New Products
Røde Unveils Rodecaster Pro Accessories
A bevy of new Rodecaster Pro accessories make the mixer more portable while aiding organization and bringing smartphones into the mix.
Accessories
The Wire
Working Remotely – TransAudio Group Maintains Its Pro Audio Supply Chain Amid COVID-19 Disruption
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of high-end professional audio recording equipment, announces that it is able to maintain near-normal operations amid the COVID-19 global pandemic. Our hours of operation (7am – 4pm Pacific) remain in effect, and all...
Product Reviews
Real World Reviews: Ultimate Ears Bluetooth Cable
Producer/engineer Russ Long puts a new UE accessory to the test and discovers "anyone wanting the ability to operate wire-free while casually listening will love the Ultimate Ears Bluetooth Cable."
Gear and Technology
Bose Bows Portable Product Accessories
Bose ships a new mixer case and aesthetic offerings for S1 users.
Gear and Technology
KEF America Launches LSX Monitor Accessories
KEF’s LSX monitors, aimed at both mixing recording pros and consumers, now have a trio of accessories.
Gear and Technology
Gravity Bows LTS 01 B Laptop Stand
Gravity has unveiled its new LTS 01 B tabletop holder for laptops and music production controllers.
Gear and Technology
Apogee, Sennheiser Debut AMBEO Headset
Apogee and Sennheiser have co-developed the Sennheiser AMBEO Smart Headset, a consumer electronics product designed to both capture and play back 3D immersive audio via Sennheiser’s own Ambisonic software.
Gear and Technology
RØDE Debuts AI-1 Audio Interface
RØDE Microphones has released the AI-1, marking its first foray into the realm of USB audio interfaces, available on its own or as part of a new bundle, The Complete Studio Kit.
Gear and Technology
Carl Tatz Discounts for Cyber Monday
For today only, Carl Tatz Design (CTD) has discounted its Carl Tatz Edition Argosy Dual 15-800 line of workstations by $300, and its PhantomFocus eChair by $25. These discounts will show up in the shopping cart upon purchase at...
Gear and Technology
Review: iRig Acoustic Stage
By Rob Tavaglione. IK Multimedia makes a number of gadgets, accessories and forward-thinking tools that are geared towards the postmodern performing and self-recording musician. However, its new iRig Acoustic Stage is a must-have for both live and studio sound...
Music Production
Gore Takes BAE to the Top
Nashville-based recording engineer and mixer Ryan Gore recently used BAE Audio’s 1073 to cut lead vocals on two hit country singles, Old Dominion’s “No Such Thing As A Broken Heart” and Jon Pardi’s “Heartache On The Dance Floor.”
Gear and Technology
Focusrite, AAS Team on Free Bundle
The Focusrite Plug-in Collective has teamed with plug-in company Applied Acoustics Systems to offer Session Bundle for free until December 8, 2017.
Music Production
Prism Converters Go To College
The Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, England, has increased its inventory of Prism Sound ADA-8XR multichannel audio converters to nine with the recent addition of new three units.
Music Production
Skyland Opts for myMix Monitoring
Skyland Studios near Minneapolis has chosen myMix for its artist monitoring needs, making it a staple for its artists, according to Darren Rust, who has owned the facility for 11 years.
Gear and Technology
Review: Hooke Audio Verse
Everyone is a content creator these days. But while we can capture HD video on our smart devices, says Anthony Mattana, “When it comes to audio on our phones, we throw a Hail Mary and say, ‘the mic’s open.’...
Music Production
P&E Wing Takes On Preservation
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing, in partnership with Iron Mountain Entertainment Services held an exclusive event at Third Man Records in Nashville during the Summer NAMM Show.
Gear and Technology
Apogee Updates Ensemble Thunderbolt
Apogee Electronics has unveiled new control software, providing new features for its Ensemble Thunderbolt audio interface.
Gear and Technology
Radial Ships Studio-Q Talk-Back/Cue System
Radial Engineering has shipped its new desktop talk-back/cue system, the Studio-Q.
Gear and Technology
Hal Leonard Bows Scoring the Screen
Hal Leonard Books has announced the publication of Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music by Andy Hill, a Grammy Award-winning motion picture music producer.
Gear and Technology
Shure, Colorware Debut Custom Color SM58s
Shure, working in conjunction with ColorWare, has introduced custom color options for the manufacturer’s top-selling microphone—the SM58.
Business
KMC Adds to Pro Audio Portfolio
KMC Pro Audio has added more brands to its roster, with the new additions of American DJ, AtlasIED and Quest. Within the last month, the distributor also added TASCAM and Mackie.
