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December 1987 Digital TV Pg. 90 The Technical Journal for Audio Professionals AN INTERTEC PUBLICATION /N i /r

f News les, V series for use in its new teleproduc- tion site; Westlake Studios, Los Angeles, V series; Baby O Recording, V60; Chero- kee Rec

New Products Editor's note: This month, "New Prod- ucts" focuses on the recent AES conven- tion in New York -new products that we

New Products Leonardo librarian software Professional Librarian software en- ables computerized search and playback of compact disc sound effects

New Products 111111111111111111111111 ANT E413 multitrack NR The noise reduction system is a 24- channel unit and is the latest member of the

New Products RAMSA WR -S840 series console The line of consoles is designed for sound reinforcement mixing and fea- tures 40 input modules,

Continued from page 81 J-Mar Electronics Ltd., 6 Banigan Drive, Toronto, Ont., Canada, M4H 1E9 (416 -421 -9080) Canada. Amplifiers; Consoles, Recor

Classified Advertising rates in Classified Section are: $1.00 per word per insertion. Initials and abbreviations count as full words. "Blind&

Advertiser s Index Page Number Rapid Facts Number Advertiser Hotline Page Number Rapid Facts Number Advertiser Hotline AIT Scharff Rentals 103 85 212

11119 BEI FRONT REAR Portable 4- position system in road case. Produces 4 mas:ers from live recording and duplicates 19 C -45s per hcur double tim

Bit a Studer Introducing the D820X DASH Format Digital Audio Recorder STUDER ; .10W_ STUDER REVOX AMERICA, INC. 1425 Elm Hill Pike, Nasl-v Ile,

GREAT COMPANY 3.re.. is indisputable. \Chen Westlake Success is indisputable. When \estlake Audio in Los Angeles decided to upgrade their famed Studi

Mic evaluations From: William Sommerwerck, Mechan- icsburg, PA Thanks for Lowell Cross' interesting ar- ticle on microphone evaluations in the

AMPEX oIcrtu Our greates There's only one xvay to build a great reputation. And that's to do it consistently, hit after hit. We set the anal

Managing MIDI By Paul D. Lehrman Because I don't get to play much music outside of my own studio these days. I'm pleased when someon

onway Recording caters to the top record -date cli- entele in LA's highly competitive studio recording scene. Yet hits are their stock i

sound on the Road By David Scheirman Audiences have gathered together in live- performance venues for thousands of years to enjoy the sound of

What LA's Largest Pro Audio Dealer Can Do For You With over 200 different brands of pro audio/ video equipment, we offer you the best selection i

Scans On-Line By Bruce Merley During the October AES Convention in New York, SPARS hosted a workshop/ seminar that explored what we call "The

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Film Sound Today By Larry Blake In recent years it has become apparent that an extensive, high- quality sound library is the foundation of se

Let's assume that results CAT Central are what's important, not which tools you use. Audio production is at least as much art as science:

BUYERS' GUIDE Product Listings This month, RE /P brings you the first annual Buyers' Guide. Three separate categories are featured to pr

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Product Directory See Adv. Page Shure Brothers Inc. Sony Communications Products Co. Soundcraftsmen Spectra Sonics /Spectra Sound Stanton Magnetic

-ros5/ MY LI 2.1 5 prJp P.rr os tq c o\i sT usu..? ---g& RE -7-1-rod Cl.6-p, v I Drums, cymbals, brass and woodwind, and even voice application

Product Directory Manufacturers Addresses begin on page 43 See Adv. Page Calrec Audio Ltd. (Calrec by AMS) CompuSonics Corp. Gotham Audio Corp. IM

E l WITH Smartcurve Not Just Anorher Programmable Equal.zer With MIDI 'M he IEQ. wi :h Smartcurve' is a progrmrratie, high perforn3nce g

Product Directory Manufacturers Addresses begin on page 43 See Adv. Numark Electronics Peavey Electronics Professional Audio Systems Rane Corp. ..

