Vote Your Heart Out!
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Great news! It turns out PreSonus has nominations in 4 categories over at the 2013 Sound on Sound Awards. If you like your PreSonus products, and just haven’t been able to think of the best way to show it, then this could well be a great opportunity for you!
Just sayin’. 🙂
Click here to go to the poll and see which products were nominated. Maybe it was one that you own!
Josh Gilligan’s 95% PreSonus Recording
This just in from Josh Gilligan, who claims “95% of my album was tracked through XMAX preamplifiers,” among other things. The proof, as they say, is in the custard, so be sure to scroll down to hear his recordings for yourself.
“Hey, guys! I just wanted to let you all know that PreSonus is a central part of my home studio and production process. I’ve been a PreSonus user for years with the TubePre and Eureka, and now the Studiolive 16.0.2 and HP4. 95% of my album was tracked through XMAX preamplifiers and I would put their sonic integrity up against just about anything. Looking to go to an interface with an ADAT option soon, and I’ve got my eye on more PreSonus gear. Thank you guys so much. You really make it possible for independent musicians to make great sounding records on a budget and in tight spaces. I’ve shared with my friends and they love your gear as well. Listen to my record over on SoundCloud, I couldn’t have done it without PreSonus.”
-Josh Gilligan
PreSonus Congratulates Winners of Pads ‘n’ Pods Giveaway!
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, September 2012…
PreSonus™ has announced the winners of its Pads ‘n’ ‘Pods Giveaway Contest.
Chosen from thousands of online entries, the winners – one in the U.S. and one in Europe – were awarded a complete StudioLive™ 16.0.2 / Apple® Remote Control Kit, including four iPod® touches and a 16 GB iPad® 3.
The winner of the European Pads ‘n’ Pods giveaway is Andreas Rösch of Nürnberg, Germany. Andreas mixes his band Segard using a StudioLive 24.4.2 console.
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Andreas Roesch
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“Winning this prize gives us the freedom to use iPods® to mix our monitors on stage and enables us to rapidly achieve the best in-ear sound,” says Rösch. “What’s more, our sound engineer is no longer bound to the FOH location. He can now operate the console via iPad from anywhere in the venue. We’re about to embark on a tour across Germany and will be able to exploit the full potential of the StudioLive technology. Thank you, PreSonus!”
In the U.S., the lucky prize winner is Sean Menza of Lakewood, Washington. Sean uses a StudioLive 16.0.2 to mix and record his band Unified Culture. “The StudioLive console gives us everything we need to mix our band, from great-sounding preamps to onboard effects,” says Menza. “We’ve always loved the fact that it gives us more than enough aux buses to give everyone a monitor mix. With our new Pads ‘n’ ‘Pods prizes, we can use QMix™ to control our mixes up on stage. And I can use the iPad® to mix the band live from anywhere in the room. It doesn’t get any cooler than that.”
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Sean Menza
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StudioLive Remote software, available free from the Apple App Store, provides direct wireless control over PreSonus Virtual StudioLive software for Mac®and Windows®, allowing you to remote-control any StudioLive mixer. QMix software (also available free from the App Store) enables each musician to control their own individual monitor mix using an iPhone® or iPod touch®.
For more information on StudioLive Remote go to www.presonus.com/products/
For more information on QMix, go to www.presonus.com/products/QMix
For more information on Andreas Rösch’s band Segard,
go to www.segard.de, or www.facebook.com/segardrock
For more info on Sean Menza’s band Unified Culture, go to www.facebook.com/
WFX Photo Gallery From The Trenches
So, I wasn’t invited to attend WFX Atlanta 2012 myself. And you see what happens? Instead of my really nice photos, we have all these shaky-cam 2.3 megapixel cell-phone camera shots. But, hey, that’s more “street,” right? They are more “authentic,” yes? In some schools of thought, “authenticity” is what happens when people don’t read manuals.
I kid, mostly. It’s OK, I didn’t want to be packed in a crate again anyhow. The show was Grrrreaat!
If the StudioLive 24.4.2 is Good Enough for Al Green, it’s Good Enough for You.
The incomparable Al Green played at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this year, and his 14-piece band ran through a pair of StudioLive 24.4.2s. We talked to Al Davis, his engineer, about how the StudioLives meet The Reverend Al Green’s demands.
PreSonus Products Nominated Four Times in the 28th Annual TEC Awards for Outstanding Technical Achievement!
Geaux TEC Awards!
Wow. Double wow. We are humbled and honored to have received nominations in Mix Online’s 28th Annual TEC Awards. That’s nominations, plural. In fact, four products of ours were nominated across four categories. They include:
Audio Apps Technology for Smartphones & Tablets
PreSonus QMix
Computer Audio Hardware
PreSonus AudioBox 1818VSL
Workstation Technology
PreSonus Studio One Professional V2
Small Format Console Technology
PreSonus StudioLive 16.0.2
From Mix Online’s announcement:
“The TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio announces the Technical Achievement nominees for the 28th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, to be held Friday, January 25, 2013, in Anaheim, Calif. Presented by the TEC Foundation, the TEC Awards is the pro audio industry’s most prestigious awards show honoring outstanding achievement in product innovation and sound production.
Online voting will begin in November among members of various professional audio organizations, and qualified professionals subscribing to audio and music products trade publications.”
Big big thanks to Mix Online for their continued support of PreSonus. November can’t come soon enough, and who knows, maybe this time we’ll actually freakin’ win, which would make this all eligible for the ultra-rare Quadruple Wow.
StudioLive 24.4.2 Saves the day for a Gospel Quartet in Chennai, India
The above might be my favorite PreSonus Blog headline EVER. The below comes to us from Sudhin Prabhakar, all-around great guy from Pro Musicals, our distributor in India!
“Award-winning gospel quartet Ernie Haase with Signature Sound were recently in Chennai, and had agreed to record a song and video for a local record label with a Chennai-based choir backing them.
They had only a few hours to get this recording done, so they appointed audio engineers Timmy Madhukar and Sean Bout to achieve this. The engineering team decided unanimously that the best way to do this would be to use the PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 digital mixing console with FireWire interface built in. We had to work within several limitations of space and time. The control room was a small box-shaped room above the shooting floor, just 4 feet high, and the recording rig had to be compact with minimal wiring complications. The StudioLive 24.4.2 fit the bill perfectly, as you can see. Setup was a breeze. The mixer was plugged into a MacBook Pro and worked perfectly, as expected. Giving the band and the singers a comfortable monitor mix was a matter of a few seconds. The entire session was over in a few hours. Thanks to exclusive all India distributor ProMusicals for tech support and photographs.”
Learn Music Business Online with Berklee College of Music
Check it out! The Berklee College of Music has a bunch of informative new videos up on Direct-to-Fan Marketing.
It doesn’t end there, however. Click through and sign in to the Berklee site and check out further videos featuring wisdom on the direct-to-fan model from Benji Rogers, Erin McKeown, and Karmin.
StudioLive 24.4.2 Spotted in the Lifehacker.com “Musician’s Cockpit”
Check out this KILLER studio setup featured over at LifeHacker:
“Today’s featured workspace features a gorgeous, drool-worthy setup for a musician. Sean Rieger’s massive U-shaped desk holds no less than six screens, and multiple mixers and other musical equipment.While this setup isn’t practical for everyone, the workspace has some inspiring touches. The desktop wallpaper matching with the wall treatments gives the space a cohesive look. Also, the U-shaped desk definitely puts everything within easy reach.”
Check out the full article here.