Welcome to installment #1 in Sweetwater Sound’s inSync Page! Want to be the first to know when the newly released product you’ve been waiting for is in stock at Sweetwater? This is the place! We’ll also be posting company news and information, up-to-the-minute info from manufacturers, tips and tricks for getting the most from your equipment, listings of new pages and postings on the Sweetwater Website, as well as information on a variety of related topics including hardware and software upgrades, compatibility issues, and more! You’ll want to check in every day!
Look for each day’s installment to appear around noon EST, Monday through Friday
To get things started, surely you’ve checked out Sweetwater’s 1997 Winter NAMM show report. If not, shame on you, go read it now. We’ll wait… If you have read it, you’re probably wondering when all of those cool new products will be showing up in Sweetwater’s warehouse. Well, many of them are here now! Here’s a sampling of a few of the newest items now in stock:
First up is the Oram MWS, designed by John Oram, the "Father of British EQ", this mic preamp/EQ combo is one amazing piece of gear. With an Oram MWS in your rack, you can feel confident you’ve got the best possible preamp/EQ shaping the timbre of your signals. Sweetwater has an exclusive on this incredible product, and we’ve got one waiting for you now!
Tubes are the rage these days, and most of us have been trying to search out vintage tube gear to enhance our studios. Greg Hanks knows this, and he’s applied his years of high-end studio design experience to creating the perfect solution, the Greg Hanks Design BA-660. The BA-660 combines an awesome quality tube mic preamp, with a tube compressor/limiter capable of emulating a wide variety of classic tube dynamics processors: RCAs, Neves, Ureis, you name it! Too cool, and in stock now!
In most circles, Crown is THE name in power amplifiers, and for good reason. The newest Crown release is the groundbreaking model K2, a totally new design in power amplifier. Be sure to check out the amp that will be re-defining the course of the amplifier industry, we’ve got them at Sweetwater!
Remember the classic Roland analog synths of yesterday? With the new Roland JP-8000, you can recreate the analog sounds you need, at an affordable price, and with modern reliability and flexibility. Gotta have one!
Technology keeps advancing! With 4 tracks on MiniDisk, comprehensive mixing and editing, the Sony MDM-X4 has it all, and Sweetwater has them in stock now! Truly a studio in a box!
Alesis has really had a hit with their Monitor Ones and Twos. Now with the new Point 7 monitors you can get all the sound and specs of Alesis’ bigger studio monitors in a compact package, fully shielded for use with computer workstations, and at a ridiculously low price!
How many compressors does it take to fill a phone booth? If they’re Alesis Nano-Comps, a bunch! This diminutive box is capable of giving you all the compression and limiting you need, while only taking up a third of a rackspace!
That’s it for today, see you tomorrow for more product arrivals, technical tips, and company info!