Gear and Technology
Radial Ships Cab-Link Solution
Vancouver, Canada (July 5, 2017)—Now shipping, Radial Engineering’s Cab-Link ($79 USD) is a compact solution for audio engineers and instrumentalists, particularly guitarists, to utilize an amplifier’s single speaker output to connect to two cabinets simultaneously. The passive Cab-Link combines...
Business
BAE Gets Busy at GearFest
Sweetwater’s annual GearFest has become a pilgrimage for music fans and gear nuts alike. The 16th edition of the two-day festival took place this past weekend, serving up more than 400 manufacturers in the pro audio and musical instruments...
Gear and Technology
Review: Sennheiser TeamConnect Wireless System
Over seven decades, German pro audio manufacturer Sennheiser secured its legendary reputation by building world-class microphones, headphones and wireless systems, yet arguably some of its most interesting products have hit the market within the last few years.
Recording
Studio Showcase: Beach Road
By Strother Bullins. JUNO Award-winning producer, engineer, songwriter and mixer Siegfried Meier owns Beach Road Studios, a private recording, mixing and mastering facility overlooking lovely Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada on a sprawling farm. At the age of 5,...
Music Production
Interacting with the Sounds of Simon
By Steve Harvey. Paul Simon: Words & Music, a traveling exhibition organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, is currently making its only west coast stop at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, through...
Gear and Technology
Sound Devices Bows Wingman for Android
The Wingman remote control application for Sound Devices‘ 6-Series and MixPre Series products is now available for Android users.
Music Production
Radial Ships LX-3 Splitter
Radial Engineering has shipped its LX-3 passive line splitter.
Post and Broadcast
Inside Facebook’s VR Audio Initiative
Facebook engineers have started to reveal for the first time some of the technical details behind the platform’s suite of 360-degree audio tools.
News
25-Seven: Oh, My TVC-15
25-Seven Systems, part of the Telos Alliance, has launched a new product, the 25-Seven TVC-15 broadcast watermark analyzer and monitor.
Business
Sound United Acquires Denon, Marantz
Sound United LLC. has completed its acquisition of D+M Group, which owns the Denon, HEOS by Denon, Marantz and Boston Acoustics brands. With the closing of the purchase, Sound United has been renamed, dropping the “LLC” as it adds...
Business
S.I.R. Celebrates 50 Years
Studio Instrument Rentals (SIR) formed when founders Ken Berry and Dolph Rempp rented out a bass guitar for a recording session in Hollywood in 1967. Now the company is celebrating its 50th anniversary throughout 2017.
Gear and Technology
Kaltman Bows RF-Compass Mic Tracker
Kaltman Creations has launched the RF-Compass, reportedly the first automated antenna tracker system for wireless microphones and IEM equipment.
Gear and Technology
At NAMM: Shure Adds to GLX-D Line
Shure expanded its GLX-D digital wireless line, adding a suite of products collectively called GLX-D Advanced Digital Wireless that includes the GLX-D Advanced Frequency Manager, rack-mount receiver system, remote antennas and accessories.
Gear and Technology
Eventide at NAMM: Structural Effects, More
Eventide will debut a new plug-in technology, Structural Effects, and a new algorithm for the H9 Harmonizer at next week’s NAMM show in Anaheim, CA.
Live
Meyer Aids London’s ‘School of Rock’
London-based Autograph Sound has been providing Meyer Sound LEO Family reinforcement systems for numerous West End musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock: The Musical. Based on the 2003 film of the same name, it features Lloyd Webber’s...
Gear and Technology
BAE to Bow 500 Series Offerings at NAMM
500 Series modules have become a staple of nearly every studio, and with that in mind, BAE Audio will use next week’s NAMM Show to debut two new products aimed at the category: the 500C FET lunchbox compressor and...
Music Production
Oufitting a Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Mount Olive High School (MOHS), rated among the top schools in the nation, made some major upgrades to its facilities over its summer recess, including the construction of a recording studio outfitted with an API Vision analog mixing console.
Post and Broadcast
Going Straight to the SourceAudio
SourceAudio cofounders Dan Korobkin and Geoffrey Grotz, veterans of the entertainment and media industry, are helping to streamline the discovery, distribution, licensing and tracking of production music with their company’s platform, which launched in 2010.
Business
BTX Nets Neutrik Certification
Neutrik has named BTX as a Certified opticalCON Cable Assembler (COCA) for its opticalCON LITE line of fiber-optic connection systems.
Gear and Technology
RAD Bows TX-8/900M Antenna Combiner
Radio Active Designs has shipped its TX-8/900M, a wireless antenna combiner for the 900 MHz band.
Music Production
DPA Winner Faced Extremes
DPA Microphones received 700-plus stories in response to its recent Tell Us Your Story competition, which offered a range of prizes and asked customers to share stories about how they use microphones.