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Click Here For The Digital Edition | | Today's Review | Ultimate Ears Sound Guard IEM Processor/Limiter
By Russ Long
Since developing in-ear monitory (IEM) technology for the recording and live sound industries in 1995, Ultimate Ears (UE) has been at the forefront of personal monitoring products. Its innovation shows no signs of slowing, either; this past January, I had the opportunity to take a peek into the future of IEM technology with UE at Winter NAMM 2015. Gone are the days of an audiologist taking a mold of your ear cavity to assure the IEMs provide proper fit; UE now incorporates a digital scanner to capture digital ear impressions of the ear canal, then utilizes a 3D printer to build the earphone shell. This results in IEMs that fit perfectly and can be manufactured in a shorter period of time. This is a notable innovation when, for example, touring artists misplace their IEMs and need an immediate replacement or a new musician is hired who doesn't have a set of IEMs but need a pair immediately. Check out coverage of the process through the links at prosoundnetwork.com/july2015. More » |
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| | Today's Blog | In-Ear Monitors Vs. Things In Your Ears
By Erica Basnicki
For years I have regretted my pierced tragus. The tragus is that little flap of skin that covers the opening in to your ear canal. The actual piercing is remarkably painless (not a lot of nerve endings there).
Trying to fit in-ear monitors or earbud-type headphones around the ring? Impossible–and very painful. An earbud never stays in place for long so I can either jam it back in place every few seconds, live with over-ear headphone sweat (yum), or accept the poor stereo imaging from having one headphone further away from my ear than the other.
Then, it happened. On an otherwise ordinary day at Prolight + Sound, Frankfurt, some benevolent (and body-modification sympathetic) deity guided me to the Ultimate Ears booth.
There was magic happening there. Sorcerers were waving powerful wands inside people's ears, capturing exact 3D models of every fold of skin and precise measurements of ear canals. More »
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| | Today's Video | The Battle To Capture Battles
By Clive Young
Battles has always been an interesting band, staking out a musical space somewhere between the conformity of modern electronic loop-based music and the improvisational nature of experimental, freeform rock. The trio mines the tension between musical forms, but recording that push-and-pull so that it maintains an organic truth isn't a simple process—and that battle is captured in the short documentary, Battles: The Art of Repetition.
Following the band as it records a new album for Warp Records—La Di Da Di, due out September 18, 2015—the flick kicks off with a mix of live footage from Germany's Immergut Festival and pre-studio rehearsals in Battles' hometown of New York City. Noting that the cost to record in Manhattan for a few days can net the group a three-week lockout elsewhere, it's not long before the group heads off to Machines with Magnets Studio in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. More » |
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