Slate Digital Announces The VMS Virtual Microphone System
With their expanding array of hardware and digital audio products, Slate Digital has created a hybrid solution – the Virtual Microphone System. The VMS combines high quality audio capturing with...
View ArticleRupert Neve Designs Debuts 551 – 500 Series Inductor EQ
From the hand of the man, comes yet another audio first. Rupert Neve himself created every nook and cranny of the Rupert Neve Designs 551 Series Inductor EQ – the first and only 500 series EQ that he...
View ArticleMusic in 5.1 Dimensions: How the Best Surround Mixers Approach the Soundstage
Surround sound made its first public appearance in 1941, when Disney released its groundbreaking animated musical, Fantasia. Ever since then, surround systems have increasingly been used to enhance the...
View ArticleJZ Microphones Announces Channel Strip JZ Track
After solid growth since their conception in 2007 JZ Microphones has decided to officially expand their line from high end microphone production to their first channel strip, the JZ Track. JZ...
View ArticleUniversal Audio Launches Apollo Twin – High Resolution Desktop Interface
It turns out there was yet another dimension for Universal Audio to occupy. The latest breakout from UA puts their ideas onto the desktop, via the Apollo Twin High-Resolution Desktop Interface with...
View ArticleManley Labs Debuts The Core Reference Channel Strip
From creators of ultra high quality analog outboard gear produced straight out of Southern California, Manley Labs presents to us the CORE analog channel strip. The core purpose of CORE is to provide...
View ArticleM-Audio Announces Trigger Finger Pro & M-Track Eight Interface
Winter NAMM, 2014 is underway and M-Audio wasted no time introducing two new audio devices that bring new features to their existing line of products. First up is an addition to their M-Track interface...
View ArticleAVID At NAMM: Space, Sibelius & Eleven Rack
With NAMM kicking off yesterday, Avid had a few announcements, though no earth-shattering new releases. Here’s what new from the Avid camp: First, they announced the new Sibelius 7.5 music composition...
View ArticleAPI’s New Lunchbox, New 500 Series Modules
Introduced at NAMM, the new API Lunchbox — the 500-8B — has EIGHT slots, and delivers more power and overall better performance than the six-slot 500-6B. And it costs the same – $499. Can’t complain...
View ArticleMoog Announces Sub 37 Mono/Duo-Paraphonic Synthesizer
Another noteworthy NAMM release comes to us from Moog – The Sub 37 synth. Built on the engine that powers their original Sub Phatty, the Sub 37 includes the same DAHDSR filter, two modulation busses...
View ArticleiZotope & BT Co-Develop BreakTweaker — Beat Machine of the Future
iZotope and BT have collaborated on new technology they’re billing “the beat machine of the future”. Introduced at NAMM, “BreakTweaker” is a new kind of rhythmic instrument — a platform for rhythmic...
View ArticleBell Sound – A Legacy of Looking Ahead
It feels like home. Bougainvillea climbs over the green metal gate, encircling bright blue lounge chairs and a wrought iron table set, picturesque, against the brick patio. Entering Bell Sound The...
View ArticleRadial Announces Space Heater Tube Drive + Summing Mixer, Twinline Guitar FX...
Radial Engineering came through Winter NAMM with some big announcements and the ones that caught our eyes were the introduction of the Space Heater 8 channel tube drive + summing mixer, and the...
View ArticleNAMM 2014 Gear Highlights: 36 Picks to Improve Your Studio
If being thoroughly overwhelmed is your thing, then the music trade show they call NAMM is a great way to kick off the year. NAMM beckons to the industry insiders. The 2014 North American Music...
View ArticleTekserve Names Jerry Gepner CEO
A highly respected media and technology mind has a new role in New York City. Jerry Gepner is the new CEO of Tekserve. Tekserve, the technology solutions provider and Apple reseller headquartered on...
View ArticleVinyl Hits a Ten Year High – But Why?
British Phonographic Industry figures from 2013 suggest vinyl sales, while still relatively humble compared to CDs and downloads, have reached a ten-year high. The BPI data shows some 550,000 LPs were...
View ArticleAudiffex Releases STA Flanger — Plugin with Summing Tube Amplifer Circuity
Audiffex is a multimedia development company based out of the Czech Republic and they come to us bearing new software! The release of their STA Flanger represents quite the history behind software...
View ArticleStuder Introduces Vista X Console, with New Infinity Series Processing Engine
Studer is putting a stop to the power struggle. The marquee manufacturer has just unveiled the new Vista X digital console and the Studer Infinity Processing engine, showing off their landmark new...
View ArticleMix with the Masters Announces Alan Meyerson Seminar – July 28-August 3, 2014
One of the most accomplished Scoring Mixers in movies, Alan Meyerson, has just signed to hold a standout seminar for “Mix with the Masters”. Alan Meyerson brings his cinematic mixing expertise to MWTM...
View ArticleReview: McDSP 6020 Ultimate EQ by Zach McNees
Three years ago this month, I reviewed the McDSP 6030 Ultimate Compressor plug-in. The 6030 consists of ten uniquely different 500 series style compressors all bundled into one plug-in. And it has...
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