All the news from NAMM Winter 08
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I think it was Thursday or Friday I got an email from Stiff over at ProToolerBlog, telling me it was ok to borrow his news from the NAMM Winter 08 Show, as long as I credited him with it, […]
The new Focusrite ISA One – single-channel pre-amp
Speaking of NAMM 2008, Focusrite’s new ‘ISA One’ microphone pre-amplifier is getting an airing at the industry trade show too. ISA One delivers Focusrite’s prestigious ISA transformer-based pre amp in a rugged and portable chassis, even if it does look like part of a Sci-Fi films set.
ISA One features the classic vintage microphone pre-amplifier topology […]
Rain Studios - searching for premises
The owners of Rain Studios, a recording studio previously based in Nottingham, England are searching for new premises.
The impressive studio boasts a Neve Capricorn desk, runs Pro-Tools and Nuendo on Mac, and PC respectively.
The engineers at Rain pride themselves on combining the old with the new - digital technology combined with an old school way […]
Eclipsed by a legend.
Eclipse Sound & Light in Suffolk, UK has decided to become a player, as it’s just bought an Electro-Voice XLD compact line array system. The speaker configuration consists of 12 XLD281 top boxes plus four XLC215 bass bins, powered by EV’s Tour Grade amps.
Eclipse have gone for a 48-channel Midas Legend L3000, so Audiotechnews would […]
I’m a miserable cynic
“Sound Pro Latin America is a new serious proposal, created by professionals, that has a main goal to educate on new technologies for professional audio, promoting y teaching technical knowledge (theory and practice) for professional growing” Technoprofile magazine reports
Now, even taking into consideration the language barrier - being the sensitive, fair and well meaning individual […]
Fold up your speakers
I might come under fire for even bringing this up, but I’d be interested to hear from people who’ve tried these MUJI Cardboard Speakers.
“These Lightweight, collapsible speakers are portable and can be folded away and placed in the included pouch when not in use. Plug them into your personal stereo’s headphone jack to enjoy […]
You can’t REALLY offset that
The world’s largest international trade show for consumer technologies have announced plans for a more Green Friendly ethos for their 2008 outing.
“We will do so by reducing energy consumption, increasing our recycling efforts, improving efficiency where possible, and making strides toward offsetting our unavoidable emissions. “ Says CEO Gary Shapiro of Consumer Electronics Assosiation.
You […]
The Decibel War
As most of us in this sector of the industry are aware - recorded material is getting ‘louder’ in an effort to compete for the attention of your average listener. As Bob Katz, chief mastering engineer of Digital Domain says:
“The level of compact discs went up about 20 decibels in 20 years,”
This, coupled with […]
“Is it ready for de HD?”
Pioneer have showcased their most powerful and advanced amplifier to date - the SC-LX90, which should be available within the next 6 months.
The SC-LX90 supports AV source formats such as Dolby TrueHD and dts-HD Master Audio.
Hidden Wires say:
“The product incorporates a new, unique Direct Energy HD […]
Driving the system too hard?
John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd must be ever so ticked off. This from Sound On Sound
“Early on Monday Nov 5th, a white M.A.N. 7.5 tonne truck with tail lift, reg FN54 FPZ on hire to John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd. and containing an HK Audio COHEDRA line array concert and numerous other PA […]
