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Fewer women employed than men in AV

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!It’s good to see that the University of Salford are making use of their time with the Women in Audio Visual Engineering project (WAVE)
They’ve done a survey to find out why more women don’t work in the AV sector.
They’ve […]

Plugin and play in your sandbox

Another free plugin - but this time it’s for anyone who listens to music on their PC.
The SRS Sandbox reckons it can make your music sound better by expanding the audio image and ‘creating a deep rich bass response’.
Could be cool for your laptop.

Get tooled up

To celebrate it’s 15th anniversary, Waves will begin to offer free downloads of selected Waves Artists’ presets and favorite Waves tools
Waves will update it’s list of available presets from its roster of artists, featuring some of the world’s top producers, engineers, mastering engineers and musicians.
You need to be registered, but then you just click on […]

Google gives data backup to music lovers

Following on from yesterday’s post about Interoute’s online attachment scheme (which they featured on the front page of their website, thanks) - Google has announced an imminent new service that is going to be a godsend for millions; online mass data storage which can obviously be used as a backup for all your files, or […]

It’s not a tin, Phil

Legendary Producer and Engineer Phil Ramone has written a book about his (almost) 50 years in the business. The man is obviously talented, especially if you measure talent by success. Creative, almost certainly
My favourite book on the industry is propbably ‘Black Vinyl, White Powder‘ by Simon Napier-Bell. Great book, great title. […]

Bragging are ya? Yeah sounds like it.

Polycom Inc. today announced that the new award winning SoundStructure(TM) series are now available to customers in North America, Europe and parts of Asia. Boasting to be the first installed audio solutions for voice and video conferencing applications delivering truly immersive sound quality, the series also provides “breakthrough” sound quality for conference rooms, […]

Free Plugins, Yo?

OK, it’s no secret that you can download thousands of plugins. Not to most people anyway, although I like to think that some people might read this blog who are pretty new to recording.
So the good news is - you can download free plugins. Pretty much every single type you’ve ever heard of, and then […]

Do you need a reason?

ASK Video Interactive Media are taking pre-orders for Cubase 4 and Reason v4 tutorials on DVD.
The Cubase 4 DVD features legendary Steinberg product specialist Steve Kostrey, whilst the Reason DVD has 4 long hours of instruction by Morgan Pottruff, aka Morg (author of the Live and Melodyne Tutorial DVD).
“Steve Kostrey is a product specialist and […]

MXL V88. It looks nice, yeah?

MXL Microphones have introduced a new general purpose studio microphone. The V88 is a large-diaphragm, pressure-gradient, condenser microphone with fully balanced transformer-less output. It boasts faithful capturing of vocals and other acoustic sources.
“Internally wired with Mogami cable for signal transfer, the V88 features a 32mm capsule with a gold-sputtered diaphragm. With […]

Now I’m just a work of Shakespeare

Audiotechnews couldn’t decide whether to blog or not to blog about this. Making an executive decision before breakfast, I’ve decided it is relevant.
This is an online alternative to email attachments; geared towards large files - audio files for instance. It saves clogging up inboxes, or even outboxes.
Interoute, the owner of a European next-generation […]

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