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Friday, March 20, 2009
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03/20/09 07:55 AM,
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The journey of Alexander Mackenzie—the first European to cross North America by land —was recently chronicled for a forthcoming documentary titled Destination Nord’Ouest 2, to be aired this spring by French language broadcasters TVA of Montreal and Toronto’s TFO. Co-produced by independent film and television production companies R. Charbonneau Productions of Ottawa and Les Productions Rivard of Winnipeg, Destination Nord’Ouest 2 employed two camera/sound crews and featured a journey of 1200 miles by canoe and 250 miles on foot over…
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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03/17/09 07:54 AM,
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On the upcoming Steve Miller Band concert tour, slated to kick off in May, the band’s monitor engineer, Ira Malek, will be utilizing a Yamaha PM5D digital console. With most of his mix years spent at front of house, Malek began using a Yamaha PM5D when it first became available for a Good Charlotte show in New York’s MTV Studio. “There is always something new to learn on the PM5D, and when I find a new function or technique, I…
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009
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03/04/09 07:24 AM,
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Neyrinck has announced the introduction of SoundCode For Dolby E, a stand-alone software package and Pro Tools plug-in set for managing Dolby metadata and Dolby E encoding and decoding functions for multichannel broadcast wave files (MBWF). SoundCode For Dolby E is designed for post-production studios, TV mixers, broadcast and content distribution organizations that need to deliver and monitor Dolby E content on video tape or as files. The software includes two modules, the Broadcast Encoder and the Broadcast Monitor. At…
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
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02/12/09 10:38 AM,
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Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems announced the addition of a new MY series (mini-YGDAI) card to its extensive line of expansion cards with the debut (at NAB 2009) of the MY8-SDI-D De-multiplexer card specifically designed for broadcast applications. HD-SDI (Serial Digital Interface) is a format widely used with HDTV, normally transmitting one channel of uncompressed HDTV video and 16 channels of PCM audio signals (four groups of four channels) along with time code and other related data via a router. The…
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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02/11/09 04:37 PM,
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Roland Systems Group, in partnership with Cakewalk, has just announced support of Roland’s Ethernet Audio Communication (REAC) protocol with the SONAR VStudio 700. By combining RSS V-Mixing Systems and Digital Snakes with SONAR V-Studio 700, customers can now have a fully-integrated, cost-effective, end-to-end solution that takes their productions from live events through post production and delivery. SONAR REAC technology allows for up to 40 simultaneous channels of audio to be recorded into SONAR through any RSS V-Mixing System or Digital…
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Friday, January 23, 2009
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01/23/09 12:46 PM,
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The new SM Pro Audio AB-8 is a transformer-balanced, multi-channel analog to ADAT converter designed to deliver an additional 8 inputs to many of today’s current digital audio products. With 8 analog inputs and one ADAT output interface, the AB-8 is well suited for use in a wide variety of studio configurations. Whether working with I/O cards, digital mixers or digital musical instruments - the AB-8 converts analog data reliably and professionally to an 8 channel digital ADAT format stream…
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Monday, January 19, 2009
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01/19/09 11:52 AM,
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At Winter NAMM ‘09, Peavey introduced two new mixers to join the Peavey XR Series powered-mixer line, the XR 1220 console and rack-mountable XR 1212, featuring numerous Peavey technologies and extensive digital signal processing. The new XR 1220 and XR 1212 are based on dual 600-watt, class D power amplifiers that can be configured into five operating modes: Left & Right; Left & Right with Subwoofer; Main & Monitor; Main & Monitor with Subwoofer; and Monitor 1 and Monitor 2.…
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Friday, January 16, 2009
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01/16/09 09:05 AM,
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PreSonus 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…
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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12/17/08 02:56 PM,
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Ring in the holidays with money back - Allen & Heath is continuing its GL2400 Rockin’ Holiday Rebates through Dec 31, 2008.
Purchase select Allen & Heath GL2400 mixing consoles and receive cash back.
Rebates include:
GL2400-24 (24-Input): $75 rebate
GL2400-32 (32-Input): $100 rebate
GL2400-40 (40-Input): $200 rebate
For more information:
Allen & Heath Website
Allen & Heath GL2400 Information
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
12/11/08 04:03 PM,
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Rock artist Sean Austin was recently able to maximize his sound and musical vision during the recording of his latest CD, Different Kind of Real, by using an Aviom Pro16 monitor mixing system. In laying down the tracks for his six new pop/alternative songs, five of which he co-wrote, Austin turned to New Jersey-based Sphere Recording Studio and its Sound Engineer/Producer PJ Bianco. In the studio, Austin and his band, comprised of Kevin Hunter on lead guitar, Ze Grey on…
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