122nd AES 2007

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...  

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...  

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.

DSD is unique because instead of...  

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...  

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...  

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...  

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...  

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...  

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...  

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....