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Home›Posts Tagged "new gear reviews" (Page 2)

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  • Magazine, New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys, Reviews
    January 6, 2015
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear review: Fishman Platinum Analog Acoustic Pre-Amps

    Fishman's new Platinum Pro EQ and Platinum Stage acoustic preamps are completely redesigned for the pristine and accurate reproduction of any acoustic instrument. They use ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys, Reviews
    October 23, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Retro Instruments OP-6 Portable Amplifier

    Retro Instruments’ OP-6 Portable Microphone Amplifier is a proper rendition of the classic portable RCA OP-6 tube microphone pre-amp that came out in the 1930s ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys, Reviews
    October 21, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: ZIVIX Puc Wireless MIDI

    Zivix’s wireless link system (named PUC) connects MIDI musical instruments with iOS devices. An iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch running iOS 7 loaded with music ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys, Reviews
    October 17, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Yamaha Acoustic Conditioning Panels

    Yamaha’s new Acoustic Conditioning Panels (ACP) are super-thin, low-cost acoustic treatment panels for project studios, school classrooms, houses of worship, home theaters or professional recording ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys, Reviews
    October 16, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: LH Labs Geek Out DAC

    LIGHT HARMONIC LABS HAS GEEK OUT, a portable digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with headphone amp. Geek Out solves two annoying audio problems with music playback using ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    September 26, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Hosa Technology Edge Series Cables

    Hosa’s new Edge Series cable products all feature Neutrik connectors, oxygen-free Copper (OFC) conductors and world-class workmanship. Hosa Edge cables offer a unified line of ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    September 4, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Eventide DDL-500 Digital Delay

    The DDL-500 is an Eventide digital delay line for 500-series racks. The DDL-500 features up to 10 seconds of mono delay time using a 192-kHz ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    September 2, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Sound Tools Cable Testers

    Sound Tools has an expanded line of problem solvers for the itinerant recording engineer, live sound engineer or audio technician. I received three of the ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    August 28, 2014
    by Carter Wogahn

    Review: CAD Equitek E70 Dual-Capsule Condenser Microphone

    The CAD Audio E70 is called dual-capsule because it comes with two interchangeable capsules. Either the omnidirectional or cardioid capsule screw on to the mic’s ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    August 21, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: iZotope BreakTweaker

    iZotope and GRAMMY®-nominated composer and technologist, BT, bring you a drum sculpting and beat sequencing environment that is not easy to describe. BreakTweaker is an ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    August 13, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: API 565 Filterbank Module

    The API 565 filter bank module is a new 500-series module that fits the company’s consoles, API Lunchbox® as well as the API 1608 small-format ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    August 11, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: TC Electronic Trio Of Loudness Plug-Ins

    The LM1n, LM2n and LM6n are the three new loudness meter plug-ins for audio and video editing systems from TC Electronic. Available now in AAX ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    August 7, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Manley Labs Core Reference Channel Strip

    The Manley Labs Core is a 2U single-channel recording strip comprised of a microphone preamplifier, compressor, equalizer and FET peak limiter. The Core starts with ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    August 4, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: BBE SM500 Sonic Maximizer

    BBE’s now offers their unique Sonic Maximizer in a single channel module for the 500 Series rack units. I’ve been a long time user of ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    August 1, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Ogre Stomp Pedals

    Should I be concerned? At least a little worried? My stomp pedal board will never be the same after I dropped the Ogre Thunderclap Distortion ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    July 30, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Aristides Instruments 050 Bass Guitar

    Newest in the Aristides line of guitars and basses made from Arium is the 050 Bass. The 050 uses an exoskeleton design made with a ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    July 25, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Three New SSL Duende Native Plug-Ins

    X-Phase, X-Saturator and X-ValveComp bring the total number of Solid State Logic Duende Native plug-ins to 10. X-Phase ($329) is an all-pass filter and time ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews, New Toys
    July 22, 2014
    by Barry Rudolph

    New Gear Review: Mackie Thump Series Powered Loudspeakers

    Mackie’s Thump12, Thump15 powered loudspeakers and the Thump18S powered subwoofer crank! The new Thump Series delivers over 1000-watts of power and that’s more than twice ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews
    April 12, 2013
    by Barry Rudolph

    Martin Guitar's New D-18 Authentic 1939 Review

    Martin’s new D-18 Authentic 1939 started with a CAT scan of the original 1939 D-18 in Martin Guitar’s museum. After all the internal structures and ...
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  • New Gear/New Toys Reviews
    February 4, 2013
    by Barry Rudolph

    Yamaha MX Series Synths

    The MX Series synths come in both 49 and 61-key versions and combine a “best of” collection of Motif XS sounds with USB DAW I/O, ...
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