Audio Engineering Technology News

London’s Scala gets a new sound system. So why so blue…?

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The owners of the Scala nightclub in King’s Cross, London, decided the sound system in the main area needed an upgrade. So what do they go for?
I’ll give you a hint. Whoever installed the new rig came out looking […]

Dobro from Inspiration Sounds - Producers loops

Dobro, from Inspiration Sounds, is a new collection of loops for Producers and Soundtrack Composers looking for a gorgeous atmospheric sound. It features 515MB of Dobro licks and slides performed exclusively by internationally renowned country legend, Bob Dixon.
It features dobro licks and slides in every key at 100BPM and performed by Bob Dixon who has […]

Loopmasters to provide Samplepacks for Akai MPC users…

In the history of sampling, Akai will surely go down as the company that kick-started the mass use of creative audio mangling. With the S- and MPC-Series samplers they helped define how a generation of producers created ground-breaking tunes that pushed the
boundaries of technology and music, and led the way for today’s Hip Hop, Dance […]

Edirol R-44 4 track field recorder

EDIROL is still in shoving around in the moshpit of field recording technology, and with its new R-44, the company has its most compact, powerful and lightweight recorder to date.
It’s taken just four years for EDIROL to establish themselves as major players in the field recorder market. The ‘R’ range of recorders has already become […]

Canada recording and music publishing industies maintain profitability

Canada’s sound recording and music publishing industries maintained profitability for the second consecutive year in 2006 according to Exchange Magazine.
Statscan - Operating revenues exceeded operating expenditures for each of the three major segments of Canada’s music industry (record production, music publishing and sound recording studios), but music publishing was the only industry able to achieve […]

Oli Larkin releases pMix preset mixer

Oli Larkin has just released pMix (short for preset mixer), free (available for Mac only).
pMix (short for preset mixer) is a new composition and performance tool that facilitates the control of multiple plugin parameters using an intuitive graphical interface. pMix hosts four VST plugins and lets you interpolate between presets by navigating a 2D visual […]

Panasonic Strada CN-GP50 review

Somehow Audiotechnews gets quite a few requests to review Sat Nav units, which has proved to be quite handy as he has recently taken over the position as tour manager.
Putting his trust in the Panasonic Strada CN-GP50 this time, and without the aid of multimap, Audiotechnews trooped off to Sommerset last week.
Multimap wouldn’t have convinced […]

Venue Technician required

UK Music Jobs have got a position up for a Venue Technician.
Salary £18K.
Location London

Thermionic Culture - Rooster

Unity Audio are showing two new Thermionic Culture items at this years Music Messe in Hall 5.1 stand D48.
The second is the Thermionic Culture - Rooster - Stereo Valve Mic/Line/DI with EQ and Attitude!
A valve based mic/line + DI pre-amp with EQ and a distortion section based around the same 5725 used in the […]

Thermionic Culture - Fat Bustard 12 channel valve mixer

Unity Audio are showing two new Thermionic Culture items at this years Frankfurt Music Messe in Hall 5.1 stand D48.
The first is the Fat Bustard 12 channel valve mixer, and Audiotechnews thinks its something to be really excited about.
The final production model of the new Thermionic Culture FAT BUSTARD Valve mixer will be launched at […]

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