What else is new at AES?

It's been over three years in the making, but it's finally ready. With great excitement, Louder Than Liftoff and drBill are proud to announce that Silver Bullet - drBill's Stereo Tone-Amp™ is immediately available for order. 

The Silver Bullet is a unique collaborative effort between Louder Than Liftoff and industry veteran, drBill, that marries drBill’s vintage Tone-Amp experimentations with Louder Than Liftoff’s modern design approach and aesthetic. This labor of love offers a first-of-its-kind analog topology and workflow that is designed for, and easily integrated into the modern DAW-based producer, engineer, or composer’s studio. The Silver Bullet was designed to enhance and shape tracks to sound “like a record” during every phase of audio production – from composition to the final mixdown.

The Silver Bullet represents a new, innovative class of hardware designed to infuse missing analog mojo into your digital world. MOJO Amps capturing the vibe of vintage American and British consoles are coupled with a musical results-driven set of tone shaping features. Together they create a Tone-Amp™ capable of handling all mixing, tracking, and microphone preamp duties. Integrated signal routing functionality not only enhances creativity and workflow, but also makes the Silver Bullet a single unit solution for the modern hybrid studio.

This box is extremely effective at introducing desirable analog artifacts ("mojo") into digitally produced mixes without expensive summing solutions, consoles, or never-ending chains of emulation plugins - although it can work alongside and enhance all of them.
"I was always wishing for my DAW to sound as good as my console, however emulation plugins left a bad taste in my mouth, and summing boxes slowed down my workflow. Let’s face it - as great as some DAW features are, the modern DAW lacks musical soul. So we created the Silver Bullet to capture the essence of what mixing through a console brings to the sound”, comments Brad McGowan, lead designer for the Silver Bullet. "As an added bonus, we found it works equally well on IC-based analog consoles too, essentially providing a sonic makeover for those looking to change things up a bit. Throw in the stereo mic preamp with “A” and “N” Mojo modes and you have one hell of a versatile box,” states McGowan.

"The Bullet has brought such elegance, adjustability and what I call “tone management” into my hybrid writing and mixing workflow that it’s revolutionized the way I produce music" states drBill. "Working with Louder Than Liftoff has been a wonderful experience, and our collaboration has produced a product that I could have only dreamed of.”


Principal features:
Tone-Amp™ Analog Mix and Tracking processing modes with dedicated I/O
“A” and “N” cascading MOJO Amp topologies inspired by classic American and British consoles from the 70’s (A, N, A>N, N>A)
Mic Modes allow Silver Bullet to function as a fully featured stereo microphone preamplifier with Polarity Reverse and 48V phantom power
Stereo processing with easily recallable detented pots
Tone Shaping EQ suite: Tight filter, 2-band Baxandall EQ, Vintage mode
“No expense spared” signal path chosen by ears
Transformers by Cinemag and Ed Anderson
ROGUE FIVE discrete op amps (2520 type)
High Resolution Metering


Price:
Direct price: $1999
Early adopter price: $1799 (with coupon code, see blog/Facebook)

Our new Rogue Planet Rewards Program allows participants to receive discounts off the price of the Silver Bullet. Visit www.louderthanliftoff.com/rewards/faq for details.


Available for order now.
First run ships on or before 12/21/15.

Made by tone geeks for tone geeks. Designed and assembled in Silicon Valley, California, USA.


Come see the Silver Bullet at AES next week on the Roll Music Systems and Avenson Audio Booth 455.

Be sure to grab a Silver Bullet handout while you're there...it may have a coupon code on it.




For more information visit: www.louderthanliftoff.com

 Looking forward to hearing this! It sounded great in headphones. It's David Royer's take on the 251.

I'm certainly not new, but I will be at AES. I'll drop by the Bricasti booth a few times to show M7Control and the rest of the time I'll be wandering around talking. Flag me down and say hello if you're in New York.

The NEW Avedis Audio MD-7 MD7 Mic Pre with Line In, DI, and Reamp is NEW @ the AES Show. Great product and is going to fly off the shelves!


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New from Pultec...

The shock mount kicks ass and I think the mic looks pretty sharp. It doesn't look like anything else on the market either.

At AES, Mojave Audio is showcasing the new MA-1000 large diaphragm multi-pattern tube condenser microphone, the first model in the company’s new Signature Series line of products. Designed by Technical Grammy award winning microphone designer David Royer, the MA-1000 features an original new old-stock 5840 tube, a 251-style capsule, and a custom-designed transformer built by Coast Magnetics. Among its notable attributes, the MA-1000 includes a remotely controlled, continuously variable polar pattern selector that is located on microphone’s power supply.
The MA-1000 also offers a switchable 15dB pad that facilitates high SPL recordings with no microphone distortion or preamplifier overload. This is particularly useful for close miking electric guitars. Similarly, the microphone provides a switchable low frequency roll-off designed to reduce the excess low end created by proximity effect, the bass buildup commonly experienced during close miking of vocals and acoustic instruments. The LF roll-off capability is also useful when miking electric guitars where less low-end buildup is desired. The MA-1000 will be available in Q4, 2015.

Pretty sure it is.

oceanwayaudio.com/ two new monitors that they say are highly affordable
(but to who?)but they look cool
also they have a new ribbon mic (with preamp built In) wow

...that's fugly too...

...ribbon mics?...the master is also showing at AES...

When I look at this, I can't feel my face __ _ ___ _ !!