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of Contents AES Europe, From The Floor: StageTec Aurus and Cube-Tec AudioCube5-Dell530 AKG Donates Technology for Song Contest Shure Bid For Hearing Raises More Than $10,000 For Hearing Conservation One-inch Demand Rises Steinberg Cubase SX on Tour In the June Mix... ADVERTISEMENT Keep your Studio in the Spotlight! Place a Studio Showcase ad in Mix today and receive online showcase at no charge! Run a 6x frequency and color is free! Contact Shawn Langwell for rates and schedules or call (707) 778-6296. Welcome to the MixLine Features AES Europe, From The Floor: StageTec Aurus and Cube-Tec AudioCube5-Dell530 --Munich, May 13, 2002 Rolling into Munich, Germany, from May 10-13, 2002, the 112th AES Convention arrived on the heels of the NSCA and NAB shows just weeks earlier, leaving few surprises in technology. However, AES offered several major new-product announcements. StageTec, creators of the well-known Cantus digital console and Nexus routing systems, unveiled Aurus, a large-format, 24/96k board with up to 256 buses, 300 inputs and as many as 96 channel strips. But it is designed with an analog feel, based on nimble ergonomics with large TFT screens, dual-fan LED displays and multiple alphanumeric readouts for fast-paced production. Another hot AES showing was Cube-Tec's AudioCube5-Dell530, which packs the punch of the company's earlier custom dual-Pentium III systems, but is based on Dell's affordable, off-the-shelf D530 workstation. With the price of the new audio mastering/archival/restoration system dropping from around $27k to $12k, it's little wonder that the company has sold 24 systems worldwide in the past few months, with more than half going into the U.S. market. Perhaps
the big news at AES was AES itself. Based on a survey
of visitors and exhibitors, AES has decided to expand the
current Amsterdam-Paris-Munich show rotation to include new
cities such as London, Berlin, Barcelona, Vienna, and possibly
Rome or Milan. Next year's show returns to Amsterdam (note:
not Paris, the original planned site) from March 22-25, 2003,
a week after NSCA, less than two weeks after Frankfurt Musikmesse
and 11 days prior to NAB. Given the reality of today's economic
climate and the logistics of shipping exhibits over great
distances, the situation leaves many exhibitors with tough
choices ahead on what shows to attend. See our reports on
mixonline.com
and in the July issue of Mix for more AES highlights.
Elliot
Scheiner Takes Delivery of First Yamaha Digital Console L.A.
Studios Upgrade with Sony Digital Console Seventh
Annual Mix L.A. Open Slated For June 10 INSTALLING
ACOUSTICAL WALLS: The Wallmate-USA System™ Pro
Tools HD Plug-Infusion Tour from Digidesign, held at dealer
locations around the country.MORE Avid
Technology's eight-city tour remaining dates: June 5,
Atlanta; June 17, New York City; June 10, Miami; June 26,
Dallas; July 10, San Francisco; July 16; Seattle. MORE Akai
Professional Demo Tour 2002: At Sam Ash in Tampa, June
4; and at Sam Ash in Miami on June 6. MORE Syn-Aud-Con
update: "Sound System Optimization Seminars" in Santiago,
Chile, June 10-11, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 13-14; "Sound
System Design Seminars" in Lima, Peru, June 17-18, and Monterey,
Mexico, June 20-21. MORE M3/Replitech
Dates: June 24-26, 2002 in Amsterdam; November 6-8, 2002 in
Bangkok; and February 4-6, 2003 in San Jose, Calif. MORE The
Indie Sessions (sponsored by Mix's sister publications
Electronic Musician, Remix and Onstage):
New York City at The Puck Building, August 17; Nashville at
The Radisson Hotel Opryland, August 24; and Los Angeles at
The Radisson Hotel, September 7. MORE DVD
Entertainment 2002 Conference, August 21-22 in Universal
City, Calif. MORE Music
China, the China International Trade Fair for Musical
Instruments & Services, October 16-19, 2002, in Shanghai,
China. MORE The CEDAR Awards 2002 will be accepting nominees until June 30, 2002. AES (Los Angeles): Go to www.aes.org to get an exhibitor application by July 4. The
Class of 2002 On
the Floor at NAB
and NSCA Turnkey
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a lot more to TransAmerica Audio Group than gear. Recording Tips from Inside Mix FOH engineer Mark Horton on mixing for The Chieftains: "I go for an overall hall sound. When I do use EQ, I set it by playing the Sting CD Mercury Falling that I’ve had for years, then fine-tune it with my voice through a [Shure] SM58, then I do a few more adjustments during soundcheck. The idea with the show is to try and make the people in the audience feel like they are in a living room with the band playing. I try to make it very natural-sounding." MORE |
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