PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring Lexicon, Line 6, WaveMachine Labs and Superstar Hip-Hop Engineer Young Guru on AES

New Products - February 5, 2013 Lexicon Plug-ins: Reduced Prices On 5 Core Bundles » Line 6 StageSource L2m and L2t Loudspeakers » Sound Devices 664 Production Mixer: CAS Technical Achievement Award Nominee » Soundcraft ViSi Connect Family: New Cards Available » Today's Product Review WaveMachine Labs Auria DAW for iOS/iPad By Lynn Fuston "At the end of a tracking day, I had some of Nashville's best players (Dave Cleveland, guitar; Pat Coil, keys; John Hammond, drums; and Craig Nelson, bass) hang around for one more song. Drew Cline, singer/songwriter, brought in a chart and we took a few minutes repatching the microphone paths. All the same mics in all the same positions were rerouted. The drum mics changed from GT Vipre, Millennia HV-3R, Cranesong Flamingo and Neve preamps and instead went directly to a Focusrite Octopre MkII and a PreSonus Audiobox 1818VSL. I skipped the EQ I had added via a Great River MP2NV EQ (on kick and snare) and on the console. I did swap a Shure Beta 52A in place of my standard Royer R122 active ribbon mic on the outside kick because the 122's output was too hot and there were no pads on the preamps. "So what happened? It actually worked. It's impressive to watch a $600 iPad chugging along recording all those tracks without a glitch ..." More » Today's Video Superstar Hip-Hop Engineer Young Guru on AES, San Francisco 2012 "Coming to AES was a great thing. It's weird to be in a room with your heroes, and have other people regard you as their hero. I'm walking around, looking at certain people — "I've listened to your music for years, and have studied you for years" — it was just an amazing time ..." More »

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