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Thursday, January 29, 2009Fletcher’s NAMMservations (Or How I Went To Winter NAMM ‘09 And Learned About Drum Stick Free Zones)
Fletcher 01/29/09 04:56 PM, 0 CommentsDay 1 Dateline: ANAHEIM, CA, USA - So I was a day late in showing up for NAMM… which isn’t necessarily a bad thing because this is pretty much an annual event akin to the Bill Murray film “Groundhog Day” (where the same nonsense happens day after day until the lead role “gets it right”). Late or not, I arrived to find the same vendors of “custom” (in other words, off the rack) guitar pick guards… The same drum companies… View this story
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
PSW Staff 01/21/09 12:48 PM, 0 CommentsAt the Winter NAMM ‘09 show, Focusrite unveiled is new Liquid Saffire 56 as well as two Focusrite FX Plug-in Suites. The Liquid Saffire 56 is the company’s new flagship Firewire interface, marrying Focusrite’s celebrated Liquid technology with its new generation of Firewire interfaces (led by the critically acclaimed Saffire Pro40). Two of the eight mic pre’s use the third generation of Liquid pre amps, building on technology used in the Liquid Channel and Liquid 4Pre. This means that as… View this story
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PSW Staff 01/21/09 12:26 PM, 0 CommentsChandler Limited enters the (API) 500 Series race with its new LITTLE DEVIL Equalizers and Compressors. Using all discrete circuits that combine Chandler’s best designs with the hottest designs from the past, transformer balanced everything, and American-handmade quality, the LITTLE DEVILS will take the lunchbox UP (or DOWN:-) to the next level… Technically and sonically speaking, the Chandler LITTLE DEVILS are steeped in the sound and function of all Chandler gear - discrete amplifiers, inductors, and transformers. And, there are… View this story
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Friday, January 16, 2009
PSW Staff 01/16/09 09:05 AM, 0 CommentsPreSonus has announced that after two years of intense R&D, it is shipping its new StudioLive 16.4.2 digital recording and performance mixer, designed for both studio recording and live sound. The StudioLive sports a wealth of inputs and outputs. In addition to 16 mic inputs with XLRs, each channel has 1/4-inch TRS balanced line inputs and insert points. The four Subgroup outputs and six Aux bus inputs and outputs are also on 1/4-inch balanced jacks, and the main outs are… View this story
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
PSW Staff 01/13/09 04:59 PM, 0 CommentsThe price of all new Drawmer equipment has been dropped by 25 percent in the U.S. All of Drawmer’s lines, including the MX Series, the ‘60s series, the Pro Series, the Digital Series, and the Signature Series, are included in the price reduction. These products will be on display at the TransAudio Group booth (#6849) at the Winter NAMM ‘09 Show in Anaheim. “It’s a point of pride that Drawmer still manufactures all of its equipment in the UK, as… View this story
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PSW Staff 01/13/09 01:25 PM, 0 CommentsPete’s Place Audio is introducing a new a 500 Series compressor module known as the BAC-500. It will be unveiled at the company’s booth (#6290) at the Winter NAMM ‘09 Show in Anaheim. Designed by Brad Avenson of Austin, Texas-based Avenson Audio, the BAC-500—BAC being short for Brad Avenson Compressor—is a feedback-style FET compressor built around two discrete op amps and a custom wound output transformer. “We are thrilled to finally be collaborating with Brad on this project,” says Pete’s… View this story
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Monday, December 22, 2008
PSW Staff 12/22/08 11:07 AM, 0 CommentsA November tour of their homeland by Canada’s Sam Roberts Band played theatre-sized venues throughout the country, with the band’s FOH engineer Phil Hornung was faced with the prospect of using house PA systems in most venues. In order to maintain consistency of the sound, XTA distributor Sennheiser Canada supplied Hornung with a package of XTA processing options, comprising a C2 compressor, D2 dynamic EQ, E2 parametric EQ, G2 noise gate, GQ600 dual 30 band graphic EQ and DP324 SiDD… View this story
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Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Fletcher 12/02/08 07:02 PM, 0 CommentsIn the good old days of “making records” compression was mostly used as an envelope modification tool. But around the beginning of “the great loudness wars,” some famous studio mixer dudes found they could get more work done in a shorter period of time by removing all the dynamics from the music, then equalizing it into place in the sonic arrangement. Seeing as many of these dudes are charging several thousand dollars per song, and don’t really care how the… View this story
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
11/13/08 05:05 PM, 0 CommentsAfter fronting the uber-successful synth rock outfit Ultravox in the ‘80s, it would have been easy for Midge Ure to sit on his pile and retire gracefully. But that was never going to happen, so a quick stint at changing the world followed as he helped organize Band Aid, writing the second best-selling single in UK chart history (Do They Know It’s Christmas?) along the way. Midge has since enjoyed success as a solo artist and is still gigging around… View this story
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