Published 23/5/08
The news you've all been waiting for...
The line-up of prizes for our massive Dream Studio gear giveaway, which will take place at the inaugural SRT show, part of the London International Music Show, has been confirmed. We've teamed up with 20 pro audio exhibitors to bring you 30 fabulous prizes worth over £20,000 that, together, will equip you with the home studio that's the stuff of dreams.
The prize centres around a super-fast, eight-core Apple Mac Pro with a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display running Logic Studio. Connected to this will be an Apogee Ensemble Firewire audio interface for all A-D and D-A conversion duties. Complementing the ample software suite in Logic are two additional DSP hardware processors: SSL's Duende PCIe, which fits inside the Mac Pro, and TC Electronic's Powercore X8, which connects via Firewire. These will open up even more options when choosing plug-ins.
Giving the winner hands-on control over their mixes will be the Euphonix MC Mix, the latest in control surface technology, while a Roland Fantom G6 will act as the master keyboard and a hardware synth/sound module. Additional data-entry equipment in the form of an Akai MPD32 and an Alesis Control Pad will enable the user to program their beats using MPC-style pads, or using good old-fashioned drum sticks, and a Yamaha Tenori-On — the first in the world to be offered as part of a prize draw — will let the winner sequence grooves using its innovative flashing matrix interface.
A generous handful of microphones are included, with the superb Rode K2 valve mic, SE Electronics' promising new SE4400a, a matched pair of M-Audio Pulsar II small-diaphragm condensers (with the fabulous new Rycote Invision shockmounts keeping them rumble free), the solid all-rounder KSM27 from Shure and the mic that no decent studio is without: the Shure SM57. Mic preampification will be supplied by the new Allen & Heath ZED 22FX compact mixer, which has direct outputs that can be patched straight into the Apogee interface, but also from the TL Audio Ebony A1, a twin-channel preamp and DI device. If you're after even more bespoke mic preamplification, the newly announced SSL Mynx enables further mic preamps to be used. For the guitarists among you, an Emerson Williams Bluestone Pro dummy load and DI box (a limited SRT ’08 edition, no less) will let you get the sound of your amp at full volume without waking the neighbours.
Monitoring for the bundle will be handled by a Presonus Monitor Station feeding a pair of Genelec's 8040 nearfield monitors, which will be perched on Primacoustic's Recoil Stabilisers. Ghost Acoustics' Studio Kit 3 will help tame any nasty room modes and refections, while two pairs of M-Audio Q40 headphones will allow performers to monitor signals from the DAW without sending spill into the mics.
Korg's brilliant DSD recorder, the MR1000, will ensure your audio backups retain the best possible audio quality, while the Edirol R09HR portable recorder will give you the chance to record 24-bit/96kHz audio anywhere at any time. Last, but by no means least, an M-Audio MIDISport 2x2 will let the winner plug any of their existing MIDI equipment into the shiny new rig.
But there's more. The lucky winner of the home studio bundle will get their gear installed by SOS Editor In Chief Paul White and Technical Editor Hugh Robjohns using cables and priceless gadgets supplied by Studiospares, and they'll be featured in Sound On Sound Magazine! To top it off, Alchemea will supply the winner with fully certified Logic Pro training, making sure that they're a whizz on their brand new system.
Important! 1. Entries can only be accepted using the official entry system on the Sound On Sound booth (F10) at the Sound Recording Technology Show, 2008. 2. The winner will be chosen after the show and notified by telephone or email. 3. Only one entry per person is permitted. 4. All prize winners must have suitable premises for the studio installation and agree to make themselves and their studio space available for the installation of the equipment on a mutually agreed date before 1st December 2008. All prize winners further agree to allow coverage of their studio installation to appear in Sound On Sound magazine and the web sites of contributing companies. All prizes shall remain the property of the prize draw organisers until these terms have been fulfilled. 5. By entering the prize draw, entrants agree for the details they submit to be passed on to contributing companies. 6. Employees of SOS Publications Ltd and their immediate families, and employees of companies contributing to the prize are ineligible for entry. 7. No cash alternative is available in lieu of the stated prize. 8. The organisers reserve the right to change the specification of the prize offered. 9. The judges’ decision is final and legally binding, and no correspondence will be entered into.
