Independent Audio

04/12/2021

Sonifex AVN-DIO10 Dante to SDI Embedder & De-Embedder

Sonifex AVN-DIO10 Dante to SDI Embedder & De-Embedder

03/24/2021

MERGING+HAPI MkII

MERGING+HAPI MkII

HAPI MkII utilizes the ZMAN technology introduced with Anubis and this powerful processor allows some very meaningful performance upgrades.Merging’s range of...

03/19/2021

Murray Walker, one of the BBC’s highest-octane voices in Formula One racing for over 50 years, recently passed away at the age of 98. As you can see in the photo, he never left home without his trusty Coles 4104B microphone.

Murray Walker, one of the BBC’s highest-octane voices in Formula One racing for over 50 years, recently passed away at the age of 98. As you can see in the photo, he never left home without his trusty Coles 4104B microphone.

03/04/2021

Merging Technologies | Hapi MkII Mic Pre & AD/DA Converter with RAVENNA & AES67

Merging Technologies | Hapi MkII Mic Pre & AD/DA Converter with RAVENNA & AES67

Hapi MkII is a small format RAVENNA and AES67 compatible Network Mic Preamp and ADDA converter with operating sample rates from 44.1 to 384kHz DXD/DSD256. Supporting the same I/O options as its big brother, Horus; Hapi is perfect for smaller budgets where compromise on sound is not an option.

03/04/2021

CEDAR Audio approves Dante Virtual Soundcard for CEDAR Cambridge.

After extensive testing, CEDAR Audio is delighted to announce its approval of the Dante Virtual Soundcard for CEDAR Cambridge, providing a seamless and cost-effective way to connect its flagship system to Dante networks.

Tony Webster, Senior Engineer for CEDAR Cambridge explained, "Audio over IP is the modern way to connect audio systems and Dante Virtual Soundcard offers three immediate benefits to our users: it's quick, it's simple, and it's very affordable. It provides a robust way for connected systems to communicate over longer distances using much more convenient and more reliable network cabling - cabling that probably already exists throughout the user's premises - and it's especially beneficial for customers with larger, distributed audio networks. They will now be able to patch other Dante equipped systems to CEDAR Cambridge's Ethernet port with no special cables or converters needed, and no more moving of equipment or servers around the facility."

Dante Virtual Soundcard is available direct from Audinate, the manufacturer of Dante.

https://www.audinate.com/products/software/dante-virtual-soundcard

https://www.cedaraudio.com/products/cambridge/cambridge.shtml

#cedaraudio #cedarsystem #cambridge #declick #decrackle #dehiss #debuzz #phasecorrector #eq #noisereduction #audio #audiopost #audiogear #mastering #sound #forensics #archive #library #dante #audinate

02/26/2021

Photos from Merging Technologies's post

02/25/2021

Merging Technologies | Tribute | Chick Corea

Merging Technologies | Tribute | Chick Corea

It is with great sadness that I heard of Chick Corea’s passing away earlier this month. I have been and still am an absolute fan as I consider him in the top ten of my all-times preferred musicians, simply put, he is a monument! While Chick is no longer with us, his music will remain forever, and ...

12/15/2020

CEDAR Audio Ltd

CEDAR Audio Ltd

Big Sur compatibility, the latest Retouch, and more...

12/14/2020

Merging Technologies goes MAD

Merging Technologies goes MAD

Merging Technologies has developed an entirely new Merging Audio Device (MAD) for windows computers and the existing ASIO driver supplied with its interfaces...

12/03/2020

MiLab and Pearl Mics are in a Premier League of their own.

https://www.independentaudio.com/brands/milab/
https://www.independentaudio.com/brands/pearl/

#proaudio #professionalaudio #microphones #milab #pearlmicrophones #independentaudio #makemusic #musicindustry #studiolife

11/27/2020

Merging Technologies

We are running an exceptional Black Friday promotion to commemorate Merging’s 30th Anniversary this Friday, November 27, 2020.

For 30 hours during Black Friday (All time zones honoured) we are offering a 30% discount on new purchases of all Merging products (except Anubis, AKD8D, AKD8DP, ADA8S, ADA8P, Software upgrades, ASMs, Third Party software and IT).
Contact your Merging Sales partner to participate in this offer.