SL 4000 G Series Master Studio System G SERIES AUDIO SYSTEMS - UNPARALLELED SONIC PERFORMANCE G SERIES STUDIO COMPUTER - A NEW GENERATION THE WORLD

28 Product Directory See Adv. Page Steven Electronics Summit Audio Inc. Sunn Pro Sound Symetrix Inc. TASCAM, Teac Corp. of America 7 T C El

Focus On Excellence Introducing the MR -1 Discrete Head Professional Cassette Deck - From Nakamichi -the company that created the cassette revolutio

Product Directory Manufacturers Addresses begin on page 43 See Adv. Page l'. LOUDSPEAKERS, COMPONENT Acoustech Corp. Altec Lansing Corp. ANT T

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Product Directory See Adv. Page Black Audio Devices Calrec Audio Ltd. ( Calrec by AMS) Compton Electronics Crown International Inc. DeCuir Corp. El

Large scale concert sound reinforcement has a smaller future. Manifold Technology" delivers... twice the output in half the space.' Concert

Product Directory Manufacturers Addresses begin on page 43 See Adv. Page Shure Brothers Inc. Spectra Sonics /Spectra Sound Stewart Electronics Corp

he ßroeIFtKjr ardioid Microphone HE TYPE 4011 CARDIOID PROFESSIONAL MICROPHONE JOINS THE SERIES 4000 RANGE OF PROFESSIONAL MICROPHONES - THE DRO

Product Directory Manufacturers Addresses begin on page 43 See Adv. Page Switchraft, Inc. 39 TASCAM, Teac Corp. of America 7 Ward -Beck System

%\c )c*i The price you have to pay to be free. As a musician, you know you've got to be free. Free to express the music that's inside you.

Contents ENGINEER /PRODUCER December 1987 Volume 18 Number 12 1st Annual Buyers' Guide RE /Ps first annual Buyers' Guide pro- vide

Product Directory Manufacturers Addresses begin on page 43 See Adv. Page Klark -Teknik 19,59 Lexicon Inc. LP Music Group Opamp Labs, Inc. Pea

DURABILITY Successful long- distance runners have what it takes to go all the way -and finish ahead of the pack. The equipment you depend on req

Product Directory See Adv. Page Shur -Sound & Sight, Inc. Sony Communications Products Co. Stereodyne /Dynapak Ltd. Studio Magnetics Co., In

Listen to what engineers in 47% ofall recording studios have already heard: And what they haven't. What we're going to tell you about the ne

1 Product Directory Manufacturers Addresses begin on page 43 See Adv. Page Nakamichi America Corp. 29 Otani Corp. 3,101 Paso Sound Products Inc.

Manufacturers' Directory A Accurate Sound Corp. 3515 Edison Way Menlo Park, CA 94025 415 - 365 -2843 ACO Pacific Inc. 2604 Read Belmont, CA

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Akai Div. of IMC P.O. Box 2344 Fort Worth, TX 76113 817 -336 -5114 800- 433 -5627 Akas

r ''1'- , rr / MI I Adi161 GET IT IN B-CHECK IXMIGHT In the field or on the run, the AKG C 522 ENG, mics it just like you hear it - in

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Audio Precision P.O. Box 2209 Beaverton, OR 97075 503- 627 -0832 800- 231 -7350 Audio

Just what you needed ® 19V-P.A.ti. to hear. The new Studio Monitor 1 with T.O.C. " ('Dime Offset Correction), from Professional Audio Syst

DTR -900 32- CHANNEL DIGITAL TAPE RECORDER Professional Digital standarc recording format 32 tracks = 'eak- reacing LED meter bridge !W The

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 The Bertech Organization 14447 Califa St. Van Nuys, CA 91401 818 -909 -0262 800 -992 -22

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 D Dago Cases 6945 Indiana Court, Suite 600 Golden, CO 80403 303- 421 -7912 800 -342 -3246

