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Focusrite's brand new Red 1 500 series 'lunchbox' format mic preamp is now shipping. Featuring the same circuitry topology and components as Focusrite's original Red Range of transformer-based mic preamps, the Red 1 500 offers the same legendary sound performance in a new, popular format - ideal for mobile/location recording or saving space in the studio.

TASCAM's DA-3000 is the new upgrade to the legendary DV-RA1000HD. The DA-3000 builds off of decades of experience, offers the same famous BurrBrown A/D converters, is armed with upgraded pres and packed into a sleeker, more modern design.

This brand new high definition master recorder/ADDA converter takes the solid reputation of the DV-RA1000HD and adds to it, offering uncontended quality, versatility and innovation.
The DA-3000 is designed to fit in any size recording studio, professional or home, for recording, mastering, broadcast, replacing a DAT machine or for audiophiles wanting to upgrade their files. This powerful recorder supports high sampling rates up to PCM 192 kHz and DSD 5.6MHz. One has the option of recording to SDHC and Compact Flash. The large bright LED level meters ensure its users that the audio being recorded is always set to the proper levels. It's high-precision TCXO, fan-less design ensure pristine audio quality and the dual monaural D/A converters for each channel help eliminate any possible interference.

This product was designed to offer high quality analogue summing to clients where sonic quality is imperative whilst still being aggressively priced to appeals to lots of customers. The original Nicerizer 16 and Nicerizer 8 summing mixers were release initially in 2003 and Phoenix Audio was one of the first companies to recognize this market and release a product to cater for the demand for analogue summing and tone as a repost to the cold lifeless sound offered by DAW computer systems.
The Nicerizer Junior has 16 inputs containing 16 of our Class A discrete input buffer amps, 4 outputs containing our well renowned DSOP2 Class A discrete output amps and 4 custom wound transformers, each channel has panning with detented/stepped control and an 8db level boost.

A special bundle containing all of the dark and foreboding sounds of Netherworld and Netherworld II w/ Fright Violin Effects is now available from Sounds And Effects.

As with all KRK monitors, the ROKIT G3 features a lightweight yellow composite woofer that achieves outstanding dynamics. Many monitor manufacturers compromise the midrange frequencies to hype the bass, but the KRK ROKIT G3’s unique tuning process that treats the woofer, cabinet, and port as an single, integrated whole provides extreme vocal clarity with extended bass response. Additionally, an ingenious, re-designed radius cabinet baffle minimizes diffraction.
The ROKITs’ reliable, analog, bi-amped, class A/B amplifier has also been enhanced to maximize headroom while retaining minimal distortion. Unlike monitors that distort at higher SPLs, KRK monitors are engineered to deliver accurate sound at any volume level—the high frequencies are crisp, clean, and devoid of harshness, which complements the precision midrange and accurate, yet highly satisfying, bass.
Each monitor in the ROKIT G3 line features an upgraded one-inch silk-dome tweeter that provides response up to 35kHz, coupled with KRK’s optimized, proprietary waveguide technology for superior stereo imaging.

FXpansion's Tres is a monosynth Rack Extension for Reason featuring DCAM circuit-modelling technology and advanced TransMod modulation.

The oscillator section's complex timbral output is sculpted by filter and VCA sections full of warmth and characterful tone. All important parameters can be modulated with internal LFOs and envelopes or external CV sources to produce fresh and original bass, lead, percussion, drone and FX sounds.