DiGiCo’s SD range of digital consoles continues to astonish and delight the professional audio industry. Visitors to ProLight+Sound 2011 will discover that the company has ‘done it again’ with the SD11 – a console that is the smallest (both in size and price) that the company has ever produced, but still packed full of DiGiCo’s famous industry leading features. The SD11 will be unveiled at DiGiCo’s stands 8.0 F60 and G56 and is designed to be equally at home as a desktop console or mounted in a 19” rack. By simply removing the end cheeks and arm rest, 19” rack fixings are revealed, making it straightforward to incorporate the SD11 into any touring or installation environment.

mr. Siwei Zhou (ceo Se) and mr. Andy Munro (designer of the Egg) were so kind to show us more of the Egg monitor and special SE amplifier (prototype). Behind the official SE Electronics stand we got a glimpse of these cool toys.

The Focusrite Control 2802 is a small-format analogue recording console and a DAW control surface in one. It forms both the digital control nerve centre and the analogue heart of the modern professional project studio. Dual Layer Technology lets today’s studio owner jump between analogue mixing and DAW control.

Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional digital and analogue consoles, announce the release of X-Panda, a versatile new 24 channel compact SuperAnalogue™ mixer at Music Messe 2011. SSL are located in Hall 5.1, Stand B.75.

Event Electronics is extremely excited to announce the release of a new generation of the cult 20/20bas speaker that revolutionised the recording industry in the 1990s and secured a place in the hearts of audio engineers the world over. First released in 1995, the original 20/20 nearfield studio monitor was universally acclaimed and launched the Event brand worldwide.

Small enough to fit in your pocket, the BOSS MICRO BR BR-80 is the ultimate new portable recording and jam-along tool for guitarists and other musicians. It’s equipped with three modes to create, record, and perform your music: an eight-track MTR (Multi-Track Recorder) mode; an eBand mode for onstage backing tracks and phrase training; and a Live Rec mode for instantly capturing high-quality stereo recordings. You can even combine the three modes seamlessly.

SPL releases a new high-end mixer and/or summing box, NEOS. It has 12 faders for each stereo or mono channel and a master fader. It has inserts for the master channel for mastering processors. Using 120 volt technique it has a higher dynamic range (> 125 dB) and a lower noise threshold (-100dB) than its immediate competitors. It also has a mono, +30dB gain, cut, listen and solo option for every channel. At the master section you can select the mute, dim, mono, tape mix and master insert option.  It also has a bend option but for now this remains a mystery. This high-end mixer comes at a high-end price 9899 euro. This price indicates that it is aimed at the pro users who like to record their hardware into a DAW and/or to mix their software out of the box.