But can it polish a turd?

Posted on November 19th, 2007 by admin.
Categories: Digital Demons, Take A Walk On The Live Side, What's In With Outboard?.

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Until such a day when an invention comes out that makes bad bands good, Sound Engineers everywhere will be saucing their trousers over little gadgets like this:

Martin Audio’s “Engineer” - a new digital management processor which can help stop muppets (DJ’s) ruining your PA.

“Incorporating a broad range of standard facilities; EQ, limiting, time delay and a 4 X 8 routing matrix, the Engineer offers solutions to some of the most commonly encountered operational and environmental problems in audio system design”

What, beer?

In short - it offers an automatic control of level and tonal quality by way of sampling and copying. Whilst a good idea in theory, it’s often inventions of this kind that cause more problems than they solve.

More about replacing people who can’t do their job properly here

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