11/17/2020

We’ve got all the gear, but we’re now out of beer. Want to demo some gear? It’s all right here, or speak to your local dealer!

https://www.independentaudio.com

#independentaudio #proaudio #makemusic #studiolife #portlandme #sonifex #cedaraudio #audiogear #thermionicculture #soundsgoodisgood

10/13/2020

Merging Technologies

Merging Technologies

Darcy Proper and Ronald Prent from Valhalla Studios in Upstate New York are wishing Merging Technologies a happy birthday. We are very grateful for their kind words and wishes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkX6hWGXdUQ

#pyramix25thanniversary #mergingtechnologies

10/12/2020

Sonifex Ltd

Join us for a brand new Sonifex product launch tomorrow at the Broadcast Technology Roadshow (http://bit.ly/snfx_bcrdshw).
The roadshow can't be in-person this time, so we've gone online. Visit the website tomrrow - 13th October - for new product launches and technology insights from Sonifex, Artel, Broadcast Radio, CEDAR Audio Ltd, Comrex Corporation, and Vortex Communications Ltd.

#sonifex #broadcastsound #dantespokenhere

10/12/2020

CEDAR Audio Ltd

🙂 When audio engineers meet for coffee...

SoundGirl Alexandra Parral told us about her first experience of listening to the CEDAR DNS 2. She told us, "My friend Manuel Lopez owns the DNS 2, and was showing it to me for the first time. He invited me for a latte and demonstrated to me how great it works”.

We couldn't agree more!

(Photo: Alexandra Parral.)

📷 www.instagram.com/alexandraparral/
▶️ www.cedaraudio.com/products/dns2/dns2.shtml

#cedaraudio #cedardns2 #locationsound #productionsound

10/06/2020

Merging Technologies

Interested in Pyramix 25th? Make sure you tune in!

Webinars Merging - Français

Pyramix 25ème est maintenant disponible, quelles sont les nouveautés?

En 2020 Merging Technologies a 30 ans et Pyramix a 25 ans. Les nouveautés seront présentées et discutées ainsi que certains périphériques très utiles comme le MAD (Merging Audio Device) - Durée approximative de 45 minutes

Français
6 octobre PARIS 3PM (CET 3PM)
https://youtu.be/TiSy2K_T3sw

09/30/2020

Sitting on a mountain of gear.

https://www.independentaudio.com

#independentaudio #portlandme #marshallamplication #fender #thermionicculture #dacsaudio #titanic #gibsonusa #genelec #mainebeer #studiolife #music #proaudio #tubegear #MergingTech

09/30/2020

Sonifex Ltd

The Sonifex RB-HD6 headphone distribution amplifier (http://bit.ly/snfxhd6) has six independent headphone amps that can be fed either from a common stereo input, or from an individual feed plugged into each amp's 'override' input jack. That way, you can provide a common feed for guests and different feeds for presenters, interviewers, or producers.

Each amp has its own volume control, and a master volume adjusts overall level of the common stereo input. The override inputs can be switched to parallel outputs by setting internal jumpers, and the main stereo input can be mono'd with a rear panel switch.

There are four headphone distribution amplifiers in the Sonifex Redbox range: The RB-HD1 is a 1U stereo headphone amplifier for driving up to two pairs of headphones with wired remote options for the output volume and switching to a secondary mono mix input. The RB-HD2 is a two-way headphone distribution amplifier for driving up to two pairs of headphones from a single stereo or mono input, with preset level control of input signal and separate output level control. The RB-DHD6 is a digital six-way headphone distribution amplifier with a digital input (AES or S/PDIF) and 6 individually buffered headphone outputs with their own volume controls. More here: http://bit.ly/snfxredbox

#sonifex #headphones #broadcastsound

09/28/2020

CEDAR Audio Ltd

CEDAR ensures clear sound at Singapore's New Creation Church

When you're preaching to upward of 35,000 attendees per week, there's lots of potential for noise and other audio problems in the FOH sound, live broadcasts and recordings. So the New Creation Church in Singapore has turned to two CEDAR devices to ensure intelligibility and provide clean audio in real-time.

With more than ten years of experience, the head of audio for the New Creation Church is Isaac E., who's responsible for all live sound, recording and audio post, and he manages both the church's live and on-line delivery. He told us, "During the services, we use omni headset microphones for preaching because we feel that they give us a better result and don't have the proximity issues that are associated with directional headset mics. But omnis pick up a lot of noise, especially with a live audience in the room. To help with this, we run the audio from the mic receivers through a pair of CEDAR DNS 8 Lives before it reaches the consoles and the usual processing that you would expect such as compression, de-essing and EQ. This works great for the live sound, as well as for our broadcast and recording audio guys who have cleaner source channels to work with."

