Guitarist Joey Mariano is making a unique hybrid sound, blending guitar chops with sonic techniques borrowed from 8-bit chip music. His latest adventure filters the sound of the guitar through pulse width filtering, the likes of which are used to modulate the sound of pulse/rectangle waves in chip music composition. The invention he’s devised to do this, though, is likely to appeal to anyone wanting to work with [...]
Danley Sound Labs will introduce the TH-118 subwoofer ($3,332 MSRP) at InfoComm 2010, which will take place June 9-11 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. [...]
Neyrinck in San Francisco announces SoundCode For Dolby E Version 2, which is now shipping for Mac and Windows systems and is available as a free update for current SoundCode For Dolby E owners. Version 2 features an accelerated Dolby E encoding engine for faster encodes that are said to be 1.5 to 4 times faster, depending upon the computer [...]
Abbey Road Studios in London announces the release of its RS124 compressor plug-in ($560/TDM or $335/Native). It promises accurate emulations of three original RS124 hardware units from Abbey Road’s unique outboard collection, bringing the sound, look and functionality of the legendary audio equipment to all major Mac- and PC-based DAW [...]
Shure Incorporated in Niles, Ill., announces the side-address, supercardioid Beta 27 ($499 MSRP) condenser microphone. The Beta 27 is said to be the only such microphone designed for professional sound reinforcement. Shure developed the Beta 27 in response to audio engineers’ desire for a condenser mic that offers better isolation of the sound [...]
Meyer Sound announces MINA, the newest and smallest member of its MILO family of self-powered line array loudspeakers, which includes MILO, MICA and M’elodie. MINA is designed for live sound and installation applications in smaller venues that face size and weight limitations, such as theaters, ballrooms, and houses of worship, and is said to offer the same characteristics that define other members of the MILO family [...]
At Sunday’s 82nd annual Academy Awards ceremony, ‘The Hurt Locker,’ in addition to winning in the Best Picture and Best Director categories (for Kathryn Bigelow’s direction), also swept the Academy’s sound categories by winning for Sound Editing and Sound Mixing. Paul [...]
Confessions of a Studio Unknown Column About Getting Audio Work for Video Game [...]
Confessions of a Studio Unknown Column About Getting Audio Work for Video Game [...]
“Mission for Music” is the theme of Musikmesse 2010, which takes place in Frankfurt, Germany, from March 24 to 27, 2010. As in past years, Musikmesse will be held in conjunction with the Pro Light + Sound convention, and admission to either show allows visitors access to both [...]