Product Reviews
Real-World Review: Roland SE-02 Analog Synthesizer
By Bruce MacPherson. Doubling as a tactile surface controller for Omnisphere 2.6, Roland’s SE-02 came in handy in a remote island paradise.
Console / DAW Controllers
Recording
Software Tech: Remote Possibilities
By Craig Anderton. Smartphones and tablets have fostered a veritable explosion in DAW remote control options.
New Products
iCON Pro Audio Unveils QCon Pro G2 Control Surface
New expandable control surface supports most popular DAWs.
New Products
PreSonus Unveils Atom Pad Controller
The new production controller is intended to help produce beats and more.
New Products
PreSonus Revamps FaderPort Production Controller
New controller retains some FaderPort 8 elements, while adding features.
New Products
SSL Adds DAW Control to System T
The console can now control Pro Tools, Reaper, Logic and other DAWs.
Business
SSL Acquired by Console Conglomerate Audiotonix
By Steve Harvey. Solid State Logic has been acquired by Audiotonix, which owns DiGiCo, Calrec and Allen & Heath brands. The move comes less than a year after French investor Astorg injected approximately $254 million into the group.
Business
View From The Top: Gilad Keren, CEO, Waves Audio, Ltd.
By Glenn Greenberg. Gilad Keren, CEO of Waves Audio, LTD., looks back at how a chance encounter while in the Israeli military led to co-founding one of the most prominent plug-in manufacturers in the industry.
Recording
Avid Connects Maroon 5
Maroon 5 used numerous audio tools from Avid to complete its latest album.
New Products
A&H Adds sE Presets for Qu Series
Penryn, England (November 30, 2017)—Allen & Heath has announced the availability of the latest ProFactory channel libraries for its Qu Series digital mixers. Following collaborations with Shure, Sennheiser and Audio-Technica, the new presets cover a range of popular sE...
Live
Rack-Mixer Revolution
By Strother Bullins. Proprietary mix surfaces are still the norm at FOH positions around the world, yet seemingly every new digital mixing product on the market boasts some touch-based or GUI (Graphic User Interface) feature. Many are nearly or...
New Products
Allen & Heath Debuts ME-500 Mixer
Adding on to its ME personal mixing system, Allen & Heath has introduced its 16-channel ME-500 personal mixer.
Recording
CRAS, Blue Partner for Package
The Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences (CRAS) has announced that new students entering the Master Recording Program will receive numerous Blue tools as a part of their Laptop Recording Package.
Recording
Conservatoire Interfaces with Prism Sound
Prism Sound has supplied the UK’s new Birmingham Conservatoire with a range of audio interfaces, including 20 of its flagship ADA-8XR multichannel converters.
Recording
‘Mi Gente’ Mixed With RME
The Latin-tinged “Mi Gente” has been storming the charts this summer, hitting number one in 17 countries—and Spotify Global—and garnering 270 million views on YouTube. The collaboration between French DJ Willy William and J Balvin was mixed by composer/producer...
Recording
AID Upgrades Massey Dub Stage
Film dubbing mixer Paul Massey, who has worked on more than 170 films, recently called on the integrators at Audio Intervisual Design for a major upgrade to his private dub stage.
New Products
QSC TouchMix Series Gains Updates
QSC has effectively updated its entire TouchMix Series with the newly unveiled Version 3.0 software for TouchMix-8 and TouchMix-16 and Version 1.2 for TouchMix-30 Pro. The new firmware is available as a free download for current users and will...
Recording
Arkansas Studio Opens with SSL
Haxton Road Studios, a new ground-up facility in Bentonville, AR, has put a Solid State Logic AWS 948 hybrid analog console supplied by Vintage King at the center of its operation.
Post and Broadcast
Welcome to the Digital Jungle
Santa Clarita may not be as synonymous with film and television production as Hollywood, but in 2016, the city’s film office recorded 548 film permits and 1,366 film days—a reported 52 percent increase since 2011.
New Products
Apogee Bows Element 88/Control Bundle
Apogee Electronics has brought both its Element 88 Thunderbolt audio interface and Apogee Control remote together for a limited-time bundle.
Recording
PreSonus Bows Quantum Interface
PreSonus has introduced Quantum, a new 26x32-channel audio/MIDI interface with a Thunderbolt 2 bus and 24-bit, 192 kHz converters.
Recording
SSL Announces Software Updates
At Pro Light+Sound in Frankfurt, Solid State Logic announced the release of new Delta-control plug-ins for Delta-enabled AWS consoles and the release of Delta-control software for all Matrix2 and Matrix consoles.
Recording
PreSonus Bows StudioLive 24 Console
PreSonus has introduced a new 24-channel StudioLive 24 digital console/recorder to its StudioLive Series III line.
Recording
Big Little Lies Loads Up On Sound Devices
Brendan Beebe, CAS, who got his first break handling communications on Titanic, has been using a cart-load of Sound Devices gear on HBO’s Big Little Lies and FX’s American Horror Story.
