Pro Audio Gear At Great Prices
Pro Audio Gear At Great Prices
It seems like only yesterday the industry recorded all music on tape recorders. Now days the world has gone digital and never looked back. Oh sure, you will find some producers who still use tape recorders for the soft saturation and warm vintage sounds. But most professional and home studios have gone headfirst into DAW (digital audio workstation) systems.
I have had a digital multi-track system at home for years. The flexibility and extra features that digital recording studios provide is simply amazing.
Originally master mixing required at least two of us sitting at the console orchestrating volume changes and so on real time. It was as much of a performance as the original. If any ONE of us messed up we had to do it again. Now we can use automation built into the software to play it back with volume that can be tweaked infinitely. We can tell the recording software to increase the gain at this spot 6dB and it is happy to do it. We can do programmed fades just as easily. The list goes on. We can play it back and modify it to our heart’s content.
The unlimited “undo” feature may be the greatest advancement in recording history and I am only partially kidding.
Advancements, although not as startling as the DAW have been happening throughout the pro audio arena as well. Power amplifiers have gotten smaller, lighter and less expensive. With new classes of amps such as class D amplification less heat is generated too.
On one hand speaker technology seems to be stuck in time. That is the universal design of loudspeakers has only had incremental changes, not monumental changes. Nonetheless, there is a better selection, better performing group of speaker out there than ever before.
Whether you are looking for studio monitors or PA speakers for the road there are products for every level of performance needed and every price range you can afford. My typical advice here is to buy the very best speakers you can afford as they make a huge difference in the final sound.
Rack gear has exploded in the last couple of decades. There are so many types of special effects, equalizers, compressors and rack mount amps that it boggles my mind. The prices are unbelievably low too considering what you get these days. Microprocessors and surface mount technology are largely responsible for this improvement.
Even the racks themselves are available in studio and road versions with a plethora of features. Wheels, handles, sturdy construction and more are all available. Just look around.
Mixers are another place where the feature list is huge and the prices have dropped. When you just look at how many CONTROLS are on mixdown units it is hard to grasp. Mackie was one of the first companies that brought affordable HIGH QUALITY performance into reach by the ordinary band.
Even mixers are available in digital formats these days. Motorized controls and built in metering systems are the norm for this type of mixdown console. This was all developed to allow signals to STAY in the digital domain instead of being recorded digitally, converted to analog and then back to digital. It is quite an improvement.
I personally have a hybrid system that incorporates analog components as well as a basic digital system. It allows me to have vintage effects used in the digital environment. Of course, many of the vintage effects have been replicated as plugins in the DAW.
Suffice it to say that you can find all of these things here at Nitro Sound Productions. You can get great deals on power amplifiers, mixdowns, PA speakers, studio monitors, rack gear, DJ equipment, and of course computer recording equipment. Look around and see if PonceTechnologies.com doesn’t have what you need.
