Burl Audio's B32 Vancouver Summing Amplifier

From their product page:

In addition to the BX5, the B32 VANCOUVER introduces a new concept to the summing amplifier, GAIN BOOST. Adding gain boost with the BX5 will give your mixes that glue that you have been seeking ever since retiring your 2-track analog recorder. With 32 input channels and switchable tonality, the B32 VANCOUVER will allow your mixes to thrive in depth, warmth and clarity. Use the B32 VANCOUVER in conjunction with the B1 MIC PREs, the B80 MOTHERSHIP and the B26 ORCA and you will achieve THE COMPLETE SOLUTION.
BURL AUDIO introduces its latest hot bed of creativity, the B32 VANCOUVER, a 32 channel mix bus. Based on BURL AUDIO’s renowned discrete analog, class-A circuitry, the B32 mix bus employs both the transparency of the B26 ORCA, plus the switchable tonality of the new BURL AUDIO BX5 output transformer.

Features:
• Discrete, class-A signal path
• 8 mono inputs, 24 stereo inputs
• Audiophile 0.1% stepped attenuators
• Switchable BX5 output transformer
• Summing amp GAIN BOOST
• Dual stereo outputs

Burl Audio announces the B26 ORCA Control Room Monitor

From the website:

"Building on its reputation of sonic superiority, BURL AUDIO introduces the ultimate in control room monitoring, the B26 ORCA. The B26 ORCA utilizes the same analog, discrete circuit path philosophy as prior BURL AUDIO products with the emphasis on the ultimate in sonic transparency and 3D stereo imaging."

Features:
• Direct coupled, discrete, class-A signal path
• 3 stereo mix inputs, 2 stereo tape return inputs, RCA stereo input
• 2 stereo speaker outputs
• Audiophile 0.1% matched resistor, stepped attenuator for control room level
• Independent studio/phones send and level
• External meter output
• Control room and Studio headphone outputs

UA's Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Plug-In

Universal Audio Announces Precision K-Stereo Ambience Recovery Plug-In For UAD Platform

Created in Partnership with Famed Mastering Engineer Bob Katz, K-Stereo Plug-In Recovers and Boosts the Natural Ambience of Recorded Sources

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA • October 26, 2012 —Universal Audio (UA), a leading manufacturer of professional audio recording hardware and software, is pleased to announce the impending release of the Precision K-Stereo™ Ambience Recovery Plug-In for the UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform and Apollo Audio Interface. Created by Universal Audio in collaboration with famed mastering engineer Bob Katz, the K-Stereo Ambience Recovery plug-in extracts ambient cues from source recordings — allowing users to precisely enhance the stereo depth and imaging of mixes without unnatural artifacts.

“The K-Stereo plug-in gives mastering engineers an easy, organic-sounding solution for excessively small mixes or mixes that need more space and depth — from classical to jazz, rock, or hip-hop,” said Bob Katz. “Because we’re effectively ‘pulling out’ the ambience that’s already in the recording, the results sound much more natural. I’m happy to be working with UA to bring K-Stereo to the UAD platform.”

Designed for critical 2-track mastering or post-production applications, the K-Stereo plug-in offers a “do-no-harm” approach to adding depth and width to busy or narrow-sounding mixes. Using elements of the Haas effect and other psychoacoustic principles, the plug-in transparently enhances existing ambience and early reflections without adding artificial reverb or changing the ratio of center elements to side elements.

Read the full press release at https://www.uaudio.com/index.php/press/releases/2012/k-stereo

UA Announces Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor Plug-In

Universal Audio Announces Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor Plug-In, Exclusively For UAD Platform

Developed by UAD Direct Development Partner Brainworx, Shadow Hills Plug-In Offers Authentic Emulation of Highly Revered Hardware Mastering Compressor

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA • October 26, 2012 — Universal Audio (UA), a leading manufacturer of professional audio recording hardware and software, is pleased to announce the impending release of the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor Plug-In for the UAD Powered Plug-Ins platform and Apollo Audio Interface. Created by UAD Direct Development partner Brainworx® and Shadow Hills Industries founder Peter Reardon,this true-to-life plug-in emulation of the hallmark Mastering Compressor expertly tempers dynamics and tames transients like no other device on the market.

As the go-to compressor on recordings by Muse, Gnarls Barkley, Coldplay, John Mayer, Regina Spektor, and more, the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor features a world-class signal path, controlling music dynamics in two stages — first with an Optical section, then with a Discrete (VCA) section. Both sections can be bypassed, providing a variety of compression sounds (Optical, Discrete, and combined) from a velvet touch to an iron fist.

Like the hardware version, the Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor plug-in offers selection of three distinct output transformers (Nickel, Iron, and Steel) — taking the signal from “clean” to “colored” and “dirty” — as if selecting from the output stages of three distinct classic analog consoles.

Read the full Press Release here. 

AES 133rd Convention Starts Today

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