Zoom unveils the PodTrak P2 USB Mic Podcast Recorder
Zoom is pleased to announce the PodTrak P2 Podcast Recorder for USB Microphones. The PodTrak P2 is your USB mics best friend and Zoom´s first portable battery powered digital mixer and podcast recorder for USB microphones. Simply plug in 2 USB microphones and up to two headphones and you are ready to record your podcast wherever you go. Record a stereo mix for instant sharing or save individual tracks for full control in post-production. Activate AI Noise Reduction and the P2 will learn, analyze, and reduce background noise keeping your voice front and center at all times. And with studio level features like tone shaping, de-essing and a compressor the P2 lets you produce broadcast quality podcasts with any USB microphones. Like our other PodTraks, the P2 also features a Mix-minus function to add add call-in guests to the conversation by simply connecting your smartphone into the rear USB port. And you can connect the P2 via USB-C to a PC, Mac iOS, or Android device and use it as an USB audio interface for 2 USB microphones. The new PodTrak P2 will ship in Q2 2025.
Product video Zoom PodTrak P2: https://bit.ly/41IhOpr
Features:
- Records 2 USB microphones to SD cards up to 1 TB
- New AI noise reduction that reduces background noise
- TONE effect for the perfect podcast voice
- COMP effect for volume and presence boost
- Connect your smartphone or computer to record remote guest with mix minus
- Audio interface function to connect 2 USB mics to a computer or smartphone
- 2 headphone outputs
- Records 4 tracks of 24-bit/48kHz audio
- 5 hours of battery life on AA battery (4x) or USB-C power
- Use the P2 Editor software for additional settings & customization
- Audio notifications alert you to low battery, storage, and settings through your headphones
Nord Keyboards introduces the Nord Piano 6
The latest generation of Nord's Piano series features a new panel design with LED faders, dual layers for Piano and Synth with independent effects and a premium Triple Sensor keyboard. The new Piano section offers 120 voices of polyphony, Soft, Mid, Bright and Dino filters to easily adjust the sound on the fly, a Unison function, Dynamic Compression and Nord's highly acclaimed Advanced String Resonance. The new extended synth section offers 2 independent synth layers, Unison for ensemble-like sounds, True Vibrato with real-time control and Round-robin for natural-sounding repetitions. Like the Nord Stage 4, the new Piano 5 now features a new effects section with dedicated effects per layer and new effects such as a new spring reverb, new spin effects, a dedicated compressor effect and a global reverb with send per layer, pre-delay, chorale and bright/dark mode. Combined with excellent portability and our world-class sounds, the Nord Piano 6 offers great flexibility for performance and sound creation.
Features:
General
- 2 Piano + 2 Sample Synth Layers for advanced splits and layering
- Dedicated LED faders for each Layer
- Premium Triple sensor keybed
- Nord Triple Pedal 2 included
Effects
- Dedicated Effects section per Layer
- Modulation Effects with Rate and Amount
- Global Reverb with Send per Layer, Pre-Delay, Chorale and Bright/Dark mode
- New Spring reverb
- New Spin effect
- Delay with new Filter, Flam and Ping Pong options
- Dedicated Compressor effect
Piano Section
- 2 independent Piano Layers
- 120 Voice Polyphony
- Soft, Mid, Bright and Dyno filters
- Dynamic Compression
- Unison feature
- 3 Keyboard Touch options
- Advanced String Resonance
Sample Synth
- 2 independent Sample Synth Layers
- Unison for rich, ensemble-like sounds
- Tru-Vibrato with real time control
- Round robin for natural sounding repetitions
- Mono and Legato modes with Glide
- Attack, Decay/Sustain, Release and Dynamic controls
Nord Keyboards introduces the Nord Organ 3
The acclaimed Nord Organ is back - reborn and reimagined as the all-new Nord Organ 3. The latest generation of NORD's organ series now features a new panel design with OLED display, triple sensor keyboards, LED indicators for preset drawbar settings, a greatly improved B3 organ engine with new chorus/vibrato effect, improved Farfisa and Vox organ models, and a brand new rotary speaker emulation with multiple microphone placement options, 3 drive type options, a new British amp and speaker emulation and additional rotary speaker settings.