The line-up of prizes for our massive Dream Studio gear giveaway, which will take place at the inaugural SRT show, part of the London International Music Show, has been confirmed. We've teamed up with 20 pro audio exhibitors to bring you 30 fabulous prizes worth over £20,000 that, together, will equip you with the home studio that's the stuff of dreams.
The prize centres around a super-fast, eight-core Apple Mac Pro with a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display running Logic Studio. Connected to this will be an Apogee Ensemble Firewire audio interface for all A-D and D-A conversion duties. Complementing the ample software suite in Logic are two additional DSP hardware processors: SSL's Duende PCIe, which fits inside the Mac Pro, and TC Electronic's Powercore X8, which connects via Firewire. These will open up even more options when choosing plug-ins.
Giving the winner hands-on control over their mixes will be the Euphonix MC Mix, the latest in control surface technology, while a Roland Fantom G6 will act as the master keyboard and a hardware synth/sound module. Additional data-entry equipment in the form of an Akai MPD32 and an Alesis Control Pad will enable the user to program their beats using MPC-style pads, or using good old-fashioned drum sticks, and a Yamaha Tenori-On — the first in the world to be offered as part of a prize draw — will let the winner sequence grooves using its innovative flashing matrix interface.
A generous handful of microphones are included, with the superb Rode K2 valve mic, SE Electronics' promising new SE4400a, a matched pair of M-Audio Pulsar II small-diaphragm condensers (with the fabulous new Rycote Invision shockmounts keeping them rumble free), the solid all-rounder KSM27 from Shure and the mic that no decent studio is without: the Shure SM57. Mic preampification will be supplied by the new Allen & Heath ZED 22FX compact mixer, which has direct outputs that can be patched straight into the Apogee interface, but also from the TL Audio Ebony A1, a twin-channel preamp and DI device. If you're after even more bespoke mic preamplification, the newly announced SSL Mynx enables further mic preamps to be used. For the guitarists among you, an Emerson Williams Bluestone Pro dummy load and DI box (a limited SRT ’08 edition, no less) will let you get the sound of your amp at full volume without waking the neighbours.
Monitoring for the bundle will be handled by a Presonus Monitor Station feeding a pair of Genelec's 8040 nearfield monitors, which will be perched on Primacoustic's Recoil Stabilisers. Ghost Acoustics' Studio Kit 3 will help tame any nasty room modes and refections, while two pairs of M-Audio Q40 headphones will allow performers to monitor signals from the DAW without sending spill into the mics.
Korg's brilliant DSD recorder, the MR1000, will ensure your audio backups retain the best possible audio quality, while the Edirol R09HR portable recorder will give you the chance to record 24-bit/96kHz audio anywhere at any time. Last, but by no means least, an M-Audio MIDISport 2x2 will let the winner plug any of their existing MIDI equipment into the shiny new rig.
But there's more. The lucky winner of the home studio bundle will get their gear installed by SOS Editor In Chief Paul White and Technical Editor Hugh Robjohns using cables and priceless gadgets supplied by Studiospares, and they'll be featured in Sound On Sound Magazine! To top it off, Alchemea will supply the winner with fully certified Logic Pro training, making sure that they're a whizz on their brand new system.
Important! 1. Entries can only be accepted using the official entry system on the Sound On Sound booth (F10) at the Sound Recording Technology Show, 2008. 2. The winner will be chosen after the show and notified by telephone or email. 3. Only one entry per person is permitted. 4. All prize winners must have suitable premises for the studio installation and agree to make themselves and their studio space available for the installation of the equipment on a mutually agreed date before 1st December 2008. All prize winners further agree to allow coverage of their studio installation to appear in Sound On Sound magazine and the web sites of contributing companies. All prizes shall remain the property of the prize draw organisers until these terms have been fulfilled. 5. By entering the prize draw, entrants agree for the details they submit to be passed on to contributing companies. 6. Employees of SOS Publications Ltd and their immediate families, and employees of companies contributing to the prize are ineligible for entry. 7. No cash alternative is available in lieu of the stated prize. 8. The organisers reserve the right to change the specification of the prize offered. 9. The judges’ decision is final and legally binding, and no correspondence will be entered into.
