Studio Hardware

Coming soon Fat Bustard from Thermionic Culture

Thermionic Culture is (probably) about to release the new Fat Bustard Valve mixer. It now has a total of 12 inputs instead of the 8 that were on the version previewed at the last AES NYC show, the inputs are arranged as 4x stereo pairs, 4x mono with pan controls, and all the channles have toggle mute switches. The simple but amazing Bass and Treble EQ now has 0.5dB stepped Lift controls while there are 6 way stepped Bass and Treble Cut controls.

Focusrite Liquid 4Pre shipping

Liquid 4Pre is shipping now. Focusrite’s latest four-channel microphone pre-amplifier utilizes The Liquid Channel’s proven Liquid technology to deliver the sounds of 40 classic microphone pre-amplifiers across all four channels. Augmented by fully digital controls and remote software control over Ethernet, Liquid 4Pre provides the ultimate fluid multi-channel front-end.

ESI starts shipping the DuaFire audio interface

ESI have finally utilised their famous EWDM technology in a FireWire Audio interface. Now you can use driver interfaces like ASIO 2.0, GSIF 2.0, MME and WDM simultaneously with the same features that made ESI’s PCI audio interfaces famous. Of course, EWDM for FireWire also provides the DirectWIRE technology the virtual digital patchbay and support for very low latency values (as low as 1.5ms or even less).