Algorithmix codes very high end audio plug-ins for the professional market. We were lucky enough to meet up with Peter Juricic who gave us a quick tour and description of some of their products live on the floor of the...
The RTW Surround Control Model 30960 is a solution for surround monitoring of both the digital and analog varieties. Check out this video from the 122nd AES in Vienna, Austria where Michael from RTW gives us a complete...
Live from the floor of the AES Convention in Vienna, Austria we got a look at some of the newest stage microphones from AKG Acoustics. In the video we check out the D5, the newest mic which is a dynamic for stage. We also...
The RTW Analyzers are professional grade monitoring tools for production and post situations. We were lucky enough to get a walkthrough of a handful of their products on the floor of the 122nd AES in Vienna, Austria. Check...
The new mackie VLZ3 Series mixer is the update to the VLZ Pro series. The Mackie VLZ3 sports new preamps, equalizers, and more. Check out this small mixer in our exclusive video shot on the floor of the 122nd AES convention...
The Sonosax SX-ST is a very impressive piece to behold for any location sound recordist. Eight Channels with AD conversion and aa built in hard drive as an option is quite a hefty load of features. Gearwire scored video of...
The Quad Series from Mackie is a pair of rackmount digital effects processors for use in a live sound setting. The two pieces are the Quad EQ and the Quad Gate/Compressor. Check out the latest from Mackie in our exclusive...
Thomas Hupp from NTI was nice enough to give us a walkthrough of the NTI Minirator. One of the things that the Minirator can do is test cables. Not only can it test to see if a cable is working but it will also check its...
The Digirator from NTI packs just about every single type of digital audio testing you can fit into a small palmtop unit. It has three different outputs that can handle a number of different flavors of audio data as well...
From the floor of the 122nd AES Convention in Vienna, Austria John McCubbery shows us the Korg MR-1 and MR-1000. Both of these recorders run in stereo and use DSD 1-bit recording.
In this Gearwire video shot at the 122nd AES in Vienna Austria, Mackie shows us around the Onyx 400F and 800R recording interfaces. Flexibility and wise design has gone into these units - especially nice is the selectable...
Offsite Link: Get more information about the Mackie 400F and 800R at the official Mackie website.
Cycling '74 have announced an upgrade to Max/MSP. The company's mainline modular audio application and development product is now enhanced by a long list of bug fixes.
Those fixes include eliminating "sort index...
Offsite Link: Get more information about Max/MSP at the official Cycling '74 website.
Speech intelligibility testing is one of the businesses of NTI, makers of finely calibrated testing equipment for acousticians, sound systems integrators and designers. The NTI Talkbox is a handheld unit combining a speaker...
Offsite Link: Get more information about the NTI talkbox at the official NTI website.
In this Part 2 video shot live from the floor of 122nd AES in Vienna, Austria, Gearwire's Dan Agosto shows off some of the more visually appealing offerings in Jocavi's line of acoustical panels. These panels are wall...
Offsite Link: Get more information about the Jocavi acoustic panels at the official Jocavi website.
Dan Agosto drops by the Jocavi Acoustic Panels exhibit at AES in Vienna and walks us through some of the options. Irregularly shaped surfaces on walls sharply reduce the reflection of sound and are commonly used in professiona...
Lawo is a German company specializing in broadcast and mobile-truck audio mixing solutions. In this Gearwire video shot live from the floor of the 122nd AES in Vienna Austria we get a chance to hear about the Luwo MC-Squared...
The Mackie Onyx series has been around for a while but since we didn't have any video of this particular piece we took a look. From the floor of the 122nd AES Convention in Vienna, Austria we get a nice walkthrough of the...
The Mackie DS3232 is a 32-channel stage box with digital out to a single ehternet cable. The box interfaces with Mackie's TT24 digital console. We got a walkthrough of the features on the floor of the 122nd AES Convention...
The popular Mackie Control has been updated and we got video from the 122nd AES Convention in Vienna Austria. Also the new C4 Commander was on display. The C4 is a large array of potentiometer style encoders with preset mappings...
How do designers and installers of public-address systems know if the system can be understood by the public being addressed? By being skilled and equipped in the science of speech intelligibility analysis. Acousticians...
Offsite Link: Get more information about the NTI Al1 Speech Intelligibility Measurement Device at the official NTI website.
Transducers are devices that convert acoustic energy to electrical energy (or vice versa). So that means a microphone is a transducer and so is a speaker. AES exhibitor Knowles Acoustics of Itasca, IL is in the business...
Here's one for the broadcasters: The Comrex Access is a telephony interface for sending stereo audio to wherever you need it in the world via a telephone or other network. It aims to replace the commonly used ISDN lines...
In this final video from Tegeler Audio we get a close look inside of the Tube Recording Channel. You can tell when a company is proud of its construction when they are more than willing to show you the inside of their...
In the second video from Tegeler Audio, Helmut shows as the Vari Tube Compressor and the 32 Channel Tube Summing Mixer. The compressor is of the variable µ (variable "mew") variety. This is a rare design choice since...
While at the 122nd AES Convention in Vienna, Austria we visited the Synthax booth where RMA and a few other well known companies were located. Off on one side I saw these beautiful blue boxes that reminded me of some of...
In the second part of our tour of Violet Design's products Edijs Rudzis shows us two of the more interesting mics, probably out of all that were at the show. The Flamingo is a stereo LDC that looks about as outlandish...
We were lucky enough to have Edijs Rudzis from Violet Design give us a run through of nearly their entire line at the 122nd AES Convention in Vienna, Austria. In part one of this series we get a close look and suggested...
Jonathan Little from Little Labs was nice enough to give us a walkthrough of the LMNO microphone preamplifier from the floor of the 122nd AES in Vienna, Austria. The LMNO is packed with all sorts of deluxe features that...
Sometimes, Europeans who visit the US will boast about how the streets in their home cities are idyllic paradises free of crime and shadowy lurking figures. Boy, is that myth debunked now. Captured on this video, stalking...
There's no I/O the market similar to the Onyx Satellite. It's got a 2-in 6-out modular design with built in talkback, selection switches and the most oblique solution to the problem of repatching that we've ever seen....
Offsite Link: Get more information about the Mackie Onyx Satellite at the official Mackie website.
