Author Archives: Dave Dysart

Exciting news from Townsend Labs – they have just released a FREE update to the Sphere software component of their award-winning and best-in-class Sphere L22 microphone modeling system. Sphere 1.5 introduces four classic microphones, as well as IsoSphere™, a patented new technology that helps combat the unwanted effects of poor room acoustics. They have a live event TODAY at 10am PST/ 1pm EST. The event will discuss the new features, and has some Canadian talent involved – Karen Kosowski (Tim Hicks) […]

Dan Dugan of Dan Dugan Sound Design will receive an Engineering Emmy on October 29, 2020. Engineering Emmy Awards are presented to an individual, company or organization for developments in engineering that are either so extensive an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the production, recording, transmission or reception of television. Dan Dugan will receive his Emmy for exceptional engineering development for his Gain Sharing Automatic Microphone Mixing

Offering two channels of iconic diode bridge compression, the Rupert Neve Designs 5254 Dual Diode Bridge Compressor is a thoughtfully improved and refined compressor for modern tracking, mixing, and mastering. Since the early 1970s, Rupert Neve’s early diode bridge compressors have been revered for the punch & glue they bring to drums, instruments, and the mix buss – but these desirable characteristics were unfortunately accompanied by inflexible controls and fairly limited versatility. Rupert Neve Designs created the 5254 Dual Diode Bridge […]

David Hadzis of the United Music Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland has reviewed CEDAR Cambridge v13 in the Summer 2020 issue of Resolution magazine. Perhaps best known in the music industry within archives and libraries, CEDAR Cambridge is also ideal for use in in modern production environments, removing problems such as plosives, guitar buzz, spill, wrong notes, and much more. When investigating the new Repair module in Retouch David reported, “I intended to test it on just one or two of the low-end […]