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late November 2001 NEWS = Digidesign ProNet event tomorrow = $pecial deals preview = Parsons Expo summary = Expo slide shows = record trek to Expo = AES/NY Digi event tomorrow ***************** At 7pm tomorrow, Wednesday, November 27, Brian Doser of Digidesign will give a presentation in our Showroom. Featured product will be The Digidesign Production Network (DigiProNet), which offers offers Internet-enabled audio production services for anyone working in music and post production. For details about ProNet, visit http://www.digipronet.com/. $pecial deals preview ***************** We have collected almost a hundred items that we're selling cheap. They are demos, overstocks, etc. All are guaranteed. We'll send a more thorough e-letter about them soon. If you'd like an early look, visit http://www.paudio.com/Pages/buyers_guide_specl_deals.html. First come, first served. Parsons Expo 2001: summary ************************ This year's Expo, on November 14, was an extraordinary success. In recent years, attendance has been high. This year's was almost twice that norm -- about 400 people, we figure. The presentations each drew 75-100 people, and the exhibits were busy from the first minute to the last. Describing the event, a word often used by attendees was "community". Customers, exhibitors, and presenters have become familiar each other over the years. A real sense of community has arisen. The manufacturers' specialists and representatives, for instance, have become increasingly familiar with customers' realities. That helps them to be valuable consultants to the many facilities that trek each year to the Expo. Attendees also enjoy advancing their friendships with each other—swapping tales, experience, and insights. As our pre-Expo hype says, the event truly is enjoyable and valuable to those who come. If you missed this year's, we hope that you will attend the next. It will be held Wednesday, November 13, 2002, from noon until 9pm. Is it too early to mark your calendar? Expo slide shows *************** A number of attendees and non-attendees have asked us to provide access to any Expo presenters' slide shows that can stand (i.e., make sense) by themselves. David Moulton has sent us his on The Loudspeaker As Musical Instrument. We have been able to transfer it to our web site as text. Go to Michael Bierylo's, on Better Living Through Software Synthesis, is available at his web site. Click here. http://www.virtualplanetsounds.com/markworld.html. record trek to Expo **************** This is not audio news. Not at all. The journey that Tom Bates (engineer, producer, and frequent Expo presenter) made in order to get to the Expo, however, is worth describing. Tom takes pride in not having missed any of the eleven Expos. To get to this year's, he had to hurry back from a recording project in Kathmandu, Nepal. En route, he encountered some interesting difficulties. First was a suicide hijacker scare that originated in Pakistan. He found out about it when he arrived at the Kathmandu airport the morning of his flight to Singapore. The hijacking was supposed to occur on one of the three international flights leaving the airport that day, to end with a fiery crash into some unknown target in India. While going through long security delays that morning, Tom figured his odds of surviving his flight at one-in-three. Maybe, for instance, the flight would end in an unscheduled, high-speed stop in the Taj Mahal, whose famously long reverb time would finally meet its end. Finally, the plane took off. The flight transpired without event, aside from unusual alertness on the part of everyone aboard. It's hard to doze off when you know you might sleep through a hijacking that is sure to end in your crunchy demise. Arriving in Singapore, the passengers found intense security applied to everyone. In the confusion, Tom lost all of his remaining air tickets. He dropped them on the floor somewhere the other side of the security fence, he figured. The security guards refused to let him back to look. After much desperate effort, he prevailed upon one of the guards to go look for him. Miraculously, the tickets were there, still on the floor -- quite a relief for Tom. He took off for New York. Many hours later, mid-morning our time (jet lag, anyone?), his plane arrived over New York. There, passengers and crew discovered that the recent plane crash in Queens had occurred just minutes before. All the NY airports were closed indefinitely. His flight had to detour. The detour was to Boston, it turned out, which was his final destination, but the officials wouldn't let anyone debark. There they sat in the plane for 4-1/2 hours. Then the NY airports re-opened, and the plane flew to NY, connecting Tom with a domestic flight to Boston. When he finally arrived home in Boston, wrung out by all of the above, it was the day before the Expo. The journey had taken 36 hours. At the Expo, he looked a bit weary, but reportedly had a fine time. AES/New York ************* AES is coming this weekend. If you would like to meet us there — to talk, or so we can take you around to manufacturers' exhibits — please contact your Parsons salesperson. If you won't be going, but have a mission that we can attend to for you, let us know. For more about AES, visit http://www.aes.org. EXPO2001 Invitation Summer 2001 NEWS *Digidesign events: August 21 & 23 *new products *AES/New York *Expo2001 Digidesign events ************ There's always something new with this most dynamic of DAW manufacturers. We'll have two special Digidesign events in our Showroom this month, with Digi's Brian Doser. RSVP. 1. Pro Tools for Music Production, 3pm onTuesday, August 21. 2. Pro Tools for Post, 3pm on Thursday, August 23. new products ********* As always, we have more new products around than we can describe here. But we'll mention a few. Contour Design makes an inexpensive ($125 List Price) USB multimedia controller called ShuttlePro. It is great for controlling DAWs, sequencers, and for desktop video or multimedia production. See our demo, and/or visit http://www.contourdesign.com/shuttlepro.htm. FMR Audio's RNC1773 stereo compressor has been impressing customers. So have Grace's latest products, including the 101 mono mic pre and the 201 dual channel mic pre. Yamaha. The PM1D digital console is rapidly finding homes in sound reinforcement, remote video production, and broadcast settings. CSP Mobile Productions (Portland, ME) is the first New-England-based facility to take the plunge, but won't be the last. The console is in the <$200k range -- a bargain for what it does. Elsewhere re Yamaha, Martin Dombey (the regional representative) has sent along this summary of product news (further details at http://www.yamaha.com): = DME-32 Digital Mixing Engine (PC programmable audio system for Church, School, A/V, Arena, and commercial applications) = DME Manager CD (Windows 2000 software for setup and design revisions on any DME-32 audio system) = M-2500 Series Professional Audio Mixing Consoles (L-C-R panning & 14 Aux Mixes for Theater, Broadcast production & Concert Sound Reinforcement applications) = M-3000A Series Professional Mixing Consoles (Convertible for both Front-of House and Monitor sound reinforcement applications) = MV12/6 Mixer (Commercial grade, 12 in x 6 out, rack mount) = MV 800 Mixer (Commercial grade, dual zone, 8 mic channels with paging inputs, gates & compressor, 2U rack mount) = CP2000 Power Amplifier (High power / low price, speaker processing onboard for Church, School, Theater applications) = Yamaha TEST DRIVE Program …allows a free three-day trial of our M3000 Series, M2500 Series, or GA Series mixing consoles. AES/New York ********** The next Audio Engineering Society Convention will take place at the Javits Center in New York from September 21 - 24. As usual, our entire staff will be there. We will be happy to meet with you there -- to show you products, to introduce you to manufacturers' specialists, etc. If you won't be there, but have missions we can undertake for you, please contact us. Expo2001 ******* Our annual Expo is getting closer: Wednesday, November 14, at the Wellesley Community Center. We will send you details as the date approaches. If you have specific ideas about what you'd like to see there, please share them with us! * If you'd like to be removed from this mailing list, please reply with _unsubscribe_ written into the Subject field. May 2001 NEWS March 2001 = March 28: Tascam MX-2424 to top of page Copyright 2001, Parsons Audio. We welcome your questions, comments, and contributions >>> Webmeister@paudio.com. |
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