Features (from Pro Audio Review, Audio Media, TV Tech) All-in-One Recorders – Feature article on the latest-generation portable workstations. From Pro Audio Review (PDF). Tracking the Transition – Steve interviews Chuck Ainlay, Bob Ludwig, Jon Astley and seven other top engineers and producers on the state of high-resolution recording. From AudioMedia UK (PDF) Remastering the […]

It’s Post-Time for Steinberg’s promising workstation workhorse In the eight years since its introduction, Steinberg Nuendo has matured into a full-featured, high-end studio and post production workstation system – one that is increasingly recognized by post and studio engineers as an attractive alternative to the reigning Digidesign Pro Tools. A major push towards the post-production […]

– This well-appointed conversion solution from SSL puts the Holy Translation Grail within reach. – Transferring a multitrack session with edits and handles intact from one DAW application to another is a generally fragile process—a process that can break in many different ways and at many different places. The commonly supported EDL (Edit Decision List) […]

Skokie, Ill.-based Studio Technologies recently introduced two single-rack unit audio mixers specifically designed for use in ENG vehicles: the single-bus model 740 ($995) and a dual-bus model called the 742 ($1,095). Despite their deceptively simple user interfaces, both mixers feature a healthy set of ENG or general broadcast features. FEATURESThe Model 742, reviewed here, is […]

  Business is booming – quite literally – for Mass.-based O.C. White. The company manufactures a range of industry-specific lighting and mechanical products with one thing in common: adjustable boom arms. Otis Charles White, a small-town dentist founded his eponymous company in 1894 with his pioneering design for a gas-fueled adjustable dental light. The company’s […]

Desktop DJs and voiceover artists take note: Joemeek is coming over and he wants to move into your spare drive bay. Fletcher Electronics, based in Torquay, England, is known for its line of bright green preamps and compressors inspired by Meek, the late pioneering engineer. With the introduction of the MQ1 recording interface ($299.99), Fletcher […]

  by Stephen Murphy Four years ago, Digigram made laptop and desk-bound computer users stand up and take notice with the introduction of the first professional-grade audio recording interface on a standard Type II PC card. Designed to enable audio production on a laptop computer, the diminutive two-channel VXpocket offered portable performance on par with […]

With the miniaturization of professional quality recording gear comes the miniaturization of recording spaces. The prohibitive costs associated with building a studio from the ground up combined with smaller space requirements have led many to utilize existing – and typically rectangular – rooms for project and professional studios. Unfortunately, typical home and office rooms are […]

No one ever accused Doug Fearn of cranking out new products for new products’ sake. In development for nearly 10 years, Fearn’s perfectionist approach to tube circuit design has culminated in the long-awaited release of the high-end VT-7 dual-channel compression amplifier ($4,400). Like Fearn’s earlier vacuum tube preamp and EQ offerings, the result of his […]

“The world is changing. I feel it in the water. I smell it in the air. I see it in my equipment rack…”Okay., not a verbatim rendition of the opening monologue to the movie Fellowship of the Rings, but here’s the point: a few months ago, the world of pro audio  changed, though hopefully for […]