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AUDIO EQUIPMENT EXCHANGE ProAudio Review ACOUSTICS CONTROL PANELS ® RPG DIFFUSOR SYSTEMS, INC. Listen To The Music, N o t T h e R o o m TM Absorption, Diffusion & Total Room Solution Packages. Find an Authorized Dealer @ EQUIPMENT ALAN SMART COMPRESSORS www.rpginc.com/proaudio CASES Case Specialists We Will Beat ANY Price! 1-877-692-2738 www.NewYorkcasecompany.com • C1, C2 & Multi-Channel Versions • Smart 2 Tools - SSL to Pro Tools Interfaces • Smart D.I. Boxes All Exclusively Distributed by: 323-469-1186 • SunsetSound.com Letters Continued From Page 7 http://www.proaudioreview.com/pages/s.0026/t.2984.html The Liquid Mix will give you all of the Liquid Channel’s compressors and all the EQs, but no preamp emulations. Plus, the Liquid Mix is very inexpensive. Maybe you should buy a nice preamp and a Liquid Mix? Ideally (for maximum flexibility), combine a Liquid Channel and Liquid Mix. Such a setup would also provide total recall — very nice if a client had you re-do a portion of a VO and consistency was required. I hope this helps and best of luck to you. Keep on reading PAR and we’ll keep the reviews coming! Regards, Rob Tavaglione Contributing Reviewer, PAR I had the opportunity to express our feelings about properly amplifying studio monitors both passively and actively in last month’s “Powering Studio Monitors” feature [PAR May 2008]. We both seem to be on the same crusade. However, my heart sank when I got to the final paragraph on page 34 and discovered that a critical sentence and a half had disappeared, making what was an emphatic summary for your article into a rather disjointed statement. The omission erroneously linked separate thoughts regarding speakers and amplifiers in a confusing manner. Thanks, Richard Rose Hot House Professional Audio Rose: Not at all, since we already offer something for every type of environment. Our products have always been designed around very targeted applications, each conceived for a specific purpose, and not just the same old speaker that’s bigger and louder or smaller and cheaper as you go up and down the range. You’ll note there’s very little “family resemblance” between our various monitors, and by design, the only thing they have in common is the presentation at the mix position regardless of what kind of music they’re reproducing, how far away they may be, how loud they need to play, or how large a room they’re in. And everyone’s used to big amps sounding bigger (louder, fatter and too often, less refined), and small amps sounding smaller (thinner, but maybe a little cleaner). When designing along traditional lines, there are reasonable technical explanations for this. But in a perfect world, large, medium or small, an amplifier should just amplify. And there should be no difference until you run out of headroom period! A CLARIFICATION FROM HOT HOUSE’S RICHARD ROSE Dear John, I was very pleased that Nelson [Pass] and Here’s Richard’s response in its entirety: PAR: Has the move to an overall more digital/workstation-based recording environment affected your designs? 64 | ProAudio Review | July 2008 www.proaudioreview.com http://www.panelauthority.com/ http://www.acousticsfirst.com http://www.rpginc.com/proaudio http://SunsetSound.com http://www.NewYorkcasecompany.com http://www.proaudioreview.com/pages/s.0026/t.2984.html http://www.proaudioreview.com

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ProAudio Review - July 2008 Contents Publisher's Page: Inside Broadcast Production Studio News and New Products Steinberg Nuendo 4 Digital Audio Workstation Developments & Trends: Digital Audio Workstation I/O JZ Microphones Black Hole BH-1 Apple Logic Studio Behind The Scenes: JBL Professional – A 60-Year Legacy Broadcast News and New Products WLOY: Real World Facilities For An On-Campus Radio Station Post News and New Products Hot Gear InfoComm 08 Chandler Limited TG1 Abbey Road/EMI Series Limiter/Compressor Live News and New Products Cerwin-Vega! Professional Active Series CVA-28 and CVA-118 Speakers QSC Audio Model GX5 Power Amplifier From The Road: A Week In The Life — Gear Essentials Contracting News and New Products Taming The Driving Factor — Drums UpSampler: sE Instrument Reflection Filter Buyer’s Guide: Live Sound Amplifiers Single Slice: Roger Powell “Fallout Shelter”

ProAudio Review - July 2008

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