PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring Behringer, Petrol Bags, Sanken & Solid State Logic plus Nashville Recording Workshop + Expo

March 19, 2013 Events Nashville Recording Workshop + Expo, presented by AES Nashville Section » New Products Behringer Xenyx Control 1USB Audio Interface » Petrol Bags PS617 Deca Large Lightweight Audio Bag » Sanken CU-55 Cardioid Microphone » Solid State Logic C10 — V.4 Software Update » Today's Product Review Live Review: Behringer X32 Digital Console By Dan Wothke with Lynn Fuston for Pro Audio Review "Looking under the hood, the X32 is equipped with 32 Midas designed mic preamps, which are pristine in performance, six balanced line-ins and outs on quarter-inch and 16 balanced XLR outputs. The X32 has the usual suspects that come with the world of digital: preset libraries, USB import/export, mute groups, and global or individual bus routing (pre/post). There are screen display adjustments for LEDs, main display and Channel display. Sampling rates of 44.1 & 48kHz are available, but nothing higher. The X32 operates at a 24-bit bit depth. "The layout of the X32 is, in my opinion, the most natural workflow I have experienced to date in a digital mixer; everything just makes sense. There are features that the X32 has that would greatly benefit the larger, more expensive boards. The board is laid out into five primary mixing sections: channel strip, input channels, display and monitoring, group/bus/main channels and scenes/assign/mute groups. The top left third of the board is the dedicated channel strip which includes gain, gate, comp, EQ, aux sends and routing. These never, ever change. To feature one of the sections on the screen, just press the View button in the lower silkscreened area for that section; it will appear on the screen of the channel you have selected. The option exists for parameters to be edited using the six fixed knobs at the bottom of the screen but I found the knobs associated with the sections on the board paired with the visuals on the screen was the most effective way to adjust channels." More » Today's Blog DIY Record Cutter Edges Towards Mainstream by Kelleigh Welch "The obscure subculture of lathe-cut records—vinyl records hand-cut in real time by hobbyists and entrepreneurs—got a big shove towards the mainstream at the annual South By Southwest Music, Film and Interactive Conference, which presented the Vinylrecorder T-560, a Do-It-Yourself record-making machine that plugs into your CD player or laptop. "Highlighted in this year's Wired SXSW Liveblog, the German-made Vinylrecorder T-560 is a vinyl enthusiasts looking to transfer their entire digital collection onto records. Purchased for 3,200 euros ($4,000 USD), you get a complete mechanic stereo cutter head with a diamond stylus, mono microscope 40x, and lamp, a 19-inch main unit with RIAA encoder, a groove controller, stylus heating regulation, regulated power supply and 10 10-inch blank discs. The price also comes with a free day of training on how to use the device in Germany (but you have to pay for your trip over there). Training is also available in the US for an additional charge." More »

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