Engineer Ian Boxill Mixes An Urban Sound With Focal Solo 6 Be Monitors
Focal Solo 6 Be Monitors are Key to Mixing in his Personal Studio
January 21, 2009
Music
Massive Sound Reinforcement Deployed For The Inauguration Of President Barack Obama
The inauguration of President Barack Obama set a benchmark for massive outdoor public assemblies. Maryland Sound, in collaboration with sound designer and front of house engineer Pat Baltzell of Baltzell Audio Design, configured an audio system that equally fostered clear sound quality and open sightlines.
January 21, 2009
Waves Signature Series Presents The Tony Maserati Collection Application-Specific Plug-ins
GRAMMY Award-winning, genre-defining producer/mix engineer works closely with Waves to create six application-specific audio plug-ins
January 19, 2009
Steinberg Presents Cubase 5 & Cubase Studio 5 At Winter NAMM ‘09
Cubase 5 and Cubase Studio 5 offer a host of new capabilities including new beat creation tools, an integrated vocal pitch editing toolset, extended composing features, a convolution reverb as well as many other workflow and technological enhancements, including full support for Windows Vista 64-bit Editions.
January 19, 2009
Digidesign Announces Two New Pro Tools LE System Bundles At Winter NAMM ‘09
003 Factory Complete and 003 Rack Factory Complete offer expanded track count, 7.1 surround, and variety of plug-ins
January 16, 2009
Radial Introduces New SW4 Festival Switcher, Housed In 1U Rack-Mount Package
“We have noticed a growing demand from the touring market for a product that would allow multiple consoles and sources to connect to the same PA system. This demand is driven from several perspectives.”
January 13, 2009
iTunes Store Dropping DRM, Varying Prices
Dropping this restriction can be seen as good news for music consumers, except perhaps those who have already compiled large DRM-protected collections and will be forced to pay 30 cents per track for the what Apple is calling the “iTunes Plus” privilege.
January 9, 2009
Harman Music Group Taps Jay Woolley As Marketing Director For Portable Sound
Woolley will oversee all marketing, promotional, and new product launch efforts for dbx and BSS products sold in the portable sound channel, and will work on developing overall strategy for driving sales and new product development for portable sound.
January 8, 2009
Le Mobile Charts High on Rolling Stone’s List of Greatest Singers
“I did a quick count and realized that Le Mobile has recorded forty-one of them.”
January 8, 2009
Mixed Industry Economic News As 2009 Winter NAMM Show Approaches
Show attendance and exhibitors both expected down slightly this year, but there are some bright spots.
January 7, 2009
December 31, 2008
Baltzell Audio Design & ATK/Audiotek Take Stage At Annual CMA Awards With JBL VERTEC Line Arrays
Baltzell Audio Design specified a sound system design based upon JBL VERTEC, with a total of eight flown line arrays. Deployed by ATK/Audiotek, the main PA system included two 16-element VT4889 full-size line arrays, arranged in a left-right configuration.
December 29, 2008