 | | September 4, 2014 | | New Products | | | Today's Video | PAR-Tube Presents—World-Class Microphone Preamplifiers, Favorite Flavors: Earthworks 1024 ZDT by Rob Tavaglione, PAR Contributor 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. Here, PAR Contributor Rob Tavaglione continues in part 4 of our first monthly topic, "World-Class Microphone Preamplifiers, Favorite Flavors" with the Earthworks 1024 ZDT. More » | | | Today's Review | SoundField SPS200 Surround Sound Microphone By Rob Tavaglione, PAR Contributor Multiple diaphragm surround-sound mics seem like such a luxury to engineers who work in stereo. There are numerous solutions and methodologies for capturing such immersive audio, but the microphone systems on the market are quite expensive and often bulky—and if not bulky, they at least have accompanying hardware for encoding, monitoring, etc. Worse yet, some solutions require users to commit to a surround format and hope that any needed fold-downs or re-formatting will be successful in post. The SoundField SPS200 takes an entirely different approach. More » | | | | | No subscription to Pro Audio Review? Get on the inside track with the best peer-to-peer pro reviews in the audio production biz: visit http://www.mypsnmag.com now! | | | Today's Blog | PAR Editorial: On The Importance Of Gear By Frank Wells, PAR Editorial Director One regular client from my studio days, a superlative golden-eared producer/engineer, had a plethora of exotic analog outboard gear that he married in to a digital workflow. Then one day, he put the whole lot on eBay. He said that while he could discern differences between the hardware and the latest software versions of the devices, the differences were so minute as to be insignificant. In a full mix, he said, any differences were completely insignificant, as they were not audible in that context. None of his artists had any complaints about the transition, nor did the labels paying him for his services. More » Click The Covers — Digital Edition Quick Links Months of PAR's digital edition reviews are just a click away! More » | Read the July/August 2014 Issue of PAR Now! Click Here For The Digital Edition | | | Events | | |  | |  | |