New Gear Alert: Ember Mic from Blue, Drumshotz Library by Drumforge, Leapwing’s StageOne & More

Blue introduces the Ember microphone.

Geared towards content creators and video applications, Blue unveils the Ember large diaphragm condenser mic.

Ember is a premium cardioid XLR condenser microphone designed for pristine capture of vocals and instruments. It is ideal for multitrack recording, and capturing professional sound for YouTube video production and live-streaming. Featuring premium components and precision design, Ember is perfect for on-camera applications.

Featuring a proprietary, hand-tuned custom condenser capsule, Ember delivers superbly clear, open, and detailed performance for recording or streaming a wide variety of voices and instruments. A tight cardioid pickup pattern focuses on the audio source and minimizes room noise for a clean, up-front sound with excellent isolation. Clean, high-output gain ensures impressive headroom for even the most dynamic speech and instruments. Ember comes with a mount for any standard microphone stand and is also compatible with Blue’s S3 Shock suspension mount and Compass boom arm accessories.

Ember will be available in February at authorized Blue Microphones dealers for $99.99, and is currently available for pre-order at select retailers.

Drumforge releases DRUMSHOTZ – Billy Decker.

Created in partnership with Nashville mixer Billy Decker, Drumforge releases their newest DRUMSHOTZ library.

DRUMSHOTZ is a series of one-shot drum samples from professional mixers to enhance, blend, or replace drum sounds in your mixes. Billy Decker is a Nashville mixing legend with over 15 Billboard-certified number 1 songs mixed to date. These samples are some of Billy’s most used and loved drum samples from his 25 year career.

This DRUMSHOTZ pack is focused towards the Country genre, but Billy says “Rockers and Metal Heads will absolutely love ‘em!” Mix and match your favorite sample libraries or raw drum recordings with the Billy Decker signature DRUMSHOTZ today and discover a fresh take on your sound.

Check out an introductory video to DRUMSHOTZ – Billy Decker here.

DRUMSHOTZ – Billy Decker is available today, priced at $19.

Leapwing Audio releases the StageOne plugin for width & depth enhancement.

Add new levels of width and depth to your productions with Leapwing Audio’s new StageOne plugin.

StageOne has been designed to give producers and engineers intuitive control over the perceived dimensions of the stereo soundstage—stretching width and adding depth to any mono or stereo signal. The plugin gives access to a novel algorithm to change the width of existing stereo content, without compromising mono compatibility. Using the same tool, producers and engineers have the ability to add natural depth to recordings, with their unique and innovative directionally optimized reflections.

In addition to depth and width alterations, users can also access mono spread, which gives the ability to upmix mono signals to stereo. Ideal for mono sources that should be bigger than a static point source, mono spread can also be used to increase the size of the phantom center in stereo recordings.

Leapwing Audio StageOne is now available for $199/€199, supporting both Windows and MacOS in VST2, VST3, AU, and AAX plugin formats. A free 30-day trial is also available for download here.

Propellerhead partners with MIND Music Labs for Rack Extension hardware integration.

Propellerhead and MIND Music Labs join forces to provide instrument manufacturers with a new, low latency DSP solution for hardware integration with Reason Rack Extensions.

Music instrument makers can now access Propellerhead’s Rack Extension technology through MIND’s innovative ELK OS, which provides ultra-low latency DSP on a powerful, flexible and cost-effective hardware platform. This provides hardware manufacturers with an incredibly scalable, powerful and cost-effective way to incorporate Propellerhead’s future-proof Rack Extension platform into hardware synthesizers and effects using widely available ARM & X86 processors.

The Rack Extension format also gives developers unique benefits over other plugin formats. Rack Extensions are compatible with desktop, mobile, and web platforms, and developers can easily reach customers through the Propellerhead Shop, which provides a direct distribution path to Reason’s large global network of users.

Mix With The Masters announces Masterclass in LA with Tchad Blake.

Mix With The Masters offers a crucial one-day mixing seminar in Los Angeles with Tchad Blake.

For the first time, GRAMMY-winning mixer Tchad Blake (The Black Keys, U2, Sheryl Crow, Arctic Monkeys, Peter Gabriel…) will be conducting an exclusive MWTM one-day mixing seminar in Los Angeles on January 28, 2019.

During this special masterclass at Larrabee Studios, Tchad Blake will share his mixing methods working on several tracks 100% in the box, and will answer all your questions.

Reserve your place by clicking here.

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