Recording - January 2016 - 12

The new m108 preamp/converter from
Grace Design.

Barefoot Sound's new MicroMain 26.

The Cloud in Cloud Microphones is
Rodger Cloud, sharing a booth with elysia
as it promotes the new karacter 500.

Lewitt (lewitt-audio.com) showed a more affordable sibling to the amazing DGT 650 USB microphone/interface we reviewed in our October
2015 issue. The new DGT 450 (price TBA) supports Windows, Mac OS X, and iOS, has a
headphone output with blendable zero-latency
monitoring, pad and filter switching, and more.
Little Labs (littlelabs.com) had not one but three
new products: the Monotor transformer-balanced
headphone amplifier ($400) with advanced
mono and phase compatibility checking; the
Monotor Presentor (price TBA) with added
footswitch control, A/B source level matching,
triple headphone outs, and more; and the Salt
(price TBA), a transformer-isolated guitar splitter
with polarity select and ground lift.
Millennia Media (mil-media.com) showed the
elegantly-named Gozowta ($500), a stereo monitor/headphone output box for Dante audio networks. It will ship in early 2016.
Mojave Audio (mojaveaudio.com) showed
two microphones in its new Signature Series. The
MA-1000 ($2995) is a large-diaphragm tube
condenser mic designed by David Royer, featuring a new old-stock 5840 tube, a 251-style capsule, and a custom Coast Magnetics transformer.
It offers continuously variable polar pattern, 15
dB pad, and low-end filter as well. Also shown:
a prototype of the forthcoming MA-50 (price and
availability TBA).
Neumann (neumann.com) premiered its
newest subwoofer, the KH 805 ($1499.95), a
10" driver that extends frequency range down

to 18 Hz. It features a remote-control bass management system and is primarily intended for
use with stereo monitor systems.
The Plugin Alliance (plugin-alliance.com) was
showing the new bx_console plug-in ($299)
from Brainworx (brainworx.de), an emulation
of a Neve VXS mixer with new Tolerance
Modeling Technology that allows for tiny variances in modeled components for more realism
in the modeled mix.
PMC (pmc-speakers.com) showed its twotwo
series, including the recently launched
twotwo.sub2 subwoofer ($4999), at its booth, but
was also stunning listeners with a 9.1 Auro 3D
surround sound demonstration.

Focusrite's Hannah Bliss with Mike
Metlay and the new Clarett 2Pre.

Glenn Kuras of GIK Acoustics with
Paul Vnuk Jr. (and the 4A Alpha Panel).

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RECORDING January 2016

400 pounds of heavenly joy:
the Genelec 1236!

A glimpse of Eden: the Lauten LT-386
tube mic.
Prism Sound (prismsound.com) announced
the new MDIO-HDX expansion module (price
TBA, shipping early 2016), which allows up to
four of its Titan and Atlas audio interfaces to be
used in a Pro Tools | HDX audio system and
easily daisy-chained via Avid DigiLink.
Pulse Techniques (pultec.com) premiered a
pair of new equalizers, its first-ever 500 Series
modules: the EQP-500A and EQP-500S ($1295
each). These are based on the EQP-1A3-SS and
EQP-1S3-SS solid-state line amp versions of the
venerable Pultec equalizers, and use API 2520
op amps for gain staging.
Radial Engineering (radialeng.com) had a
huge number of new product announcements,
including the BT-PRO Bluetooth receiver/direct
box ($229.99), the Jensen Twin-Servo mic preamp module ($999.99), the McBoost phantompowered mic signal booster ($199.99), and
the Catapult 4-channel Ethernet audio snake
(price TBA). Also at the Radial booth: new
paintable versions of the London 8 and London
10 room treatment kits ($229.99/$499.99)
from Primacoustic (primacoustic.com), and a
new line of ISO-MAX direct boxes, with and
without variable pads in mono and stereo versions ($199.99 to $319.99), from Jensen.
Roswell Pro Audio (roswellproaudio.com)
debuted not one but three new condenser mics
(prices TBA): the u87i-like Aurora
cardioid/omni mic, the limited-edition Colares
that evokes the Ela M 251 sound, and the RAVO voiceover mic. Reviews forthcoming!
Samar Audio Design (samaraudiodesign.com)
gave us a quick peek at its first condenser mic,
the AF11 (price TBA). We can't wait to try it out.
Sennheiser (sennheiser.com) showed two new
iOS-friendly microphones for field recording, the
ClipMic digital ($199) and MKE 2 digital ($499).

http://www.lewitt-audio.com http://www.plugin-alliance.com http://www.brainworx.de http://www.littlelabs.com http://www.pmc-speakers.com http://www.prismsound.com http://www.mil-media.com http://www.pultec.com http://www.mojaveaudio.com http://www.radialeng.com http://www.neumann.com http://www.primacoustic.com http://www.roswellproaudio.com http://www.samaraudiodesign.com http://www.sennheiser.com

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