PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring 2013 NAMM Best of Show Awards, MPSE Golden Reel Awards plus MXL Microphones, NuGen Audio, Symetrix & Vu

New Products - February 19, 2013 2013 NAMM Show's Best of Show Awards: Product Details » MPSE Golden Reel Sound Editing Award Winners » NuGen Audio LM-Correct Loudness Analysis and Correction Tool » Symetrix SymNet xIn 12 and xOut Expansion Devices » Cable Up Premium & Industrial Cables » Today's Product Review MXL CR89 Large Diaphragm Condenser Microphone By Russ Long "Though MXL has been manufacturing microphones for some time now (since 1995 actually), it's only in the past few years that they've been taken seriously by top producers and engineers. Meanwhile, the company recently rebranded their well-received V89 large diaphragm condenser (LDC) as the MXL CR89, a fixed-cardioid microphone that performs well beyond its street value and can easily adapt to most any studio recording requirement. Less than two lbs., the brass-bodied CR89 measures 2.5 inches by 7.25 inches and features a 1 1/4-inch diameter, 6-micron gold-sputtered diaphragm behind its tuned grill cavity. It has 20Hz - 20kHz frequency response specs with a signal/noise ratio of 80 dB, a maximum SPL of 138 dB and 124 dB dynamic range. The mic features impressive build quality, both inside and out, and has a lovely, sleek flat black finish. The mic's FET design incorporates a transformerless output. Included with the CR89 is a wooden storage box, a cleaning cloth, and a heavy-duty shockmount that attaches to the mic via a threaded shaft at the base of the microphone." More » Today's Blog It Was 50 Years Ago Today ... The Beatles First Album Recorded In 10 Hours by Kelleigh Welch "Today, February 11, 2013, marks the 50th anniversary of the historic recording session where John, George, Paul and Ringo recorded all ten new songs for their first LP, Please, Please Me, in a mere 10 hours. When the Beatles walked into Studio Number 2 at Abbey Road Studios in St. John's Wood in London on February 11, 1963, second engineer Richard Langham remembers he had to ask for introductions, because he didn't know who the Beatles were. It was a very cold morning and I didn’t know any of them. I actually had to ask Norman Smith, who was the engineer, ‘Who are they? Who are who?’ so he introduced me and everything else. They were very businesslike, but they just had come down into London from the gig they had done the night before. We helped them bring all their equipment in and set it all up,” Langham said during a BeatExpo fan convention in Stamford, CT back in November 2011." More »

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