Spectrasonics’ New Delivery Platforms
USB Drive & Download Editions Now Available for All Customers
Spectrasonics today announced a major change in their delivery platforms and has eliminated all DVD-ROM discs in its virtual instrument product line – replacing them with modern Download and Drive Editions. The company is now using high quality USB drives in their in-store packaging for all three of their award-winning virtual instruments, Omnisphere 2, Trilian and Stylus RMX Xpanded – making physical installation dramatically faster, easier, and more reliable. The company is also announcing that it is now selling full download editions of each of the three instruments, which has been a top customer request. The packaged drive editions are available exclusively through Spectrasonics’ worldwide reseller network, while the download editions are sold exclusively from Spectrasonics’ website: www.spectrasonics.net
Read More »David Kimmell Saved by Dangerous Music
Engineer gets ‘his sound’ and joy of mixing renewed with Dangerous D-Box analog summing and BAX EQ
Mixing bands live, especially through an analog console, can be a great pathway to mixing records. There’s an experience of immediacy in moving the faders and hearing what you expect. In-the-box all-digital mixing has placed some roadblocks in the way of that, but Dangerous Music puts the analog sound and feel back in the mixing equation with their ground breaking summing mixers. One person who got his mixing ‘joy back’ is engineer David Kimmell, who has been mixing audio since 1997, and for many years mixed bands live, among other touring gigs. After several years in his own studio trying to mix ‘in-the-box’ and not enjoying it, feeling that he was “fighting the mix constantly,” Kimmell added the Dangerous D-Box to his rig and everything changed.
Corrado Rustici Chooses Atlantis
Italian producer Corrado Rustici, together with engineer Michael Rosen, auditioned many top mics for recent sessions at Rosen’s ‘East Bay Recorders’, but chose Lauten Audio’s ‘Atlantis’ FC-387 for Italian pop singer Virginio’s vocals.
Rustici has a body of work that surpasses 70-million in album sales, and although he is most well-known in Italy with his work on music from mega-stars such as Zucchero and Andrea Bocelli, he has made California his home-base for many years and has worked with Bristish and US superstars such as Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lee Hooker, and Stewart Copeland, to name a few. Most recently, during his production of new Italian breakout singer and songwriting star Virginio, Rustici booked the East Bay Recorders studio in Oakland and working with owner/engineer Michael Rosen recorded vocals for Virginio’s new album for Universal Music Italy. When evaluating microphones to best bring out Virginio’s pop-star voice, Rosen and Rustici auditioned a series of industry leading microphones as would any seasoned producer or engineer, after many models and trials they realized the best match was the ‘Atlantis’ FC-387— a mic originally designed especially for vocals.
Read More »Engineer Pete Doell Gets Dangerous
Mastering engineer Pate Doell relies on Dangerous gear to work his sonic magic at Universal Mastering Studios, combining the Dangerous MASTER, MQ and MONITOR in his setup
Mastering engineer Pete Doell counts Dangerous Music gear as a key to his success. The Dangerous MONITOR was an eye and ear opener that has made his job easier at Universal Mastering Studios, “I have to admit when I first got the Dangerous Monitor and heard the playback through the DAC, I thought, ‘Oh my god!’ it really made me hear things in a truer way, and I had to do less processing to get the right result,” said Doell. He added the Dangerous MASTER for integrating his outboard gear, and the Dangerous MQ for metering to round out his ‘mastering console’ setup – the centerpiece of his studio. Doell has mastered over 100 albums since joining Universal Mastering Studios, including R.E.M., Marilyn Manson, Toto, Dave Koz, Nat ‘King’ Cole and Sheryl Crow to name only a few. Many top engineers across the studio world revere Dangerous Music for the quality of its D-to-A converters, the company currently offers conversion in the D-BOX, SOURCE, and the recently released CONVERT-2 and CONVERT-8 products.
Read More »Amadeus ‘Philharmonia’ Speakers Shipping
The new Amadeus high-end speakers co-designed by world-renowned architect Jean Nouvel are now shipping for both the Pro Audio and HI-FI Markets
French ‘Pro Audio’ manufacturer Amadeus, renowned for live, installed, and custom studio sound reinforcement systems, announced during the 38th edition of the Paris HI-FI Show on October 17 and 18 that their new ‘Philharmonia’ speakers are shipping. Unveiled as a ‘concept-speaker’ during the last Frankfurt Prolight + Sound and Munich High End Society trade shows, the Philharmonia is a very high definition monitoring system combining innovation and technology, with style, and a pristine sonic character. The new speakers were initially created specifically for the Philharmonie de Paris recording and mastering studios, which were built to capture performances by the world’s most prestigious symphonic orchestras. The new speakers were designed by Michel DELUC, Amadeus’ Director of Research & Development, along with world-renown architect Jean NOUVEL, who designed the new Philharmonie de Paris concert hall.