LAS VEGAS, NV – Neutrik, designer and manufacturer of the XX series XLR cable connector, debuts its newest Product Guide CD at NAB 2008 (Booth N9029). The CD Product Guide highlights Neutrik‘s entire line of connectivity products and accessories, including the company‘s most up-to-date product offerings.

The full-color CD guide, available in PDF format, includes complete product descriptions and images, showcasing the products‘ unique features and benefits. The catalog also includes educational diagrams, complete ordering information and a comprehensive list of Neutrik distributors separated by city/state for easy identification. more

New York/Los Angeles, March 28, 2008 – Human, one of America‘s pre-eminent original music composition and sound design agencies specializing in unique and compelling music for the international advertising industry, has promoted Lauren Bleiweiss to the position of Executive Producer.

In her new position, Bleiweiss will continue to be integrally involved with client relations, will continue to oversee Human‘s production department, and will work closely with Managing Partner Marc Altshuler to supervise overall company operations. She is based in New York.

“The most exciting thing for me has been watching this amazing company’s growth over the years, and being fortunate enough to play an active role,” said Bleiweiss. “Human has grown in such a natural way, maintaining its true DNA, both creatively and through its office culture. It‘s a remarkable company where everyone works so hard, all with a common goal. We are a true team, and a real family.”

ABOUT LAUREN BLEIWEISS:

Bleiweiss originally joined Human in 2004 as a producer, later working her way up to the post of Head of Production. During this time, she worked on many high profile projects, including award winning “Happiness Factory” and “Happiness Factory 2” TV and cinema spots for Coca-Cola.

Earlier, Bleiweiss was a Sales Rep with Chris Zander‘s Zander Reps, based in New York. There, her clients included Backyard Productions, Brand New School and Stimmung. Prior to Zander Reps, she was a Researcher, based in New York, with London‘s executive recruiting agency Kendall Tarrant, specializing in placing talent within the advertising community.

ABOUT HUMAN:

Founded in 2001 by renowned composers Morgan Visconti, Andrew Bloch, Gareth Williams, and Managing Partner Marc Altshuler, Human is a multi-award winning collective specializing in the creation and production of original and compelling music and sound design for the international advertising industry.

Human has offices in New York and Los Angeles. For more information, please visit: www.humanworldwide.com

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Grammy-Nominated Engineer Opens New Mastering Studio with Dangerous Music Equipment at its Center

Edmeston, NY – March 27, 2008 – Grammy-Nominated mastering engineer David Kutch has opened The Mastering Palace, a new mastering studio in New York City. In only a few short months of opening, Kutch has already mastered a range of top artist releases from The Roots, Natasha Bedingfield, Erykah Badu, Estelle, to classic Al Green. At the core of his new studio setup are two key pieces of analog equipment: the Dangerous Master and the Dangerous Monitor. These Dangerous Music components allow Kutch to be assured of the quality of his analog signal path, where he spends most of his time bringing out the best in a piece of recorded music.

Over the past two decades, many mastering studios and engineers have become familiar with Dangerous Music through Chris Muth. Kutch explains his own connection, “The entire professional mastering community knows Chris Muth. I’m sorry – ‘Relies’ on Chris Muth. If your 1630 [tape] machine needed alignment you called Chris Muth. If your Neumann cutting lathe was acting up, you called Chris Muth. If you had a technical need where the equipment to complete a task did not exist yet, the first thing anyone did was call Chris Muth. Chris tweaked, repaired or invented mastering equipment better than anyone else, period! Dangerous Music and its products are far from being new players in the pro audio gear world. It has all been evolving in Chris’ brain and in mastering studios for over 20 years. He truly is a Mad Genius!”

Integrating Dangerous Music gear into his own studios has been an easy choice, according to Kutch, “While at Masterdisk [famed NY mastering studio] I had been using a Muth Audio Designs Mastering Console and Monitor box (the big black one). The gear never breaks down and is very transparent. When I moved to Sony Music Studios [former 54th Street headquarters] they built me a brand new mastering room. When they asked what type of Mastering console I wanted, the answer was a no-brainer: ‘Anything from Chris!’ – which by this point was the Dangerous Master because he was no longer making the ‘MAD’ console.”