You can now also choose between 2 pipe organ emulations and there is a new synth bass based on classic pedal synthesizers. The new effects section offers a brand new spring reverb, new modulation effects and an EQ with sweepable mids. As a true combo organ, the Nord Organ 3 also has an 11-pin Leslie output and a high-level output that allows connection to an existing external rotary speaker cabinet. The Nord Organ 3 will be available in the 2nd quarter.
Features:
General
- New panel design with OLED display
- Triple sensor keybeds
- LED indicators for preset drawbar settings
- Aux output with routing options for Bass/Pedal drawbars and more
- Per program Transpose function
- 11-pin Leslie connector
- High level output
B3 Organ
- Enhanced B3 organ model
- New and improved Chorus/Vibrato
Transistor Organs
- Improved Farfisa and Vox organ models
Rotary and Amp modeling
- Brand new Rotary Speaker emulation
- Multiple options for microphone placement
- 3 Drive Type options
- New British amp and speaker emulation
- Additional settings for Rotary Speaker
Pipe Organs
- Two distinct Pipe Organ emulations
Bass Models
- New Synth Bass options based on classic pedal synthesizers
Effects
- Brand new Spring reverb
- Expanded Reverb section with Pre-Rotary option
- Delay with new Analog mode and Feedback filters
- New Modulation effects including Phaser, Tremolo, Ring Mod, Flanger and Chorus
- Equalizer with sweepable middle band
Zoom unveils the MS-90LP+ MultiStomp Looper Pedal
Zoom is pleased to announce the MS-90LP+ MultiStomp. The MS-90LP+ is the sixth next-generation pedal in Zoom's highly acclaimed MultiStomp series. The MS-90LP+ is the first looper pedal with dual ad converters and 32-bit float technology for clear, high quality sound even when looping endless layers. The MS-90LP+ features stereo inputs and outputs and provides 90 minutes of recording per loop, 13 hours total capacity, and storage for up to 100 loops. Additionally, you can play to the built-in 68 rhythm patterns while the quantize feature keeps your loops always in time and/or tweak your performance with eight Loop effects including REVERSE; HALF SPEED, HOLD and TAPE STOP. The MIDI In/Out lets you trigger memory changes and sync external equipment like the metronome of your drummer. Finally, with 5 dedicated footswitches, you can simply keep looping without double taps or holds needed. The MS-90LP+ MultiStomp makes every step legendary.
The MS-90LP+ will ship in Q1 2025.
Product video Zoom MS-80IR+: http://bit.ly/4inV3gP
Features:
- Dual AD-converter and 32-bit float technology
- 90 min recording time for each Loop
- 13 hours total capacity
- 100 Loops storable
- 8 Loop effects including REVERSE, HALF SPEED, HOLD, and TAPE STOP
- 68 built-in rhythm pattern with RHYTHM SYNC function
- Stereo In/Outs
- Split output routing to send Loops to left output and Rhythms to right output
- MIDI In/Out for Preset change and tempo sync
- Quantize feature
- 5 foot switches for control
- Color LCD display with real-time waveform display
- USB-C for import and export of Loops and MIDI
Eventide announces new H90 Dark Harmonizer®
Eventide Audio introduces a limited edition of the H90 Harmonizer - the H90 Dark! The H90 Dark has everything you need to inspire your creativity with a new intuitive user interface designed with players in mind. Equipped with 66 effects algorithms and hundreds of program combinations carefully curated for a variety of instruments and musical genres, the H90 Dark proofs again why the world's top artists and producers have chosen Eventide over the .years. The compact H90 Dark features include four I/O´s, flexible routing options, an intuitive UI designed for players, and a built-in tuner. Its new modern ARM-based architecture, derived from the world’s most powerful effects processor, Eventide's flagship H9000 Harmonizer, gives the H90 Dark the power to accommodate the ongoing creation of bread and butter effects as well as advanced, next-gen effects never heard before.
