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Steinberg WaveLab 10 Audio
Mastering Software
Steinberg has released WaveLab Pro 10 and WaveLab Elements 10
audio mastering software.
WaveLab Pro offers a comprehensive feature set that meets all demands
of mixing and mastering studios, post-production facilities, sound
designers, musicians, journalists, broadcasters, and other audio creatives.
WaveLab Elements offers a more cost-effective editing and mastering
environment for analyzing, editing, and enhancing audio material.
WaveLab 10 offers several tools and enhancements that are exclusive
to the Pro edition, such as allowing users to integrate external
effect devices into the signal flow by providing more flexible ways
to integrate external hardware effects. New to WaveLab Pro is also
Reference Track for adding a reference audio file and then toggling
between the reference audio file and other tracks. WaveLab Pro now
also opens up to other audio editors, providing users the option to
access and modify audio with other editors like SpectraLayers from
within WaveLab. Highlights of Audio Montage include the support of
multitrack recording and non-destructive inline editing. WaveLab Pro
10 also records and renders live input streams through the Master Section
and the inserted plug-in chain.
For more information, contact Yamaha Canada Music: 416-298-
1311, www.ca.yamaha.com.
Avantone Pro Kick Sub-Frequency
Drum Microphone
Avantone Pro has released the Kick sub-frequency kick drum microphone.
The Kick is designed to bring the boom from appropriate instruments
out to the forefront, making large-sounding sources sound
even larger. It does so with a sub-frequency microphone that utilizes
its reproduction “white cone” low-frequency driver. Avantone Pro’s
AV-10 MLF low-frequency replacement driver used in its CLA-10 recreation
of an iconic studio reference monitoring mainstay is also at the
heart of Kick. It has a single continuous press-formed cone and allows
a higher level of quality control and consistency during the manufacturing
process as well as delivering strong bass reproduction. In Kick’s
case, the AV-10 MLF’s 18-cm cone acts as a microphone element. The
microphone itself is of a moving-coil-dynamic type, with a 50 Hz to 2
kHz frequency response, 6.3-ohm output impedance, and figure-eight
pattern, plus a male XLR connector. All are housed in a birch plywood
drum shell with a 10-in. mesh drum head.
To mount the Kick, Avantone Pro provides a stage-ready, doublebraced
drum stand.
For more information, contact Yorkville Sound: 905-837-8777,
[email protected], www.yorkville.com.
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Danelectro Reissue ‘66-12 Semi-Hollow
Guitar
Danelectro has launched a new 12-string version of its ’66 electric
guitar model. The Reissue ‘66-12 semi-hollow features a doublecutaway
reverse alder body with an alder centre block, “Germancarved”
bevelled edge, and single f-hole.
The classic 12-string Danelectro Lipstick pickup combination now
includes a coil-tapped dual Lipstick humbucker in the bridge position.
The ‘66-12 delivers a clear tone at single coil or humbucker volume
levels. This is combined with the warm tone of a full-range single coil
pickup with large housing angled at the neck, making for a large variety
of available tones. Other features include enhanced string action,
action, a sleek C-shape bolt-on maple neck, and a smooth 22-fret pau
ferro fingerboard.
For more information, contact D’Addario Canada: 905-947-9595,
800-268-6855, [email protected], www.daddariocanada.com