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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
PSW Staff 02/03/09 03:25 PM, 0 CommentsSennheiser has launched a roadie competition - the Sennheiser StageMeister Contest at www.sennheiser-stagemeister.com - which offers entrants the opportunity to accompany a touring band as a roadie. The competition is supported by Sennheiser subsidiaries and partners around the globe, who will provide practical training for the winners. The competition, launched at the 2009 Winter NAMM show, first searches for a roadie from the USA and Canada before focusing on entrants from Europe during the second round in April. The band… View this story
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
PSW Staff 01/17/09 08:51 AM, 0 CommentsAt Winter NAMM ‘09, Shure has unveiled the new PG27USB and PG42USB side address condenser microphones and the X2u XLR-to-USB signal adapter. The PG27USB and PG42USB microphones connect to any USB computer port. These cardioid condenser microphones feature built-in headphone monitoring with zero latency and monitor mix control for blending microphone and playback audio. Both models are also supplied with an integrated pre-amp with gain control. The PG27USB offers a flat, neutral frequency response for natural reproduction of a wide… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Recording • Church Sound • Product • Interconnect • Microphone -
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
Filed in: Recording • Product • Analog • Digital Audio Workstations • Digital • Studio -
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
Filed in: Live Sound • Church Sound • Product • Digital • Microphone -
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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Thursday, December 18, 2008
PSW Staff 12/18/08 01:06 PM, 0 CommentsTransAudio Group, the worldwide distributor for Geoffrey Daking and Company, Inc., is now shipping the Daking Mic-Pre One single-channel microphone/instrument preamplifier. Sharing the gain structure and Class A, fully-discrete transistor circuitry design of the popular Daking Mic-Pre IV, the Mic-Pre One additionally features a unique variable high-pass filter and ships in a freestanding ‘DI-style’ steel enclosure, insuring both strength and noise immunity. Essentially a single channel of the Mic-Pre IV, the Mic-Pre One features switchable phase, 20 dB mic input… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Product • Microphone • Processor • Signal -
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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