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• Export Distributor of the Year: Independent Audio Receives Award from Sonifex

  November 23, 2022
  

  Sonifex has presented to Independent Audio the Sonifex 2022 Export Distributor of the Year Award. We have been a Sonifex distributor since 1996. Here’s to many more years working together!

• Milab VIP-50 Vintage Microphone

  August 16, 2022
  

  Milab VIP-50 Vintage Microphone: Audio engineer Ryan Kelly tells the story of the most iconic Milab model ever, the Milab VIP-50.

• Milab VIP-60 Female Vocals

  August 9, 2022
  

  Milab VIP-60 Female Vocals: Vocalist Kate Jensen demos the Milab VIP-60 studio microphone. No EQ was added to the recording.

• Milab VIP-60 Male Vocals

  August 2, 2022
  

  Milab VIP-60 Male Vocals: Brooklyn based artist Will Graefe demos the Milab VIP-60 condenser microphone. No EQ was used on any of the microphones. Vocal mic: Milab VIP-60, Guitar mics: 2 x Milab VIP-60.

• Milab VIP-60 Band Recording

  July 26, 2022
  

  Milab VIP-60 band recording: Hello High Water performing their song “Bells”. Recorded entirely with the Milab VIP-60 (and a Milab BDM-01 on kick drum). Vocals: VIP-60, Acoustic guitar: 2 x VIP-60, Guitar amp: VIP-60, Bass amp: VIP-60, Drum OH: 2 x VIP-60, Kick drum: BDM-01. Recorded at Garden Sound Studios by Ryan Kelly of RSK [more]

• NAMM 2022: Milab and Independent Audio

  June 15, 2022
  

  Straight from the NAMM 2022 Show floor, Mattias Strömberg, Milab’s Marketing Director, chats about the legacy of both Milab and Pearl Microphones. Renowned Swedish Audio Engineer and Producer, Ulf Blomberg, shares his thoughts and experiences with Milab microphones.

• Video: How To Remove Clipping Distortion Using CEDAR Studio

  March 25, 2022
  

  CEDAR Audio has released a new video tutorial that demonstrates how to remove clipping distortion with CEDAR Studio and its Declip 2 plugin. Please watch the video:

• New Product: Sonifex AVN-DIO12 Dual Microphone Input to Dante® with Mic Gain Audio Interface

  February 4, 2022
  

  Sonifex is proud to announce the launch of the Sonifex AVN-DIO12 Dual Microphone Input to Dante® with Mic Gain. The Sonifex AVN-DIO12 is a dual microphone input to Dante® converter with adjustable mic gain in the Sonifex DIO range of Dante® input/output devices. It’s effectively 2 x AVN-DIO09 units in a single chassis still offering [more]

• CEDAR Audio wins Engineering Emmy®

  October 14, 2021
  

  13 October 2021: We are delighted to announce that the Television Academy has awarded CEDAR Audio an Engineering Emmy for CEDAR Studio. These awards honour individuals, companies and organisations for developments in broadcast technology. “Engineers, scientists and technologists are a vital part of our industry and are key to the continuing evolution of television,” says [more]

• Independent Audio Receives Award From Sonifex

  August 18, 2021
  

  The Sonifex Distributor of the Year Awards are usually handed out during the IBC show in Amsterdam in September each year. However, due to COVID-19, and the postponement of the show, the 2020-2021 Export Distributor Award was given in person to Fraser Jones, president of Independent Audio, when he recently visited the Sonifex factory. Independent [more]

• New Product: Sonifex AVN-DIO20 Dante to MADI AES3 Audio Interface

  May 28, 2021
  

  Sonifex are pleased to announce the release of the new AVN-DIO20, a MADI and AES3 to Dante bridging device allowing MADI to connect bidirectionally with AoIP, together with 8 stereo channels of AES3. This elegant PoE audio interface provides a simple method of connecting legacy MADI interfaces on SFP and BNC MADI connections, to the Dante AoIP [more]

