| FREE Webcast | The First Step Toward Quality Recording: Microphone, Preamp, Conversion
September 10, 2013 at 11 a.m. Pacific Time
In this free hour-long Webcast, produced by Mix magazine and presented by Millennia Media and Royer Labs, Mix technical editor Kevin Becka leads a discussion with a panel of renowned recording engineers/producers, who will walk through their audio chains and techniques for recording guitar, instruments and vocals—from setup and mic choices through preamp and conversion into the DAW, or straight to tape. A live 20-minute question and answer session will follow the presentation. |
| | Mix Regional | New York City
Mix Regional in Mix's October 2013 issue will visit New York City. Send us your studio and live music venue news! Let the Mix audience know what is going on! Send photos and descriptions of updates, sessions, new rooms, and club installations and performances to mixeditorial@nbmedia.com. |
| | Robair Report | 500 Series and Eurorack: A Call for Stricter Standards
While manufacturers have gone to great lengths to make computer peripherals plug-and-play, there is still a lot to be done in the hardware realm. Two modular formats, in particular—500 Series audio products and Eurorack synth modules—are showing such explosive growth that it has led to a gold-rush mentality. As a result, there is a glut of products, an increasing number of which are designed carelessly and, at times, border on being dangerously incompatible. |
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| | Featured Products | PreSonus RC 500 Channel Strip
PreSonus in Baton Rouge, La., has unveiled the RC 500 channel strip ($999.95 street price), which combines a low-distortion, high-gain, solid-state Class-A preamplifier with the same custom-designed FET compressor and semi-parametric EQ circuitry found in the PreSonus ADL 700 tube channel strip.
Maag Audio EQ2 500 Series Equalizer
The EQ2 is a single-channel, 2-band equalizer with Air Band, low mid-frequency (LMF) bell boost from Sub to 1.4 kHz, and an input attenuation (Input Attn) control for controlling down to –12.5 dB of attenuation. The EQ2's Air Band is equipped with an additional frequency selection at 15 kHz.
McDSP Offers Three New Plug-Ins
McDSP announces the release of the 6020 Ultimate EQ, the SPC Serial/Parallel Compressor and the AE400 Active EQ for the Pro Tools AAX Native and AAX DSP formats.
Find more new products from The Wire. » |
| | Announcements From Mix | RSPE Hosts Pro Tools 11: A New Era of Creativity (Part II) in Universal City on September 5
Multi-Platinum mix engineer Mick Guzauski and Jonathan Wales, CEO of Sonic Magic Studios, will return for a closer look at how the pros are using Pro Tools 11. Seats are limited—register today!
JZ Microphones offers 10% rebate on any JZ Microphones product » Plugin Alliance announces 'All Bundle' bargain with 0% finance schemes » Metric Halo's 2013 Summer Sale Extravaganza ends on September 15, 2013 » Blue Microphones, PreSonus offer the 'Two to Tango' promotion, which combines Blue's Kiwi large-diaphragm multi-pattern condenser microphone with PreSonus' ADL 700 tube-driven channel strip, for $3,499.99 at participating dealers until September 30, 2013. » Cinema Audio Society timeline for 50th CAS Awards. » Until December 31, 2013, any customer purchasing a qualifying Audio-Technica 40 Series studio microphone will have the chance to redeem an offer for a free pair of ATH-M50 professional studio monitor headphones (black version). » |
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