 | | May 28, 2015 | | New Products | | | Read the November/December 2014 Issue of PAR Now! Click Here For The Digital Edition | 
| | Today's Review | Manley Force Four-Channel Microphone Preamplifier By Rob Tavaglione On the heels of Manley Labs' successful launch of its Core input channel, the company delivers another anticipated success, the Force Four-Channel Microphone Preamplifier. And no surprises herethis preamp is a winner. 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 | Networking Headlines in Live Touring By Steve Harvey Networking is becoming ubiquitous in live sound, both for install and for portable/touring applications. What are the challenges and practical implications as end users deploy systems? What clever solutions are they coming up with now that they have some experience under their belts? We explored these questions in a cover story for the June, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News; what follows is further discussion beyond the printed article. Twenty-four years after publication, the AES10 standardMADIis still going strong. Waithe had initially specified RedNet 6 boxes to provide distributed signal I/O in The Juilliard School’s Peter Jay Sharp Theater, he recalls. “Then DiGiCo changed its software; now, with the ‘copy audio’ function, I can take the MADI stream from any rack and select what order the inputs are sent to the main MADI output. MADI is turning into a Dante-like system.” Since MADI may be split from either SD10, over fiber, or the RedNet rig, sends to the recording department are triple redundant. The theater system offers flexible interoperability via Dante, Optocore and MADI with the facility’s recording department, he adds. “All of that is able to interface with the recording department, or anybody else. More » Click The Covers Digital Edition Quick Links Months of PAR's digital edition reviews are just a click away! More » | | | Today's Video | Musicians Institute Hits The Ebooks By Rich Tozzoli If you watched MTV for 20 minutes back in the hair-metal daze of the late 80s-early 90s, odds are you caught an ad where guitarist Paul Gilbert used an electric drill to play guitar. A brilliant, simple advertisement, it's stuck in my head to this day because it made a concrete, eye-catching statement about the school it was promotingMusicians Institute in Hollywood, CA. More » | | | Events | | |  | |  | |