• Video: CEDAR DNS Two Software Dialogue Noise Suppressor

  March 1, 2021
  

  A huge success within the DNS 2™ hardware unit, the newly developed algorithm in DNS Two has already proved to be the quickest, simplest and most effective dialogue noise suppressor ever developed. In almost all cases, using DNS Two is as simple as switching on LEARN and then adjusting the attenuation to obtain the desired [more]

• Video: Sonifex AVN-DIO10 Dante to SDI Embedder & De-Embedder

  August 11, 2020
  

  Sonifex AVN-DIO10 Dante to SDI Embedder & De-Embedder is a Dante to 3G/HD/SD-SDI Embedder/De-Embedder with PoE (Power over Ethernet) and is the easiest way to connect legacy SDI equipment to a Dante or AES67 Audio-over-IP network. The AVN-DIO10 takes an SDI feed, de-embeds the 16 audio channels and places them on channels 1-16 of the [more]

• Video: Sonifex AVN-DIO Audiophile Dante Interfaces

  August 11, 2020
  

  Sonifex AVN-DIO Audiophile Dante Interfaces are simple plug and play devices that provide a convenient and elegant method of connecting legacy analogue and digital audio equipment to a Dante AoIP (Audio over IP) network. What’s the difference between these units and others? First, the audio quality. Sonifex Ltd is using A/D and D/A circuitry that’s [more]

• New Product: Cedar DNS 8D Dante-Enabled Hardware Dialogue Noise Suppressor

  October 24, 2019
  

  We are delighted to announce the Cedar DNS 8D Dante-Enabled Hardware Dialogue Noise Suppressor – the first CEDAR product with Dante designed specifically for your customers in broadcast and live sound. More than two years in development, this is an important new 8-channel dialogue noise suppressor that has been requested by broadcasters and other DNS [more]

• Thermionic Culture Snow Petrel Mic Pre Will Launch At AES Show The Javits Center In NYC

  October 24, 2019
  

  September 26, 2019 – Portland, Maine. Fraser Jones, President of Independent Audio which is the exclusive U.S. distributor of the Thermionic Culture product range, announced the launch of the Thermionic Culture Snow Petrel Mic Preamp at the AES Show, Javits Center, NYC, from October 16 -18, 2019. The Thermionic Culture Snow Petrel is a two-channel [more]

• CEDAR Cambridge v12 nominated for Resolution Award 2019

  August 7, 2019
  

  5 August 2019: The nominations for the Resolution Awards 2019 have been decided by a panel of industry experts and we’re delighted to find CEDAR Cambridge v12 nominated in the Processor category. CEDAR Cambridge v12 introduces new hardware, a new process module, Unwrap and, according to Resolution reviewer, Bill Lacey, offers “a stunningly redesigned user interface”. Voting [more]

• Mastering Engineer Emily Lazar talks CEDAR Retouch

  May 15, 2019
  

  Emily Lazar talks CEDAR Retouch (14 May 2019): Emily Lazar of The Lodge in New York has been in the news recently as the first female mastering engineer to win a Best Engineered Album Non Classical Grammy which was awarded to her for her work on the album “Colors” by Beck. What’s less well known [more]

• Dennis Gaines of Merging Interviewed at NAB2019

  April 19, 2019
  

  Dennis Gaines of Merging Interviewed at NAB2019 by InBroadcast: In the video, Dennis discusses Merging’s overall product line as well as Anubis – Merging Technologies’ new Audio Interface and Monitor Controller. Be it reference monitors, nearfields, headphones, sources, surround mix, downmix, etc. Anubis gives you that “Mission Control” in a single, compact device that has unrivalled [more]

• New From Merging: Anubis Networked Audio Interface

  April 4, 2019
  

  The new Merging Anubis Networked Audio Interface is a single product with multiple workflows. A Monitor controller that also controls your network. A Music recording hub that allows you to network a whole band or orchestra. A low latency mixer and processor with extraordinary audio quality. From the initial recording through to the final master, there [more]