Post and Broadcast
Cinemat Rolls Out Calrec Truck
Cinemat Miami has undergone significant expansion of its rental production capabilities with the launch of a new eight-camera production truck outfitted with a Calrec Summa digital audio console.
Post and Broadcast
IMN Creative Opens Doors with Atmos
GLENDALE, CA—After years of working out of post production houses and major film facilities around Hollywood, in addition to his own studio known as The Barn, Mark Binder has a new, custom-built complex to support his wholesale leap into...
Post and Broadcast
Feildin’ Stream: Roland Streams Own Festival
BURBANK, CA—Roland rolled out more than two-dozen new musical instrument products on “#909day” with an around-the-clock streaming online music festival from eight major cities worldwide under the banner “The Future.
Recording
Wherefore, Art House America?
NASHVILLE, TN—Art House America, a non-profit/collection of studios in Nashville, has returned, following a massive refurbishing.
News
AR/VR Surrounds AES
This year’s AES Convention took the theme “Immersed in Audio,” a play on words that described the experience of losing oneself in the new technology on display while also encompassing the new conference-within-a-conference focusing on the immersive worlds of...
Business
Cordial Shakeups at Focusrite, Avid
It’s a tale of two Tims. Twenty-year Avid veteran Tim Carroll is leaving the company at year’s end to become the new CEO of the Focusrite Group, taking the reigns from current CEO Dave Froker, who is retiring. As...
Post and Broadcast
M3 Adds Lawo for Latin Grammys
Music Mix Mobile will deliver the music mix for the 2016 Latin Grammy Awards telecast on November 17 using a 40-fader Lawo mc?36 console in its Voyager mobile.
New Products
API Legacy AXS Desk Gains Momentum
When API debuted its new Legacy AXS Console at the recent 141st AES Convention in Los Angeles, it had already sold the first model to Strange Weather Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Now the second AXS has found a home,...
Post and Broadcast
Roundabout Does the Time Warp Again
The mix of the soundtrack for The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let’s Do the Time Warp Again! was recently completed at Roundabout Entertainment in Burbank by veteran re-recording mixers David E. Fluhr CAS and Ben Wilkins.
Post and Broadcast
Haehnel Connects with RedNet
Veteran scoring engineer Brad Haehnel has worked on more than 10 films to-date, including the recent movies Pete’s Dragon and Storks, using RedNet Dante-networked audio converters and interfaces from Focusrite
Business
AES Tech Tours to go Behind The Scenes
While there will be tons to do, hear and see at the 141st AES International Convention this week, the AES will be your ticket to going behind the scenes to some of Los Angeles’ most important audio strongholds, including...
Business
Yamaha Ready for AES Show
Yamaha Professional Audio is set to roll at next week’s Audio Engineering Society Convention in Los Angeles. Ready to meet he masses with their passes, Yamaha will have at its booth Rivage PM10 along with CL and QLV4, TFV3...
New Products
DTS Bows Tech at IBC 2016
DTS, Inc. presented its DTS:X Encoder Suite, broadcast radio technologies and new VR audio solutions at IBC.
Recording
WildSound Builds WSDG Mix Room
WildSound Studios owners Mike Idioma and Tony Tuviera recently called on WSDG - Walters-Storyk Design Group to create a Dolby Atmos audio mixing studio in Quezon City’s Sampaguita Pictures Compound.
New Products
Studer Debuts Glacier Control Surfaces
Studer has announced its new Glacier Series of customizable audio control surfaces, intended for broadcast and production facilities. Comprised of two modules and a multi-touch GUI, the Glacier Series is compatible with current and previous Studer DSP platforms, but...
Post and Broadcast
Astro Goes Virtual with Lawo
Astro Radio in Malaysia now delivers news and traffic to more than 12 million listeners every week via the Lawo Virtual Radio Consoles in its new studios.
Post and Broadcast
YouTube Space London Adds SSL
At IBC 2016, Evertz, Ross Video and Solid State Logic announced their participation in the launch of YouTube Space London, including the installation of an SSL System T.
Business
Blackmagic Acquires Fairlight
At IBC 2016, video products manufacturer Blackmagic Design announced its acquisition of Fairlight, which creates professional digital audio products for live broadcast event production, film and television post production, and immersive 3D audio mixing and finishing.
Business
Genelec Experience Centre Opens in UK
The first Genelec Experience Centre—a 34.5-square-meter demonstration facility—has opened in London, enabling visitors to audition the manufacturer’s active monitors for music, post, broadcast and install applications.
Recording
Adam Goes Solo at The Facility
Adam Audio’s A77X powered monitors are the only speakers installed at The Facility Nashville, which opened one year ago and caters to the city’s songwriters, recording artists and top session musicians.
Post and Broadcast
FOX Sports Scores with Lawo
This year’s Copa América, held June 3 through 26 at venues across the U.S., was broadcast live by FOX Sports using two recently purchased IP-based Lawo remote production kits.