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New Products - June 29, 2012 Aphex EX•BB 500 Series Module featuring Aural Exciter and Big Bottom » Behringer X32 Digital Console: Shipping This Month » Prism Sound dScopre Series IIIE Analogue/Digital Audio Analyzer » Sony DWZ Digital Wireless Series » Today's Product Review Aphex Model 188 Eight-Channel Microphone Preamplifier By Strother Bullins “I used the Model 188 over the span of six months in a variety of settings: numerous tracking dates on the gamut of acoustic instruments, drums and percussion, vocal, and miked cabinet applications with a wide variety of microphones as well as a “crucial input mic amp” for two live events via remote control with my Mac Book Pro running the 1788SW control software. First and foremost, the Model 188 mic amps are pristine, providing lots of clean gain, and they offer all the adjustable parameters you’ll generally need. Sans software -- with the Model 188 sitting at your monitoring station -- it’s easy to adjust eight microphones of input in a flash; the push/turn parameter adjustment scheme of the unit’s singular knob is brilliantly simple. Once you get the hang of it, it’s easy to dial in appropriate settings for, say, a full drum kit in a jiffy. The back panel is well laid out, with all digital I/O to the left and all analog I/O to the right. I’m a big fan of the DB-25 outputs, as it’s really easy to swap those connectors around, especially in time-restrictive settings, such as location recording and live work." 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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