Focusrite Red 1 500 Series Microphone Preamplifier by Randy Poole, Nashville-based engineer & PAR Contributor "My own testing of the Red 1 500 included comparisons with other high quality preamps, including the Amek 9098, Focusrite ISA 428, Lola 500 (a hybrid Neve/990 op-amp design) and other 500 Series pres, each used within Radial Engineering's Workhorse 500 Series chassis. Tracking instrumentation included various vocals, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, drums and cello via a variety of microphones." More »
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NAMM By The Numbers by Kelleigh Welch While prepping for this year's Winter NAMM Show, the most important thing on my agenda was to pack a comfortable pair of shoes. A year earlier, I attended my first NAMM, where my biggest mistake was wearing the same pair of ballet flats that eventually gave me some painful blisters on my feet. Knowing that this year would include even more time browsing the show floor, I wanted to be sure I was comfortable.
Living in New York City (approximately 2,800 miles from the Anaheim Convention Center, the location of NAMM each winter), I actually walk quite a bit, and as a personal experiment, I bought myself a pedometer to calculate just how far I walk on a daily basis (I walk about 1.2 miles round trip for my daily commute, subway ride not included). I realized that I could just as easily track my mileage at NAMM, so I packed my pedometer to keep tabs on how far I actually walked. More »
The 2013 PAR Excellence Awards » 2013 marks the second year of the PAR Excellence Awards as a reader-voted program, presented by the Editors and Contributors of Pro Audio Review (PAR) magazine. An online balloting system allowed voting privileges to Pro Audio Review print and digital subscribers from the mail date of PAR August 2013's issue through November 15, 2013.