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Our friend and former Vancouver store manager, Rick Patton, passed away January 10, 2012. We wish his family, friends and fellow sound compatriots fond memories of Rick and solace in his passing.
Rick was born in Nashville, TN and moved to New York and San Francisco while exploring the art and craft of filmmaking.
READ MOREZaxcom’s Nomad – The next step in field recording..?
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Manufacturers await my reviews of their products with a bit of anxiety because they know I’m going to filter out the sales talk and tell it like it is for the benefit of the end-users. That’s probably why I’ve been asked so many
READ MOREZaxcom NOMAD Presentation with Glenn Sanders (Dec. 2011)
Glenn Sanders visited Trew Audio’s Nashville store in December to go through every detail of Zaxcom’s NOMAD compact mixer/recorder. It’s here, it’s ready, it’s being used in production. Video 1 of 2: Video 2 of 2:
READ MORECoffey Sound, a Trew Audio company
Last Friday, September 2nd, 2011, Trew Audio, Inc. acquired Coffey Sound, LLC. This comes as great news to all involved–especially you, the customer. An L.A. store is the next logical step for the evolution of Trew Audio as a company and follows past successful launches of our Toronto and Vancouver stores. Our corporate intention is […]
READ MOREComtek BST 75-216 – a quick review
The new Comtek BST 75-216 is a 12-volt DC powered mini-base station transmitter that’s roughly half the size of the Comtek BST 25-216. It’s small and rugged enough for bag use and is capable of a much higher RF output than the 10mW belt pack M-216 transmitter. At 100mW, the BST 75-216 has enough power […]
READ MOREThe SPEAKEASY R-1 in the real world (the “R” is for rack)
There are several good reasons to have a powered speaker system on a production sound cart. For me the most compelling reason is to reduce hearing fatigue caused by continuous hours of listening with headphones. Taking off the headphones between takes and during lighting setups is a relief, but still being able to […]
READ MOREThe MixPre-D by Sound Devices
One box. Many uses. We’re going to see the MixPre-D with just about everyone who works in professional field production audio because with a single, compact, affordable, high quality box, the MixPre-D combines the utility that previously required three separate devices. It’s a two-channel mic pre and analog mixer. It’s a 2-channel A-D converter. […]
READ MORENew items from K-Tek
Brenda of K-Tek shows us several new items including the new Norbert Sport camera accessory mount system, the Tadpole mini boompole and a variety of shoe mounts.
Lectrosonics Quadra portable version using D4T
Karl Winkler of Lectrosonics shows us the Lectrosonics Quadra studio system as well as mentioning the use of the D4T to make a portable, battery powered version of the system.