• Introducing CEDAR Trinity 4 Audio Surveillance System

  March 1, 2019
  

  1 March 2019: CEDAR AUDIO are proud to announce a major upgrade to our CEDAR Trinity multi-user surveillance recorder, processor, transcription and reporting system. CEDAR Trinity 4 offers all of the features needed to monitor, collect and enhance audio in the field or the lab, and the new version greatly extends previous systems with enhancements implemented in [more]

• Review: Thermionic Culture Kite EQ (MusicTech)

  January 16, 2019
  

  The Thermionic Culture Kite EQ has received a glowing review on MusicTech.com: “The Kite is not a conventional equaliser, in the manner of parametric and graphic types. Rather, it’s an enhancer, making good-quality recordings sound even better. It can be used in a more corrective capacity, bringing to life dull or flat-sounding mixes and sub-mixes by adding [more]

• New: Thermionic Culture Kite Valve Stereo EQ

  October 8, 2018
  

  Thermionic Culture is proud to present the new Thermionic Culture Kite Valve Stereo EQ, an all valve stereo Equalizer with Attitude. “We’ve had many requests for a version of our Fat Bustard without the summing facility, keeping the Attitude, eq, and of course the big fat sound. So The Kite was born.” – Vic Keary, M.D. & designer. [more]

• Sonifex AVN-CU2 Commentator Unit with Dante coming in 2019

  October 3, 2018
  

  The Sonifex AVN-CU2 Commentator Unit is a Dante-enabled Commentator Unit for use by up to 2 commentators. Using Dante® AoIP together with 4 wire connections they bridge the gap between old and new technology, allowing the ease of connectivity & functionality of AoIP together with the legacy connections needed to operate with the existing infrastructure [more]

• Video: Using the CEDAR SE 1 Speech Enhancer for Surveillance

  August 6, 2018
  

  Using the CEDAR SE 1 Speech Enhancer for surveillance is a must for Police, security and counter-terrorism forces who require covert audio surveillance systems that are rugged while remaining as small and light as possible. The SE 1 is simple to operate and able to run on batteries as well as mains power so that it [more]

• CEDAR Audio announces CEDAR Studio 8

  August 6, 2018
  

  CEDAR Audio is pleased to announce CEDAR Studio 8, the latest incarnation of the multiple award-winning CEDAR Studio suite of plug-ins, and now more affordable than ever before. Building upon the foundations laid down in CEDAR Studio 7, the new release improves existing capabilities, adds new modules and extends the suite’s compatibility with a wider [more]

• CEDAR Studio is indispensable in post at SnowGhost Music

  June 7, 2018
  

  31 May 2018: A couple of years ago, Brett Allen of SnowGhost Music made us aware of an up-and-coming independent film co-operative that spans the whole of the USA. They had brought him a recent film, A Morning Light, which he liked a lot, but which had numerous problems with the production sound. He told [more]

• Independent Audio Has Moved to 82 Gilman Street, Portland Maine 04102

  September 21, 2017
  

  After 25 years of doing business at 43 Deerfield Road in Portland, Maine, we are delighted to announce that Independent Audio has moved to 82 Gilman Street, Portland ME 04012. We have been bursting at the seams for a few years, and finally bit the bullet and bought this spacious 5,000 square foot commercial facility [more]

• Now Available: Sonifex PC-AD2 PCIe Half Height Sound Card

  May 24, 2017
  

  Sonifex has made an addition to its sound and radio capture cards by introducing the Sonifex PC-AD2 PCIe half height sound card, a dual stereo analogue and digital PCIe card. The PC-AD2 is a dual stereo analogue input/output and dual stereo AES-3 digital input/output sound card in the PCIe half height format. One of the [more]

