PETER JANIS: This is Peter Janis from Radial Engineering, speaking to you from the NAMM show. We’ve got a lot of new products this year. This is one of the really interesting products. It’s called the SW8.

This is designed for bands that travel with backing tracks. In other words, you may have an orchestral track that you want to recreate live. So you use a tape recorder to play those back during the performance. The problem is that these machines are not necessarily designed to be on the road so you get a fair amount of failure. So what this machine does, it allows you to switch from one backing track machine to another. It’s called the SW8. So you here you’ve got a couple of different inputs and one output. And this machine will automatically switch should one of the tracks or one of the machines stop working. Simple as that.

Really cool box. Designed for broadcast, for all kinds of performance, for shows like Cirque de Soleil. These are people that want this kind of box. It gives them the ability to make sure the show always goes on. No break.