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August 4, 2015 New Products Community R Series: Gains EASE Focus 2 GLL Data Files » Cymatic Audio uTrack 24 uRemote App for Android OS » IK Multimedia T-RackS Stealth Limiter » Roland M-5000C Live Console » Read the November/December 2014 Issue of PAR Now! Click Here For The Digital Edition Today's Review NewerTech USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapter By Frank Wells If you are like me, you have a stack of old hard drives laying about—system and slave drives from older computers, small capacity drives (by today's standards) once used for projects and maybe an old laptop drive or two. For IDE drives, I have an older Ultra external drive housing with FireWire and USB support, but for other drives, like a laptop drive that had to be replaced, I didn't have the ability to utilize them for anything useful, nor could I even access the old data without temporarily installing such drives in a computer. Enter NewerTech with a simple and elegant solution: the NewerTech USB 3.0 Universal Drive Adapter (USB3 UDA). This $39.95 (list) device handles 40-pin 3.5-inch and 5.25-inch IDE/ATA/ATAPI hard drives and optical drives, 44-pin 2.5-inch IDE/ATA hard drives and any drive with a standard SATA connector, converting them to an external USB3 drive. The core device is just 1.4 oz with accessories attached. It measures 3.35-inches by 1.9-inches by .53-inches. 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 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 » Click The Covers — Digital Edition Quick Links Months of PAR's digital edition reviews are just a click away! More » 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 » Events Mix Nashville Professional Audio Exhibition and Seminar Series, August 29, 2015, Nashville » 139th AES International Convention, October 29-November 1, New York City »

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