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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Barry Rudolph 03/18/09 01:02 PM, 1 CommentMy DAW desktop surface is more crowded than ever—-and I’m loving it! I just added the new Novation Nocturn Plug-in Controller to my small army of DAW accessories. As DAW plug-ins become more complex and intense, their GUIs (graphical user interface) have become more jam packed with more parameter controls than ever! And in order to keep their GUI’s screen size to a minimum, the controls and buttons keep getting smaller and smaller. Even though I get new glasses often,… View this story
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
PSW Staff 03/17/09 07:54 AM, 0 CommentsOn 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… View this story
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Mark Frink 03/16/09 02:03 PM, 0 CommentsWhile Congress voted in February to extend the deadline to June 12, 2009 for U.S. television stations to covert to all-digital transmission (DTV), the transition is well underway, with digital transmission already common in major markets. There’s also a movement to provide analog “nightlight” broadcasts, providing a looped “infomercial” to the 30 million who can still only receive analog TV. Thus what we’re left with: digital transmissions have begun while analog also continues in many markets, and it all could… View this story
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
James Cadwallader 02/25/09 11:44 AM,It’s time for me to come out of the closet: I’m a dyed-in-the-wool unity gain structure freak. There, I said it and I sure do feel better. Catharsis is a good thing. Now, for those of you who aren’t sure what the heck I’m talking about, I’ll explain, and maybe get a few of you over to the dark side with me. First some clarification. Gain in sound parlance is the act of adding to (positive), subtracting from (negative), or… View this story
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