PAR E-Reviewsletter featuring NAMM 2015’s Best of Show Awards

January 28, 2015 New Products NAMM 2015's Best of Show Awards The Pro Audio division of NewBay Media's AV/Pro Audio Group announced its Best of Show Award winners today following the 2015 NAMM Show. The Pro Audio division is comprised of trusted NewBay Media titles Mix, Pro Sound News (PSN) and Pro Audio Review (PAR). NewBay Media's Best of Show Awards are gleaned from submitted nominations and subsequent evaluation by a panel of engineers, industry experts and NewBay Media staff members. The eight winners are as follows ... More » Read the November/December 2014 Issue of PAR Now! Click Here For The Digital Edition Today's Review Marshall Electronics IPTV Live Music Event Streaming System By Russ Long Although it typically comes with a hefty price tag, streaming live music events has played a major role in the music industry over the last several years and its popularity continues to grow. Live streaming is a fantastic way to instantly bring a live performance into a fan's living room in the same city or on the opposite side of the globe. The downside is the cost, which has typically limited it to higher profile acts with deep pockets. While there have been a few economical options, they have predictably provided inadequate sound and video quality which kept them from gaining mass appeal. Marshall Electronics has teamed up with StreamVu to change all of this. At first I was skeptical that the sound and image quality would be up to par with the quality achieved when spending several times more money, but after using the system to broadcast a live show by the Grammy-nominated band The Choir, I'm sold. Marshall's small, highly configurable IPTV system allows a band to incorporate a multi-camera shoot with high-quality audio at an introductory price of only a few thousand dollars. 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 Book Review: The Sound Book By Clive Young With a title like The Sound Book (W.W. Norton & Co.), you might expect Trevor Cox's new tome to be a dry textbook full of mind-numbing scientific exploration into sound wave propagation and so on. Luckily, while Cox throws some physics and neuroscience at the reader every few pages, most of the exploration here is the old-fashioned kind, as we follow him around the globe in search of the world's strangest sounds. More » Click The Covers — Digital Edition Quick Links Months of PAR's digital edition reviews are just a click away! More » Today's Video PAR-Tube Presents: Tavaglione’s Live “Xmas” By Rob Tavaglione for Pro Sound Network Here, Studio Reviews Contributor Rob Tavaglione shares the video for vocalist Allie Monday's rendition of "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," which Rob recently recorded live at the McGlohon Theater in Charlotte, NC (http://www.blumenthalarts.org/visiting/spirit-square/mcglohon-theater). Note the Ear Trumpet Labs Mabel large diaphragm condenser microphone serving as Monday's vocal microphone, which Rob recently reviewed and featured in a PAR-Tube "Review Preview" (http://www.prosoundnetwork.com/PAR-Tube_ReviewPreview_EarTrumpetLabsMabel). More » Events NAB Show 2015, Apr 11-16, Las Vegas »

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