NY Hosts 40th Anniv. Salute of Electric Lady Studios

On August 24th at 6:30pm EDT the NY Section of the Audio Engineering Society will host a 40th Anniversary Salute to Electric Lady and the Hendrix legacy. The panel will include: Jimi’s sister, Janie Hendrix, CEO/President, Experience Hendrix; Eddie Kramer, engineer of all Hendrix’s recording sessions; studio architect/acoustician John Storyk who began his career with Electric Lady, and who’s international Walters-Storyk Design Group has created over 3,000 studios around the globe; long time Electric Lady engineer Tony Platt (AC/DC, Foreigner), and Grammy-winning engineer Bob Margouleff (Stevie Wonder) and Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith’s guitarist, longtime collaborator and longtime Electric Lady client. CBS will stream the event and you will be able to access it here on

AES Continues Oral History Project

Initiated during an Audio Engineering Society Historical Committee meeting in 1997 by long-time member Irv Joel, the AES Oral History Project was envisioned as a personal record of the creative and technical thought process of the doyens of professional audio. “This AES Oral History Project was initiated as an inspiration to new generations of audio industry professionals,” explains AES executive director Roger Furness. “Education remains an AES priority, and these unique DVD personal histories represent a priceless link between the past contributions of our worldwide membership and the on-going innovations of our rapidly evolving future. “Irv Joel has had close, long-standing relationships with many of the giants of our industry,” he continues. “In addition to co-ordinating the interviews, he served as cameraman and off-camera interviewer for the greater part of them, a massive undertaking. The entire professional audio community owes him a vote of thanks for producing over 100 irreplaceable one-on-one interviews.” In 2007, after 10 years of shooting with a basic lighting kit, two lavalier mics and… (continued at following link) Read rest of story on Pro Sound News Europe website

Three Fantastic Free Audio Effects

KVR announced the winners of their 2009 Developer Challenge – and they are three abundant chargeless audio applications to analysis out: FerricTDS by bootsie – a Windows VST aftereffect Tape Dynamics Simulator plug-in, is the bright favourite in this year’s Challenge.

iZotope Partners with Sweetwater for New Product Delivery System

Electro-Harmonix Effectology – Making An Electric Piano with Guitar

For video details search in the main site. In this episode of Electro-Harmonix’s Effectology series, Bill Ruppert demonstrates “The Electric Piano Effect”, reminiscent of the keyboard sound heard in the Led Zeppelin song No Quarter . EHX Pedals featured: Soul Preacher, Stereo Memory Man, MicroSynth, Cathedral, Frequency Analyzer, Voice Box, Pulsar For more information on these pedals and actual settings visit the Electro- Harmonix Forum .

Voxengo update GlissEQ to V3

New mid/side and routing matrix –

Brainworx offers pre-Xmas discount

Brainworx are offering customers a discount with their unusual “Reverse Advent Calendar” promotion. Starting with 24% off the usual price of their products, each subsequent day the discount is reduced by 1%. We’re not quite sure how this is the “reverse” of getting a bit of chocolate or a different nativity-themed picture every day, but we do know that if you’re interested in Brainworx’s range of plug-ins you should head over to their site sooner rather than later.

8-Bit Christmas Features Classic Video Game Sounds

If you like chiptunes or old video games, you won’t want to miss Rush Coil’s 8-Bit Christmas , an album of holiday music inspired by the golden age of video game music. You can stream the entire album online . Don’t miss the 8-bit Deck The Halls . There’s no plan for a CD release, but Rush Coil says “ I will be offering a digital download of high quality music files soon with some bonus material, commentary, as well as additional music.” Give it a listen and let me know what you think!

Kreativ Sounds released SYN One Sounds V1

Gibson Guitar Presents The Dusk Tiger™ The Next Generation of Robot Technologies

KV331 Audio Releases SynthMaster 2.0 VSTi/Standalone for Windows

Pitch Primer for iPhone Released by Sibelius Academy

Arturia Announces version 2.0 of the ARP2600 V

Tonehammer Releases: Forgotten Voices Terrie Library

Shure Rebates For 700 MHz Wireless Systems End December 31, 2009

Master Class: Any Way You Slice It

Find out how to build a better audio groove for your next audio production using Stylus RMX

EM Editor’s Note: Is It December Already?

Read Mike Levine December 2009 EM Editors Note, Where He Writes About the 2009 Audio Year in Review

What’s New, December 2009

New audio products profiled in the December 2009 issue of EM

Roland Ships Anemic SP-404SX

Roland is now shipping their SP-404SX Portable Sampler retread. For some reason people are buying these 404’s. Why? We don’t know either. Roland claims this update to the SP-404 offers 44.1kHz/16-Bit sound quality, improved DSP effects, a more versatile pattern sequencer, and easier data management. The SP-404SX includes 29 DSP effects, including filter, delay, unique voice

NAMM Gear Of The Show Award: Akai APC40

NAMM always gives us a massive Gear Hangover. With the multitude of new product announcements, demonstrations, performances and parties, it consistently shocks us when we make it back to the office in one piece…well, mostly one piece. More…

Ghost In The Maschine

Like all major manufacturers hoping to cut through the din of new product announcements, Native Instruments did its fair share of hyping their new products for NAMM this year. The German concern had long been rumored to be working on some sort of hardware controller for electronic musicians, and most industry watchers, including FutureMusic, believed this would come in the shape of a MIDI DJ controller that would perfectly integrate with Traktor. Wrong!! More…

TestDrive: Dangerous D-Box Review

Combining pro monitoring, switching, analog summing, and talkback in one compact, elegantly designed unit, the Dangerous D-Box is a killer! More…

Blue Microphones introduces first-ever THX certified microphone

US: The Yeti is described as the “the ultimate USB microphone for professional recording”, reports PSN-e. The new product is also the first USB microphone to incorporate Blue Microphones’ premium condenser capsules in a proprietary triple capsule array.

Roland Ships SP-404SX Linear Wave Sampler

Lexicon Begins Shipping Highly Anticipated PCM Native Reverb Plug-In Bundle

Audiotech Guitar Products Announce Factory Direct Order Option.

Motion Samples Releases Hoodlum Orchestra Loops

Digitech® Announces Free 20-Second Looper Upgrade For The RP500 Multi-Effect Switching System

AES Now Accepting Online Awards Submissions

Nominees are presented by the members and officers of the AES to the Awards Committee on a continuing basis. In addition, AES Section Chairs are hereby requested to send in names of outstanding local section members. The Awards Committee will consider the nominees, validate credentials and contributions, confirm the award categories, and prepare a slate of recipients to be voted on by the Board of Governors. Approved awards will be presented at a special ceremony during forthcoming AES conventions. The committee is eager to learn of all those who deserve recognition in the audio field. New for 2009 is the ability to submit a candidate online instead of mailing in a PDF. Submit a Candidate

Allen & Heath to debut analogue and digital products at Winter NAMM show 2010

US debut of Xone DX DJ Controller