Gearwire gets a tour of Summit Audio's Element 78 line, including the MPE-200 Microphone Preamplifier/Equalizer and the EQ-200 Equalizer, as well as the TPA-200B Dual Tube Preamplifier and MPC-100A Mic Preamp/Compressor-Limiter....
Joemeek's Alan Hyatt lets Gearwire examine the dual-channel TwinQ, a studio stage built around the triple threat of Burr-Brown ICs in the preamps, the classic Meek EQ stage and the vaunted Meek opical compressor. Add to...
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Joemeek's Alan Hyatt shows off the MC-2, the stereo compressor with the big sweet sound and reasonable pricetag for all tracking and mastering applications. Comes complete with preamps optical compression and stereo width...
119th AES 2005: Digidesign shows off the Command|8, a dedicated control surface for Pro Tools LE and TDM. The Command|8 features eight motorized faders, eight automatable rotary encoders with LED rings, a USB connection,...
AES 2005: Gearwire talks to Douglas Fearn about the DW Fearn VT-7 Dual-Channel Vacuum Tube Compressor, a high-end, hybrid tube/solid state compressor ten years in the making. The VT-7, Fearn says, uses a pulse-width modulator...
AES 2005: Don't you love having choices? The Universal Audio UAD-1 is a digital signal processor card and plug-in pack that comes in four "price-based" configurations. It's the same card in each...
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Universal Audio page for additional specs.
It may sound shocking, but believe it or not, there are still guitar heads out there who have not joined the USB revolution. People! Plug in, I say! M-Audio's JamLab is a handly little gizmo that will help you come out of...
Offsite Link: Fore more details on M-Audio's JamLab, check out the M-Audio JamLab page.
AES 2005: Waves presents its Tune plugin, which lets you tweak your audio tracks with a wide variety of approaches, including some you might not have considered otherwise. You can go the subtle route by gradually...
Offsite Link: Download a demo from the Waves site.
AES 2005: Gearwire got the goods on the Yamaha 01X digital mixer. Check the video, doesn't the 01X look snazzy sitting right next to that Motif? The features on the 01X are pretty nifty too; 28-channel digital mixing, 24-bit/96...
As AES 2006 creeps closer and closer, Gearwire
celebrates by trotting out some more exclusive, never-before-seen footage from last year. Behold the Waves Audio MaxxBCL; psychoacoustics, compression,...
Offsite Link: Explore the Waves MaxxBCL page for additional specs.
Focusrite talks about Saffire, a surround-sound friendly Firewire audio interface. Saffire includes two mic inputs with gain control, two line/instrument inputs with gain control, eight line-level outputs for surround-sound...
AES 2005: Gearwire talks to Dave Hill, designer at Crane Song. Dave talks to us about his experiences as a kid taking apart and reassembling electrical devices until he learned the "language" of electronics. He goes on to...
AES 2005: Gearwire talks to Bob Reardon, managing director of sE Electronics. Bob talks about his company's relationship with Chinese microphone designers, addresses accusations regarding the originality of his company's...
Gearwire sits down with Mark Ludmer, director and CEO of RØDE Microphones. Mark goes over a large portion of his company's microphones, including the NT200, which contains an op-amp originally developed for CIA listening devices....
Mike Castoro, owner and founder of Wunder Audio, sits down with Gearwire and reminisces over the good old days. Specifically, the days when Mike was a teenager running sound for a jazz club in Florida, where he had the opportunity...
In this audio interview, Hubert Pietrzykowski, DSP engineer for PSP Audio, talks up a wide variety of his company's plugins, including the popular Vintage Warmer compressor/limiter. What sets the Warmer apart from traditional...
Eventide gives us a peek at the Eventide Eclipse 3.0. It is similar to older versions of the Eclipse in most respects, but includes a direct input, new presets and programs specifically made for guitar, and faster program...
Eventide gives Gearwire the 411 on its firewire-enabled H8000FW Ultra-Harmonizer effects processor. There is way too much stuff packed inside the H8000 to cover it all, but try this truncated list on for size: reverb, vibrato,...
Akoustik Piano samples a quartet of real-life pianos that would make John Tesh turn various shades of green: Steinway D, Bechstein D 280, Boesendorfer 290 Imperial, and the Steingraeber 130 vintage upright piano. Akoustik...
Offsite Link: Check out Gearwire's Native Instruments Akoustik Piano < a href="http://www.gearwire.com/condensed/mov/Akoustik_Piano.mov">official website.
Gearwire talks to Fletcher, founder of Mercenary Audio, about the Drawmer 1968 Mercenary Edition Dual Channel Vacuum Tube Compressor. The reissued compressor is a result of a collaboration between Drawmer and Mercenary, and...
Offsite Link: Check out the Drawmer site for more info.
Focusrite gives Gearwire the lowdown on its super-deluxe Liquid Channel mic preamp/compressor emulator. Can this thing really deliver all those classic studio sounds in a single box? ...
Offsite Link: Visit the Focusrite site for more information.
Gearwire sits down with Glen Coleman, founder of Coleman Audio. Glen talks about his long years of experience in the pro-audio world, and his minimalist philosophy when it comes to gear....
TASCAM gives Gearwire viewers a peek at the DM-3200 High-Resolution Audio/DSD Master Recorder, a 32-channel mixing console. The DM-3200 features 96kHz/24-bit resolution, four-band parametric EQ, a built-in TC Works Reverb...
Studio Projects is known for manufacturing inexpensive but quality studio microphones, with the goal of producing sounds comparable to high-class German mics. Alan Hyatt of Studio Projects verbally dissects five of his company's...
Alan Hyatt gives us a brief look at the Studio Projects SP828, an eight-channel mic preamp with phase reverse, mic/line switch, gain control, solo switch and more....
Alan Hyatt warns Gearwire not to lick his company's LSD2 Large Stereo Diaphragm Condenser Microphone. What will happen if you do? Ever see that scene from "Scanners" where the dude's head blows up? Yeah, that probably won't...
Alan Hyatt of Studio Projects gives Gearwire a look at its VTB1 Variable Tube Microphone Pre Amplifier. This thing features true class A/B switching, a high-pass filter, 12AX7 tube, TRS insert, five-position LED metering,...
