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BeesNeez Microphones is introducing a very affordable Hand built range of tube condenser microphones. The first installment is the Jade. The Jade spares nothing in quality, Hand drilled Capsule, American JAN Subminiature Tube, Paper in oil Capacitors and Cinemag Transformer and all point to point soldering in the microphone.

BeesNeez describes it as a very linear mic, no accentuated top end and very well balanced as well as being dead quiet.

Price is $799USD with a 4 week delivery time. BeesNeez offers a money back guarantee and a lifetime warrantee.

Daking unveils a brand new mic/line/instrument preamplifier : the Mic Pre One. Sharing the gain structure and Class A, fully discrete transistor circuitry design of the Daking Mic Pre IV, the Mic Pre One additionally features a unique variable high-pass filter and ships in a freestanding 'DI-style' steel enclosure, ensuring both strength and noise immunity.

Essentially a single channel of the Mic Pre IV, the Mic Pre One features switchable phase, 20dB mic input pad and +48V phantom power, plus a selectable 1/4-inch line/hi-z instrument input, all utilizing relays with gold bi-furcated contacts. Two large knurled aluminum knobs control the variable high-pass filter (0-200Hz) and continuously variable input gain, which is complemented by a full-width, twenty-segment bi-color LED meter. The rear of the unit offers a Jensen transformer-isolated mic input and fully-balanced XLR output, plus a 1/4-inch line output. A fourth connector introduces DC power from the external power supply to the unit.

Features :

- Class "A" Circuitry
- Jensen Transformer
- Discrete Transistor Design
- Single-Sided Amplification
- Lead Free
- Rohs Compliant

The Daking Mic Pre One is available now at a retail price of $850.

Ueberschall has released the Electro Producer Pack, a new Elastik Player-based library of "cutting-edge Club Electro necessities" produced by sound designer and producer Marc Steinmeier. According to them, it includes everything that's needed for a current professional electronic production. All sounds are organized and sorted to fit various genres like: House, Minimal, Trance, HardTechno, Dance or JumpStyle; to name few. To further boost workflow every file is branded with tempo and root key / key signature where applicable. All samples are pre-mapped to enable seamless integration into your DAW of choice. The extreme and lush textures of sound effects, synthesizer sounds and loops where created with both analog and digital hardware synthesizers :

- Analog : Moog Voyager, Studio Electr ...

Sonoris Audio Engineering has just released Sonoris Meter v2.0. With this plugin, you can accurately measure peak and loudness levels of audio signals, at one scale. Besides a regular meter scale the Sonoris Meter supports the K-System, from Bob Katz, mastering engineer and founder of Digido masteringstudio. During the development period of this plugin Bob Katz was very helpful in providing information. The end product closely follows the K-system specifications, including Leq(A) loudness metering and bandlimited pink noise monitor calibration.

The SMTR features an oversampling peakmeter mode. In this mode the SMTR catches intersample peaks that can cause ear fatiguing sound when audio is played on consumer CD players. Many CD players have inferior D/A converters with little headroom th ...

Percussa has released Progressions, a new sound pack for Ableton Live 7 and the AudioCubes. The pack contains an exhaustive collection of progressive house loops, breaks and samples, over 120Mb of content, light pattern preset clips and FX racks.

Progressions has been designed to give the AudioCubes enthusiast some authentic content and some awesome control patches designed specifically to work within Ableton Live.

The included audio loops are in WAV file format, which means the sounds work with most audio software, such as Apple's Logic, Steinberg's Cubase, Sony's ACID Pro, etc.

Progressions is available now and is priced at €14.95.

CME has announced a special edition vibrant pink version of their 49 note U-Key controller keyboard.

Already available in White and Blue, the CME U-Key Mobiletone keyboard has ultra-slim, full-action semi-weighted keys with a built-in, 64-polyphony high-quality sound module, and an internal high-fidelity speaker driven by a digital amplifier. It comes with more than 20 user-defined controllers, including a joystick, trigger pads, an encoder for data entry, and pedals. All controllers are fully-programmable and each function can be easily set up and saved for later loading by pressing certain keys. USB powered and compatible with both Windows XP/Vista and Mac OSX.

According to CME : "The pink U-key will be focus on female customers, no matter she is a professional keyboard player or a music fans, the Pink U-key is fits all needs and the distinguished the color will make her be noticed." Sweet, isn't it ?

Pricing : $209.00 US MSRP