Acoustics & Studio Furniture Digital Edition Presented by Mix
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• New Acoustic Products for Diffusion, Absorption and Vocal Recording: There is no one-size-fits-all to the science and math behind each individual room, but there are acoustic treatment systems and products, as well as studio furniture, to get an engineer started on the right path to a quality recording/mixing environment.
• Profiles of Professional Studios That Have Improved Their Mix Positions: See what Phase One in Toronto, WMN Studios in Whistler, B.C., St. Izzy's of the East in Nashville, and John Alagia and Ken Caillat at The Village in Los Angeles have done to their rooms to ensure that their mixes translate to the world
• Tips and Techniques on Where to Begin With Room Treatments: Where do you put your speakers? How do you know where to experiment with absorption? With Diffusion? How can you make sure that your low-end information is accurate and true. Check out a few helpful hints on getting you started—before you call the manufacturer.
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Broadcasters understandably are on the conservative side when it comes to embracing new technology; they want the five 9s of reliability, and they are careful about investing in new equipment.
YouTuber Emily Eifler, who runs BlinkPopShift, says many consumers and content creators are getting tired of the same old rhetoric: "The net neutrality umbrella starts to become something that people get message fatigue about and the more you talk about just net neutrality as a topic I feel like the less people start to understand the individual issues under which you could organize people."
Spike Lee's new film, "Da Sweet Blood of Jesus," is a remake of Bill Gunn's 1973 "Ganja and Hess," a film Lee himself saw when he was in film school. To make it, Lee took a page from the book of the students he teaches as a film professor at NYU--he turned to Kickstarter.
Like a lot of shows on PBS these days ("Downton Abbey," "Sherlock," "Call the Midwife"), its new sitcom "Vicious" is a UK import. But one thing that sets the show--about an elderly gay couple played by Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi--apart is its distinctly American creator, Gary Janetti.
"The spectrum that the broadcasters use to transmit over the air programming belongs to the American public and we believe you should have a right to access that live programming whether your antenna sits on the roof of your home, on top of your television or in the cloud," maintains Aero founder Chet Kanjoia.
Best of Show Award Winners at InfoComm 2014 The Pro Audio Group team of NewBay Media's AV and Pro Audio Group announced its Best of Show Award winners today at the InfoComm 2014. NewBay Media's Best of Show Awards are judged by a panel of engineers and industry experts from submitted nominations. Criteria include ease of installation and use/maintenance, performance, relevance, value/ROI, network friendliness, versatility, and reliability. More »
On The Future of Touch Screen Technology in Audio Production By Lynn Fuston, Technical Editor for Pro Audio Review I like visionaries and innovators: those who get out front of currently accepted standards and utilize/create technology to push the boundaries. Names like Tesla, Edison, Blumlein and Marconi come to mind.
But right now it seems there's a lot more focus on recreating/modeling classics of the past (some 50 years old or more), both in hard and software than in innovation. Since the 90s, the start of the digital revolution, manufacturers have focused on higher sampling rates, better specs, lower noise and power consumption, but we've just about achieved all we can in that regard. So what are the next areas for innovation and growth? What's the next advancement in music production technology? More »
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Today's Video
PAR-Tube Presents — Review Preview: Ear Trumpet Labs Mabel by PAR Editorial Staff The Editors of Pro Audio Review magazine proudly present "PAR-Tube," a new initiative starring the Contributors of PAR in an ongoing video-based review, applications and new product presentation series. Our introductory installment, a Review Preview "unboxing" vid, is presented by Rob Tavaglione on the Ear Trumpet Labs Mabel large diaphragm condenser microphone. More »
Today's Blog
AoIP, AES67 and Interoperability By Steve Harvey Audio-over-IP networking systems have largely been unable to play together nicely—until now. In September 2013, the Audio Engineering Society published AES67, a standard for high-performance streaming over audio-over-IP interoperability, which has already been implemented by Telos Alliance's Axia division and ALC NetworX, the organization behind RAVENNA. More »