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Crest Audio HP-W Console
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Crest Audio offers an affordably priced and well-performing USA-made analog live mixer.
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by Will James, 5.15.2007
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Crest Audio, like many manufacturers, has expanded its product lines to include consoles that meet a variety of needs, the newest being the eight-bus HP series as well as the HP-W.
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Yamaha LS9-32
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This affordable live/install digital console offers plenty of familiar Yamaha features in a comparatively small footprint.
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by David Rittenhouse, 5.15.2007
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In the past year alone, I have viewed and worked on so many different digital consoles that my brain now only spits out ones and zeros.
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Trident 8T 16-Channel Analog Console
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Versatile, great-sounding small format mixer with a distinct Trident pedigree.
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by John Gatski, 4.15.2007
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With all the advances in digital consoles and direct-to-computer recording these days, its refreshing to see companies, such as John Oram's Trident Audio Ltd. willing to make high-quality analog boards with traditional routing options.
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Mackie Digital X Bus
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X.200 Medium-Format Production Console
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by MEL LAMBERT, 4.15.2007
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The Mackie X.200 Digital Medium-Format Production Console is definitely a product for our age.
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SSL Duality Analog Console/DAW Controller
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Appropriately-named Duality adds fully featured digital audio workstation control to a fully analog large-format console.
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by Stephen Murphy, 4.15.2007
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The concept of combining a digital mixing console with computer workstation control is a natural match. In fact, it's not so much a match as the same thing.
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APB-DynaSonics Spectra-T Analog Console
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This sound reinforcement board offers impeccably crafted dynamics and integrity
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by Andrew Roberts, 3.15.2007
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There are those in the sound reinforcement field who think that the analog console is primed to go the way of the steam locomotive; they claim that the hammer of technology has started to attach the coffin lid on our old analog friend.
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AMS Neve 88D DigitalProduction Console
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by Mel Lambert, 12.15.2006
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AMS Neve has been in the digital console business for over 25 years. Its first offering was unveiled to the stunned pro audio industry in 1980, and the firm continues to innovate its range of offerings.
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Lectrosonics DM1612 Digital Automatic Matrix Mixer + DSP
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Great sound and one of the easiest-to-use DSP matrix mixers on the market.
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by Wayne Becker, 12.15.2006
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There are many DSP products on the market today that promise to make the installed sound designer, the installer, and end user's life easier.
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Midas XL8 Digital Live Performance System
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by Dan Wothke, 12.15.2006
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I recently received the call to visit Westover Church in Greensboro, North Carolina and get a first hand look at the first-ever, fully-digital mixing system from Midas, so I immediately loaded up the iPod and headed east.
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Australian Monitor ZRM4 Zone Mixer
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It may not be spectacularly sexy, but this is one solid, competent zone mixer.
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by Andrew Roberts, 11.15.2006
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Zone mixers are a staple of install work. They are essential to routing signals to places like bars, dining rooms, classrooms and conferences rooms.
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Neve 8816 Analog Summing Mixer
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That great Neve sound without having to shell out a fortune for a console.
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by Russ Long, 10.31.2006
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Analog summing boxes have been a hot topic in the world of music-making over the last few years and with the release of the 8816, AMS Neve has been added to the long list of companies manufacturing these boxes.
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Soundcraft MH2 Live Sound Console
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A great bang-for-the-buck board with multiple applications in mind.
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by Will James, 10.31.2006
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Do you remember the days when Soundcraft was purveyor of such great consoles as the 800B, the 400B, and - more recently - the Series Five? Soundcraft has always built what is considered by many to be THE console for EQ and warm tones.
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Yamaha EMX 5014c Powered Mixer
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Easy-to-use, great sonics embody latest EMX family member
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by Wayne Becker, 9.01.2006
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Yamaha has always been known for making products that are high quality and packed with features. With the EMX series of powered mixers Yamaha appears to have continued this tradition.
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Digidesign Venue Console System
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by Tom Young, 5.01.2006
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With its Venue digital console, Digidesign has added a highly capable digital mixing platform for the live sound market. After nearly three years of development Digidesign, well known for its studio standard Pro Tools, has created a mixing console that represents an innovative design for mixing live sound.
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Midas Debuts XL8 Digital Console
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by Richard Alan Salz, 5.01.2006
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Unveiled to the world press at the recent Pro Light + Sound at Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany, the Midas XL8 represents yet another large step in the maturation of the live sound digital console. With layout cues, sonic attributes and microphone preamps evolved directly from Midas' universally lauded analog consoles, the XL8 has the potential to take the high-end live sound console market by storm.
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Studer Vista 8 Digital Live Production Console
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by Mel Lambert, 5.01.2006
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Few can doubt this Swiss company's expertise in the analog domain; for many decades Studer's two-track and multitrack machines have dominated the international marketplace. And in terms of digital transports, the DASH-format D827 Mk II 24/48-track made fans of reel-to-reel editing convenience.
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API DSM-24 Discrete Summing Mixer
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by Stephen Murphy, 4.01.2006
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The opening notes of Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" are heard. A mysterious black monolith appears in an otherwise lifeless landscape. Man-apes emerge from their caves and gather around in a confused frenzy, touching, examining and even tasting the new arrival.
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Yamaha M7CL Console
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by David Rittenhouse, 2.01.2006
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The M7CL is the new “middle child” of the Yamaha Commercial Audio family. The M7CL comes in 32-input or 48-input configurations with four stereos and three mini-YGDAI card slots.
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Exclusive Review Yamaha M7CL Console
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by David Rittenhouse, 2.01.2006
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We have all seen the big, powerful, digital mixing consoles, and want one for ourselves. But the price and power might be more than we need. We want the power of all the dynamics, the effects and the wonderful ability of moving things around in the digital realm if not even for the coolness factor but to save space.
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Fairlight Dream Constellation XT Digital Post Production Console
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by Mel Lambert, 1.01.2006
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For more than 30 years Fairlight has enjoyed an enviable reputation as an innovator of powerful non-linear editors that can be found within leading film and post facilities around the world. The company's forays into console design, however, have been more tentative.
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