"When we're on tour or recording on location and we want to travel light we use a CEDAR DNS 2 for our pastor's headset mic. This keeps our audio guys happy, not least because it's so much easier to travel with the DNS 2 than the DNS 8 Lives. We use an insert and return on one of the consoles and send that channel to the rest of the consoles, which means that we get a DNS channel but still have a raw audio channel as a backup. The DNS 2 also allows us to produce high-quality location recordings without background noise."

"We decided to have this level of processing in view of our team's desire to deliver quality broadcast content that is free from distraction, and we found CEDAR's noise suppression to be quick and adaptive without damaging the audio. It's especially useful when we're in a live setting where the audio can't be fixed in post, and our FOH guys also found that the DNSs allow them to use more gain before feedback."

Isaac concluded, "If anyone is wondering, this is not a sponsored segment. We purchased our CEDAR devices some years ago, and I'm just sharing our experience of using this technology to improve our audio presentations."

We would like to extend our thanks to Isaac for sharing his knowledge with us.

About CEDAR's unique DNS process
Noise is all around us: traffic, aircraft, the noise inside vehicles, air conditioning, wind, rain and other water noises, the noise from domestic appliances and even excessive reverberation. So CEDAR developed DNS to clean up noisy dialogue and to suppress ambient noise for live TV and radio broadcasting. Moreover, whereas other digital noise reduction systems add a significant delay to the audio that makes live sound use impossible, the latency through any of CEDAR's DNS products is less than 10 samples which is far too short for any issues of this nature.

DNS has won a string of awards including two Cinema Audio Society Awards and an Academy Award.

More: www.cedaraudio.com/news/newcreationchurch28sep20.shtml

#cedaraudio #cedardns8live #cedardns2 #noisesuppression #sounddesign #promixing #audioengineer #broadcast #livesound #productionsound #locationsound

09/24/2020

Don't miss this webinar! All your ANEMAN questions will be answered.

Merging Webinar in English
ANEMAN, your virtual patch for Merging products. How to use it ?

ANEMAN is the tool that helps you to connect your hardware device such as Anubis, Hapi or Horus to your DAW. It is your patch bay on which you can create “logical zones” or “sample rate zones” to structure the requirements for every studio or room. How to save and recall such configurations and much more. It will be based on a Q&A webinar where Dennis Gaines from Independent Audio will ask questions that he gets asked regularly, nevertheless, you may ask your own via the chat. Length approx. 45 minutes

https://youtu.be/EC6FmAWiIRM

ENGLISH
September 25th
Timing :
Europe CET 4PM
UK 3 PM
US East Coast 10 AM
US West Coast 7 AM

09/08/2020

Emerging

Switch it up with Anubis SPS and three fantastic new features!

ST2022-7 - Anubis SPS will feature two network ports for ST2022-7 compliance, allowing full data redundancy.

Switch mode - Alternatively Anubis SPS can be used in switch mode using the second RJ45 connection, removing the necessity to have a network switch.

NMOS - Anubis SPS is capable of interoperability between different manufacturers’ devices, a major step forward for easier integration into a complete IP infrastructure.

Click the link to find out more on the Merging Technologies website below!

https://www.merging.com/products/interfaces/merging+anubis/sps

09/01/2020

Merging+Anubis SPS gains ST 2022-7 compliance

Merging+Anubis SPS gains ST 2022-7 compliance

The Merging+Anubis SPS is now shipping with full ST 2022-7 compliance. The enhancements to the compact AD/DA interface were developed in a matter of months despite the additional challenge of sourcing components and dealing with global lockdowns in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

08/20/2020

In Maine we do it right – best beer and best gear!

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#sonifex #cedaraudio #colesmics #pearlmics #mergingtechnologies #thermionicculture #proaudio #tubegear #culturevulture #studiolife #beertime #happyhour #beerandgear

08/19/2020

Merging Technologies Announces Merging+Anubis SPS and Merging Audio Device AoIP Interface Updates

Merging Technologies Announces Merging+Anubis SPS and Merging Audio Device AoIP Interface Updates

In 2019, Merging Technologies announced a new ambitious concept, promising to expand significantly the whole audio-over-IP ecosystem in multiple applications. Merging+Anubis caused a ripple of excitement across the industry. Now, Merging announced the availability of Anubis SPS, featuring a second R...

