Recording

The Lexicon Omega Studio Desktop Recording Bundle puts all the necessary components for desktop recording in one package. The bundle includes the Omega Studio USB recording interface, Steinberg Cubase LE 4 multitrack audio and MIDI recording software, the Lexicon Pantheon VST reverb plugin, and an AKG D 88 S lead vocal microphone and mic cable.  

SE Electronics intends to jump headfirst into its next decade of business by releasing the brand new X1 mic, the Project Studio Reflexion Filter, and two money-saving bundles.  

The Holophone PortaMic Pro microphone is complete camera bling, bringing surround recording directly to your video camera in a compact, mountable design. With the PortaMic Pro, you can capture, from a single point source, a discrete surround recording that provides a 3D immersive experience.  

Indie rockers and musicians from Franz Ferdinand Death Cab for Cutie to Lenny Kravitz have used the Little Horn Speakers, according to the maker, Specimen Products, so why not you too? The pair of bell-ific speakers are now for sale at a discounted price, and are available in a range of new color combinations.  

Extended convenience and portability go hand in hand with the R-09HR digital recorder's updated operating system. The user-installable version 2.0 OS adds audio editing functions and play / practice tools such as standard and graphic tuners and a click metronome.  

In addition to syncing your digital audio devices, the new MC-7 Word Clock distribution amplifier and audio clock converter helps improve the acoustical properties of your recordings, according to the manufacturer.  

With the Cedar HDA headphone amplifier, you can monitor audio directly on headphones without using additional converter stages and cabling. The rackmountable unit converts a digital input signal and converts it to six individually buffered, 1/4" TRS stereo headphone outputs.  

You'll give your software's master volume fader a break when you start using the Nano Patch Plus. This passive volume controller will maintain maximum audio resolution and attenuate your monitoring volume without compromising your audio.  

Make tube-heavy recordings with the new Fink Audio dual tube channel strip. Equipped with preamp, equalizer and limiter sections, the CS2-FA is all set to record dual mono or linked stereo.  

Even in his mid-30s or -40s, the Prince of Bel-Air can still rock it, so long as he has a Tascam BB-800 SD recorder boombox to blast D-lite over his shoulder.  

Handheld portable recorders will get the job done for hobby projects and most of our audio work, but those who want to go pro would do well to invest in a heavy-duty location recorder meant to record and withstand just about anything. The Tascam HS-P82 was designed especially for pros and pro wannabes in the entertainment biz.  

UK-based Phoenix Audio will be showing off their new Phoenix DRS-8 preamp at the 127th AES convention. This high-end unit features eight amazing mic pre's, all of which can be converted to D.I.s with the flip of a switch. Dang.  

Well... Rusty Anderson's home studio might have a few things yours doesn't (like, RUSTY ANDERSON), but we all need to start somewhere. In a continuing conversation with Gearwire's Patrick Ogle, Rusty gives us his two cents on Pro Tools recording software and on tape...ware.  

Getting multitrack live recordings from conventional hardware setups require complicated measures such as dismantling studio equipment to get it done. Instantaneous feedback along with worry-free live recordings can be done simply with the JoeCo Blackbox.  

Last year, the Sound Devices 788T hit the streets and made people happy with all of its capabilities in a small package. This year, however, the release of the Sound Devices 788T-SSD and its exhibition at IBC 2009 shows what a 788T will be if it were an athlete loaded up with steroids without getting disqualified.  

Despite the continued rise of the virtual handheld recorders care of latest craze in cell phones, the appeal of a dedicated hardware recorder has not yet faded. Olympus LS-11 has been introduced to tell you just why.  

Older folks are simply just turned off with today's digital technology since today's digital hardware have an interface that looks nothing like old vintage gear. However, as the iPhone has become so acceptable and so flexible, one group decided to bring that retro handheld recording look and function to the iPhone with the McDSP Retro Recorder. Despite the look, don't expect it to feel a record/play and other buttons when you hide it underneath your jacket.  

Keith Saunders and Matt Lane went out into the woods to record Jar-e's latest CD. One of the bits of gear they brought with them is the Schneider Disc, a mounting device that accurately recreates the density of the human head (specific density falls somewhere between Glenn Beck and Jenny McCarthy).  

Gearing up for Germany, SPL announces the five new products they'll be unveiling at Musikmesse 2009. Whether you like your ware hard or soft, booth visitors should leave satisfied.  

Like the Honda Element, the Rain Recording Element Core i7 Workstation is boxy, functional without looking too utilitarian and full of storage space. Unlike the Honda Element, the Rain Recording Element Core i7 Workstation is actually powerful, too.  

With the ingeniously recorded "Music From Sand," Diego Stocco isn't just an inspiration for musicians -- he's an inspiration for parents of aspiring musicians. Does your kid want a drum set for his birthday? Drum sets are expensive, but sand is bountiful and cheap. Surprise the little tyke this Christmas with an experimental instrument!  

You know when you were in junior high, and you got one of those awesome science kits that gave you everything you needed to cure cancer and secure world domination, all in one pre-measured, neat little set? The Alesis USB Recording Kit is kind of like that, except for the part about curing cancer.  

If you took a gearhead from ten years ago and showed them how it would be possible to record an album with bandmates across the world, their minds would be blown. Put one foot back, and then step forward into the future to have your mind blown in much the same way.  

Following the ol' tape scare of aught-seven, Carl Saff talks about his MCI JH110C and the amount of work he still does on quarter- and half-inch tape. Hopefully, we'll never be tape scared again.  

Like Doc Brown said, "If you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?" TC Electronic took this concept and applied it to a simpler, though no less necessary, bit of technology -- the passive volume control -- with the TC Electronic Level Pilot.  

Stuart Rosenberg of the League Of Creative Musicians shows us the custom designed Multicore / Stage Box system that connects all the various rooms at S.P.A.C.E. to their central control room. These Mike Konopka-designed NEMA enclosures turn S.P.A.C.E. into the recording-complex equivalent of The Borg.  

Never to be outdone in the world of portable audio computing, Rain LiveBook has been outfitted with Intel Core2 Duo processors and up to 8GB of RAM. If you need to capture the baleful bleating of Kenny G in his native habitat (the Gobi), this is your laptop.  

GW continues our chat with Stereolab frontman Tim Gane, and this time the discussion turns to percussion. While the band's sound may seem retro-futuristic at times, the drum recording techniques they implement in the studio are mainly just retro.  

We head to the Sound Performance Lab booth at 125th AES 2008 to check out some of their new products, specifically the 2Control monitor controller. It's a simple box that should cover all of your monitoring needs unless you have some crazy over-monitoring complex.  

Admittedly, Planet Waves normally wouldn't take the trip to present at a trade show, but their new Modular Snake changed that. Here they are at AES showing this conveniently designed snake, which is a blessing for studios and live sound setups alike.