ALAN HYATT: Hi guys. Welcome to the AES Show. First, let me say thanks for all your support. We appreciate your support on all of our products, and what I'm going to do now is basically go on through the new Joemeek line, give you a little insight of what we're doing.

First let me address your attention to the new Joemeek 3Q. The 3Q has been totally redesigned from the old version, if you recall the VC3Q, with a lot of new technology: a brand-new mic preamp based on the Burr-Brown INA 217. S, basically, you get a very, very clean, transparent, neutral type of a sound, not really adding a lot of the coloration and distortion that you're getting from the old product.

So, we also give you a photo-optical compressor, and it is the photo-optical compressor that's going to give you your sound, that thick, rich Joemeek sound. Photo-optical is based on light. The light, when it's generated, generates a second-order even harmonic, and that's what gives you the offshoot of that real thick coloration.

so, we have a mic pre, we have a full compressor, and we have a three-band EQ with a mid-sweep. You have switchable outputs on the rear of the unit, which are +4 or -10 so it will interface with any of your prosumer devices as well as with all your professional. You have two separate outputs so you can feed a front-of-house mix if you choose and direct to your recorder as well. The 3Q is very, very versatile, easy to rack mount on a multi-tray, and quite frankly gives you a lot of metering, a lot of quality sound for not a lot of money.

Moving up from the 3Q is the 6Q. Basically what you're doing is taking the same electronics but you're expanding it. One of the things that you'd expand on within the mic preamp section is this little switch right here called the Iron. What the Iron switch does is it takes you from that Burr-Brown mic pre and couples a transformer into the line. This is our Joemeek MT1 transformer. It's custom-designed and custom-wound for us. And that is going to give you that very, how I'd say, coloration, that Neve-esque-type tonality to it. So, you're basically getting two types of mic preamps in one. So, a lot of value for the money.

In addition, you get a few more features over the mic pre: switchable 48-volt pad, mic/line switch, phase reverse, and you'll also get an instrument DI in the front end, handy to plug in that bass guitar or acoustic guitar and track right to tape.

The compressor is expanded a little bit. On the 3Q, it was a very limited compressor where you didn't have control over the slope or the ratio. In the 6Q, you can see you now have control over the slope and your ratios. In addition, you now get a gain makeup. So, as you're doing heavy compression, you may need that gain makeup, you don't have to go to the output amplifier and overdrive it. Now, you can simply go to the makeup gain and you can add in that makeup gain that you're taking out from the compression.

EQ gets a little bit more expanded. So, you get a low-frequency sweep, a mid-frequency sweep, and a high-frequency selectable between two points, 6 and 12k, so more flexibility there. Another output gain and you have the meter that you can select between reading pre or after the output.

In addition on the back here, we're offering you an SPDIF and optical digital output.