We’ve been receiving so much incredible new equipment recently we thought it best to get you caught up in plenty of time to make your holiday and end of year buying decisions. So today’s inSync will be exclusively devoted to more of the new items we’ve received in the last few weeks. Tomorrow we’ll return with our regular inSync programming. Enjoy.
Mackie’s venerable HDR24/96 digital recorder just got even better with the release of the OPT•24! As a 24-channel ADAT Lightpipe card, the OPT•24 is amazingly affordable. Sure, 24 channels of digital I/O is impressive all on its own, but what really makes this a fantastic value is the fact that it installs in one of the open PCI slots on the HDR24/96 leaving any I/O you already have installed still active! So, connect 24 channels of lightpipe to your studio – permanently – AND use analog I/O, AES/EBU I/O or whatever you choose to place in the “Tape I/O Card Cage” in the HDR24/96 and stay connected to your whole studio at the same time! Call today!
New from ART is the SLM-1, or Studio Linear Monitor. The SLM-1 is designed for the budget-minded project studio and features a robust 6 1⁄2″ shielded woofer, a 1″ shielded soft-dome Ferrofluid-cooled tweeter, an internal crossover network, gold-plated binding posts and 2″ tuned cylindrical ports. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for more information!
How about a Vox guitar amplifier for under $300? The Limited Edition Pathfinder 15 SMR (Super Mini Reverb) is a classically-styled “mini stack.” It features a 15 Watt head, a matching 2×10″ vertical cabinet loaded with specially-voiced Celestion speakers and a wealth of time honored Vox tones. The design is unique and the value is outstanding. Call today!
If you’ve considered diving into the marvelous world of desktop recording and music making, Cakewalk’s Home Production Pak delivers the tools you need at a price anyone can afford. Combining Home Studio XL and media burning Pyro 2003, the Home Production Pak lets you take your project from start to finish! Home Studio XL is your connection to audio and MIDI production and boasts a ton of extra plug-ins and virtual instruments. Pyro 2003 is your MP3 and CD burning management software allowing you to share your project with the world when you’re finished. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer to find out more today!
New from Novation is the KS4 (49-key) & KS5 (61-key). 33 knobs and sliders, liquid analog sound and brand new, time saving “Hypersync” is what the KS4 and KS5 are all about. With semi-weighted keys, these analog emulators give you a TON of control over your sounds, but keep the interface simple with the addition of Hypersync. This new technology is the performer’s best friend by allowing you to “tempo synchronize” up to 8 parameters associated with any one of the 400 synthesizer programs! Create before the gig, and dial it in on the fly. Creation made easy!
A Crimson Transparent Fender® Showmaster! Built in Fender®’s own Custom Shop, this Showmaster Standard features a carved top, maple fingerboard and a Deluxe 2-point synchronized tremolo with pop-in arm. Two Custom Shop Fat ’50s Single-Coil Strat Pickups (Neck & Mid) and one Seymour Duncan ’59 “Trembucker” (Bridge) give the Showmaster a distinct sound and tone. Call today!
With the holiday season just around the corner, there simply couldn’t be a better gift for a young guitar enthusiast than a Squier® Electric Pak! You get EVERYTHING you need to get started – a Squier® Stratocaster® electric guitar, gig bag, a Squier® SP-10 amp w/switchable distortion, tuner, cable, guitar picks and a Fender® instructional book! Sure, all of this in one package sounds pretty amazing; but wait until you see the price!
The 215 EQ from dbx features two channels of 15-bands, 2/3 octave and constant Q in a space saving 1U rack. Riddled with features and ultra-affordable, the 215 boasts balanced inputs and outputs, 20 mm faders, selectable +/-6dB or +/-12dB boost/cut range for precise gain adjustments, switchable 50Hz/12dB octave low-cut filters and more.
Martinsound’s MultiMAX EX surround tool allows studios to take advantage of today’s surround capabilities without having to purchase a new console! Effectively replacing your console’s monitor section, the MultiMAX EX provides surround mix bus monitoring as well as downmixing, encoder sends and decoder returns. MultiMAX EX does all this and still lets you listen to your console. You will be able to handle anything from Dolby Stereo to SDDS, including the popular Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS formats. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for more information!
If you would like to upgrade your mic cabinet, plug your collection into a Martinsound MSS-10 mic preamp. The MSS-10 preamp is designed to be crystal clear, so that all you’ll hear is the best of the microphone and cable. Your high-end microphones will take on a whole new life. Featuring two stages of gain from mic input to direct out, the MSS-10 deals out 65dB of gain switched in 5dB steps, a 20dB pad and phase reverse. Not to give up fashion for form, the MSS-10 has a vibe drenched in vintage.
