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The latest news and products NEW PRODUCTS VIOLET DESIGN Pearl Vocal Mic Think you’ve got a good voice? Give it extra luster with the Pearl Vocal live condenser handheld mic. The mic covers the full audio spectrum, so no matter your range you’ll get articulated vocal presence. And, thanks to its unidirectional polar pattern, ambient noise and acoustic feedback are reduced, which means your highs are more detailed and your low-end gets an extra boost. Plus, its internal shockmount system and rugged construction limit external and handling noise to a minimum. Complete with a 21mm single diaphragm composed of calibrated film, Class ‘A’ solid state electronics, and a trusty gold-plated XLR output connection, the Pearl Vocal makes the world your oyster. PRICE: $740. CONTACT: Violet Design/FDW-Worldwide | ☎ www.violetusa.com ➲ 608-227-2040. NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS LIVE This rolling stone gathers no moss: Bob Dylan keeps on touring, this time with Elvis Costello, and for the current leg FOH engineer Pablo Wheeler requested a Soundcraft Vi6 digital live console, that dynamics that please both ergonomically and aurally. AKG K171 MKII Headphones Revamped with upgraded aesthetics and ergonomics, AKG headphones are as comfort-driven as they are sonically pure. And soundmen and DJs will be especially happy with the K171 MKII dynamic, closed-back model designed for mixing and stage monitoring. Soft on the ears physically with the leatherette and velvet earpads, these headphones also offer a frequency range of 18Hz 26kHZ for the silkiest blanket of sound. Add in 10-feet of straight cable, 16.5 feet of coiled cable, a maximum input power of 200mW, and a wide dynamic range perfect for mobile use and you’ve got instant nirvana at the sound booth. PRICE: $269. CONTACT: AKG | ☎ 818-920-3212 ➲ www.akg.com. Now here’s a princely idea: Queens of the Stone Age recently performed a one-off gig for 300 fans 2,300 feet underground in a German salt mine, and a Crest Audio Pro 200 high-power sound system made sure every note was drilled home with maximum depth. Grammy-nominated R&B/hip-hop artist Chris Brown has been painting multiple cities red, performing a broad sampling of his tracks with a Pro Tools-integrated, TDM-and Virtual Soundcheckenriched Digidesign VENUE board at Front-of-House. LA-based mouth organ master Tetsuya “Weeping Willow” Nakamura, a member of War, among other groups, has found the perfect performance mic for his blues harp: the Avlex Superlux D112/C. This high-gainbefore-distortion mic handles the harmonica’s output without coloring the sound. Following a performance at the 8th Annual Latin Grammy Awards, Colombian rocker Juanes kicked off his “La Vida World Tour” with a DiGiCo D5 console feeding d&b J- and Q-Series line array and subs, and Dolby Lake drives. Thanks to the versatility of the Studer Vista 5 SR console, Howard Page was album to mix Australia Plays Broadway, a multigenre show at Jazz at Lincoln Center, without the feeling he was being pulled down under for any but the best reasons. ALLEN & HEATH ZED-12FX, ZED-22FX Mixers Zed may be the last letter of the alphabet, but when you’re talking mixers Allen & Heath’s ZED range is a frontrunner. And now two new additions offer a comprehensive section of in-house effects. Go for tap tempo delays, short reverbs, long reverbs or modulation – it’s practically A to Z. And all under the easy control of three buttons, allowing for precise editing and “dialing-in” of effects. Both mixers (6 mono + 3 dual stereo channels or 16 mono + 3 dual stereo channels) features a responsive 3-band swept-mid EQ on the mono, a 2-band EQ on the stereo, 100mm long throw faders, 4 aux sends, a USB send/return – and even the new high performance DuoPre padless pre-amps for a low noise, clean signal path. You can’t go A-list without ZED. PRICE: $499 (ZED-12FX), $799 (ZED-22FX). CONTACT: Allen & Heath/American Music & Sound | ☎ 866-474-7711 ➲ www.allen-heath.com. DYNACORD VariLine VL62 Loudspeaker When you need it big, and you need it strong, you need the VL62 full-range cabinet (150W RMS & 122dB max SPL). This speaker features a neodymium 6.5-inch woofer plus a 1-inch compression driver mounted to a CAD-optimized 90x40 rotatable horn, for high SPL applications where minimal footprint is a maximum concern. VL 62’s unique 16-ohm operation allows up to eight cabinets to be connected in parallel to any Dynacord amp, allowing large-distributed systems for high-end entertainment environments to be realized efficiently. Coupled with Dynacord Power-H remote control DSP amplifiers, FIR presets optimize performance, resulting in linear-phase and equal magnitude response over the operating bandwidth of 90Hz - 20kHz. Strike a chord with your audience. PRICE: $1,100. CONTACT: Dynacord | ☎ 952-736-3935 ➲ www.dynacord.com. 20 | ProAudio Review | March 2008 Subscribe to the Digital Edition of Pro Audio Review http://www.proaudioreview.com/subscribe www.proaudioreview.com http://www.violetusa.com http://www.akg.com http://www.allen-heath.com http://www.dynacord.com http://www.proaudioreview.com http://www.proaudioreview.com/subscribe

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ProAudio Review - March 2008 Contents Publisher's Page Studio News and New Products Sennheiser MKH 8040 Microphone Digidesign Mbox 2 Micro Studio Spotlight Upsampler X/Audio Live News and New Products Touring Gear From the Road Broadcast News and New Products ION Audio Tape2PC Cassette Archiving System Brauner VMA Large-Diaphragm Microphone Audio Ltd. RMS 2040 Series Post News and New Products First Look NAB Showcase Buyers Guide Single Slice

ProAudio Review - March 2008

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