• Video: Merging Technologies Hapi Now Available In The US

  May 16, 2017
  

  The Merging Technologies HAPI is the son of their Horus. Born from the most flexible and sonically transparent audio interface and providing the same RAVENNA / AES67 connectivity as its father, HAPI is both the perfect primary interface for smaller systems as well as the ultimate accessory for a system using Horus where control room [more]

• Video: Thermionic Culture The Swift EQ Now Available In The US

  May 16, 2017
  

  Thermionic Culture The Swift EQ has combined the best classic e.q. ideas from the USA and the UK plus its own special features to create an all valve 2 Channel Stereo Equalizer (named after Britain’s fastest flying bird) which is quick and easy to use with a very laid out front panel. Frequencies have been [more]

• Video: CEDAR DNS 8 Live Now Available In The US

  May 16, 2017
  

  We are proud to announce the first DNS designed specifically for live use. With eight simultaneous channels of dialogue noise suppression, the CEDAR DNS 8 Live hosts a new DNS algorithm boasting a simplified ‘2-knob’ approach as well as a detailed editing mode that offers more control than any previous dialogue noise suppressor. Nonetheless, it [more]

• Video: Sonifex RB ADDA2 Available From Independent Audio

  April 19, 2017
  

  Sonifex RB ADDA2 available from Independent Audio: The RB-ADDA2 A/D and D/A converter is a 1U rack-mount which produces an AES/EBU, S/PDIF or TOSlink optical level digital audio output from a balanced XLR or unbalanced phono stereo audio input. It also produces a stereo balanced XLR or unbalanced phono output from an incoming AES/EBU, S/PDIF [more]

• Video: CEDAR DNS2 Hardware Dialogue Noise Suppressor On Location

  April 6, 2017
  

  The CEDAR DNS2 Hardware Dialogue Noise Suppressor excels at location recording for live broadcast, documentaries, news and interviews. It eliminates traffic noise, air conditioning, wind, rain, babble and general background noise from audio signals. It will also help to compensate for unfavourable acoustic conditions and poor microphone placement, and will even suppress excessive reverberation. Watch the [more]

• CEDAR DNS 2 wins 2017 Cinema Audio Society Award

  February 27, 2017
  

  CEDAR DNS 2 wins 2017 Cinema Audio Society Award: 21 February 2017: CEDAR Audio is delighted to announce that the CEDAR DNS 2 dialogue noise suppressor has been honoured by the Cinema Audio Society as the Outstanding Product for Production in 2017. CEDAR’s Managing Director, Gordon Reid says, “We are very proud that a CEDAR [more]

• Video: CEDAR DNS 2 Dialog Noise Suppressor at WWE

  February 9, 2017
  

  On a recent trip behind the scenes at the WWE on the road, The WWE audio staff sung the praises of the CEDAR DNS 2 Dialog Noise Suppressor. At every event the team need to produce the clearest audio possible for both the audience at the venue and the tv broadcast. The DNS 2 has [more]

• The CEDAR DNS 2 On Location for Live Broadcast, Documentaries, News and Interviews

  February 9, 2017
  

  8 February 2017 Watch the video: the DNS 2 on location We’ve been asked many times – by live broadcasters, documentary film makers, news reporters and other interviewers – to explain how they can use the CEDAR DNS 2 dialogue noise suppressor on location. There are many answers to this, but we felt that we [more]

• Review of Thermionic Culture The Swift EQ

  July 18, 2016
  

  MusicTech Magazine has published a glowing review of Thermionic Culture The Swift EQ: “The Swift is excellent at shaping the sound of final mixes.” Thermionic Culture has combined the best classic e.q. ideas from the USA and the UK plus its own special features developing The Swift – an all valve 2 Channel Stereo Equalizer (named after Britain’s [more]

• New Product Video: CEDAR DNS 2 Hardware Dialogue Noise Suppressor

  May 31, 2016
  

  In this video taken at the recent NAB show in Las Vegas, Independent Audio president Fraser Jones introduces and demonstrates the new CEDAR DNS 2. The CEDAR DNS 2 is a small, light and portable 2-channel hardware dialogue noise supressor that can be used on location as well as in the studio or edit suite. [more]

