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Mix Nashville
• May 20-21, 2008
Studio. Live. Songwriting—Nashville on
Nashville
Come join the editors of Mix as we pull into Soundcheck
Nashville for two full days of panels, master classes and how-to
programming. Presented by Apple, Digidesign and Meyer Sound, Mix
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Mix Panels include: Recording the Show, Plug-Ins Go Live, Keeping the
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Demo Derby, Q&As and GarageBand demos.
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2008 NAB SHOW COVERAGE!
This year's NAB show at the Las Vegas Convention Center (April 14-17)
offered all you'd expect from the world's largest media show, but with
some considerable differences.
The buzz on the floor centered around some missing key players: Apple
and Avid did not have their usual impressive presence at NAB, although
Apple had some other key events going on in the city. Digidesign, a
subsidiary of Avid, was over in the North Hall this year, which came up
about three aisles short because of missing exhibitors. Traffic was
noticeably down, although the South Hall had the usual mad rush of
attendees wanting to gawk at the eye candy provided on the floor.
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NEUMANN TLM
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By George Petersen
Celebrating its 80th anniversary this year, Neumann shows no signs of
slowing down. Making its U.S. debut at last week's NAB show is Neumann's
TLM 103D, a digital version of the its best-selling TLM 103 cardioid,
large-diaphragm studio condenser mic. Part of the company's growing
Solution-D series of digital products, the new microphone's integrated
fast peak limiter optimizes recording levels, while an onboard Neumann
A/D converter (44.1/48/88.2/96/176.4/192 kHz) eliminates the need for
external converters and preamps.
Digital output options include AES-42, USB, S/PDIF and AES/EBU, for
direct connection to DAWs, digital consoles or recorders. “This
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user’s hard disk, with optimal quality,” says company president of
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clipping. The mic operates on phantom power (per AES-42 guidelines) and
specs include an equivalent noise level rating of 7 dBA, 127 dB dynamic
range, a 20 to 20k Hz frequency response and 134dB SPL handling.
Now shipping, the TLM 103 D is offered in nickel and black finishes,
and a variety of configurations and packages are available.
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Spectrasonics Previews New Flagship Virtual Instrument:
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Using a
Ribbon Mic Pre On Stringed Instruments
Longtime Skaggs Family Records recording engineer and studio manager Lee
Groitzsch specializes in recording the acoustic music of Ricky Skaggs
and Kentucky Thunder, and other label clients. To capture acoustic and
stringed instruments, Groitzsch relies on an array of new and vintage
ribbon microphones, and he reports that his tracks were often plagued by
noise generated from the unreasonably high gain needed by the ribbons on
conventional high-end mic pres.
"Back before condensers, when ribbons were the only high-end type of
mic, preamps were ohm-matched to particular ribbons," Groitzsch says.
"Modern preamps generally have lower impedance suitable for condensers,
but they can cause the ribbon's signal noise to be hard to deal with in
quiet sections of music. That's what was difficult to work around."
Skaggs Family Records recently acquired a TRUE Precision P-SOLO
Ribbon mic pre to capture better stringed instrument sounds. Groitzsch
used it with his RCA 44, RCA 77, Royer R-121 and Coles Ribbon on Ricky
Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder's Honoring the Fathers of Bluegrass
and unreleased acoustic re-cuts of some of Skaggs' hits for Cracker
Barrel Records. The TRUE Systems P-SOLO Ribbon has very high input
impedance for optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio of ribbon mics and
dynamic mics. In addition, it offers no phantom power, which can be
potentially damaging to ribbon mics.
"I've been here eight years now, and we're getting better and better
sounds as we get new tools," Groitzsch says. "We didn't tell the banjo
player, Jim Mills, that we were doing anything different, but when he
heard his playback, he was blown away. It was the best banjo sound he
had heard on himself in a while!"
The P-SOLO Ribbon also includes a high-end direct input (DI). Groitzsch
now uses it regularly to record electric bass. "It sounds great as a
DI," he adds. "The sonic quality is impressive."
For more information on the P-SOLO, click
here. For more on Skaggs Family Records and recording bluegrass
instruments, be sure to check out Mix's May 2008 issue!
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Keyboardist and bandleader extraordinaire Joe Zawinul was one of my
all-time favorite musicians, and his death in September 2007 from cancer
came as a real shock—I had interviewed him earlier in the year (for
the fourth or fifth time since the late ’70s) and I assumed there
would be more chances for us to talk down the road. He was one of those
artists who was constantly searching musically, always open to new
influences and, in my view, never made a bad record; indeed, most were
great, from his pre-Miles solo work, through Weather Report, to
his 20 years or so of various incarnations of the Zawinul Syndicate.
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