PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring Aphex, Arturia, Behringer, iZotope & JDK Audio

New Products - June 28, 2012 Aphex EX•BB 500 Series Module featuring Aural Exciter and Big Bottom » Arturia Origin Hardware Synthesizer, V1.4 Firmware Update » Behringer X32 Digital Console: Shipping This Month » JDK Audio 8MX2 Eight-Channel Preamplifier/Mixer » Today's Product Review iZotope ANR-B Adaptive Real-Time Noise Reduction By Russ Long "While they are primarily a software company, iZotope’s lone hardware device, the ANR-B, utilizes advanced algorithms designed to recognize noise and suppress it in real time. Since it’s release just two years ago, the box has been used all over the broadcast waves including the Academy Awards, GRAMMY Awards, Tony Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, CBS's Survivor, FOX's American Idol, NBC's The Apprentice, Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch, VH1's The Hills, and dozens more. In the words of iZotope’s Bruce Bartone, “Turn on your TV and you cannot hear the ANR-B all over the place these days!" More » Today's Blog On The Road With the Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour By Clive Young "All surviving members of The Beach Boys have reunited this year for the band's 50th Anniversary, embarking on a world tour and releasing an all-new album to boot: That's Why God Made The Radio, which debuted at a career-high Number 3 on the Billboard chart. While hardly boys anymore, the group blasts through a lengthy show that crams 40 songs into two sets averaging around 70 minutes each. Though the concert pauses for moments of subtlety and the occasional deep cut, towards the end, it all dissolves into an unrelenting barrage of hits, pummeling the audience with one after another, underlining just how many of the band's sing-along chart-toppers are now deeply woven into the American psyche. It's really quite something to experience, and with that in mind, we stopped in on the tour when it hit the Nikon at Jones Beach Amphitheater recently." More »

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