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FROM THE PUBLISHER Prosumer Ain’t So Bad ProAudio Review Vol. 14 Issue 08 | August 2008 John Gatski Evaluating audio products for professionals in commercial recording, broadcast production, audio for video/film, project studios, live sound, contracting and multimedia. Publisher & Executive Editor: e-mail: Publisher, Pro Sound News: Editorial Director: Contributing Editor e-mail: Technical Editor e-mail: Technical Consultant John Gatski jgatski@nbmedia.com Margaret Sekelsky Frank Wells Strother Bullins strotherPAR@earthlink.net Steve Murphy smurphy@nbmedia.com Tom Jung Our esteemed technical advisor and smoother than old Sony was out of its reviewer Steve Murphy has a column in line jacks. The old 16-bit machines were this issue called "Prosumer quiet and measured well in their day, but Portables in the Pro World". He they sure were edgy and harsh. And offers tangible, in-the- remember: those DAT machines were trenches advice on the $3,000+ in the late 1980s and early 1990s pros and cons of inex- — with $30 tapes. pensive flash recorders in pro environs. But in IT’S ALL IN THE GEAR Pro Audio Review’s main objective is the larger view. the technology has to provide balanced product reviews allowed great strides written by real-world pros from their facilities. We also do feature in products that articles that highlight now feature industry trends, professionamazing fidelity als and upcoming gear. I at low prices and would like to acknowledge — as the Yamaha writer Mel Lambert, a PocketTrak and Olympus respected industry veteran, LS-10 show — very small sizes. who often graces our pages The integrated A/D-D/A chip with excellent tour spotsets and high capacity Flash lights (such as Avril cards allow good quality and a Lavigne's summer tour) good quantity of audio to be and detailed high-end gear conveniently recorded. Sure, previews. Another of our there are compromises when feature writers is Heather building a recording/playback Johnson, who joined us this device for around $300 street, year. She written several but you have to admit they are great pieces including the wondrous. current one of location Of course, the top-notch recording tips and the portables from Sound Devices, interviews she did with Zaxcom, TASCAM, Fostex and speaker and amp designers others are truly pro, with feaOlympus LS-10 earlier this year. Readers tell tures that are tailored for high-end professional use, but as the number of me they like our approach to these feainexpensive recorders on the market ture stories – though they are not reviews shows, there are plenty of uses for these in our traditional form, their orbit still revolves around the gear and peripherals lower-end machines. In fact, I have done some comparisons that we all love to use. and they sound better than some of the John Gatski is publisher/executive editor expensive pro digital recorders from 15+ years ago. I recently made some record- of Pro Audio Review. His first recorder was ings on an early 1990s Sony DAT recorder a monophonic Truetone tabletop cassette from with a good mixer and a decent mic set. I Western Auto. then recorded the same guitars cuts with the Yamaha PockertTrak with its teeny stereo mic. The outboard mics were better, as one would expect, but the recordWe want to hear from you. Send your ed audio from the PocketTraks’s A/D comments to jgatski@aol.com. Please include was way smoother when played back name, city, state and job title and firm in the through a Benchmark DAC1 converter. email. For product submissions, contact Strother Through the Yamaha’s internal DAC Bullins at newproductsPAR@earthlink.net. /headphone jack the audio was still Contributors: Tony Angelini, Bruce Bartlett, Dr. Frederick Bashour, Frank Beacham, Wayne Becker, Carlos Garza, Will James, Bascom H. 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ProAudio Review - August 2008 Contents Publisher's Page Broadcast News and New Products Yamaha Pocketrak 2G Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM Recorder Bench Test Marantz PMD620 Flash Recorder TASCAM DR-1 Portable Digital Recorder Tips From The Pros: Location/Production Audio Prosumer Portables in a Pro World Studio News and New Products Apogee Ensemble Solid State Logic Duende Mini FireWire DSP Live News and New Products Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Thing World Tour Behringer Eurolive B412DSP and B415DSP Active Loudspeakers Gear for FOH Engineers — A PAR Contributors’ Wish List Contracting News and New Products Buyer's Guide Single Slice

ProAudio Review - August 2008

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