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BAE (baeaudio.com) has announced a new subsidiary
brand, UK Sound. The new line will specialize in bringing
high-quality audio gear to a more approachable price
DPA Microphones (dpamicrophones.com) showed its wide
point; its first product is the 1173 ($1000), a rackmount
range of d:vote instrument miking solutions, as well as a handy
preamp/compressor that combines the classic Neve 1073
modular mounting system for the d:screet line of miniature mics.
preamplification circuit with a FET compressor that nods to
the Universal Audio 1176.
D. W. Fearn (dwfearn.com) announced the reissue of its original
2-channel tube DI, the VT-1/F, which will replace the VT-3 in the
Barefoot Sound (barefootsound.com, on display at
company's lineup, price/shipping details coming soon.
Vintage King, vintageking.com) showed the new Footprint01
($3495/pair), a very small and powerful 3-way monitor with
Dynamount (dynamount.com) announced significant price
dual opposing side-firing woofers and MEME speaker emulation
drops on its line of robotically controlled automatic mic mounting
technology. Look for a review soon.
systems, bringing hands-free mic positioning within reach of even
more studios.
Bettermaker (bettermaker.eu, dist. by TransAudio Group,
transaudiogroup.com) was displaying its Mastering Limiter
Dynaudio (dynaudiousa.com) debuted the LYD 48 ($1549
(price and availability TBA), a rack unit offering a full analog
each), a 3-way monitor with an 8" woofer, 4" midrange, and
signal path with touchscreen-based digital control.
1" dome tweeter, triamplified with Class D amplification and
featuring a 3-way Sound Balance tonality control and 24/96
Big Bear Audio (bigbearaudio.com, dist. by Wave
internal audio path.
Distribution, wavedistro.com) showed the MP1 ($399),
a 500 Series mic preamp/DI that's unique for its interchangeable "Color" circuit boards. The MP1+ ($599) adds
a Lundahl output transformer and ELMA stepped attenuator.
Bitwig (bitwig.com) announced version 2 of its audio
performance DAW and demonstrated its seamless integration
with a touchscreen Windows PC.
Blue (bluemic.com) debuted two new headphones with
built-in amplification: the dynamic-driver Sadie ($399.99)
and planar magnetic Ella ($699.99).
Boz Digital Labs (bozdigitallabs.com) showed the Manic
Compressor ($149), a parallel compressor with an architecture designed for heavy and drastic compression, and the
new Transgressor ($99), aplug-in that allows for separate
processing of attack transients and sustain in each drum hit.
Chandler Limited (chandlerlimited.com) was premiering the
REDD microphone, which had its world-exclusive first review
in last month's issue of Recording.
Dynaudio LYD 48
Cloud Microphones (cloudmicrophones.com) introduced
the Cloudlifter CL-Zi ($379), a phantom-powered "mic activator"
that provides up to 25 dB of clean gain for low-output dynamic or ribbon mics, along with variable impedance, highpass filtering, and gain control for a
wide variety of tone options. The CL-Zi combines
all of these mic-friendly features found in the
CL-Z and adds instrument DI capability as well.
Crane Song (cranesong.com) has upgraded
the Egret 8-channel D/A and summing mixer
($5599) to use its new fifth-generation Quantum D/A converters, resulting in substantially
reduced jitter and improved sound.
Cymatic Audio (cymaticaudio.com) announced Dante network compatibility as
an upgrade to the AudioLan card for the
Cloud Cloudlifter CL-Zi
uTrack24 multitrack hardware recorder/
player ($999).

Barefoot Footprint01
BAE/UK Sound 1173
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http://www.baeaudio.com http://www.dpamicrophones.com http://www.dwfearn.com http://www.barefootsound.com http://www.vintageking.com http://www.dynamount.com http://www.bettermaker.eu http://www.transaudiogroup.com http://www.dynaudiousa.com http://www.bigbearaudio.com http://www.wavedistro.com http://www.bitwig.com http://www.bluemic.com http://www.bozdigitallabs.com http://www.chandlerlimited.com http://www.cloudmicrophones.com http://www.cranesong.com http://www.cymaticaudio.com

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