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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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01/17/12 12:28 PM,
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Country music legend Kenny Chesney is recording and mixing new material at Ocean Way St. Barths, the recording studio at the famed Eden Rock resort in the heart of the Caribbean. Chesney is working with producer and songwriter Buddy Cannon (Reba McEntire, George Jones, George Strait) on his first album since 2010’s hit “Hemingway’s Whiskey.” The Ocean Way St. Barths studio is located at The Eden Rock, an exotic resort destination since the 1960s for such celebrities as Greta Garbo,…
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Wednesday, October 19, 2011
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Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) has announced new features and functionality for the Neve Genesys, a custom-crafted, expandable analog recording console that incorporates digital workstation control. Exclusively distributed in the U.S. by GC Pro, the Genesys was designed to address new realities of modern professional audio industry for music, post production and gaming, while building on Neve’s 40 years of accumulated technical heritage. New features being unveiled at AES include:—New and updated Routing Implementation (L-C-R/Stereo)—Pro Tools track arm/disarm control from…
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009
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10/07/09 07:41 AM,
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Universal Audio has announced a refresh of its popular UAD-2 Neve Powered Plug-Ins line, with the new UAD-2 SOLO, DUO and QUAD Neve packages, formerly known as the “Nevana” packages, providing the ability to add the sound of genuine Neve analog audio equipment to music produced a Mac or PC. They also provide access to the complete UAD Powered Plug-In library. The UAD-2 Neve packages include the only plug-ins officially licensed and developed in partnership with Neve UK. Based on…
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
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Universal Audio has announced the release of the EMT 250 Classic Electronic Reverberator powered plug-in for the popular line of UAD-2 DSP accelerator cards for Mac and PC. Introduced in 1976, the EMT 250’s distinctive clear and open reverb sound has appeared on numerous records, including Prince & The Revolution’s “Purple Rain”, Elvis Costello’s “Spike”, and modern classics like The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “Stadium Arcadium”. Available for purchase via UA’s Online Store for $249, the EMT 250 powered plug-in…
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Thursday, August 06, 2009
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08/06/09 10:25 AM,
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The Art Institutes are a group of more than 40 educational institutions throughout North America, providing an important source of design, media arts, fashion and culinary arts professionals. As part of an ongoing effort to provide students with exceptional technical support, The Art Institutes are expanding and upgrading the facilities of their professional Audio Production Program. Guitar Center Professional (GC Pro) is supplying a variety of gear for the new systems, which are being designed by the Walters-Storyk Design Group…
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Friday, July 31, 2009
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07/31/09 04:16 PM,
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Universal Audio has announced the release of the Empirical Labs FATSO powered plug-in for its popular line of UAD-2 DSP Accelerator Cards for Mac and PC. The original EL7 FATSO hardware’s design and creative feature set gives users the warm sound of magnetic recording tape, Class-A transformers, and tube circuits. The FATSO Jr. & Sr. Powered Plug-In for the UAD-2 recreates these distinctive sounds with great accuracy, and can be downloaded for $299 from Universal Audio’s Online Store. The FATSO…
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
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06/04/09 11:28 AM,
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The Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 flagship Firewire interface is now shipping and widely available in stores across the U.S. The Liquid Saffire 56 has generated a great deal of excitement as it marries Focusrite’s Liquid technology with its new generation of Saffire interface technology (pioneered by the critically acclaimed Saffire Pro40). The Liquid Saffire 56 features two Liquid mic-pre-amps evolved from the original award winning Liquid Channel. Each Liquid pre-amp offers a choice of 10 different classic pre-amp emulations including…
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
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Vancouver, BC-based Radial Engineering has announced the recent acquisition of the Komit Compressor from boutique manufacturer Burgin-McDaniel. For more than10 years, Kevin Burgin and Drake Williams of Burgin-McDaniel played central roles at Rupert Neve Designs before leaving to start Burgin-McDaniel. Burgin worked under the stewardship of Rupert Neve as primary circuit designer, where he designed the entire Portico range, including the TEC Award wining 5042 Tape Emulator. He also developed the electronics for Taylor Guitars Expression system and Legendary Audio’s…
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Monday, May 11, 2009
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Ryan Tedder, lead singer of One Republic, recently recorded with the new TELEFUNKEN USA Ela M251 condenser microphone at Cleveland’s Ante Up Audio. Ante Up Audio recently added two of the new Ela M251s in addition to other new TELEFUNKEN models including two M16s, two AK47s, an M80 and an RM-5C ribbon microphone. “We love these new microphones,” says Michael Seifert, owner and chief engineer of the Cleveland facility. “If you go with the originals, they’re extremely expensive and they’re…
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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To enhance the intelligibility of the paging systems within the 86-station Washington Metro rapid transit system in Washington, D.C., all paging announcement microphones have been upgraded to high-end, broadcast-quality Neumann TLM 103s. Washington Metro, or “Metro” for short, has one command and control center in downtown Washington D.C., and a second that is near completion in Hyattsville, Maryland. Within each center, four workstations permit the simultaneous pre-recording of separate pages or, more frequently, simultaneous real-time pages with different content sent…
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