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CEDAR DNS3000 Dialogue Noise Suppressor
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3.15.2008
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Features include onboard scenes with simple, intuitive recall, automation to timecode, flying faders, sample rates to 96kHz, and all the I/O you have grown to know and love.
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CEDAR Cambridge Server
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11.15.2007
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Studios are a lot like restaurants in that there is a front and back of the house that must work together. So as much as a facility needs its cooks, it also needs its servers.
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SSL Duende DSP Accelerated Plug-ins
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This console-grade 1RU module’s 32 mono channels of proven, presence-boosting EQ and dynamics make ears smile.
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by Dan Wothke, 10.15.2007
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Audio engineers all over the globe, and of all stripes, took notice when SSL introduced Duende about a year ago, because now anyone could buy 32 mono channels of SSL EQ and compression for around $1,500 street.
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SOUNDFIELD DSF-1 & DSF-3 Digital Surround Recording/Decoding Systems
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9.15.2007
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When you’ve got to (re)play the entire field, make it with SoundField.
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Benchmark DAC1 USB Converter
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A top-rate DAC combined with USB is A-OK for virtually any computer.
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by John Gatski, 7.15.2007
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The master reference sound quality, excellent utility with plenty of I/O options and exemplary measured performance, made this DAC a favorite among discriminating engineers.
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Universal Audio UAD-1 Ultra PAK Plug-Ins and Card
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This hardware/software PAK's a punch
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by Rob Tavaglione, 3.15.2007
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Universal Audio (UA) has created — and recreated — some of the finest audio processing hardware around, so I was intrigued to check out the UAD-1 Ultra PAK ($1,495).
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dbx DriveRack 4800
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by David Rittenhouse, 7.01.2006
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As most manufacturers tend to update their products from year to year, has dbx actually improved on their product or just put it in a prettier box? Can the 4800 turn heads and budgets like its predecessor? Let's find out what the hype is all about.
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Klark Teknik Square One Dynamics Processor
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by Will James, 5.01.2006
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If ever there were a name synonymous with quality in the pro audio world, it could be Klark Teknik. They have been the purveyors of fine, world-class level audio processors for over 30 years.
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Wheatstone Vorsis AP3 Multiprocessor
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by Russ Long, 4.01.2006
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The Vorsis AP3 from Wheatstone is a multiprocessor box that can potentially replace an entire rack of dedicated processors. It can be operated as a stereo unit or two independent mono units and it provides a filter, de-esser, expander, multiband compressor, equalizer and limiter.
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TC Electronic Reverb 4000
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by Tim Bomba, 3.01.2005
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Take it out of the box, plug it in, and the first thing you'll see is a screen that's large enough to read from across the room.
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Prism Sound ADA-8 Converter
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by Russ Long, 12.01.2004
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The Prism Sound ADA-8 is a modular A/D-D/A converter and processor that is configurable for eight channels of simultaneous A/D and D/A conversion or for 16 channels in either direction. It supports sample rates up to 96 kHz and can also serve as a D/D format converter. The box is ideal for studio and location recording, stereo and surround mixing and mastering.
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Inter-M GEQ-2231 Digital Graphic Equalizer
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by Will James, 12.01.2004
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I was not very familiar with Inter-M, when this package arrived. Upon further investigation, I discovered it is a South Korean company that has been in the audio business for more than 25 years. It has kept a low profile as an OEM for better known labels.
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Ursa Major Space Station
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SST-206 Reverb
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by Dr. Frederick Bashour, 6.01.2004
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Ursa Major, a small company in Belmont, MA, began selling its Space Station digital reverb and effects unit in May 1978, the third entrant in the fledgling digital reverb market (after the ground-breaking $7,000 EMT 250 and the Quad Eight CPR-16). The Space Station occupied the lowest cost segment of the market ($1,995) for the next several years and continued to sell for the next eight years.
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Lavry Engineering LavryBlue Converter System
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by Alan Silverman, 4.01.2004
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Lavry Engineering, the company formerly known as dB Technologies, made their reputation providing "gold" converters for best-of-class studios and scoring stages. Not every facility can afford the gold series at $4,000 per channel, but Lavry AD122 and DA924 converters are frequently found in rooms that can.
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Yamaha SPX2000 Digital Multieffects Processor
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by Russ Long, 3.01.2004
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One of the most exciting new boxes at the fall 2003 AES show was the Yamaha SPX2000 ($1,249) professional multieffects processor. The fantastic sounding 96 kHz box features the new "REV-X" reverb algorithm as well as the classic bank which features all of the tried and true classic SPX presets that every engineer born before 1980 knows oh so well.
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Alesis DEQ230D Digital Graphic Equalizer
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by Bruce Bartlett, 3.01.2004
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Alesis has come up with a highly impressive 1/3-octave graphic EQ and real-time analyzer. With the DEQ230D, you can see a speaker's response and flatten it, reduce feedback, tweak an instrument's timbre, enhance a mix, filter out hum and noise, or create tonal effects. You might even put the device in a monitor chain to emulate various speakers.
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TOA DP-0206 Digital Processor
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by Wayne Becker, 10.01.2003
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TOA has always had a good reputation for making cost-effective, reliable and innovative audio products for the sound contracting market. Their foray into the digital realm goes back longer than most us acknowledge, developing some of the first DSPs for contracting and live performance. One of the latest is the DP-0206, a two-in by six-out digital signal processor with an optional upgrade path to 12 channels of I/O (however the unit I tested did not have the optional cards installed).
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TC Helicon VoiceOne Voice Pitch and Modeling Tool
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by Bruce Bartlett, 9.01.2003
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Now arrives the VoiceOne by TC Helicon. This amazing rackmount device provides pitch correction, but also allows control of all sorts of vocal parameters: vibrato, growl, breath, pitch shifting, inflection, spectrum and resonance. As a result, singers can greatly increase the range of their vocal character beyond what they could do naturally.
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Symetrix SymNet
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by Wayne Becker, 9.01.2003
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In this industry there are a few names you can rely on for consistent innovation and reliability. One of them is Symetrix. The Washington state-based company has been cranking out innovative and reliable analog signal processing for years - serving broadcast, live sound, studio and installation markets.
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Digital Domain DD-2 Ambience Processor
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by Alan Silverman, 8.01.2003
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Offered as an ambience recovery device, the Digital Domain DD-2 K-Stereo Processor ($3,500) is that and more. Practically a career's worth of customized tricks-of-the-mastering trade have been built into the device by its creator, mastering engineer Bob Katz.
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