The Eventide H90 Dark will be shipping in November 2024.
Watch the H90 Introduction video: https://bit.ly/3G0RAUz
Features
- Preloaded with 66 effect algorithms:
- 14 new effect algorithms: Polyphony, Prism Shift, Bouquet Delay, Head Space, Weedwacker, Even-vibe, Wormhole, Instant Flanger, Instant Phaser, and SP2016 Reverb
- Includes all 52 effect algorithms from the H9 Max Harmonizer with enhanced features and improvements
- New low latency Polyphonic Pitch Shifting with SIFT (Spectral Instantaneous Frequency Tracking) technology
- ARM-based architecture lays the foundation for new and exciting creative effects.
- Use two algorithms at once per Program
- True spillover between Programs
- Route effects in series or parallel
- Instrument or Line level operation
- Two mono inserts or one stereo insert can be positioned anywhere in the signal chain
- Dual mode for processing two independent stereo signals at once
- Five push-turn knobs for more tactile control
- Two expression inputs for pedals, up to 3-button auxiliary switches, and CV signals
- Use H90 Control software to edit Programs, create lists, and update firmware on a Mac or PC
- Built-in tuner
Eventide announces KnifeDrop
Eventide announces a new pedal called "Knife Drop," a Fuzz Octave Pedal with Monophonic Synth, a collaboration between the twisted minds of Eventide Audio, Third Man Hardware, and Jack White. This diabolical fuzz pedal takes your tone on a nightmarish journey through crushing distortion and eerie synth tones. Created with the visual design by renowned artist Rob Jones, Knife Drop's visceral appearance perfectly matches its aggressive sound. Whether you're creating monstrous growls or supernatural melodies, Knife Drop is designed to haunt your sound. The KnifeDrop will be shipping in October 2024.
Features That Will Stalk Your Dreams
- Jack White Presets: Every preset is crafted by the legend himself and juiced to +6dB for maximum impact. It's as explosive as Jack’s live performances.
- Synth Mix: Blend your guitar signal with an ominous, monophonic synth. Turn the dial clockwise to dive into a synth-drenched abyss, or counterclockwise for filtered fuzz terror.
- Drive Amount: Push your distortion into new realms of madness. Turn past two o’clock for a snarling, gritty tone that cuts through the mix like a back-alley slasher.
- Output Level: Control the sonic onslaught with a range from -12 to +9 dB. Set to 0 dB at noon and the seance begins.
- Filter Envelope Attack Time: Adjust the attack from 0 to 1000 ms, allowing you to creep in like a shadow or strike fast like a blade in the dark. At 0 ms, manually sweep the cutoff to slice your signal as you see fit.
- Filter Resonance: Dial in eerie, spine-tingling resonance that makes your notes howl from the beyond.
- Cutoff Frequency: Choose where your envelope sweep begins, cutting through the haze to carve out your space in the sonic abyss.
- Secondary LED Button: Press and hold to access the hidden layers of horror. Behind this door lies the true terror of untamed parameters.
- Switchable Octave Madness: Set the tone of your haunting with the Octaves LED Button, which activates the upper and sub octaves. Disengage them entirely with the secondary octaves footswitch.
- Preset LED Ladder: Easily navigate your settings and remain one step ahead of the killer.
Focal introduces Lensys Professional - Closed-Back Headphones
Focal introduces a new model in its line of headphones designed for producers, sound engineers, musicians, and composers: Lensys Professional.
Crafted in the French audio brand’s own workshops, the new addition is a high-resolution work tool for in-studio use or creating music on the move.