Manufacturers Addresses FM Acoustics USA P.O. Box 854 Benicia, CA 94510 707- 745 -4444 FM Tubecraft 1121 -26 Lincoln Ave. Holbrook, NY 11741 516- 5

TESTED. PROVEN. The Carver PM -1.5 Magnetic Field Power Amp -For performance, reliability and sound. On the Road Since the professional debut in 1983

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Gotham Audio Corp. 1790 Broadway New York, NY 10019 212 -765 -3410 Greencorp. Inc. 3505 S

Fostex Presents a Series of Timely Investments: r- 4010 SMPTE Time Code Generator /Reader has all the tunctions you'll ever need because it&a

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Leonardo Software 693 Washington St. Venice, CA 90292 213-305-1521 Lexicon Inc. 100 Beav

Bruce Swedien, Michael, Quincy ... and the high -power, ultra- accurate Westlake SM -i Studio Reference Monitors BRUCE SWEDIEN: "We've lived

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Opamp Labs, Inc. 1033 N. Sycamore Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 213 -934 -3566 Orban Associ

Manufacturers Addresses Sammi Sound Technology 39 Menlo Place Berkeley, CA 94707 415 -527 -8799 Samson Technologies Corp. 485 -19 S. Broadway Hicksv

Editorial Take the Show On the Road? New York is an exciting and stimulat- ing city, and a vibrant part of the profes- sional audio industry. Los A

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Shur -Sound & Sight, Inc. 3350 Scott Blvd., Building 5 Santa Clara, CA 95054 408- 72

30 band 44 octave graphic equaliser - Frequency response ±0.5dB 120Hz - 20kHz1, Distortion 1 +4dBm( <0.0t% at 1kHz, Equivalent input noise

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Switchraft, Inc. 5555 N. Elston Ave. Chicago, IL 60630 312 -792 -2700 Symetrix Inc. 4

Manufacturers Addresses Product Directory begins on page 20 Trident Audio USA 2720 Monterey St., Suite 403 Torrance, CA 90503 213 -533 -8900 Turbos

Manufacturers Addresses Westlake Audio 7265 Santa Monica Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90046 213 -851 -9800 Wheatstone Broadcast Group 6720 VIP Parkway Syr

BUYERS' GUIDE Dealers /Distributors Directory The Dealers /Distributors Directory features a listing of dealers /distributors complete with a

Audio LA, 11349 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90025 (213- 477 -1516) AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, OR, NV, NM, TX, UT, WA, A full service orga

Haight Ashbury Music Center, 1540 Haight St., San Francisco. CA, 94117 (415- 863 -7327) CA, Amplifiers; Consoles, Recording, Production & S

ers & Keyboards, Tape Duplication; Tape MachinesAnalog Peoples Music, 122 N. Main St., Sebastopol, CA, 95472 (707- 823 -7664) CA, Amps; Lo

cording Tape; Signal Processors; Synthesizers & Keyboards; Tape Du- plication; Tape Machines, Analog The Sound Center, 9278 Civic Center D

TRUTFI... OR CONSEQUENCES. If you haven't heard IBL's new generation of Studio Monitors, you haven't heard the "truth" about

I.LIIIIIIlI111991 COLORADO Jackson Sound Productions Ltd., 3897 S. Jason St., Englewood, CO, 80110 (303- 761 -7940) CO, Re- cording Tape: Tape

Soundd Investment Co., Inc., 3586 Pierce Drive, Chamblee, GA, 30341 (404- 458 -1679) So.east USA, Shipping Nationwide, Recording Tape; Equalizer

Machines, Analog & Digital; Test & Measurement Equip.; Time Code Synchronizers New Horizons Electronic Marketing, 2211 Lakeside Drive,

DAY\ "In -line System" 30 mm Module Width Yields Unparalleled Compactness Up to 56 Modules in less than 51/2 feet Up to 112 "Mix&q

Specialty Sound Co. Inc., P.O. Box 4139, Monroe, LA, 71211 (318- 387 -3628) LA, Amplifiers; Consoles, Sound Reinforcement; Loudspeakers, Sound Rei

