Focusrite Forté Suite
June 30, 2009
Before its more recent branching out into making audio interfaces, plug-ins, DSP devices such as Liquid Mix and more affordable, traditional hardware devices, Focusrite was exclusively an ultra-high-end audio manufacturer.Of specific note were the ISA 110 EQ and the ISA 130 dynamics processor, which…
Kelly Shu Kick Drum Microphone Mounting System
June 30, 2009
As well as setting up the kit, today’s gigging drummer often has to mic it up as well. A common duration and energy-saving response to that additional work is to avoid putting up another stand and simply drop the bass drum mic onto the padding inside the drum.But that does neither the mic nor the dr…
Gibson Joan Jett Melody Maker
June 30, 2009
The first thing you may think when you see the new Gibson Joan Jett Melody Maker is, ‘What a damn fine looking guitar.’ You just might follow that up with, ‘Er, so who’s Joan Jett?’.Probably best known as a member of all-girl punk legends The Runaways, and for her eighties hit I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll, …
Focal Professional CMS65
June 29, 2009
The CMS65 is the larger of two new monitor options from Focal (the CMS50 is the other). Both have a traditional two-way design and are aimed at smaller control rooms, post production and the home studio market. At more than £1,200 a pair they’re up against the likes of Genelec, PMC and Adam to name…
Focal-JMlab Professional CMS65
June 29, 2009
The CMS65 is the larger of two new monitor options from Focal (the CMS50 is the other). Both have a traditional two-way design and are aimed at smaller control rooms, post production and the home studio market. At more than £1,200 a pair they’re up against the likes of Genelec, PMC and Adam to name…
VHT Releases Classic 6 Amp
June 29, 2009
VHT is heralding the release of their Classic 6 amp. Designed for low-wattage usage, the Classic 6 was created with a 12″ VHT Special Design speaker. VHT believes that design allows the amp to be cranked up (to 11, so to speak) without sound distortion or frying the speakers.
The Classic 6 fro…
FatLoud Drops New Hip-Hop Sample Pack
June 29, 2009
FatLoud is dropping a new sample collection, and the first in their new FatLoud “Construction King” series.
Hip Hop Construction King from the “Construction King” series is a pack featuring 8 studio quality construction kits. The kits, put together by a team of producers with…
iZotope Preps Audio Libraries for iPhone/Touch
June 28, 2009
iZotope, Inc. is getting on the Apple-created mobile craze that is the iPhone. Since the platform’s introduction in 2007, thousands of apps of been created for the iPhone, and now iZotope sees a market for their high quality audio algorithms on the iPod Touch and iPhone alike.
“We are se…
Cluster Sound Introduces New Sound Tools
June 28, 2009
Cluster Sound that week has announced their sound tool suite Minimal Impact. An 810 Mb package of construction loops, digital noises, percussive loops, synth loops, different basslines and more, Minimal Impact was designed for a wide range of productions in mind.
Cluster Sound’s Minimal Impact…
Jackson Adrian Smith San Dimas DK
June 24, 2009
We’ve been itching to get our hands on that for many months now and the timing couldn’t be better: we’re writing that review on official Iron Maiden Day!As a band, Maiden were honoured with a Fender Strat back in 2001but these new axes mark the first occasion that any specific member of the six-stri…