• New From Thermionic Culture: The Swift Stereo EQ

  March 2, 2016
  

  PORTLAND, ME – January 22, 2016 – Fraser Jones, president of Independent Audio, exclusive U.S. distributor of the Thermionic Culture product range, announced the launch of the Thermionic Culture Swift Stereo EQ. Jones said, “TC has combined the best classic e.q. ideas from the USA and the UK plus its own special features developing ‘The [more]

• DACS Ltd to demo new Audio Test Lab at 139th AES Convention

  October 22, 2015
  

  DACS Ltd, the UK specialists in sound installation and studio design, will be introducing their intriguing new portable DACS Audio Test Lab at the AES in October. The Test Lab is a professional tool which provides swift but rigorous common fault investigation for studio, installation and live sound engineers. Dr Douglas Doherty, Managing Director of [more]

• Video: Coles Ribbon Microphone Shootout

  June 30, 2014
  

  Coles Electroacoustics has manufactured the superb BBC-designed ribbon microphones in the UK for over 45 years. Originally designed for radio and television broadcast, Coles Ribbon Mics have become one of the primary tools of choice throughout the sound recording industry. Coles has a versatile lineup of ribbon microphones. In this video we examine the tonal [more]

• Pearl Labs Launches new “Priority” Microphone at NAB2013

  April 8, 2013
  

  Portland, Maine – April 2, 2013 – Fraser Jones, president of Independent Audio, exclusive U.S. distributor of Pearl Lab microphones, announced that the new Pearl PRIORITY condenser microphone will be launched at NAB2013 in Las Vegas, Booth C3139, April 8, 2013.” Jones stated “The Pearl Priority is a large membrane condenser microphone with a fixed cardioid pick-up pattern. [more]

• Merging Technologies Ovation Media Server get’s a head of steam

  April 3, 2013
  

  Portland Maine April 1st: The Merging Technologies Ovation Media Server and Sequencer has found a home in many diverse locations but this is one of the more unexpected to date. A narrow gauge railway in Portland, Maine would usually celebrate technology of the past but in this case, Ovation helps to illustrate the history of the areas [more]

• New Products from Thermionic Culture Ltd

  April 11, 2012
  

  Independent Audio is very excited to announce its choice as the new, exclusive US Distributor for award-winning UK manufacturer Thermionic Culture. Thermionics reputation for its valve “tube” based studio processors is world-renowned. Independent Audio feels that the extensive range of processors – the Culture Vulture 2 channel distortion/enhancer, the Rooster 2 channel mic pre with [more]

• Introducing Merging Technologies Horus 24-Channel A/D/A Converter

  January 13, 2012
  

  The Merging Technologies Horus might be one of the worlds most sonically transparent Mic Pre’s. Horus might also be one of the most phenomenal AD/DA boxes on the market. Horus could very well be the ultimate answer to anyone wanting Analogue/AES/MADI interconnectivity in the room they work in. It is a revolution in “bang for [more]

• Video: Merging Technologies Horus 24-Channel A/D/A Converter

  November 20, 2011
  

  Live from AES 2011, Dennis Gaines from Merging Technologies introduces the Merging Technologies Horus: a new 24 channel AD/DA converter. Horus connects to Pyramix workstations over Ravenna, an IP-based audio transport. Horus might be one of the worlds most sonically transparent Mic Pre’s. Horus might also be one of the most phenomenal AD/DA boxes on [more]

• Video: Bob Ludwig Talks Pyramix

  September 9, 2011
  

  In a recent interview, Mastering guru Bob Ludwig talks about the Merging Technologies Pyramix digital audio workstation and how it fits in the workflow at Gateway Mastering in Portland ME. A new era now begins for PyramixTM with our latest technological breakthrough called MassCoreTM. MassCoreTM is a new and incredibly powerful real-time engine for Pyramix [more]