom Reverb: If the preset effects are insufficient, enable Custom Mode. 3 groups of savable custom configurations are offered, allowing you to adjust professional parameters such as compression threshold and compression ratio for precise reverb tuning.
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1.4 Compressor & Limiter
Basic compressor and limiter functions are provided. In most cases, adjusting the outer threshold will yield ideal results. For more precise adjustments, tap the "More" icon to enter the advanced settings window, where you can modify parameters such as compression ratio, limiting ratio, attack time, release time, and threshold.
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1.5 Microphone Monitoring
The PM450 Gen2 is equipped with a 3.5mm headphone monitoring jack for real-time microphone monitoring, and supports multi-channel sound mixing to meet your needs from solo creation to multi-device collaboration.
Headphone Volume
Adjust the monitoring output volume of the current microphone with one click.
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Monitoring Output
Check the audio sources you want to monitor through the current microphone. You can flexibly configure the monitoring output based on different creative scenarios. After checking the corresponding device option, the sound from that device will be output through the headphones.
● Mic (PM450 Gen2): Monitor your own voice.
● Computer: Monitor background music, game audio, or call sounds.
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1.6 Bluetooth Backing Track
How to use Bluetooth Backing Track?
First, turn on the Bluetooth Backing Track switch in the Maono Link.
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Then, search for and pair with the Bluetooth device named "Maono PM450 Gen2 BT" on your other phone or computer. Once connected, you can play the accompaniment from that phone or computer device.
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Volume Adjustment
Supports 0-100 levels of volume adjustment. You can adjust the Bluetooth accompaniment volume according to your personal needs.
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Ducking Switch
The Ducking Function automatically balances the volume between your voice and the background music to ensure your voice remains clear and prominent. When you speak, the background music automatically lowers in volume. When you stop speaking, the background music automatically returns to its original level, eliminating the need for manual adjustments.
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1.7 Electronic Pop Filter
Enabling the electronic pop filter function helps reduce the impact of plosive sounds such as "p" and "b", aspirated sounds such as "t", "k", and "h", and high-speed airflow noise caused by close-distance recording on the audio quality.
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2. Scenes
The software includes four preset scenes: Original, Stream, Recording and Podcast. Each scene includes optimized audio presets tailored to specific use cases. Select the scene that best matches your activity for an optimized audio experience. Clicking on any scene will automatically load its preset sound configuration.
2.1 Sound configurations
Preset Sound Effects: Preset sound configurations cannot be modified. If the effects do not meet your expectations, click the "Copy" button to create a a fully customizable copy of the current configuration. This new configuration can then be tuned on-site.
Custom Sound Effects: Under each scene, you can create multiple custom sound configurations. You can export your own configurations to share with friends, or import sound effect files tuned for the PM450 Gen2 by others. In the future, the official website will offer more scene sound effects for download, which can be used immediately with one-click import after downloading.
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2.2 Import
An "Import Configuration" button is located on the right side of the "My Scene" title bar. Here, you can select and import sound files shared by others. Once imported, the sound configuration will be automatically added to the list of the corresponding scene. You can then apply this profile to experience the same tuning effect.
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2.3 Create New
You can create a new custom sound configuration by clicking the "+" button in the menu bar below the scene.
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2.4 Export
After selecting the desired audio effect configuration, click the "Export" button. The current configuration data will then be saved to your specified location.
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2.5 Deletion and Editing
The "More" menu supports the export and deletion of audio effect configurations.
Hover the mouse over a custom audio effect box, and the Delete and Edit buttons will appear.
Delete: Click "Delete" to directly remove the current audio effect configuration.
Edit: Click "Edit" to open a pop-up window for adjusting the PEQ tuning of the current configuration.
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2.6 EQ Adjustment
Each audio effect configuration includes a graphical EQ tuning feature, comprising an HPF (High-Pass Filter), an LPF (Low-Pass Filter), and 10 bands. By dragging a band, you can directly boost or attenuate the gain at a specific frequency to quickly optimize the microphone's sound.
You can click on a band or locate it in the parameter panel below to modify its filter type, gain, frequency, and Q value.
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When adjusting the EQ, you can monitor in real-time to hear the effect of the changes. Right-click on an EQ curve to perform actions such as copying, exporting, creating a new curve, or deleting it.
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The EQ Presets panel located in the bottom-right corner of the window provides menu options to create new or import audio effect configurations. Furthermore, right-clicking on any existing preset allows you to modify its curve appearance (thickness and color), rename it, or perform actions like copying and exporting the curve.
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3. Recording
The default recording format is 48kHz/16bit, PCM format audio, and audio recorded can be exported to your destination folder.
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