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  • Wednesday, May 16, 2012
    Black Box Analog Design Introduces New “Black Box” Microphone Preamp
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    PSW Staff 05/16 10:07 AM,
    Black Box Analog Design, an engineer-led design firm dedicated to handcrafted, American-made audio equipment, has announced the official release of the Black Box microphone preamp. The company has selected Vintage King Audio as its distributor, and is currently taking orders worldwide. Designers Eric Racy and Robert Wainscott have created versatile piece of gear that enables users to uniquely shape their sound by implementing unconventional methods and such features as an entirely analog audio path, custom, hand wound Cinemag input and… View this story
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  • Friday, May 04, 2012
    In The Studio: DIY Subkick Microphone
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    Jon Tidey 05/04 11:46 AM,
    This article is provided by Audio Geek Zine.   This is an old but very effective trick for mic’ing kick drums. Take a Yamaha NS10 speaker cone and use that to capture the extra low frequencies of the drum. Without going into too much theory about this, a dynamic microphone and a speaker are essentially the same thing: they’re both transducers. They take acoustical energy and convert it into electrical energy or vice versa. So what you do is take… View this story
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  • Wednesday, May 02, 2012
    Why Quiztones Belongs In Your Studio Or Classroom As A Training Tool
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    Kyle P. Snyder 05/02 01:41 PM,
    This is a review of Quiztones, frequency ear training apps for Mac & iOS from Audiofile Engineering. As engineers, we all have particular strengths and weaknesses. Some are musically gifted and play multiple instruments, while others naturally take to composition. However, what about the most basic of skills - our hearing? Unless you have absolute pitch or synesthesia, we’re all playing with the hand dealt to us a birth. The only thing we can do is hone our auditory perception.… View this story
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  • Thursday, April 26, 2012
    Avid Releases New Version Of Sibelius First
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    PSW Staff 04/26 08:17 AM,
    Avid has announced the release of Sibelius First, combining the Sibelius Student and Sibelius First notation products into a single easy-to-use, powerful, and fun music composition tool. The new Sibelius First takes advantage of the features introduced by Sibelius 7, including a task-oriented UI specifically designed to guide the user through the creative process, along with quality sound, 64-bit technology and support for the latest operating systems. It also offers new video export functionality, online publishing, and direct sharing to… View this story
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  • Wednesday, April 18, 2012
    Apogee Release v4.2 Now Available; Two New Symphony I/O Modules Introduced
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    PSW Staff 04/18 10:25 AM,
    Apogee has made Release 4.2 available for download on the Apogee website. Release 4.2 provides X-Series and Rosetta Series converters compatibility with OS X Lion, Maestro 2 and Symphony I/O. It also offers the following features for Symphony I/O: —Support for X-Symphony equipped legacy interfaces (AD-16X, DA-16X, Rosetta 800, Rosetta 200) on OS X Lion and Maestro 2. —Support for Avid HDX PCIe card —In Pro Tools HD audio interface mode, Symphony I/O now emulates an Avid HD I/O. Pro… View this story
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  • Tuesday, April 17, 2012
    PreSonus Releases Studio One Free Version
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    PSW Staff 04/17 08:19 AM,
    PreSonus is now shipping Studio One Free, a new entry-level version of its DAW for Mac and Windows that is intended for beginners who don’t yet need the advanced features in Studio One Artist, Producer, and Professional. Studio One Free provides all of the recording and editing features needed for basic music production—and as its name implies, it’s free. To get Studio One Free, download the Studio One installer from the Studio One website, install it, and then choose to… View this story
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  • Monday, April 16, 2012
    Hosa Technology Introduces Second-Generation Elite Series Microphone Cables
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    PSW Staff 04/16 08:12 AM,
    Hosa Technology has introduced a significant upgrade of the company’s popular Elite Series microphone cables, which are now available with Neutrik XX-Series connectors plus a new nylon webbing over the cable’s PVC jacket. Available in both Lo-Z (XLR3F to XLR3M) and Hi-Z (XLR3F to 1/4-inch TS) configurations, the cables use 20 AWG Oxygen-Free Copper (OFC) conductors that reduce resistance in order to facilitate maximum signal transfer. Polyethylene dielectrics reduce capacitance for enhanced high-frequency transmission, while conductive PVC reduces handling noise.… View this story
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  • Friday, April 13, 2012
    PreSonus Adds New Features To Studio One 2
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    PSW Staff 04/13 11:17 AM,
    PreSonus is now shipping Studio One 2.0.5, a free update to all versions of the company’s DAW software for Mac and Windows that adds several important new features and fixes a variety of issues. Among the new features: —Any Studio One command can now be assigned to any MIDI CC message. Use any MIDI control surface with Studio One, even if it isn’t natively supported. —Ampire XT amp models have been reworked to sound significantly better. —Markers can now have… View this story
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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2012
    Waves Audio Releases New NLS Non-Linear Summing Plug-In
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    PSW Staff 04/11 05:23 PM,
    Waves Audio is now shipping the new NLS (Non-Linear Summing), which delivers the sound of three classic consoles in one powerful plug-in. To create NLS, Waves joined forces with three leading producer/engineers – Mark ´Spike´ Stent, Mike Hedges and Yoad Nevo – modeling their rare mixing desks. NLS recreates the sound of: —The “magical” solid state console belonging to Mark “Spike” Stent (Radiohead, Björk, Muse, Maroon 5, Madonna). —The classic console owned by Mike Hedges (The Cure, Siouxsie and the… View this story
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  • Stagetec Launching New NEXUS Dante Interface Module At NAB 2012
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    PSW Staff 04/11 03:14 PM,
    At the upcoming NAB 2012 Show, Stagetec is unveiling a new interface board for the NEXUS network system that can be used in new and existing networks. The new XDIP board connects NEXUS to networks running Audinate Dante networking, which enables powerful audio and media networks to be created on existing standard Ethernet infrastructure using TCP/IP. Dante also complies with the emerging AVB standard IEEE 802.1BA. XDIP supports up to 64 bidirectional audio channels with different sampling rates. SRCs are… View this story
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