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studionews SOUNDBITES
Engineer/producer Bruce Botnick has purchased three JBLM2 master reference monitors for use as left/centre/right speakers in his studio. Botnick first encountered the M2 at the 2012 AES Convention, when it was still in the development stage. “I heard these loudspeakers in a less-than-ideal environment and they still sounded amazing,” he said.
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Synthax Audio UKis introducing a five-year warranty on all RME audio products purchased from authorised UK dealers. The warranty applies when customers register online within 30 days of purchase, and excludes accessories. Dave West, sales and marketing manager at Synthax Audio said: “We wanted to demonstrate the products’ excellent track record and offer our clients absolute confidence in RME.”
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Focal Presshas published Digital Audio Editing, a guidebook to sound production. Written by Simon Langford, it offers guidance to readers on simple corrective editing, like cutting, copying, and pasting, and more complex creative editing, such as beat mapping and time-stretching. It is intended to help with tasks such as comping vocal tracks, restoring old recording, working with film dialogue or sound effects, and creating remixes.
UNITED KINGDOM/UNITED STATES SSL’s Matrix, reloaded By Erica Basnicki
SOLID STATE Logic launched an updated version of its Matrix console – the Matrix2 – at the 135th AES Convention in New York. The new version incorporates feedback from customers and provides a collection of new features, including an upgrade to the console’s integrated software controlled patching of analogue channel inserts. Hardware device inserts can
now be loaded directly from the console hardware controls, with a new interface that facilitates loading individual processors,
UNITED STATES API drops The Box By Erica Basnicki
API USED the occasion of the 135th AES Convention to launch The Box project analogue console, designed for audio professionals with project
or home studios who require a smaller format console with a “big console sound”. The Box features the same
circuitry, performance and “API sound” as the company’s Vision, Legacy Plus and 1608 consoles.
The Box: Small format, big sound “The Box offers an easy,
turnkey solution for recording and mixing,” said API president
Dan Duffell is all smiles at the debut of Matrix 2
A/B comparison of different processors and building processor chains.
Additionally, the A-FADA
(Analogue Fader Accesses DAW Automation) summing
system used in Duality, AWS and the new SSL Sigma rack has been introduced to enable the analogue faders of Matrix2 to be driven by automation data from a user’s DAW. A collection of smaller new
features have also been added, including ‘partial TR setup save and import,’ which allows selected parts of the console setup to be saved and imported as setup templates; “automatic dB readout” for Pro Tools users, allowing the scribble strip to automatically display fader values upon touch; modifier key ‘press and hold’ functionality for Cubase/ Nuendo users and new DAW templates for PreSonus Studio One and Ableton Live. Matrix2 will ship in December 2013 priced at £14,749 (€18,487) ex-VAT.
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Larry Droppa. “It’s a great option for people who record a few channels at a time, but demand the warmth and punch that a large API console delivers. In addition to four inputs, full centre section control, and 16 channels of API’s famous summing, the icing on the cake is a classic API stereo compressor on the program bus. Now you can truly record and mix… in The Box.”
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