Heritage Audio Acquires Rights to Historic Audio Equipment Brand Lang Electronics

Heritage Audio, based in Madrid, Spain has acquired the rights to Lang Electronics, Inc. — the audio equipment brand originally from New York, known primarily for the various upgrades and support equipment that they manufactured for Ampex tape machines in the fifties, and the sixties. Among the many studio products in its catalog, Lang offered audio mixers and equalizers, including a solid-state equalizer similar in function to the popular Pultec units of the era, and is still admired today.

Originally published in audioXpress June 2006, this interview by Paul Stamler is a unique document detailing the work of Peter Bartók (Budapest, July 31, 1924 – Florida, December 7, 2020) as a pioneering recording engineer and one of the best of the early LP-era engineers, involved in remarkable recordings with his New York City label Bartók Records, and working with Moses Asch’s Folkways Records. He also worked with Caedmon Records, a pioneer in recorded poetry, as well as disk-cutting for early-era Elektra Records and other small NYC area labels.

Merrill Audio Advanced Technology Labs, LLC, from Bernardsville, New Jersey, USA, a company focused on only the best possible audio and Very High Value using the latest technologies and accurate reproduction, announced a new surprising addition to its portfolio - a new Tape Head Preamplifier design, intended to be the ultimate in the reproduction of reel to reel master tapes. "Finally, there is a Studio Quality Tape Head Preamplifier for the purist of Reel to Reel Tape playback," Merrill states.

The Audio Engineering Society has announced that Louis D. Fielder, a leading researcher in the fields of psychoacoustics and audio coding, will deliver the Heyser Memorial Lecture at the upcoming AES New York Convention on Thursday, October 17 at 6:30 pm. AES Fellow and former Society president takes the stage of the lauded lecture series to share insights from his vast experience in research and development of cutting-edge industry technologies.

IK Multimedia has released the T-RackS Tape Machine Collection for its industry standard T-RackS mixing and mastering software workstation. This new collection of plug-ins recreates the iconic sound and character of four classic tape recording machines from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s: the Ampex 440B, the Studer A80, the MCI JH24 and the Revox PR99. In addition to finely detailed machine emulations, the collection also offers a selection of reel-to-reel tape formulas, variable tape speed, transport controls, and other tone shaping features.

Shipping early October and compatible with Thunderbolt-equipped Macs, new Universal Audio’s Satellite QUAD and OCTO DSP accelerators offer improved performance at higher sample rates and reduced plug-in latency versus FireWire. Also available are the UAD-2 OCTO PCIe Ultimate 3 cards with dozens of UA-developed UAD Powered Plug-Ins.