New Gear Alert: Kali Audio Goes Bluetooth, BASS9 Bass Machine by EHX, iZotope’s Trash 2 via Novation & More

Kali Audio announces the MV-BT Bluetooth input module.

Following the success of the Project Lone Pine monitors, Kali Audio is back with a comprehensive Bluetooth solution.

The MV-BT is a Bluetooth receiver with balanced outputs for use with any professional audio system. You can pair any Bluetooth-capable playback device, including smartphones and laptops, with the MV-BT, and connect directly to your speakers, to a mixer, or to an interface. Using the aptX codec, the MV-BT is capable of receiving CD quality audio over Bluetooth.

The MV-BT has independent volume control, eliminating the need to control volume from a playback device. This puts a big, easy-to-use volume controller at your fingertips, and ensures that any Bluetooth-capable playback device can send audio at the highest possible resolution. An LED array alongside the volume wheel indicates the volume level.

The MV-BT features balanced XLR and TRS outputs, and in addition to Bluetooth input, there is a 3.5mm input on the side of the unit to provide physical connection to older devices.

The MV-BT is priced at $99, and will be available starting September 1, 2019 in the US, with worldwide availability soon to follow.

Electro-Harmonix releases the BASS9 Bass Machine.

Featuring next-level pitch and dynamics detection, EHX’s BASS9 Bass Machine morphs your guitar into a low end beast.

The polyphonic BASS9 Bass Machine transforms a guitar into nine different basses and requires no special pickups, MIDI, or instrument modifications. It relies on the same technology powering all EHX 9 Series pedals, like the award winning MEL9 Tape Replay Machine, but features a new algorithm maximized for transposing one to two octaves down with superior dynamics and tracking.

The pedal is equipped with independent Effect and Dry volume controls so you can precisely tune your mix at the Effects output jack, plus an always-active Dry output jack that outputs the input signal at unity gain.

Check out a demo video of BASS9 here.

The BASS9 Bass Machine comes equipped with a standard EHX 9.6DC200mA power supply, and is available now at authorized EHX dealers. Click here for more information.

Novation offers free iZotope Trash 2 plugin via the Sound Collective.

Get trashy with iZotope’s Trash 2, free for a limited time via Novation’s Sound Collective.

A multiband distortion unit on steroids, Trash 2 applies two adaptable distortion algorithms—chosen from a menu of over 60 options or user-designed—to each of up to four bands, as well as a pair of six-band filters with 23 filter types, convolution spatial processing, multiband compression and gating, and delay.

Whether you want to add a touch of gently enhancing abrasion to a bassline or get wildly experimental on a drum loop, Trash 2 gives you everything you need to do it in a powerful but easy-to-use plugin.

With the Sound Collective, you can find great virtual instruments and effects, and keep up to date with the constant stream of new releases. It offers regular free software downloads and generous discounts on high-end plugins. To join the Sound Collective, simply register any Novation product, then look out for a new offer every couple of months.

This offer is available until October 3rd, 2019.

Introducing Cubase Template Shop.

CTS gives access to professional quality Cubase Pro projects—free of both charge and royalties.

Cubase Template Shop is a specialized place for every Cubase Pro user. It provides industry standard sounding projects that can be opened on any Cubase Pro installation and be freely modified. All projects are royalty free.

Cubase Pro is one of the most powerful DAWs on the market today, offering a great selection of music production tools, virtual instruments, and great sounding effects. Users know that Cubase Pro is powerful enough on its own to deliver great results; no third party plugins are required.

For more information on Cubase Template Shop, click here.

Waves now offering Marc Mozart’s YOUR MIX SUCKS (Waves Edition) e-book.

Waves offers a specialized e-book version of Marc Mozart’s “YOUR MIX SUCKS”.

Waves is now offering Marc Mozart’s book, YOUR MIX SUCKS (Waves Edition), integrating Waves plugins throughout fourteen chapters of guidance, inspiration, and methodology on mixing music.

This e-book presents a complete methodology of mixing, from preparation to delivery, covering the technical, artistic, and personal sides of the mixing process, written by Marc Mozart, award-winning mix engineer, music producer, and director of the digital music and social media agency Mozart & Friends.

The Waves edition of YOUR MIX SUCKS brings the classic e-book to the next level. It focuses on the “magic first listen” and how to shape your track’s foundations, including vocals, the low end, parallel processing, effects, and automation. It also gives valuable advice on the personal and business sides of mixing, including networking, client feedback, and much more.

YOUR MIX SUCKS (Waves Edition) is available at a special introductory sale price of $29 (reg. $49).

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