ProAudio Review - October 2008 - (Page 4) INSIDE THIS ISSUE STUDIO 8 10 14 Studio News and New Products Genelec SE DSP Monitoring System by Russ Long Prism Sound Orpheus FireWire Interface by Steve Murphy s Bench Test Creation Audio Labs MW1 Studio Tool by Russ Long WAVES Jack Joseph Puig Collection by Alex Oana Neumann TLM 67 by Ty Ford iZotope Ozone 3 Analog Mastering System by Alex Oana Middle Atlantic Products Edit Center Multimedia Studio Furniture by Strother Bullins ProAudio Review The Review Resource for Sound Professionals October 2008 | Vol. 14 Issue 10 PRO AUDIO REVIEW (ISSN 1083-6241) is published monthly by NewBay Media LLC, 810 Seventh Avenue, 27th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Subsciption information can be found at www.proaudioreview.com, by calling 703-852-4600 or writing to the above address. Letters to the editor are welcomed at the above address or par@nbmedia.com. Phone: 703-852-4600 | Fax: 703-852-4582 Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY 10199 and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Pro Audio Review, P.O. Box 282, Lowell, MA 01853. ©2008 by NewBay Media LLC. All rights reserved. REPRINTS: Reprints of all articles in this issue are available. Contact Caroline Freeland at cfreeland@nbmedia.com. Printed in the U.S.A. 20 18 20 68 24 28 30 Eventide TimeFactor And ModFactor Stompboxes by Manny Sanchez Mackie 1604-VLZ3 16-Channel All-purpose mixer by Mike Rivers Delta H Design “ZR Acoustics” Treatment Philosophy by Alex Oana Universal-NBC “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” by Mel Lambert 72 28 34 76 80 POST 30 40 42 Post News and New Products Sonnox SuprEsser De-Esser/Dynamic EQ Plug-In by Dr. Fred Bashour The Art Of Cinema Scoring By Heather Johnson DEPARTMENTS 6 | Publisher's Page: Coming Soon The New PAR! by John Gatski | Mastering Matters: Where’s The ‘Air?’ by Alan Silverman | Buyer’s Guide: Digital Audio Workstations | Single Slice: Ani DiFranco “Smiling Underneath” By Strother Bullins ADAM A5 Multimedia Monitor Built on the heritage of ADAM’s professional studio monitors, the A5 is designed for multimedia listening, mobile recording, broadcast, and surround applications. It features a compact size, three attractive finishes, and an affordable price point of $699 per pair. 44 48 84 62 Evaluating audio products for professionals in commercial recording, broadcast production, audio for video/film, project studios, live sound, contracting and multimedia. LIVE 60 62 64 Live News and New Products Midas PRO6 Digital Console by Russ Long AKG C5 and D5 Handheld Microphones by Richard Alan Salz 92 ADAM Audio A7 The A7 finally brings the acclaimed ADAM folded ribbon tweeter to a lower price point, delivering the same imaging and extended top end as its bigger brothers. Its brand new carbon fiber woofer yields superb mid- and low-frequency details. 50 AES 2008 Showcase Visit AES Booth 1044 or www.adam-audio.com Visit AES Booth 1044 or www.adam-audio.com ADAM Audio S3-A The acclaimed S3-A (ADAM’s highest profile monitor) is actually a three-way speaker in which one woofer acts as a full-range driver with the second woofer joining it only below 150 Hz. This effectively doubles the area of the woofer for deep, tight bass response. ADK Custom TC-251Au New Class A Valve microphones. GK-251 3-micron pre-aged 99.999% pure gold fine-tuned proprietar]y capsule technology. Double Bell-Curve, broadband linearity creates subtle “Luminescence.” Visit AES Booth 1044 or www.adam-audio.com Visit AES Booth 733 or www.adkmic.com ADK S-7B Class A high SPL condenser microphone. Ribbontone with a dark, mellow character — loves cabs and brass! Wide dymanics — 150dB spl. (Distributed by Dana B Goods). 3Sigma Audio Analog Tool-Box of Hybrid-Microphones© C.H.I. custom head-amp/custom capsule integration system. Ultra-low-noise Class A Condensers with LD and SD capsule-modules© Visit AES Booth 733 or www.adkmicrophones/www.adkmic.com Visit AES Booths 733 & 1227 or www.hybridmic.com AEA TRP — The Ribbon Pre Dedicated, DC-coupled JFET preamp for ribbon, tube, and moving coil mics that neither want nor need phantom power. Two channels of clean, quiet, gain, in an ultrahigh input impedance half-rack package. AEA A440 — HighPerformance Active Studio Ribbon The A440 has the look and sound of the 44, plus the most dynamic range of any ribbon. With specifications of -33.5 dBV/Pascal sensitivity and 9 dBA noise, this is "the microphone without boundaries." Visit AES Booth 1222 or www.ribbonmics.com 48 | ProAudio Review | October 2008 Visit AES Booth 1222 or www.ribbonmics.com www.proaudioreview.com 4 | ProAudio Review | October 2008 www.proaudioreview.com http://www.proaudioreview.com http://www.proaudioreview.com http://www.proaudioreview.com
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