MonitorMAX, from Martinsound, adds the missing monitor interface for modern day DAW production systems without adding the real estate of a mixing console. Not just a volume knob, MonitorMAX provides two separate monitor paths with independent selection of up to ten – that’s right, TEN – external stereo sources and calibrated level control.
With surround becoming more standard every day, Waves’ new plug-in bundle, 360 Surround, is sure to be a big hit for TDM users! Chock-full of all things surround, the 360 Surround Bundle delivers reverb, compression, limiting, bass management and more. As with any of the Waves plug-in bundles, if you were to purchase all of these plug-ins separately you’d spend a small fortune! As a bundle, you’re saving a ton of dough AND getting everything you need in one box. Both Pro Tools Mix and newer HD systems can take advantage of this new bundle.
With 88 keys, two headphone jacks, 10 stereo-sampled voices and built in speaker system, Yamaha’s YDP-113 is the perfect teaching & learning digital piano. Thanks to the graded hammer-action keys, the feel of the YDP-113 bears a striking resemblance to that of a Yamaha acoustic grand, giving you the convenience of digital with the feel of acoustic.
Samson’s S•Patch is a 48-point patchbay that is built solid and provides very intuitive ease-of-use! What makes the S•Patch so cool is the fact that you don’t have to take it apart to change it from Normal to Half Normal. With a flick of a switch located conveniently on the front panel, you can change the operation mode easily and quickly. You might expect to pay hefty dues for this level of innovation – not so with the S•Patch. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for more information.
Event’s newest addition to its near field active monitor family is the Tuned Reference 8! These bi-amped monitors are precision tuned to provide flat frequency response and uncolored sound, giving you a true sonic reference for mixing. The sound is exact and the value soars. Featuring an 8″ low frequency driver and a 25mm high frequency driver, the TR8 offers XLR, balanced 1/4″ and RCA connectors.
Drummers and engineers alike can breathe a serious sigh of relief – the Audix DP5 drum mic kit is here at Sweetwater! Featuring the D1 snare mic, two D2s for toms, a D4 for your floor tom and the new D6 kick drum mic, the DP5 kit also includes 4 of Audix’s clever D-Vice’s for space-saving and solid mic mounting on the rim of your drums. All of this fits in a nifty and durable carrying case so you won’t have to be afraid of losing or damaging your mic kit when the gig is over. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer to find out more!
Mackie’s HDR Pro is a combination of hardware and software that allow HDR 24/96 digital recorder users to swap data with Pro Tools users! The HDR Pro hardware adds convenience with a plug-and-play single-bay FireWire drive fitted with a Mackie Media M90 drive frame. In other words, take an M90 out of the HDR 24/96 and plug it into the HDR Pro that is attached to your computer for use with your Pro Tools system. The included software will convert the files to SDII format. Simple! Of course you can also send your Pro Tools session files back to the HDR 24/96 using the HDR Pro too. Call today!
Has the laptop replaced the desktop? While we believe desktop computers will always have a home in studios, the newest crop of Titanium PowerBook G4s certainly makes for an interesting argument! With an 867MHz or 1 GHz G4 processor, these Titanium PowerBooks have enough power to dominate audio files and bring video files to their knees. The screen is huge and crystal clear AND these PowerBooks sport a whopping 40GB (867 MHz) and 60GB (1 GHz) hard drive. FireWire and USB are stock, so you can take your audio on the road and connect to all of today’s latest audio hard drives, interfaces and more! Call today to find out how we can create a custom-designed audio/MIDI machine for you!
Event just added another member to their highly successful family of nearfield studio monitors. The Tuned Reference Monitors are bi-amped nearfields that feature a 5″ low frequency driver, flat frequency response and a price that will knock your socks off. Call your Sweetwater Sales Engineer for more information and availability.
BBE’s 482i Sonic Maximizer is a great addition to any live sound system. Send your stereo or mono source through the Sonic Maximizer and it will coax out the authentic sonic brilliance of a performance, giving you clean sound unhampered by the deviations that occur anytime music is played through a sound system. The highs in your sound are bright and articulate, the lows are tight and rich, the strings sparkle, the percussion cracks, the vocals shine. RCA and 1/4″ I/O allows processing from just about any source and the 482i delivers all of these features at an amazing value.
Pro Tools TDM users: Now is the time to take advantage of the awesome power and sound that your Pro Tools system and the Virus Indigo virtual synth can deliver! Since it uses the same DSP algorithms as the original Access Virus synths, the Virus Indigo plug-in sounds exactly like its hardware counterpart – but fits in easily with the rest of your Pro Tools environment.