Go downtown and look around. The fancy pants dance where the music is cool. AnC the smoothest, easiest way to perfect a club's sound is

Noise Reduction Systems; Recording Tape :Signal Processors; Synthesiz- ers & Keyboards; Tape Duplication, Tape Machines, Analog; Test & Me

NEW JERSEY American Sound & Video Corp., 3 Fairfield Crescent, West Caldwell, NJ, 07006 (201- 575 -8484) Na- tionwide, Tape Duplication Gabriel

aving used MasterMix I don't know how I managed efore. It takes the drudgery out of remixing., Ken Gordon, Joint Managing Director, Saunder

AMERICA, Video Recording; Video Editing Systems; Microphones, Video Tape, Video Tape Duplication Ma- chines; Test & Measurement Equip. For Vid

Hews AES elects 1987.88 officers The Audio Engineering Society has an- nounced its officers for 1987 -88. Daniel Gravereaux was elected to serve

(216- 781 -1234) OH, Amplifiers, Equalizers; Loudspeakers, Sound Reinforcement; Microphones & Acces.; Noise Reduction Systems Pi Keyboards &a

PENNSYLVANIA Audio Innovators, Inc. dba Pro Corn Systems, 5001 Baum Blvd., Pitts- burgh, PA, 15213 (412.621- 1950) USA for service & con

( 214 -372 -3088) 250 mile radius of Dallas, Amplifiers; Consoles, Sound Reinforcement; Editing Sys- tems; Equalizers; Loudspeakers, Sound Reinf

Processors; Synthesizers & Key- boards; Time Code Synchronizers Erikson Music Reg'd., A Div. of JAM Industries Ltd., 378 Isabey, St.

Selecting Accounting Software for Recording and Production Facilities By Robert Carr A carefully chosen accounting package can increase the efficiency

Data are entered into these files by filling in customized input screens that appear on your CRT display. For convenience, the input screens are

7ÿpical accounting modules Full -scale accounting programs are laid out in subsystems called modules. The four most commonly used modules are ge

accounting procedures. Involve your employees in writing down the structure of your business, and all the data you have to record, track and analyz

Hands -on Yamaha DMP -7 Digital Mixing Processor By Paul D Lehrman Wth the Yamaha DMP-7, MIDI-controlled automated mixing and signal processing se

only four of these effects, plus an auto - panning feature, but it is through this bus that the external effects loop passes. When the external

.# ->7 /7 ,ItSttGserQNer. .(` Tascams Studio 8 puts all power of a prcfes5ional tecordilg fixity MD ar 8-track p-octuction system tri at's

Technical Specifications: Inputs: 15kí1, -20 to + 4dBu nomi- nal, unbalanced. Outputs: +4dBu nominal, 600e balanced and 15kfl unbalanced. Dynami

change any of the controls except the faders. Fortunately, the storage buffer for incoming MIDI data is not overly large, maybe 100 commands&a

Digital Audio Recording for TV Programming By Peter Roos Digital post -production facilities are now a reality with digital recording, editing and

demanding time frame, and there is no room for being late. Imagine seeing this announcement on your television screen one night: "This

92 rtecurumy cnyrneerr-ruuucer uecen'Lief I Robert Mandell, president of Trunscom, [IefdJ und Peter Roos, rice president. stage is that all

Automatic Dialogue Recording (ADR) is often done with multitrack tape machines and videocassette reference or with film loops and mag. It may be a f

Control room equipment The hypothetical digital audio stu- dio we've designed is based upon Transcom Digital, a digital audio - for- video,

At this point you have taken digital audio for television as far as it can go, since a con- sumer digital TV standard is still years away. However,

State of the Industry; Future Trends and Observations What is the pro audio industry going to be like next year? In five years? In 10? Although

with that of your clients. A good image there was a single standard governing not only allowing us, but forcing us to be will help to instil