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A Little More Recognition Please
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by John Gatski, 4.15.2008
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Every since we began our PAR Excellence Awards back in 1996 at the annual U.S. AES convention, I have had periodic requests from companies to extend our innovative product award to other trade shows.
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Download Your 24/96 Music
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by John Gatski, 3.15.2008
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The future of high-res music, however, may be read in the tea leaves of the iTunes model — Apple’s incredibly successful Internet download store — and the various copy cats that have followed.
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It’s Gear Guide Time!
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by John Gatski, 2.15.2008
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Since 1998, PAR has published the Gear Guide, and it continues to be the source for new professional products.
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The Global Microphone Economy
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by John Gatski, 1.15.2008
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Today, the microphone landscape is truly global. You still have mics from the US, but the huge numbers of players from Asia — and to some degree from Europe, as Latvia seems to be a hot bed of mic tech these days — seem to have taken the limelight.
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Gear of the Year
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by John Gatski, 12.15.2007
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It is once again time for Pro Audio Review’s Best Gear of the Year/Reviewer Picks. And just like the trend over the last few years, there is a lot of analog gear mixed in with the digital.
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Award-Winning Analog, Digital at AES
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by John Gatski, 11.15.2007
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Like last year, the coexistence of analog with digital showed no sign of waning at the recent 2007 AES show in New York.
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The Excellence of Gear
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by John Gatski, 10.15.2007
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There is something about buying a new piece of audio gear.
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Going to AES
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by John Gatski, 9.15.2007
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The Audio Engineering Society (AES) is holding its annual conference and expo Oct. 5 - 8 in New York. Although PAR’s product preview for AES is in the October issue, I wanted to focus on the show’s attributes well in advance of its start.
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The Wonderful World of Portable Recording
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by John Gatski, 8.15.2007
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Audio recordists who need a small, high-quality digital stereo recorder have never had so many good choices available.
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New Owner, Same Great Reviews!
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by John Gatski, 7.15.2007
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Astute readers may notice a new logo affixed to the front of this month’s issue: NewBay Media. Pro Audio Review — along with its sibling titles Audio Media, TV Technology, Radio World and Broadcast & Production Italy — was purchased by NewBay Media in July.
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Passive Speakers Still Around
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by John Gatski, 6.15.2007
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With all the buzz about Digidesign getting into the powered studio speaker market and the zillions of other powered monitors seemingly coming out of the woodwork, I wanted to mention companies that still make models for those who still like to use passive speakers.
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Analog to Digital in the Worship World
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by John Gatski, 5.15.2007
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In studio, broadcast, post and every other facet of the audio world, digital is inevitable.
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Music in Stereo
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by John Gatski, 4.15.2007
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As I read Mike Rivers' detailed roundup of two-track editors for PCs in this issue (a Mac roundup is scheduled for June), I was reminded of the power of stereo.
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Digital This, Digital That
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by John Gatski, 3.15.2007
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You, the reader, may notice in this issue a couple of new feature articles that go beyond the normal cadre of PAR reviews.
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Goodbye and Hello
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by John Gatski, 2.15.2007
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It is never easy to say goodbye to family, friends and coworkers, but that is what we at PAR did with the departure of longtime managing editor Brett Moss to our sister title, Radio World International.
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Microphones Galore!
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by John Gatski, 1.15.2007
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This is Pro Audio Review's 11th annual Microphone issue. It's the issue where we jam in a lot of mic and mic preamp reviews as well as double Buyers Guides. Microphones are always hot products for whatever pro audio line of work you are into: studio, live, broadcast, podcasting, etc.
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For the Record
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by John Gatski, 12.06.2006
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I recently was sent a new phono cartridge to check out from Audio-Technica. Actually, it is an improved version of its ML150 moving magnet cartridge that came out in the 1990s.
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Analog Ain't Dead!
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by John Gatski, 11.15.2006
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Judging by our 2006 PAR Excellence Awards at AES last month, development of analog products has not waned.
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Pro Audio and the Computer
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by John Gatski, 10.31.2006
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To say that the computer has revolutionized professional audio is massive understatement. Since the early 1990s, the continual evolution of computers has allowed audio engineers to become faster, more capable at their tasks with equipment that costs a few thousand instead of hundreds of thousand of dollars.
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A New Energy and a New Look
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by John Gatski, 9.01.2006
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We here at IMAS Publishing, the parent company of PAR, are all excited about the debut of our new redesign, implemented with this issue. In its 11 years of publishing, PAR has gone through a variety of aesthetic presentations, but this one is the best, yet.
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