Do you know what Universal Studios and Warner Bros. Studios have in common? (Besides making incredible blockbusters that drive millions to the cinemas and being two of the most important production studios in the galaxy!)
Well, they both have chosen SPL Surround Monitor Controllers for their studios – In case you don’t know, the SPL Surround Monitor Controller (SMC) is a one-point analog volume control and switching matrix for system-independent 5.1 surround and stereo monitoring.
Warner Bros. recently bought 12 SMCs and Universal Studios, LA, acquired 13 SMCs.
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Nicholas Varley grew up in England and studied cello, composition and music theory in Manchester. After a brief period in France he moved to South Africa where he worked as a sound engineer at Sony Records’ Downtown Studios. Nicholas went back to France in 1986 where he started to work as a sound engineer at Studio La Marque Rose in Paris and would later become the main composer at KBP (Paris). After 10 years in this position, he started working as an independent composer. It wouldn’t be too far-flung to call Nicholas Varley a multitalent, considering that he has proved himself an outstanding producer, composer, musician, arranger, and sound engineer.
Nicholas’ versatility is perfectly reflected on his wide variety of compositions. He has composed the soundtracks to Disney’s “Trail of the Panda” and Albert Pereira-Lazaro and Emmanuel Klotz’s “Lascars” (Round Da Way), as well as for online and offline campaigns for brands like L’Oréal, Armani, Armani Diamonds, Cartier, and Arthur en Vrai. He has also worked as music producer for Absolut, Klio Rosco, Lisa Caruso, Tony Parker, Inside Jack, and Anka Badiu.
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We’ve got great news for all of those SPL DrumXchanger fans who have been enjoying the software with great satisfaction for the last weeks, but still missed an option to tweak sample sounds: MoReVoX has just released DRIVEDRUMS SPL DrumXchanger Edition!
MoReVoX DRIVEDRUMS is a drum sample library developed in order to add drum samples from subtle to aggressive distortion. The character of each distortion depends on the gear used to create it, which include tubes, analog tapes and preamps. All samples were tested and optimized for retriggering and stand-alone use.
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We’ve got great news for all you mastering engineers (and everybody else) out there… Recording,org is giving away one of our brand new M/S Master processors!! Yes, you read that right… Our friends at Recording.org are giving away (for free!!) one of our new powerful analog tools that can manage M/S signal separation and integrate external processors seamlessly.
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Producer, musician and sound engineer Mirko Schaffer is a well known figure in the German rock scene. He started his career as a musician for the German-American hardrock band Kingdom Come. Ever since he has worked in the field of music production and sound engineering for artists such as Die Ärzte, Farin Urlaub, Xavier Naidoo, Ray Garvey (Reamonn), and Andru Donalds, just to name a few. As a composer, he is also responsible for the first – and so far the only – platinum soundtrack to a German movie “KeinOhrhasen” and its successor “ZweiOhrKüken”. The latter reached Gold status.
Mirko tried SPL’s latest and hottest software DrumXchanger in one of his current mixing projects and came back to us pretty excited with the following comments:
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What a Messe this year! Our warmest thanks and congratulations to all those working day and night to make it possible! You rock!! 
Were you one of the 110,000 lucky visitors at the Musikmesse and Prolight + Sound this year? If you weren’t you probably know by now that you should have been there!
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Producer, drummer and instrument library developer Chris Marr is the man behind the sound of SPL’s brand new DrumXchanger. He has produced the “SPL Surrounded by Drums” DVD and, among other things, some sample libraries for Yamaha, Technics as well as ddrum3 and 4.
We asked Chris how he recorded the samples for DrumXchanger: “I played the drums myself. Every drum part was recorded with four microphones through two Channel Ones and two Track Ones. Additionally, I inserted a Transient Designer in every channel. The overhead signals were recorded and pre-amplified with a GoldMike MK2 with two Transient Designer. Ambience Close and Ambiense Far were also captured with a Transient Designer looped into each channel.”
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Were you at the Messe this year? We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did…
Did you like our DrumXchanger? We know you did… 
Would you like to give it a try? We knew you would…
That’s why we’ve made the beta version available as a free download for you to try and, if you want, tell us what you think about it.
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We are pleased to announce the Transpressor, a new dynamic processing tool that surpasses the limitations of common compressors – no, we are not bluffing.
The Transpressor is the first processor that combines the two most important dynamic processing techniques: level-independent compression and treatment of transients. By blending these techniques in a single path, we aim to void the limitations each processor presented on its own.
Transient Designer
A transient can be defined as the first impulse of a waveform. What the Transient Designer does is shape the waveform according to the transient, and it only needs two controls to achieve that, either by amplifying or attenuating the attack and/or sustain. View Full Article »
Guillemots FOH engineer, Jonny “Turbo” Lucas, had a problem many engineers who mix double bass live face: getting a warm, full sound without feedback was becoming a nightmare.
Who do you think Jonny turned to to solve the problem? You got that right! He actually asked if we could deliver a modified version of the SPL GoldMike MK2. And we did.
“We use double bass on stage which is inherently hard anyway. We had found some great pick ups from a company in Canada (magnetic Biesle System) and a Barcus Berry piezo. But the problem was that the pick-ups sounded OK, but required batteries which is never a great way of working. View Full Article »
