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Cube-Tec Dobbin, Digital Error-Checker
Cube-Tec has released Dobbin, a distributed, fully scalable, high-availability audio processing and rendering engine, and the Digital Error-Checker, an audio analysis application that can be set to analyze small or large volumes of audio files. MORE

AES PREVIEW: HHB FlashMic DRM85, Upgraded Portadrive
HHB (AES booth #227) has developed the FlashMic DRM85 digital recording microphone and has upgraded its Portadrive system with a higher-powered rechargeable battery and a new 80GB removable drive. MORE

Metric Halo SpectraFoo for OS X
Metric Halo is now shipping SpectraFoo Standard and SpectraFoo Complete Version 4.0 in general release for Mac OS X. This release includes the standalone versions of the software; plug-in versions are scheduled for release at a later date. MORE

Omnia Multicast
Omnia Audio has introduced the new Omnia Multicast audio processor, equipped with SENSUS technology, which helps HD radio broadcasters deliver multicast audio with "punch" and clarity. MORE

Spectrasonics New Orleans Strut
Spectrasonics has announced the release of the New Orleans Strut mini drum loop collection to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The library features 50 new live grooves from seven world-class drummers. MORE

Saint Claire Recording Celebrates Official Opening
Musician and sound engineer John Parks is aiming to lure clientele to the rolling hills of Lexington, Ky., where's he has officially opened Saint Claire Recording, an 8,000-square-foot recording/retreat complex situated on 14 scenic acres. MORE

Visual 102 Equips New HDTV OBV With Studer Vista 8<
For its HD1, an expandable 24-camera truck, Paris-based broadcast company Visual 102 is reportedly the first OB operator in France to select the 52-fader Studer Vista 8 digital audio production mixer, which was supplied by Audiopole, MORE

Roland Rolls Out MV-8000 Workshop Series
Roland has launched the MV-8000 Workshop Series, which spotlights features of the Roland's MV-8000 Production Studio. MORE

Eben Carr Joins One Union, Joaby Deal Gets Promoted
Eben Carr, an award-winning audio mixer and engineer, has joined the One Union Recording (San Francisco) staff as a senior engineer, while Joaby Deal has been promoted to senior engineer. MORE

Photomag Sound & Image Posts Being Bobby Brown
Photomag Sound & Image, PostWorks New York's full-service post-production boutique in midtown Manhattan, handled post-production for Bravo's new reality television series, Being Bobby Brown. MORE

Nelson Stoll Captures Audio for Rent
For Rent, the film translation of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway musical, production sound mixer Nelson Stoll used HHB's Portadrive PDR2000 hard disk recorder to capture the work's memorable music. MORE

Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill Sing on Brooks & Dunn Tune
Country music hit-maker and Universal South senior partner Tony Brown called up Sheryl Crow and Vince Gill to add background vocals on "Building Bridges" from the forthcoming Brooks and Dunn album, Hillbilly Deluxe, to be released on Arista Nashville/RLG. MORE

Boz Scaggs' Fade Into Light Makes U.S. DualDisc Debut
Fade Into Light, the sought-after Japanese import from singer Boz Scaggs, will be released as a DualDisc in the U.S. by Virgin Records on September 27, 2005. MORE