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Welcome Back, Tascam
For music industry based audio companies, the film/television audio production world is a blip on their financial radar. For years specialty manufacturers, such as Zaxcom and Sound Devices have served us, and served us well. Cross-over companies, such as Fostex, Marantz, and Tascam seem to ebb and flow with product changes. Fostex has had... Read full entry »
January 29, 2010
Sound Devices 552
On September 8th, Sound Devices rocked our world with their latest product release: the 552 Mixer/Recorder. Evolving from the esteemed 442 mixer, the 552 has 5 mic/line inputs, all with pre or post fader direct outputs, plus two other very notable additions: a built-in stereo recorder, and four channels of AES outputs. The two main XLR... Read full entry »
September 9, 2009
Deva External Slate Mic Modification
Trew Audio is now offering a modification to the Deva recorder models 4, 5, 5.8, 16, and Fusion. This mod adds an external slate/com mic input and a headphone jack to the left side. The mod is structurally non-invasive, as only existing panel holes are used, and the mod is easily reversible to the original... Read full entry »
August 17, 2009
Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)
I get asked more and more every day about camera hops –what’s available and what’s coming. It seems as though we have run around the circle in audio from double system Nagra to recording direct to camera and now back to double system on hard disk recorders (and with a lot more channels).  It still remains... Read full entry »
August 17, 2009
Trew Audio Toronto Workflow Sessions
This past June our Tyler Wade and his staff at the Trew Audio Toronto store hosted an evening of information and discussion regarding some elements of the Sound for Picture Workflow. Our panel of experts for the evening included Charlie Parra of Denecke, Kyle Kurbegovich of PS Toronto, Julian Daboll of Technicolor, Paul Isaacs of... Read full entry »
August 17, 2009
Nagra-VI Review
Nagra. For those of us with more than a few years in this business, the word conjures up a solemn air of reverence. They’re back. PREFACE 1)The goal of this review is to give the professional location recording engineer an accurate preview of what their own findings will be with the Nagra-VI. Therefore, the perspective is mostly... Read full entry »
June 10, 2009
Nagra’s new products at NAB 2009
John Owens of Nagra describes updates to the Nagra VI and debuts the LB 2-channel digital audio recorder.
April 28, 2009
Zoom Zoom Zoom
When we began carrying the Samson Zoom H4 nearly 2 years ago, it was one of an emerging style of recorders.  Today nearly everywhere you look from consumer audio, to camera companies, to professional audio has a small format mp3/wave recorder with built in stereo mics.  The market is flooded. In our industry, timecode transcription quickly... Read full entry »
April 24, 2009
Sound Devices CL-8 Demystified
When Sound Devices released information on the CL-8, the most common question customers asked was “How?” ”How does it add recording tracks?” ”How do you route to the new auxes and where do they output?” Sadly, my answers were usually, “I’m not sure, but Sound Devices rarely disappoints.” Now that I’ve had a CL-8 to play with I... Read full entry »
December 23, 2008
Choose your own adventure.
One of the most common tasks we have, both sales and rental, is helping our customers select the product that best suits their needs. In an effort of streamline the situation I’ve come up with the following flow chart. I am the first to admit, numerous features lead a person to their ideal... Read full entry »
June 23, 2008
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