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#PreSonuSphere Video: How to use PreSonus Products in the Classroom with @PreSonusMUED

PreSonus Education Market Manager John Mlynczak spoke at PreSonuSphere 2013, detailing the best ways to leverage PreSonus technologies in the classroom.

For more on PreSonus’ involvement in music education, click here: http://musiced.presonus.com/

 

Drum Corps International Launches Nimbit Store

Our friends at Drum Corp International  just launched their Nimbit Store on Facebook!  Just in time for the holidays, you can get DCI’s Silver Bells: A Drum Corp International Holiday Collection, which boasts percussive, marchy interpretations of yuletide melodies from time immemorial, with a peppering of  some more contemporary numbers.
At a hefty 24 tracks, Silver Bells boasts an undeniably thorough selection of tree-trimming tunes, though I would have thought that “Little Drummer Boy” would have been kind of a natural. There are tons of other recordings on their store, as well as a Blu-ray set and some other nice merch.
Furthermore, DCI is taking advantage of Fan Check-In to better engage their ever-growing community. Check-in yourself before you wreck-in yourself at fancheck.in/dci to take advantage of a special offer! 
This is just the first of many great things to come as PreSonus and DCI are planning an illustrious future together. We’re excited for all great things moving forward.
Want to get started selling your music online with Nimbit? It’s free and easy, click here.

#PreSonuSphere Video: Recording and Comping Vocals in Studio One with @JustinLassen and @NaomiMercer

Justin Lassen and Naomi Mercer spoke at PreSonuSphere 2013, and shared some of their production secrets concerning recording and comping vocals in PreSonus Studio One. Comping the best possible performance elements from your take has never been easier!

For more on Studio One, click here: http://www.presonus.com/products/studio-one

Eris E8 Shines in Resolution Magazine Bench Test

The kind folks at Resoution Magazine recently put the Eris E8 studio Montiors through one of their signature, exhaustive bench tests. We’re pleased to report that Keith Holland from Resolution liked not only what he heard, but also what he measured.  Here’s a snip.

“Overall the PreSonus Eris E8 is an excellent performer, especially at low frequencies. The designers have managed to combine a protected, extended low-frequency response and low distortion with an accurate low-frequency transient response. The other aspects of the performance do not disappoint either, with good time and frequency domain responses and controlled off-axis behaviour.”

You can read the entire bench test in Resolution’s October issue, available in digital form here. 

 

#PreSonuSphere Video: Mixing the Church with @WorshipMD

Worship audio guru Doug Gould offers his perspectives on the StudioLive solution for houses of worship from PreSonuSphere 2013.

For more on StudioLive mixers, click here: http://www.presonus.com/products/StudioLive-AI-Series

PreSonus LIVE Airs Today! 2 p.m. CST / 3 p.m. EST / Noon PST

PreSonus LIVE Airs Today! 2 p.m. CST / 3 p.m. EST / Noon PST / 19:00 UK / 20:00 EU

Cilck here to watch the show: http://www.presonus.com/videos/presonuslive

Heard great things about PreSonus Studio One? Tune in and check out these confessions of an ex-Pro Tools user.

Join Joe Gilder from Home Studio Corner for this LIVE webcast, where he’ll detail his reasons for making the switch to Studio One, and show you how to make the same transition.

Join us in the chat room and send Joe your questions.

Jim Odom Interviewed at PLASA by Audio Pro International

PreSonus CSO and founder Jim Odom was interviewed by Audio Pro International at the PLASA show. Here’s the interview, where you can get the good word straight from the man himself regarding Active Integration, the new StudioLive AI Digital mixers, and StudioLive AI PA loudspeakers.

 

On the Road Again

Mark and Johnny are on the east coast of the US spreading the good PreSonus word. To find out when clinics and events are coming to your town, click here and view our events page!

#PreSonuSphere Video: Small Studio Design with John Storyk of @WSDG

We were incredibly lucky to have John Storyk from WSDG Design Group speak at PreSonuSphere 2013. John designed Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland Studios in New York, as well as the recording studio in our brand-new PreSonus HQ.

For more on John’s impressive career, click here:
http://www.wsdg.com/dynamic.asp?id=company/team/usa/johnstoryk

John’s presentation slides from this show can be obtained from the WSDG website. Click here and scroll down: http://www.wsdg.com/dynamic.asp?id=events/past

Guy Perchard Swears by Studio One in “I Swear Blind”

[This just in from producer Guy Perchard! He recently contacted us about his experience with Studio One, and we just had to share. ]

Hi PreSonus!

I recorded Steve Heron’s song “I Swear Blind” after-hours at Red Dog Music, the instrument shop I work at in Edinburgh, Scotland. I was an early adopter of Studio One. In more than two years of using it to track bands and songwriters, I’ve never experienced a glitch, crash or artifact in the recorded audio. I’ve worked with Steve before on full-band productions (the usual four-piece plus backing vocals and a horn section) but for this B-side track, he wanted something a little more raw and natural. Everything on this session was tracked in one take, with minimal editing.

I’m a huge fan of the in-house effects built in to Studio One. Pro EQ is ludicrously useful for subtractive EQ and I apply it as an insert to every track on the mix; its interface makes finding the mud and taming it a doddle. The Compressor plug-in is also a mighty beast! The knee parameter is really useful for making the compression a little more transparent and subtle. The Room Reverb plug-in also used regularly;  I send the vocal, guitar and Fender Bass VI all to a slightly tweaked version of the “medium studio” preset.

One element that has a bit more going on is the ghostly sounding guitar, played with an E-bow. The E-bow guitar was processed via an insert chain consisting of: Autofilter, Compressor, Pro EQ, Beat Delay, Analog Delay, and finally Binaural Pan. Even though it sounds pretty extreme when you solo it, it works well as a subtle element in the whole mix. The whole master buss is then running through the awesome RedLightDist valve-sim plug-in on a very gentle setting to knock-off a little of the clarity and to excite the mids.  The only non-PreSonus plug-in on the mix is iZotope Ozone, to provide some subtle multi-band compression and a few dB of loudness.

I find working in Studio One is an absolute joy, but it has slightly ruined me for any other DAW software on the market. I frequently face-palm when I see people fumbling around with the clunky menus in Pro Tools… If they only knew they could make things so much easier for themselves!

Well done, PreSonus! You’ve made producing music as fun and intuitive as playing it.