In his new studio, The Mastering Palace, Kutch explains how he centers his outboard connections around Dangerous Music designs. “The Dangerous Master brings all of my analog processing gear together in one place. The stereo signal comes in, gets left and right adjustments if need be, then hits my 3 inserts. One of the things that most attracted me to the Dangerous Master is that there are only 3 inserts. More inserts equals more noise. In this scenario: LESS IS BETTER! At this stage I can insert any of my analog equalizers or compressors as needed. I can also insert an EQ or de-esser into the ‘S&M’ or Mid-Side circuit [of the Master] so I can process the mono and stereo program material independently, as well as increase or decrease the stereo width without messing with the phase. I’ve tried other devices that claim to do this but they do not even come close.”

“My Dangerous Monitor lets me have control over speaker volume as well as listening to my different analog and digital signal inputs. The best feature is the onboard D-to-A converter. It switches from one AES input to another without any pops, glitches or latency – again, a rare feature. This way I can compare pre- and post- processing with the same D-to-A conversion on both sources,” added Kutch.

Asked of his experiences dealing with artists in his studio while mastering with Dangerous Music equipment, Kutch concludes, “I’ve had Erykah Badu here as well as Questlove from the The Roots. Besides having my system sound as good as it can, the gear just does not break down when the client is present. Since the Dangerous Music equipment is what ties my all of my gear together it has to work ALL the time. If it went down, the session would be dead. I’ve been using equipment designed by Chris [Muth] for 11 years and I’ve never had a piece break. It just works!”

In addition to the Dangerous Master and the Dangerous Monitor, Kutch of course has a host of other mastering equipment. For playback, The Mastering Palace studio is based around a Studer A820 half-inch analog tape machine and a Digidesign Pro Tools HD system. As an editor, Kutch uses Magix’s Sequoia DAW. Along with a host of boutique analog compressors, other key ingredients are his Prism Sound stereo converters and Maselec EQ, and for digital processing the TC Electronic System 6000. Critical listening depends on Kutch’s Focal Solo 6 monitors, and Legacy Focus monitors.

David Kutch Credits
Kutch began his career in recording with some of New York’s finest producers, ranging from Phil Ramone to Puff Daddy. In 1997 Kutch helped build the legendary Powers House of Sound Mastering Studios with Herb Powers Jr. There he worked on albums for Biggie, Puff Daddy, Lauryn Hill, Jill Scott, and Missy Elliot. In 2002, Kutch was nominated for a prestigious Grammy in the category of ‘Album of the Year’ for mastering Outkasts’ “Stankonia” LP that included the hits “Miss Jackson” and “So Fresh, So Clean.” Some of the tracks and albums Kutch mastered at his studio within the famed New York 54th Street Sony Mastering Studios, were for Kanye West, The Roots, Jamie Foxx, DMX, and Sarah McLaughlan. He has also completed DVD mastering for Rod Stewart, Angie Stone, Iron Maiden and Anthrax releases. Right before opening The Mastering Palace, Kutch spent the summer of 2007 mastering Alicia Keys’ “As I Am” album at her studio on Long Island, as well as other artists’ projects.

Contact David Kutch and The Mastering Palace at 1-(212) 665-2200 or visit the website at: http://www.themasteringpalace.com

About Dangerous Music, Inc.
Dangerous Music, Inc. designs and builds products that are indispensable to any DAW-based recording environment. Dangerous Music co-owner and electronics designer Chris Muth has spent over 20 years working in, and designing custom equipment for, top recording and mastering studios. Muth and his partner Bob Muller pioneered the concept of the dedicated analog summing buss for digital audio workstations with the Dangerous 2-Bus in 2001. Today the company offers a wide range of products for recording, mastering, mixing and post-production facilities, all designed by Chris Muth and built with mastering-quality standards and a practical aesthetic. Key products include the Dangerous 2-Bus and 2-Bus LT, Dangerous Monitor ST-SR and its Additional Switching System expansion units, Dangerous D-Box, Dangerous Master, Dangerous S&M, Dangerous Monitor and Dangerous MQ.

