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McDSP offers customers a limited time bundle for the months of November and December – the Winter Special bundle. The Winter Special HD bundle will be offered for $1695 and the Winter Special Native bundle will be offered for $895.

This bundle includes Analog Channel, Chrome Tone, CompressorBank, DE555, FilterBank, ML4000 and Revolver.

On top of that, McDSP continues to celebrate its 10 year Anniversary by extending its special on the HD and Native Classic Pack Bundle. Classic Pack HD will be offered for $995 and Classic Pack Native will be offered for $495. The Classic Pack Bundle includes Analog Channel, CompressorBank, FilterBank and MC2000.

The McDSP HD line supports TDM, RTAS and AudioSuite formats and the Native line supports RTAS and Audiosuite formats. Both versions of the Winter Special bundle operate on Pro Tools HD, LE and M-Powered. Special available only via electronic delivery.

VOX Amplification announces the availability of JamVOX. an integrated monitor and software system that extracts the guitar from any MP3 and plugs you into the mix of your favorite bands.

JamVOX gives guitarists instant access to dozens of legendary amps and effects all in one easy to use "drag and drop" software interface. Revolutionary Guitar XTracktion (GXT) technology lets you remove the guitar part of your favorite song with the push of a button. Best of all, you can then take the lead yourself with instant rock star tone! Alternatively, you can extract or isolate the guitar part, slow down the tempo, and practice any style of music without changing the pitch.

Features :

- Revolutionary new GXT (Guitar XTracktion) function lets you cancel or extract the guitar part of an existing song.
- 19 famous guitar amps and 54 effect units ranging from vintage to modern are provided as software.
- Easy-to-use "drag and drop" interface enables guitarists to create their "dream guitar rig" without any advanced knowledge of amps or effects. Sound famous fast!
- A music player feature with convenient functions for jam sessions or practice.
- Import music files to jam along with from your favorite CDs, music library or MP3 player.
- A dedicated USB monitor speaker is included, and there's no need for complex wiring or specialized knowledge of computer music.
- Two guitar play-along CDs containing 28 famous rock classics.

JamVOX is now available with an MSRP of $340.00.

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 ...