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Friday, January 16, 2009
PSW Staff 01/16/09 01:34 AM, 0 CommentsThe long-awaited Cranesong Egret, on display at the 2009 Winter NAMM show, is a highly flexible workstation back end. It contains 8 channels of high quality D/A converters and a stereo line level mixer with color options to help bring analog summed digital mixes to life. The stereo mixer has a level control, a aux send which is post level control, a color control, and a pan control on each channel. Each channel also contains an analog/digital source button, and… View this story
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Thursday, January 15, 2009
PSW Staff 01/15/09 09:03 PM, 0 CommentsToday at Winter NAMM’09, AKG launched the DMS 700 digital wireless microphone system, offering digital audio encryption, ultra wide tuning range and high channel count in 19-inch chassis. The DMS 700 operates with two frequency bands with each band providing a tuning range of up to 155 MHz of receivers and transmitters giving the user extended flexibility in today’s crowded RF environment. The clean digital audio transmission eliminates the distortion and significant noise levels at the higher audio frequencies that… View this story
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
PSW Staff 01/13/09 09:07 AM, 0 CommentsAllen & Heath has launched a new compact digital mixing system, the iLive-T Series, which has all the performance and power of the original iLive in a light weight, affordable package. The T Series comprises the fixed I/O iDR-32 and iDR-48 MixRacks and iLive-T80 and iLive-T112 Surface options with remote CAT5 connection. Each rack can be used with either control surface, and all models will be compatible with the existing iLive units. “The T Series has been developed using proven… View this story
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Friday, January 09, 2009
Keith Clark 01/09/09 04:40 PM, 0 CommentsEarlier this week at Macworld, Apple made a stir by announcing that its iTunes Store will soon be selling content without DRM (digital rights management) restrictions, and further, will be altering its uniform 99-cent price structure. DRM is technology that controls the usage of digital media or devices that, for example, limits viewings or copies of media files. Dropping this restriction can be seen as good news for music consumers, except perhaps those who have already compiled large DRM-protected collections… View this story
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Thursday, January 08, 2009
PSW Staff 01/08/09 04:25 PM, 0 CommentsWhen Guy Charbonneau first read Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, it almost looked like a My Space Friends List for his Le Mobile remote recording truck. “I did a quick count and realized that Le Mobile has recorded forty-one of them,” says Charbonneau. “Even I found that a bit amazing.” Among the top 20 on the list, Le Mobile has recorded nine: Aretha Franklin (1), Ray Charles (2), Bob Dylan (7), Stevie Wonder (9),… View this story
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PSW Staff 01/08/09 11:03 AM, 1 CommentSupporting their ninth studio album, Death Magnetic, Metallica is hitting arenas across the U.S. and Canada with a monster-sized in-the-round sound reinforcement system that includes Apogee X-Series converters for both A/D and D/A conversion. Thunder Audio of Taylor, Michigan - sound company for the tour - chose an all digital drive system setup for unprecedented sound quality. In total, eight Apogee converters deliver 64 channels of I/O. “When designing this system we had a criteria set forth for achieving the… View this story
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Friday, January 02, 2009
PSW Staff 01/02/09 10:36 AM, 0 CommentsSAE Institute, provider of pro audio and multimedia education worldwide, is incorporating Euphonix MC Control and MC Mix media controllers into 25 SAE Institutes across four continents. The SAE Institute audio curriculum includes training on the world’s leading digital audio workstations to help prepare students for real world production situations. Euphonix Artist Series media controllers offer comprehensive control over Pro Tools, Logic Studio and many more software applications, providing SAE with considerable flexibility in integrating MC Control and MC Mix… View this story
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Mark Frink 12/31/08 12:35 PM, 0 CommentsThis year is the tipping point for digital consoles in regional and festival sound reinforcement. Discussions of sound quality aside, the benefits of digital consoles – consistency, repeatability, recall and automation – force users to adopt the new way and the advantage it brings to live events where the same console is not dragged from one gig to the next. Vendors contemplating the purchase of a console must ask themselves who will be using their new mixing board, who the… View this story
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
PSW Staff 12/30/08 04:53 PM, 0 CommentsAudio Impressions has released its patented virtual instrument technology and high-definition 70-piece DVZ Strings 2.0 sample library Further, the company will be demonstrating this new release version using a $50,000 FAR XM-Range digitally controlled active monitor system at the upcoming 2009 NAMM show in Anaheim, Room #7801. DVZ Strings 2.0 helps produce real-world balance of live musicians in real time without loading or unloading different samples. It is organized into sections that translate directly to fully accurate MIDI mock-ups as… View this story
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PSW Staff 12/30/08 04:01 PM, 0 CommentsTouring in support of their most recent album, Accelerate, R.E.M. selected Oxnard, California-based Rat Sound to handle sound reinforcement requirements, with Brett Eliason serving as FOH engineer and George Squiers handling monitor mix honors. Clair Brothers sublet two Midas XL8 digital mixing consoles (for house and monitors) to Rat Sound for the tour. “We pushed for the Midas consoles,” Eliason notes, adding, “Having the Midas preamps at the front end and a true 24-bit, 96 kHz digital resolution were the… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Feature • Slideshow • Concert • Consoles • Digital • Engineer • Line Array • Loudspeaker • Microphone • Sound Reinforcement • Subwoofer • Technician
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