Lewitt LCT 940 Reference Class Tube/FET Microphone by Andrew Graeme for Audio Media, PAR's London-based sister publication “Just when you thought that no one could come up with anything truly different in the large-diaphragm condenser microphone market, Austrian microphone company Lewitt did. Their LCT 940 is unique: not only is it a tube mic and a FET mic combined, but the power supply also acts as remote control to alter sonic characteristics and to mix the tube and FET stages.” More »
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Today's Video
From PAR May/June 2014: St John, VI Recording Retreat 2014 by Rich Tozzoli I and a small gang of talented musicians, engineers and producers recently went to St John in the US Virgin Islands for two weeks of playing shows, recording, composing and, of course, relaxing. This is our third year. View these two videos of our setup at bassist Hank Skalka's island home and the world-class, mobile recording-ready gear that made the trip.
Read the full report in the new May/June 2014 issue of Pro Audio Review. More »
Today's Blog
Plundering the Grateful Dead by Clive Young Long before the mashup became a cultural touchstone, there was Plunderphonics, the brainchild of John Oswald, a Canadian avant garde composer who would create dense musical works by stacking different musical works on top of each other—a process he called "folding." One of his best-known efforts was the 1994-95 composition, Grayfolded, which mixed together 100 live recordings of the Grateful Dead jamming through "Dark Star" in concert.
Creating such a project today would be intimidating, but given the technical limitations of DAWs and computers at the time, the fact that he pulled it off is all the more amazing. Released in two parts between 1994 and 1995 on CD, the experimental work is now being released on vinyl for the first time as a three-LP set on Important Records. Digging back through the PSN archives, here's my coverage of how the project was created, from the December, 1995 issue of Pro Sound News. More »