Posted on Fri 03 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with nord, piano, royal grand
It may seem a little daft at first but then there is a moment of “that’s brilliant!”...Nord uses a mannequin dummy with two ear-shaped microphones to record the new Royal Grand 3D sample.
Nord has recently added to its, already impressive, library of piano sounds available to download …
Posted on Thu 02 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with 3-way monitor, active studio monitors, dynaudio, lyd-48
Founded in 1977, Danish pro-audio systems company Dynaudio is one of the leading names in studio monitors and the LYD line has gone from strength to strength, picking up 5 star reviews all over the place. The newest addition to the LYD studio monitor range has just been announced and …
Posted on Wed 01 February 2017 in entries • Tagged with digital piano, roland, sheet music
If you are thinking of buying a new Roland piano, then now could be an ideal time. Buy any HP, LX or GP series Roland between 1st Feb and 31st July and get a free 3 month subscription to SheetMusicDirect.com
Visit Absolute Music and buy any Roland HP, LX …
Posted on Mon 30 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with exotic, fender, jazz bass, jazzmaster, limited edition, stratocaster, telecaster
Alongside the release of Fender’s 2017 American Professional series of guitars and basses,comes the exciting announcement of the Limited Edition Fender Exotic Collection, offering familiar shaped guitars but made from unique woods, such as rescued mahogany, shedua, Malaysian blackwood and reclaimed pine.
Make no mistake, these are highly …
Posted on Fri 27 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with cabdryvr, digitech, effect pedal, freqout
At the recent NAMM show in California Digitech announced the arrival of two new pedals, the DigiTech CabDryVR Cabinet Emulator and the DigiTech FreqOut Natural Feedback Creator Pedal. Two very different pedals in one blog post, let’s check them out.
Digitech CabDryVR
Firstly, the DigiTech CabDryVR Speaker Cabinet Emulator …
Posted on Fri 27 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with condenser microphone, mercury, sontronic mercury, sontronics
Our friendly neighborhood microphone maker down the road, Sontronics has just sent us details of their newest addition, the Mercury and it looks as though they have hit it with all guns blazing.
The new Sontronics Mercury is a valve condenser microphone with a continuously variable polar pattern from omnidirectional …
Posted on Wed 25 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with harman, Harman Connected PA, mixer, soundcraft, ui24r
Back in 2015 Soundcraft unveiled the Ui12 and Ui16 Digital Mixers to a hugely positive reception. Also the wireless mixing was nothing new, very few other systems matched it for effects, amp modelling and ease of use. The new and improved version, the Soundcraft Ui24R builds on this reputation and …
Posted on Wed 25 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with console, presonus, studiolive
We always have plenty of PreSonus products in stock for a very good reason, it is widely popular with engineers all over the world, and the StudioLive Series is no different. The release of the third generation has been announced and we couldn’t be happier to have it on …
Posted on Tue 24 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with Fireface, Fireface UFX II, RME
German company RME joins our list of manufacturers to visit at NAMM and keep an eye on in the weeks following the show, especially with the release of their new USB audio interface, the Fireface UFX II. RME specialise in interfaces and preamps and really made waves in the Firewire …
Posted on Tue 24 January 2017 in entries • Tagged with baritone, fender, jazzmaster, mustang, offset, squire
Fender Squier is often seen as the go-to brand for players that are looking for their first high quality band-worthy guitar. However, until recently the range has been somewhat limited to Stratocaster and Telecaster models, and their various variations. We are very pleased to see Squire expanding their range to …