 | | November 21, 2014 | | New Products |
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Click Here For The Digital Edition | | Today's Review | CAD Live Microphone Series
By Strother Bullins, Editor of Pro Audio Review
I've wanted to use a "warm and forgiving" ribbon microphone live (especially on guitar cab and some wind instruments), but have never been comfortable bringing out pricier ribbons for some dirty club gig or confident in buying a generic "cheap" one either.
Thus enters the new CAD Live Microphone Series with its flagship ribbon, the D82, priced at an amazing $159 street. It's a robustly built side-address microphone capable of handling up to 140 dB (@100 Hz). It feels solid in the hand, just like CAD's other offerings on the higher end of its price list, and should inspire confidence in on-stage musicians, too. The other two CAD Live mics currently in the series—the large diaphragm condenser cardioid D84 and large diaphragm dynamic super cardioid D80 ($159 and $99 street, respectively)— are also fine performers, effectively bringing affordable and abuse-ready large diaphragm condenser performance to the club stage. More » |
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| | Today's Blog | FCC Wireless Changes
By Steve Harvey, PAR Contributor
The following is an expanded version of the cover story for Pro Sound News, November 2014.
On September 30, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released two NPRMs (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking), one proposing amendments to Part 15 of its rules, significantly affecting unlicensed wireless operations in the 600 MHz band, and a second intended to promote replacement wireless microphone spectrum access outside the 600 MHz band. The proposals eliminate the two 6 MHz TV channels currently set aside for licensed mic operators, replacing them with a 4 MHz chunk of the so-called duplex gap that is chiefly intended for ENG crew use.
"It's encouraging that [the FCC] specifically talk about future spectrums in addition to the UHF TV bands where we may be able to operate," says Jackie Green, Audio-Technica's VP of R&D/engineering. "For me, that means that the FCC is trying to find solutions where wireless microphones can survive, or thrive. But I think that, in general, the mantra going forward is coexistence. We're going to have to learn to share a lot." More »
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| | Today's Video | PAR-Tube Presents: Review Preview featuring Manley Core
By Rob Tavaglione for Pro Audio Review
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 latest installment, a Review Preview "unboxing" vid, is presented by Rob Tavaglione on the buzzed-about Core channel strip from Manley Labs.
Stay tuned to the pages of Pro Audio Review and prosoundnetwork.com for full, comprehensive text-based reviews as well as more PAR-Tube content. Rob's full Core review, complete with session-based audio clips, will appear in the Nov/Dec 2014 issue of Pro Audio Review, available via free subscription with additional print issue distribution at the 2015 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. More » |
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