Symphony I/O: Next-Gen Apogee High-end I/O, Works with Any Mac DAW Via USB

Looking for all the world like a high-end audiophile stereo radio receiver as much as pro audio equipment, the shiny, new Symphony I/O has arrived from Apogee. It’s a top-of-the-range audio interface designed for low latency, high-quality digital-to-analog conversion, and quality clocking, as well as flexible input and output, coming from a company known in the category. [...]

Albert Leccese, 1953-2010

Mix executive editor George Petersen remembers Albert Leccese, the co-owner and vice president/director of engineering at Audio Analysts in Colorado Springs, lost a five-year battle with lung cancer and passed away on July 17, 2010, with his family at his [...]

GameSoundCon Announces 2010 Fall Conferences

SoundCon LLC in Seattle announces it has added New York City and San Francisco to its list of 2010 locations for its GameSoundCon conference on videogame music composition and sound design. GameSoundCon New York and San Francisco are intensive two-day seminars where composers, sound designers and other audio professionals can learn about the specific creative, technical and business challenges that are essential to working in the game music and game sound design [...]

TransAudio Group Offers Rebate on Bock Audio 151 Mic

TransAudio Group in Las Vegas announces that until August 31, 2010, all purchases of Bock Audio 151 large-diaphragm vocal condensers made from authorized U.S. dealers are eligible for a $300 rebate from TransAudio Group, Bock Audio’s worldwide distributor. Based on the sonic image of the Bock 251, the Bock 151 uses a handmade German capsule, a hand-wound vintage-style transformer, an NOS tube and a handmade power [...]

Cinema Audio Society to Honor Jeffrey S. Wexler

Cinema Audio Society President, Edward L. [...]

Calrec Audio to Stop Making Analog Consoles

Calrec Audio in Hebden Bridge, UK, announces that it will discontinue production of analog audio consoles as of November 30, 2010. Until then, the company is offering an opportunity to make final purchases of its S2, C2, and M3 analog consoles as well as modules and card [...]

Endless Analog Appoints Vintage King Audio As Exclusive U.S. Retailer

Nashville-based Endless Analog, developer and manufacturer of the CLASP (Closed Loop Analog Signal Processor) system, has appointed Vintage King Audio, a leading dealer of high-end new and vintage recording equipment, as its exclusive U.S. retailer for its CLASP system. Additionally, potential purchasers will have the ability to demo the CLASP system in Vintage King’s facilities as well as in Infrasonic Sound Recording Company—Vintage King Audio’s showcase facility in Los Angeles—and Media Right Productions in New York [...]

Blue Cat Audio Announces RTAS, Full 64-bit Support for Plug-Ins

Blue Cat Audio—which is based in the western suburbs of Paris, France, and develops audio analysis tools and audio signal processors—announces that all of its plug-ins have been ported to the Pro Tools RTAS format and are from now on fully compatible with all 64-bit OS systems and major host applications. [...]

Guide to Vuvuzela Fever: Suddenly, Everyone Cares About Notch Filtering

Vuvuzela Orchestra Demo from Pedro Espi-Sanchis on Vimeo . [...]

Virtual Reality: Guitar Notation, Amps, and Effects Appear on Apple Mobiles

Competing solutions from IK Multimedia and Peavey extend the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with custom hardware for connecting a guitar. Here, the AmpKit LiNK, by Peavey and Agile Partners. All images courtesy the [...]