You deserve to be rewarded, and you especially deserve free stuff. To celebrate you, the underpaid, overworked roadie/groupie/writer/producer/manager/guitar player/pretty much every thing else of your band, Digitech are kicking off “15 Days of Distortion”. They will post videos, resources, best practices and, best of all, they will give away ONE DISTORTION PEDAL A DAY FOR 15 DAYS. This all starts today, April 21st 2011.
Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles, is pleased to announce that Luke Smith, critically acclaimed producer and engineer, has installed a Solid State Logic Matrix console at the heart of his north London Studio.
Producer and song writer Andy Gray has written the film score for the new documentary film ‘TT3D Closer To The Edge’ at his Isle Of Wight studio, ‘Real Noize’ using a 5.1 Unity Audio monitoring system comprising of the Rocks and forthcoming Boulder active monitors.
Audio is precious and deserves to be reproduced respectfully. In early June, some of the most respected audio authorities – including George Massenburg and Bob Katz – gather in Rome, Italy, to share their thoughts and experiences regarding mixing, mastering and broadcasting.
Our friends at Source Distribution have made a cool video where they improvised and played with a few Eventide stompboxes to create a ‘jam freakout’. Just watch and enjoy!
TC Electronic adds dual radar display to the LM6 loudness radar meter algorithm for TC TouchMonitors with software version 1.11. Now loudness can look twice as good! With the optional LM6 algorithm installed, users can load two independent Radar meters simultaneously on their TC TouchMonitor TM7 or TM9. This opens a number of highly valuable configurations. For example, it is possible to let one Radar meter instance display a pre-processing signal while the other instance shows a post-processing signal – and best of all, both can be monitored at the same time for the ultimate audio overview. Another scenario could be having two Radar meters display both a stereo and a 5.1 signal simultaneously – or two stereo or two 5.1 signals, of course. Finally, both instances also provide 24 hour history for the audio being monitored.
MOTU, a leading developer of video and audio I/O products, announced today that it is working closely with Apple and Intel to develop future products that take full advantage of Thunderbolt™, the new, very high-bandwidth, low-latency connectivity standard developed by Intel® and deployed by Apple® to worldwide markets on their latest generation MacBook Pro laptop computers.
Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, announced the release of X-Panda, a versatile new 24 channel compact SuperAnalogue™ mixer at the recent Music Messe 2011.
Another year with another MusikMesse in Frankfurt. We’re back home again, and it’s time for the traditional Gearjunkies MusikMesse Roundup. But before we continue, we have to say that we were confronted with lots of personal words of manufacturers about the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami of march 11th in Japan. The scale of what happened goes beyond imagination. It has affected the lives of so many people, and then it is only logical to see that it influences companies with ties to Japan, which are a lot of companies. We bear with them and wish them lots of strength in these difficult times.
After a decade focusing on digital consoles, Harrison presents a new pure-analog console for music capture and mixdown: the Harrison 950m Analog Console. The 950m incorporates nearly 40 years of analog innovations and refinement starting with the 32-Series in 1975 and continuing through the 80s, 90s, and into the 2000’s. The feature set of the 950m is geared to meet the unique requirements of a DAW-based studio. It provides all the features necessary to link professionals on both sides of the control room window while delivering the “classic sound” so often sought.
Some of you might know that the two SoundCloud founders are both Swedish and moved from Stockholm to Berlin to start working on SoundCloud full-time together with a team. A few weekends ago, adidas originals Sweden visited Alex & Eric on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Berlin to follow and capture their every moves. In this really cool video, they look back at how and why SoundCloud got started and ends with the two founders talking about startups to a group of entrepreneurs at the Berlin Startup Camp
This year we visited our Friends at Feeltune again. Kindly they gave us another demonstration of their Rhizome Groove Station. The Rhizome is designed to allow musicians to freely express their creativity and for live expression, the Rhizome is both a real instrument and a full on production station. The Rhizome is the future of groove machines.
KRK® Systems have introduced two new powered subwoofers, the KRK12sHO and KRK12s, at Musikmesse 2011. The KRK12sHO is the ultimate expression of a subwoofer delivering the intense focused bass response necessary for demanding high-level applications, while the KRK12s was designed to be the workhorse subwoofer for music production where a precise representation of the bass frequency spectrum is a necessity.
The TASCAM TA-1VP vocal processor was co-developed with Antares Audio Technologies to bring together everything you need for a polished, modern vocal sound. The rackmount processor includes a microphone preamp, compression, de-essing, microphone & tube modeling and Antares’ world-famous Auto-Tune™ pitch correction. Perfect for live performance, house of worship or studio use, the TA-1VP brings your vocal sound into the 21st century.
Recently I came across a presentation on the TED website. It featured Eric Whitacre speaking about his project ‘Sleep‘. This 2011 Virtual Choir video features 2052 performances of ‘Sleep’ from 1752 singers in 58 countries, individually recorded and uploaded to YouTube between September 2010 and January 2011.