Miking Musings

July 31, 2012 Miking Musings – Recording Acoustic Instruments Three top recording engineers – Daniel Lanois’ lead engineer Mark Howard, Bill Laswell’s chief engineer Bob Musso, and the Dap-Kings’ Neal Sugarman – give us their approaches to recording acoustic instruments. More » Read interview extras with Jack White’s engineer Bob Ludwig. More » What's your opinion of software emulation? Vote NOW at emusician.com » Craig's List - The Top Five Audio Abominations of All Time » New Gear » Waves and AudioFanzine Announce Winners of CLA Song Competition » Behringer Lands on the iPad » Disc Makers Offers Free Home Studio Microphone Guide » Ableton Offers SonArte Bundle » Your Take – How do you reference your mixes? » Ask – How is the Line 6 Variax for Synth Sounds? » Show us your studio! We’ll print our favorite photos in an upcoming issue. Send pics and captions to ElectronicMusician@musicplayer.com » ATM510 Cardioid Dynamic Handheld Microphone Audio-Technica Now available Audio-Technica’s ATM510 cardioid dynamic workhorse features extremely natural vocal reproduction, super-durable construction, a rare-earth magnet for high output, and internal shock mounting for reduced handling/stage noise. $10 rebate on mics purchased between 7/1/12 and 12/31/12. MSRP: $169; $99 Street pro@atus.com www.audio-technica.com S-Gear Scuffham Amps "…the tones are warm, full, dynamic, interactive, "tubey", highly tweakable…you really will forget that you're playing through software." Try the expressive natural tones in our guitar amp software for yourself! Get the FREE 15 day trial today. Available for MAC and PC, plug-in (AU, VST) and Standalone App. At this price you can't afford not to! Price: $75 www.scuffhamamps.com Portable Vocal Booth RealTraps Now Available The RealTraps Portable Vocal Booth provides an elegant and affordable way to capture dry, clear sounding vocals, even in locations that are less than ideal acoustically. This clever device mounts on any microphone boom stand, or use it on a table top or other flat surface. SRP: $299.99 www.realtraps.com/p_pvb.htm

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Free Guitar Player Vault August - 3 full songs tabbed, TrueFire video lessons and more

August 2012 Welcome to Guitar Player Vault , the free digital edition from Guitar Player magazine. In this issue of Guitar Player Vault you will find: Classic Interviews Charlie Christian Artist Feature Vernon Reid From the Vault Merle Haggard & Roy Nichols New Gear 11 Portable PA Rigs Lessons Al Bonhomme: The GIT Master Class Twangmaster’s honky tonk survival guide Matthias Jabs: The Scorpions lead axe man’s bending exercises, Plus! An interpretation of his “20th Century Man” Transcriptions “Still Beats Your Name” Killswitch Engage “Closer” Lacuna Coil “Teenager in Love” Dion and the Belmonts The technology requires no special software and loads quickly. Just click on the magazine cover or click here to begin reading. Enjoy the read, Guitar Player magazine

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PAR Daily E-Reviewsletter featuring Acoustics First, Avid, Allen & Heath, Danley Sound Labs, IK Multimedia & Sony

New Products - July 31, 2012 Allen & Heath ZED60-14FX Compact Analog Mixer » Danley Sound Labs J4 “Super Tweeter” » IK Multimedia ARC 2 Advanced Room Correction System » Sony SpectraLayers Spectral Audio Waveform Editor » Today's Product Review AVID Pro Tools|HDX By Russ Long "Pro Tools|HD has spent a decade at the pinnacle of the recording industry where it has been the staple system against which every DAW is measured. After a long, glorious life, the platform has finally matured into an aging system in need of retirement. AVID released the amazing HD Native system two years ago and, while this platform is adequate for most users (its 32-bit floating point processing provides higher quality audio processing than HD Accel), it lacks the power and speed required by some high-end Pro Tools users. For them, there’s HDX. Pro Tools|HDX was officially launched at last October’s AES show and it represents a major step forward as well as a major change to the Pro Tools platform. It’s interesting to note that Pro Tools|Mix had only been in the marketplace for four years before HD was released, but HD has had a decade-long life without being updated. So yes, it’s time to move into the next generation of Pro Tools performance." More » Today's Blog The Barrier & The Bell "It takes a system of materials to achieve sound isolation,” contends this informative video-based blog/tutorial, courtesy of Acoustics First, a Richmond VA-based acoustics material supply company." More »

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