Their closed-back design, combined with exclusive drivers and meticulous ergonomics, make these the must-have headphones for working on your music wherever you are. Focal engineers chose a 15/8" (40mm) aluminium/magnesium electrodynamic driver with an 'M'-shaped dome, an exclusive innovation, that allows for incredibly precise sound reproduction. The drive unit components are angled within the earcups to enhance stereo imaging, while the acoustic load is optimized to deliver performance similar to that of a bass-reflex loudspeaker, for low-end extension.
The Lensys Professional are lightweight, at 10.8oz (306g), and feature memory foam earpads, providing a comfortable fit and excellent sound isolation from external noise. As flexible as it is solid, the headband is covered with a breathable fabric and follows a smooth curve, ideal for over-thehead wear. Beatmakers, producers and audio engineers will be impressed by the reliability of these headphones as a must-have work tool. It also becomes your immersive companion for binaural audio applications in a three dimensional environment (e.g. Dolby Atmos®). By incorporating high-quality, long-lasting materials, these headphones are equipped to journey with you wherever you go. The Focal Lensys will be shipping in Oktober 2024.
Watch the product video: https://bit.ly/485Abq4
Features:
- Professional closed-back headphones
- Natural tonal balance
- Exclusive ‘M’-shaped Al/Mg drivers for increased stiffness: unique Focal expertise
- Optimised speaker driver acoustic load: operating performance rivals that of a bass-reflex loudspeaker
- Excellent precision for closed-back headphones, with great low-end extension
- Light and ergonomic memory foam earpads, suitable for lengthy work sessions
- Very hard-wearing with excellent sound isolation: ideal for working on the go
‘Sound Service UK’ takes over ’SCV Distribution’
We are pleased to inform you that Sound Service UK will take over the business of the British company ‘SCV Distribution’ with effect from 01.10.2024.
Ian Young - former Managing Director at ‘SCV’ and future Managing Director at ‘Sound Service UK’: “We are all elated to be joining forces with Sound Service UK. Our brand portfolios align perfectly in a harmonious blend of MI, Pro Audio, Home Audio, CE and Installed Sound offerings. With a shared ethos for delivering a seamless and unparalleled client experience, our merged specialist sales and support teams will be dedicated to providing the very highest level of service for our customer and supplier partners alike.
This is a significant expansion and these are extremely exciting times for us all at Sound Service Distribution. Our SCV team remains largely in place and we join together now with the existing Sound Service MSL Distribution staff to form one entity. The premises and operations are scaling up and we are all focussed on a shared mission to drive sales growth throughout our channels with an incredible combined product portfolio.
SCV Chairman Andrew Stirling is departing the business and also Garry Robson is retiring from the Company. We are hugely thankful for both Andrew and Garry’s years of service to both SCV and the industry as a whole and wish them both the very best in the future. SCV Director Matthew Esau is remaining with the new company and continues to head up our rapidly growing HiFi Division.”
Timo Könnecke – COO at “Sound Service”: Sound Service has been operating successfully in the UK for several years now. However, we want to strategically expand our presence and our customer base. A merger with SCV Distribution was therefore a logical step, as they have outstanding brands as well as outstanding and experienced staff in the UK. In addition, we now have access to our own warehouse and our own service department. Previously, we were dependent on service providers or had to take the cumbersome route via our warehouse in Germany. The addition of SCV has made us more independent and enables us to serve our UK customers even better and more efficiently.
Sound Service always tries to stand on several pillars in order to be represented as broadly as possible in the market and to cope with the ups and downs of individual segments. Like us, SCV Distribution is active in the pro audio sector, but also in the home audio / hi-fi sector; a market segment in which we also want to expand. This segment expands our brand portfolio and opens up new growth opportunities for us. We now have a very balanced and diversified sales portfolio in the UK, which we want to gradually expand in all European countries in which we are active.
I look forward to a successful future, working with Ian Young as well as with my new colleagues in the UK. Our pan-European distribution idea will be filled with even more content through SCV and will lead to maximum success.