08/14/2020

Sonifex AVN-DIO10 Dante to SDI Embedder & De-Embedder

Sonifex has a wonderful YouTube page, and below is one of its most recent videos about the highly popular Sonifex AVN-DIO10 Dante to 3G/HD/SD-SDI Embedder/De-Embedder. The AVN-DIO10 is supporting broadcast production companies around the world to settle into the new-norm of working remotely.

#sonifex #independentaudio #networkedaudio #dante #avndio10

Product Page: https://www.sonifex.co.uk/avn/avn-dio10.shtml The AVN-DIO10 is a Dante to 3G/HD/SD-SDI Embedder/De-Embedder with PoE (Power over Ethernet) and ...

08/13/2020

Sonifex AVN-DIO Audiophile Dante Interfaces

Sonifex has a wonderful YouTube page, and below is one of its most recent videos about the highly popular Sonifex AVN-DIO line of audiophile Dante interfaces. The Sonifex DIO units are simple plug and play devices that provide a convenient and elegant method of connecting legacy analogue and digital audio equipment to a Dante AoIP (Audio over IP) network.

#sonifex #independentaudio #networkedaudio #dante #avndio

Product link: https://bit.ly/snfx_dioRange The Sonifex DIO Audiophile Dante Interfaces are simple plug and play devices that provide a convenient and elegant...

08/12/2020

Sonifex Ltd

Sonifex has a wonderful YouTube page. Sonifex products are supporting broadcast production companies around the world as they settle into the new-norm of working remotely.

#sonifex #independentaudio #networkedaudio #dante

Sonifex Ltd manufactures audio & video products for radio & TV broadcasters, AV installation, live sound, and music recording. For more information, please v...

08/11/2020

CEDAR Audio Ltd

CEDAR Audio Ltd

Please welcome CEDAR for Pyramix 64 v8

08/11/2020

CEDAR Audio Ltd

PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: Introducing CEDAR for Pyramix 64 v8

We are delighted to announce the immediate availability of CEDAR for Pyramix 64 v8 which, as well as offering improvements in other modules, delivers all of the benefits of the latest machine learning and AI capabilities of Retouch 8™ to the Pyramix platform.

CEDAR invented spectral editing but, not content to leave things as they were, we have continued to research ways to improve it, making it faster and easier to use, able to cure a more extensive range of problems, as well as making it even more productive in a wider range of settings.

For example, there are many occasions when you will encounter similar instances of unwanted sounds in a track - things such as hi-hat spill, over-excited sibilants and plosives, or even the repetitive noise caused by a piece of machinery. Until now, one would remove these by identifying each event individually and then defining it manually, but today you can mark one of the offending sounds and then ask the machine learning algorithm in Retouch 8 to find all of the other instances within the recording. You can then eliminate them individually or as a group using the appropriate Retouch tool. The increase in productivity is absolutely remarkable. In addition to this, the AI in the new Repair tool can identify, suppress, or reveal sounds while leaving the background in a marked region untouched. Unlike other spectral editing tools, only the significant signal within the region is processed; all low level signals as well as the ambience are left unaffected.

Availability and pricing
CEDAR for Pyramix 64 v8 is available immediately. Pricing is available from CEDAR or your local Merging Technologies offices and dealers, as are details about upgrading from previous versions of CEDAR for Pyramix.

About CEDAR for Pyramix
CEDAR Audio's partnership with Merging Technologies stretches back to the earliest Pyramix systems in the 1990s, when CEDAR developed their first broadband noise reduction system. Today, CEDAR for Pyramix is derived from CEDAR's multi-award-winning CEDAR Studio™ and CEDAR Cambridge™ flagships, allowing users to eliminate problems and significantly improve the quality of their audio. It provides unsurpassed results, quickly, and with the minimum of fuss and user intervention.

More: www.cedaraudio.com/news/cedarforpyramix64v8_11aug20.shtml

#cedaraudio #pyramix #mergingtechnologies #cedarretouch8 #declick #decrackle #dethump #dehiss #audiorestoration #noisesuppression