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Sonarworks Reference 4 Software Adds 26 New Headphone Calibration Profiles
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Sonarworks Reference 4 Software Adds 26 New Headphone Calibration Profiles

The innovative audio software developers from Sonarworks announced that it's Reference 4 software has added 26 new headphone calibration profiles, supporting additional models from AKG, Audio-Technica, Beyerdynamic, Bose, HyperX, Master & Dynamics, Philips, Plantronics, Sennheiser and Sony. The revolutionary monitoring software — which is able to deliver a true reference standard almost anywhere — now includes 150 headphone calibration profiles.
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Harman Professional Announces Availability of JBL C221 and C222 Two-Way ScreenArray Cinema Loudspeakers
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Harman Professional Announces Availability of JBL C221 and C222 Two-Way ScreenArray Cinema Loudspeakers

Harman Professional Solutions announced that its new JBL C221 and C222 two-way ScreenArray cinema loudspeakers using patent-pending Dual Dissimilar Arraying Technology are now shipping in limited quantities, with full availability in May 2018. These next-generation cinema sound loudspeakers deliver the latest JBL technology in a compact and accessible form factor, helping small- and mid-sized cinemas upgrade to improve coverage and smooth sound reproduction at an accessible price point.
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Ward-Beck Introduces New PreMo Series of Networked Microphone Preamps
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Ward-Beck Introduces New PreMo Series of Networked Microphone Preamps

Ward-Beck is moving fast forward into fully IP convergence, and leading the way in audio networking implementation. At NAB 2018, the Canadian company unveiled its new preMO series of networked microphone preamps representing the convergence of analog audio, digital conversion, and IP based networking, creating completely new workflows. These new products rethink audio operations in the networking age, leveraging AES67 and ST2110 protocols, and AES70 for remote control.
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Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 15 with Improved Audio Features and New Fairlight Audio Consoles
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Blackmagic Design Announces DaVinci Resolve 15 with Improved Audio Features and New Fairlight Audio Consoles

Anyone visiting the NAB 2018 show was certainly surprised by the Blackmagic Design booth, the largest ever, filled with so many products that any effort to see everything would take the great part of one day. Among the many unveilings for NAB, and only a year and a half since the Fairlight acquisition, Blackmagic unveiled a much improved DaVinci Resolve 15 software with important new audio tools and features, while showing the first of a new generation of Fairlight modular audio consoles.
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ICEpower Announces Its Most Powerful Amplifier Module to Date
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ICEpower Announces Its Most Powerful Amplifier Module to Date

ICEpower’s latest amplifier power module, the 1200AS, was designed for live sound and concerts and the Danish company confirms this is their most powerful audio module to date. Based on ICEpower's recent ICEedge class D chip set, the new ICEPower 1200AS incorporates the latest technologies enabling superior sound quality and an ultra-low noise floor (less than 30 μV – 130dB Signal to Noise Ratio). The extremely high audio quality also makes it a superior high-end audio amplifier for consumer applications.
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HumBeatz Mobile Looper App from AmpTrack Technologies Allows Voice to MIDI Instrument Conversion
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HumBeatz Mobile Looper App from AmpTrack Technologies Allows Voice to MIDI Instrument Conversion

There are hundreds of innovative apps for iOS and Android devices, with many featuring advanced composition and recording tools. Swedish company AmpTrack Technologies just released their new mobile app HumBeatz, that lets users hum, whistle or beatbox and turn those sounds into a musical instrument. With HumBeatz, the vocal sounds can be used to easily and quickly create a bass line, drum groove, trumpet riff or other sounds, for creating musical parts, loops, stems or song sketches.
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Heavy-duty CAT5e and CAT6 Ethernet Cables from Io Audio Technologies Support etherCON Standard
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Heavy-duty CAT5e and CAT6 Ethernet Cables from Io Audio Technologies Support etherCON Standard

Io Audio Technologies, a division of Knight Electronics, Inc., has developed a family of heavy-duty CAT5e and CAT6 Ethernet cables addressing the needs of the working musician and professional sound technician in today's audio networking environments. The Professional Series Shielded CAT5e and CAT6 etherCON cables are designed for solid digital audio connections such as digital snakes, AES50, & MADI or lighting protocols like DMX512 and ARTNET.
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Voice Control for Spotify Update for Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST and BLAST Portable Speakers
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Voice Control for Spotify Update for Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST and BLAST Portable Speakers

Ultimate Ears announced new features for its Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST and BLAST, the recently-released portable speakers from the brand’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth smart speaker range, with immersive 360-degree sound and Amazon Alexa built-in. Voice control for Spotify is coming soon on Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST and BLAST, with enhanced app features available now, and grouping later this year, with the updates available to all users.
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Optocore Festival Box Allows All Protocols To Tunnel Over The Same Fiber
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Optocore Festival Box Allows All Protocols To Tunnel Over The Same Fiber

With the festival season fast approaching, Optocore chose the Prolight+Sound 2018 to launch its new Festival Box. Having already proven the versatile fiber based technology in the broadcast industry — marketed through its close technology partner BroaMan — Optocore has responded to the growing demand from the live sound community for a more elegant and efficient signal transport system, with a hot-swappable SFP solution that will radically streamline multiple-band festival bills. Hence the name Festival Box.
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Lawo Introduces Third Generation mc²56 Production Console at 2018 NAB Show
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Lawo Introduces Third Generation mc²56 Production Console at 2018 NAB Show

With live productions becoming increasingly complex in a multi-platform and multi-format environment, digital production consoles have to accommodate an increasing number of functionalities, including automated routines, while enabling operators to remain in control at all times. This is precisely where German company Lawo has been excelling and the focus for unveiling the third generation of the mc²56 console at NAB 2018, introducing support for the latest networking protocols and standards.
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