Measure Your Audio and Evolve Your Design Skills with audioXpress March 2024

The March 2024 issue of audioXpress includes an overview of the latest Audio Test and Measurement solutions, a review of the Listen SoundCheck 21 and AmpConnect 621 test suite, and a tribute to 20 years of Room EQ Wizard (REW). Learn how to build a True-RMS Voltmeter and what's behind the myth of Second Harmonic Distortion. Learn how motion feedback technologies can be applied to speakers, and how our hearing process affects our audio listening experiences, and much more. Dive in now!

LOUD Audio LLC, a portfolio company of private equity firm Transom Capital Group, and the parent company of Mackie, EAW and Martin Audio, has concluded the sale of the historic family of Ampeg bass amps and pedals to Yamaha Guitar Group, Inc. According to Transom, this move is aimed at allowing Loud to narrow its focus, return to its roots in professional audio, and deliver the best possible products and experience to its customers, while ensuring the future of a legendary bass and guitar amplification brand.

Transom Capital Group acquired all brands from LOUD Technologies, Inc., including the iconic Mackie, Ampeg, EAW, and Martin Audio brands. The new company will be called LOUD Audio, LLC and be led by the executives of LOUD Technologies, ensuring continuity with product development, distribution and the supply chain but with new capital to enable growth across all brands.

Universal Audio announced the release of UAD Software v8.3, a new software for UAD-2 DSP Accelerators and Apollo interfaces, featuring an exclusively licensed and endorsed plug-in version of AKG’s legendary spring reverb, BICHA 20, as well as two Ampeg SVT bass amplifier plug-ins from Brainworx and the Tube-Tech EQ Plug-In Collection from Softube.

LOUD Technologies announced the appointment of Larry Pendergrass to the position of Senior Vice President of Engineering of the Music Gear Group. In his new role, he will oversee Engineering for LOUD’s Music Gear Group, including the Mackie and Ampeg brands.

Jensen Musical Instrument Speakers announced the addition of the P10R-F speaker to the brand’s catalogue. The P10R-F was designed by the Jensen factory in cooperation with Fender for the reissue of the Fender ’57 Bandmaster and the 20th Anniversary Vibro King. The goal was to design a P10R speaker with a more broken-in, worn sound straight out of the box.