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Thursday, January 22, 2009
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01/22/09 10:12 AM,
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TC-Helicon has debuted the VoiceLive 2, an easy-to-use and powerful floor processor designed to offer singers smooth studio tone, rich harmonies and ear-catching effects. VoiceLive 2 offers many advancements including new NaturalPlayTM harmonies with up to eight harmony voices controlled from a guitar, MIDI keyboard or MP3 player. Simultaneous stompbox-style or preset foot-switching allows vocalists to easily engage and layer the six effect blocks, which include a new, more lush reverb, tap tempo delay, natural doubling, T-Pain-like pitch shifting, distortion…
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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01/20/09 02:32 PM,
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At Winter NAMM ‘09, Waves Audio announced the formation of the Waves Live Division, a dedicated branch addressing the current and future needs of the live sound market sector. As part of the Division’s inaugural initiatives, Waves will unveil a new Live Division website (www.waveslive.com), as well as the release of Waves TDM plug-in bundles such as the SSL 4000 Collection, the API Collection, the C4 Multiband Compressor as well as the acclaimed L-Series limiters - all of which can…
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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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Thursday, January 15, 2009
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01/15/09 09:03 PM,
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Today 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…
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009
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01/13/09 01:19 PM,
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Lab.gruppen has officially announced its acquisition of the Lake trademarks and the exclusive rights for use of Dolby Lake Processor (DLP) technology for both Touring and Permanent Sound Reinforcement markets, from Dolby Laboratories, Inc. The technology currently referred to as “DLP technology” as used in the PLM Series will, in the future, be called “Lake technology or Lake Processing”. The Dolby Lake Controller (DLC) PLM Edition software will be forthwith known as “Lake Controller software” as new versions of the…
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Nort Johnson
12/23/08 11:23 AM,
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In 1976, I was hired on the local crew to pitch and bail scaffolding and deck for my first stadium show at the historic Comiskey Park in Chicago. It was a July 8 truck tip and the day of the show was July 10. The temperature hovered around 100 degrees for the duration. We erected the monster in the left center field bleachers over the seats where Babe Ruth and Nellie Fox used to tear the hides off of well-greased…
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Monday, December 22, 2008
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12/22/08 11:07 AM,
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A 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…
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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12/15/08 03:35 PM,
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Waves Audio introduces the new UM225 and UM226 Stereo-to-Surround Processors, two audio tools that bring acclaimed Waves quality to the upmix soundscape. From music to movie soundtracks and beyond, content of all types is being upmixed from stereo to surround, expanding the listening experience and creating multi-speaker surround environments. Audio engineers are being called upon to upmix from a wide variety of source materials, and when the original multi-track sessions are not available, they have to work from stereo mixes.…
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008
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12/09/08 03:52 PM,
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With the release of version 3.3.1 drivers for Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X, PreSonus’ popular FireStudio Tube and FireStudio Project FireWire recording systems have taken a quantum leap in functionality. The new driver provides multi-unit support, enabling you to daisy-chain multiple FireStudio Projects and FireStudio Tubes in any combination, creating systems with extensive I/O that fits in just a few rack spaces. Two and three units daisy-chained in any combination has been tested at PreSonus, however, the number of…
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Monday, November 24, 2008
11/24/08 03:32 PM,
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Crown Audio has announced the appointment of Vincent Tan to the position of Business Developer for the Asia region. In this role Tan will be responsible for supporting the sales within the region and working closely with the customer base to ensure all products are tailored to meet their needs. He will report to Director of Marketing for Installed Sound, Brian Divine. Previously, Tan served as an Engineering Manager for Spectrum Conferencing Pte Ltd, which specializes in providing integrated conferencing…
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