Sound Service European Music Distribution appointed as new IsoAcoustics distributor in several EU countries
We are delighted to announce, that IsoAcoustics appointed us as the new exclusive distribution partner for their products in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia with immediate effect.
"We are excited to partner with Sound Service to expand our reach in Central and Eastern Europe," said Dave Morrison, President and Founder of IsoAcoustics. "Sound Service's expertise and dedication align perfectly with IsoAcoustics' values, and we are confident that this collaboration will provide professionals in these regions with greater access to our award-winning acoustic isolation solutions."
Ron Deckers, European Sales Director at Sound Service, added:
"The IsoAcoustics brand is a great addition to our portfolio of top-notch pro audio brands at Sound Service. Their products are a perfect match to our Focal studio monitors and we are delighted, that we can now offer complete and superb monitoring solutions to our customers.“
IsoAcoustics products are built with a unique, patented isolation technology that provides a high degree of isolation and manages the speakers energy to deliver authentic, uncolored sound.
The product range includes the Iso-Stands and Iso-Pucks, which are used by the world's most famous producers and sound engineers.
The latest additions are the versatile V120 Mounting systems for ceilings, walls, trusses and more and the unique STAGE 1 isolators for Guitar/Bass amps and cabinets.
About IsoAcoustics Inc.
Since its founding, IsoAcoustics has become the leader in acoustic isolation solutions for the Professional Audio and Home Audio communities with their award-winning range of products. IsoAcoustics’ solutions are used in leading studio, stage and home settings across the globe by top Grammy-winning producers, engineers and musicians, as well as in world-class facilities including Electric Lady and the Boston Symphony.
AlI IsoAcoustics products are built with a unique, patented isolation technology that allows speakers to deliver optimum performance, resulting in authentic, clear uncolored sound. For more information, visit www.isoacoustics.com.
Zoom unveils the LiveTrak L6 10-Track Digital Mixer / Recorder
Zoom is pleased to announce the LiveTrak L6 10-track digital mixer / 32-bit float recorder. The LiveTrak L6 is Zooms most compact and portable digital mixer / recorder. The L6 can be mounted in a Eurorack case with optional rack ears and runs on batteries, USB power bank or mains power.
With 10 discrete tracks (plus stereo mix) of clip-free 32-bit float audio, effects, MIDI, and sound pads, it’s perfect for bands, synth players, live streaming, and more. The L6 offers 2 XLR/jack combo inputs with +48V phantom power, 4 stereo line inputs (or 2 stereo line + 2 stereo USB returns), full channel strip controls for each channel including 3-band mid-sweepable EQ, 2 external aux sends, pan, effects and an advanced compressor for the main outputs.
You can also connect, program, and sync the L6 to your outboard MIDI gear via the 3.5mm MIDI I/O, or to a computer via USB. The 4 sound pads can be used to trigger pre-recorded samples or for live sampling during a performance.
The L6 can also be used as a 32-bit float 10-in / 4-out USB audio interface for your computer, iOS, or Android device while recording simultaneously to the SD card. And it is a control surface for your favourite DAW.
The LiveTrak L6 is Zooms most flexible and compact digital mixer and will ship in late Q4 2024.
Product video Zoom LiveTrak L6: https://bit.ly/3ZBe5JP
Features:
- 10-channel ultra-Compact digital mixer
- 2 XLR/TRS Combo inputs + 4-Stereo inputs
- 12-track simultaneous recording
- MIDI In/Out for mixer control and USB MIDI interface
- 3 Scene memory for storing mixer and tempo setting
- 32-bit float multi-track recording to micro SD card
- 5 Internal Send Effects
- 2 AUX send outputs
- 4 Assignable sound pads (sample player)
- 3-Band EQ with MID freq control for each channel
- Headphone output + Master output
- Eurorack compatible
- 12-in / 4-out Audio interface
- 4 AA battery power operation or USB power