AudioMedia - December 2008 - (Page 39) GEAR OF THE YEAR 2008 TC Electronic Powercore 6000 Zaxcom Fusion Zaxcom’s Fusion is a high-resolution audio mixer and recorder optimised for reality television, surround recording, and ENG applications. The lightweight unit boasts its touch screen interface, and near-infinite mix, recorder, and cue matrix-based routing possibilities.” (Steve Murphy, Audio Media, Dec 2008) EDITOR’S COMMENT “Zaxcom continues to push the boundaries of what can be done with a recorder. This unit is brimming with new features to make a location recordist's life easier and results better.” TC Electronic’s Powercore 6000 makes the company’s renowned System 6000 algorithms available for use in your DAW. Eight Freescale DSPs ensure tight integration into the native world, while maintaining all of the advantages that hardware offers for pristine signal processing. TC Electronic claims that ‘this ensures the same high quality of processing as you’re used to from the hardware world.’ www.tcelectronic.com “For project studios and smaller facilities, the P6000 has a lot to offer. If you’re mixing in the box, you get a collection of polished processors and the power to run enough instances to spread them around liberally.” (Richard Wentk, Audio Media, Nov 2008) EDITOR’S COMMENT “This is ‘most’ of a System 6000 in a bundle with a FireWire connected hunk of DSP. In that light, the price comparison with a full-on System 6000 hardware version shines brightly in favour of the DAW-connected son-of-6000.” supreme power efficiency by recording to two CompactFlash cards for reliable, 100% solid-state efficiency by recording to one card in the mobile audio recording format – which allows audio to be recovered if power is lost during recording, while the other receives a redundant copy of the files. www.zaxcom.com “The wisdom and experience that nearly 12 years of Deva development Zaxcom has imparted into the Fusion is undeniable, from its highly tactile hardware faders, to Universal Audio UAD-2 It’s been a long time coming, but Universal Au d i o’s UA D - 2 D S P based plug-in effects processor massively leapfrogs the previous generation’s processing p owe r w i t h a c a rd featuring a single, duo, or quad configurations of Analog Device’s latest generation SHARC 21369 floating-point processors. Boasting a performance upgrade of up to ten times the UAD-1 performance, it will run more of UA’s high-quality emulations at sample rates from 44.1-192kHz, while the new live mode means the effects can be used for tracking as well as mixing and mastering. Both generations of DSP cards can be used in tandem, with the software automatically allocating resources, and up to four cards can be mixed and used in a single computer. www.uaudio.com EDITOR’S COMMENT “Seeing a complete AMS-Neve analogue console emulated on a small DSP card is something of a wake-up call. For big power and great plug-ins, the UAD-1 deserves to be on this list.” New PD Series Location Recorders Audio acquisition that’s as versatile as you are. www.fostex.jp Fostex Company, 3-2-35 Musashino, Akishima, Tokyo, Japan 196-0021 Email: info_sales@fostex.jp Designed from the ground up to excel in ‘real-world’ applications, wherever you happen to be in the world. The new PD606 (8-track) and PD204 (2-track) location recorders both offer spectacular audio quality, flexible recording to 12cm DVD-RAM, hard disc or a combination of both, rock solid timecode implementation, extended battery life, loads of ‘instant access’ knobs, buttons and switches plus a whole battery of interface options. But impressive features are only part of the script. Fostex’s unrivalled pedigree in designing and manufacturing world class location recorders for over 16 years and our unique understanding of the broadcast, film, tv and audio acquisition environments means that these new recorders aren’t just the best PD recorders ever, they’re simply the best professional location recorders available today. AUDIO MEDIA DECEMBER 2008 39 http://www.zaxcom.com http://www.tcelectronic.com http://www.fostex.jp http://www.uaudio.com
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.