For more information visit http://www.dangerousmusic.com phone 607-965-8011 or email: info@dangerousmusic.com

HOLLYWOOD — EASTWEST‘s Fab Four Virtual Instrument Collection was recognized by the international music trade press as it took home the MIPA (Musikmesse International Press Award) for Best Sound Library.

MIPA winners are selected each year by 100 music trade magazines from all over the world for being most innovative new products in the industry. The company‘s Fab Four Virtual Instrument stood out in its category in that the collection was meticulously recorded using the same type of instruments and recording equipment as was used by the Beatles.

“The Fab Four project was truly a labor of love for us and it‘s great to see it internationally recognized for the amount of work that went into it,” says EASTWEST Founder and Fab Four Producer Doug Rogers. “Like the Beatles popularity before it, the Fab Four Virtual Instrument has become an international success and is helping to bring the group‘s innovative sounds to the next generation of musicians.”

In addition to the extensive research spent on acquiring instruments and recording equipment, the Fab Four Virtual Instruments project also involved Engineer Ken Scott, who worked on such Beatles albums as A Hard Day‘s Night, Help, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, and The Beatles. To further ensure authenticity, guitarist Laurence Juber and drummer Denny Seiwell, both of whom were members of Paul McCartney and Wings, played the same kind of instruments as those used by the Beatles for the collection‘s recordings.

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San Francisco, CA – March 2008… For the San Francisco Ballet‘s 75th Anniversary Gala, the prospect of microphones or microphone stands being visible to the audience was more than one of the venerable company‘s choreographers could bear. For Kevin T. Kirby, the San Francisco Ballet‘s FOH engineer, whose responsibilities encompass running all audio, video, and communications systems in addition to implementing the technical requests of the company‘s Artistic Director and its choreographers, the task of resolving this challenge was dependent upon discrete microphones and wireless transmission capability. He resolved the issue with a combination of products from Earthworks and Lectrosonics. more

Las Vegas, NV, March 24, 2008 – RF Central, a leading digital microwave technology provider, is unveiling its new and improved NLL-II 5.8 GHz portable digital microwave link at NAB 2008 (Booths C3007 and C6622). Taking its former model to new heights, the updated NLL-II now offers both balanced microphone and line level inputs via switch selectable XLR connectors on both the transmitter and receiver. This makes the NLL-II ideal for use by roaming news and sports crews. As part of its new release, the redesigned NLL-II is now also equipped with phantom power for microphones. more

FRANKFURT, GERMANY, MARCH 21, 2008–Aviom’s Pro64® Series was honored at Musikmesse/Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany, as the best Sound System Technology for 2008. The award was given by the Musikmesse International Press Association, on the vote of the 100-plus member publications from around the world. more

LAS VEGAS, MARCH 19, 2008–Clear-Com Communication Systems introduces Version 5.0 of its Eclipse Digital Matrix high-performance intercom system at NAB 2008 (Booth C5908), taking broadcast communication solutions to the next level. Acting as a central switching unit for communications across a broadcast operation, Eclipse Digital Matrix Version 5.0 links Clear-Com‘s V-Series Panels and CellCom wireless beltpacks and headsets for cost-effective and universal access to communication in the studio or out in the field with more connectivity options than ever. more

Las Vegas, NV, March 18, 2008 – RF Central, a leading digital microwave technology provider, is presenting the best of both worlds for transmission capabilities through the introduction of its RFX-ENG-II Dual Band package, which makes its debut at NAB 2008 (Booth C6622). Presenting a state-of-the-art system capable of originating either 2 GHz or 7 GHz COFDM digital transmissions from one unit, the RFX-ENG-II is ideal for ENG news operations where broadcasters require use of both 2 GHz and 7 GHz bands. more