New Gear Alert: Waves x DSPRO StageGrid 1000, PolyBrute Synth by Arturia, Blackhole Pedal from Eventide & More

Waves is now shipping the DSPRO StageGrid 1000.

The DSPRO StageGrid 1000 offers easy I/O expansion for live mix and monitor engineers using the eMotion LV1 mixing systems.

DSPRO, located in Porto Alegre, Brazil, is a developer and manufacturer of innovative and high-performance products for the professional audio market, including PA, broadcast, mobile units and installation.

The DSPRO StageGrid 1000 is a compact I/O device for Waves’ eMotion LV1 live mixing systems, with 8 mic/line ins, 4 analog out and AES/EBU ins/outs, all digitally controlled. Use this versatile unit close to your mixing console to add more inputs and outputs at FOH or monitors, or on stage in order to add more inputs and outputs for stage performers.

This 1U rack unit offers the perfect balance between size and functionality, delivering exceptional, no-compromise sound quality and reliability.

The Waves DSPRO StageGrid 1000 is available now, priced at $1,100.

Arturia unveils the expansive new synthesizer, PolyBrute.

Available in November, Arturia’s PolyBrute will feature onboard stereo effects, a 3-axis performance touchpad, and more.

Fusing the raw power of Brute oscillators with digital Matrix precision, the innovative three-dimensional Morphée performance touchpad, and pristine stereo effects, PolyBrute represents a new era of polyphony.

Features of the PolyBrute include (but are not limited to): 6 pure analog voices driven by 2 Brute oscillators, complete with distortion, wavefolding, and FM control, shaped by dual enhanced filters for massive timbral variety; Seamless 3-dimensional morphing between two completely different states within a single patch—an infinite continuum of sound, immediately accessible expression; 3 envelope generators, 3 LFOs, and modulation flexibility normally reserved for modular systems—with the immediacy and precision of digital control.

Express your musical ideas with a new dimension of performance control, with a dynamic ribbon strip, an assignable mod wheel, and the innovative Morphée 3-axis performance touchpad.

PolyBrute will be available in November, priced at $2,899.

Eventide unleashes the Blackhole reverb pedal.

Eventide ports their popular Blackhole algorithm into stompbox format.

A historic element of Eventide’s sound, the Blackhole algorithm was introduced in Eventide’s DSP4000 Ultra-Harmonizer hardware processor, and now opens a host of possibilities on a pedalboard.

Blackhole can load as many as 127 presets via MIDI, which are also accessible in the preset list on the Eventide Device Manager—a PC or Mac application for software updates, system settings and creating/saving presets. 5 presets can be loaded at your feet for access from a latching/momentary dual-action active footswitch.

The rear-panel guitar/line level switch allows impedance matching with guitars, synths, FX loops, or DAW interfaces. A single aux switch can be deployed to tap tempo, or a triple aux switch can be used for easy preset changing (up/down/load).

Check out an introductory video of the Blackhole reverb pedal here.

Blackhole is available worldwide, priced at $279.

D.W. Fearn announces updates to their flagship preamplifiers and processors.

Now boasting new fanless operation and more, D.W. Fearn upgrades their VT-2, VT-5, and VT-7 outboard units.

The newly updated VT-2 now features an integrated, switchable 43dB pad, enabling it to be
patched into the master buss during mixdown and mastering. This replaces the need for the LP-1 line pad, which was a separate box previously available from D.W. Fearn. The new design now makes the VT-2 a veritable triple threat, equally at home in recording, mixing, and mastering scenarios.

The VT-5 Dual Channel Vacuum Tube Equalizer and the VT-7 Dual Channel Vacuum Tube Microphone Compressor have also been upgraded. Like all D.W. Fearn products, both units incorporate a Class-A vacuum tube audio path, and are hand-crafted in the U.S. using only the finest components available. Now, both products have been optimized to eliminate the need for an internal fan. While the fans in D.W. Fearn equipment have always been extraordinarily quiet, research has shown that no fan is even quieter.

The new VT-2, VT-5, and VT-7 are available now from D.W. Fearn | Hazelrigg Industries, at an MSRP of $5,500, $10,200, and $8,200, respectively.

AudioTestKitchen announces the opening of ATK2.0.

AudioTestKitchen announces crucial performance and content upgrades to their popular and growing online service.

To celebrate 1.4 million microphone auditions by 80,000 users, AudioTestKitchen has launched a major performance and content upgrade for its free website where you can audition the sound of hundreds of microphones via real, standardized recordings, and standardized frequency response graphs.

ATK2.0 features a 20x speed increase, 25 new sources, 200+ unboxing videos, instant audio switching, and real-world example recordings via Spotify integrated into their upgraded website.

Audio Test Kitchen invites manufacturers from all categories of professional audio and musical instruments who are interested in participating to contact them via their website.

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