PRODUCT NEWS In A Snapshot: 1927 Homerun King Compressor By Ninevolt Hot Apple Distribution | www.hotapple.com.au
Another of the Ninevolt range that’s sure to snatch the gaze of plenty of musicians out there is their studio compressor. Adorned with a pair of baseball playing grizzly bears, the 1927 Homerun King Compressor is a simply laid out low-noise studio compressor. It’s fitted with two LED lights to show you when the pedal is engaged, and also when the compression signal is being applied. With true bypass and housed in a sturdy case, this is another pedal in a range that looks certain to take the music playing public by storm.
Introducing The Entertainment Series By QSC Technical Audio Group | (02) 9519 0900 | www.tag.com.au
The new Entertainment Series (E Series) from QSC is a range of passive loudspeakers, designed for sound reinforcement in live performance, DJ and dance music, stage monitoring and production. With high-capacity continuous power ratings, E Series is ideally matched with QSC’s latest generation PLD and GXD amplifiers. The range consists of four models incorporating QSC’s DMT (Directivity Matched Transition) to deliver uniform frequency response across the entire angle of dispersion. All three two-way speakers are trapezoidal shape with foldback wedge angles. The E10 features a 10” woofer with 2.5” voice-coil, E12 a 12” driver with 3” voice coil, providing enough volume for low-frequency extension down to 60 Hz, and the E15 a 15” woofer with 3” voice coil. E10 and E12 are fitted with a 1.75” voice coil HF compression driver and the E15 a huge 2.8” voice coil unit. E18SW is a high-performance subwoofer with a single, high-powered, 18” woofer, providing crushing low-end for live performance with kick-drum and bass or for highlevel, high-energy dance music.
Ernie Ball Music Man Limited Edition ‘Starry Night’ Finish Available This Month Only! CMC Music Australia | (02) 9905 2511 | www.cmcmusic.com.au
Christmas has come early for many Ernie Ball Music Man players. Once a year, Ernie Ball Music Man reveal a limited edition finish that is only open to order for 4 weeks. This year, the premier guitar manufacturer brings us Starry Night – a stunning blue sparkle burst finish. The package also includes a figured, roasted maple neck with stainless steel frets atop an unmarked ebony fretboard - a first from Ernie Ball Music Man. For a limited time only, customers can order any instrument, any model and any configuration they please, and have it built with the custom Starry Night finish. After the four-week ordering window (which starts now), the finish is then retired and never used again. The finish is available on all instruments except Armada, Game Changers, BFR JP 6/7 String, JPX through JP16 6/7 String, BFR Luke, BFR Luke3 and the StingRay 40th Anniversary model. This offer is only available to select dealers apart of the Ernie Ball Music Man Premier Dealer Network. Interested? Hit up CMC Music Australia to order your custom made instrument with the Starry Night finish.
Introducing VocalSynth: The Newest Plugin From iZotope
Electric Factory | (03) 9474 1000 www.elfa.com.au
Just released from the software geniuses at iZotope is VocalSynth – a uniquely powerful and creative plugin that opens up a whole new world of possibilities for singers and producers everywhere. VocalSynth enables you to manipulate your voice to create electronic vocal textures, robot sounds, computerised harmonies, vocoder and talkbox effects, thick octaves or doubles, and everything in between. The software has four vocal engines: robotic vocals (Vocoder), organic harmonies (Polyvox), glitchy digital speech (Compuvox), and singing synthesised sounds (Talkbox). With VocalSynth, you have specialised vocal effects, allowing you to add edgy or tasteful distortion, filters, speaker convolution modelling, beat-repeating madness, and wide stereo delays. It also features pitch correction, so you can correct off-key notes in your vocals with real-time pitch correction with naturalsounding results. Rounding out the features is the streamlined voice generation; add harmonies, octaves, or unisons in auto mode, or get the exact harmony voicings you want.
A Look At Ninevolt’s ‘Fishing Is As Fun As Fuzz’ Pedal Hot Apple Distribution | www.hotapple.com.au
Alesis Expand V Range With VMINI Keyboard Controller Electric Factory | (03) 9474 1000 | www.elfa.com.au
The latest addition to Alesis’ immensely popular ‘V’ range of keyboard controller, the VMINI is a compact and portable 25-key controller. Features include 25 mini-size velocity sensitive keys and octave up/down buttons, four assignable rotary controls, and four velocity-sensitive backlit pads (perfect for drums and percussion or clip launching). Also included in the VMINI is AIR Music Tech’s Xpand!2 advanced virtual instrument with over 2000 premium sounds. The VMINI is plug-and-play (no drivers required) and USB bus powered (no PSU required), making it the ultimate portable keyboard controller.
PG.16 // MIXDOWN #266 // JUNE 2016
Pedals are amongst the least straight forward creatures in the broader musical family. There are thousands of them out there, each with their own unique nuances and character. For some pedal makers, innovation is the driving factor to break new tonal ground. For others serviceability and reliability is the idea behind the genesis of a unit. The new Ninevolt series of pedals sits somewhere in between these two extremes, offering users a range of rich malleable tones that aren’t only reminiscent of some of history’s most celebrated bits of gear, but could comfortably go up against it in a live setting. Take for example their fuzz pedal - the Fishing is as Fun as Fuzz. While it possesses a voice that’s uniquely its own, it does give a subtle nod to some of its famed forefathers of fuzz, perhaps most recognizably the Big Muff pi. It’s certain to be a hit with the musician who’s looking to add a little heat to their pedalboard with a classic fuzz tone.
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