A-DESIGNS AUDIO HAMMER: Hammer is our new two-rackspace, dual-mono tube equalizer. NAMM Booth #6290.
www.adesignsaudio.com

APOGEE ELECTRONICS DUET: The Duet (Mac, $495 MSRP) is a 2-in/2-out, 24-bit/96 kHz, bus-powered FireWire 400 audio interface requiring Mac OS X 10.4.10 and Core Audio. A breakout cable attaches to the back of the Duet and features two unbalanced 1/4-inch TS high-impedance instrument inputs and two 48V phantom-powered balanced XLR inputs. You can configure the XLRs as mic inputs with 75 dB of gain or as line inputs accepting a maximum input level of +20 dBu. The interface also has two 1/4-inch TS monitor outputs for powered speakers. The included Apogee Maestro software makes Duet a flexible control surface for mixing as well as MIDI remote control. Users of Apple Logic Pro, Logic Express, and Soundtrack Pro get the added bonus of control-surface integration. NAMM Booth #6428.
www.apogeedigital.com

APPLIED RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY TUBEFIRE8: This $649 FireWire audio interface has eight Class-A tube mic preamps with balanced XLR and TRS inputs with 70 dB of gain. Eight TRS outputs allow use as either a standalone preamp or front-end for your Mac/PC. Two channels also have hi-Z 1/4-inch instrument inputs and a headphone can monitor any input or the mix streaming from your converter. NAMM Booth #6555.
www.artproaudio.com

EVENTIDE E-CONTROL: Providing real-time control of its H8000 series, H7600, and Eclipse hardware multi-effects processors, Eventide has released E-Control. The plug-in gives new legs to great-sounding outboard gear you may have sitting in your racks by providing multiple parameter control automation, and program change capability within Pro Tools. NAMM Booth #5791.

EVENTIDE H7600: The H7600 is the most powerful Eventide stereo effects processor ever. The 24-bit/96kHz, 8-channel H8000FW is twice the power, plus FireWire. Also featured are Eclipse(tm), DSP4000B+ post-production effects processor and Reverb 2016. For Pro Tools TDM, the Anthology II bundle includes all 15 Eventide plug-ins, featuring its best effects of the past 36 years. New for AES is a TDM control plug-in for the H8000 Series, H7600, and Eclipse. Also, Eventide will demonstrate TimeFactor and ModFactor. NAMM Booth #5791.
www.eventide.com

FOCUSRITE LIQUID4PRE: This 4-channel mic preamp from Focusrite ($3,499.99) marries an analog front-end with dynamic convolution DSP, outputting the sounds of 40 vintage and classic preamps across all four channels. Digitally controlled and remotely controllable over Ethernet via dedicated Liquid4Control software, the unit offers 99 setup memory slots and total recall of every parameter. A Pro Tools TDM/RTAS plug-in allows integrated remote control via Pro Tools and Icon/Venue systems. A harmonic distortion circuit accounts for variance in the vintage originals, while Session Saver—an AGC circuit—intelligently reduces the input level to help avoid critical overs. Every channel has independent controls for highpass filter, phantom power and polarity reverse. AES and ADAT optical digital inputs/outputs are provided as is an optional EtherSound 8-channel card. NAMM Booth #6474.

FOCUSRITE ISA828: Designed to upgrade a DAW or studio's front-end, the ISA828 from Focusrite (www.focusrite.com; $2,999.99) has eight original ISA transformer-based preamps, boasting the same design as the original ISA110 module from Focusrite's Forte console-including the original Lundahl L1538 transformer and custom Zobel network. The two-rackspace unit also features eight line inputs, four instrument inputs and an optional 8-channel 192kHz A/D converter. I/O is on 25-pin D-Type connectors, for easy integration with Pro Tools HD, hard disk recorders and mixing desks. Also standard are variable impedance switches for the preamps along with insert switches and highpass filters on every channel. LED input channel meters with precise meter trim use the same reference points as Digi's HD system and provide clear and accurate input metering, independent of the DAW. NAMM Booth #6474.
www.focusrite.com

MANLEY LABS MANLEY MASTERING INSERT SWITCHER: This unit for high-end mastering allows centralized, hard-wire bypass of up to eight outboard devices, such as analog EQs/compressors/limiters. It has pre/post-level trims in 1/2dB steps, sum/difference matrices, mixing/parallel-path insert or rotary fader, and more. The internal architecture is mostly passive relay switching, and any gain boosting is minimalist: exceptionally clean, quiet, high-current and rarely unbalanced. Left/right signal paths are generally on separate circuit boards to minimize crosstalk. Switches are large EAO push-buttons and Grayhill gold-contact rotaries. NAMM Booth #6280.
www.manleylabs.com

MOOG MUSIC MOOGERFOOGER-FREQBOX: The MF-107 FreqBox is a different effect: The effected sound is not a processed version of your input signal, but the sound of the input signal modulating an internal oscillator. It contains a VCO with continuously variable waveshape. The MF-107 modulates the internal oscillator as follows: hard synched to the input signal and frequency modulated (FM) by the input signal. The VCO frequency can be modulated by an envelope follower. NAMM Booth #6310.
www.moogmusic.com

MUSE RECEPTOR WITH KOMPLETE: Receptor, the ideal platform for running virtual instruments and effects software, just became your complete music solution, with Native Instruments' Komplete 4 software package pre-installed and authorized. It sounds incredible, works with any computer or keyboard and saves time and money, whether you play live or in the studio. Muse Research will also show its Receptor PRO model working with Pro Tools featuring its exclusive UniWire technology. NAMM Booth #5860.
www.museresearch.com

NOVATION NIO 2|4: The nio 2|4 interface has four inputs (XLR mic input, instrument and two RCA line), four RCA outs, MIDI I/O and a low-latency environment, allowing its effects (amp simulator, filters, delay, chorus, phaser, flanger, distortion, EQ, reverb, tremolo and more) to be used in real time. The unit connects to any PC or Mac (OS X) via USB, and features two headphone outs. NAMM Booth #6474.
www.novationmusic.com

PRESONUS ADL 700: The ADL 700 from PreSonus is a single-channel, Class-A tube preamp/compressor/equalizer developed in partnership by Anthony DeMaria and manufactured by PreSonus. This all-discrete, high-voltage Class-A channel strip (preamp/compressor/EQ) is based on the acclaimed ADL 600 two-channel tube preamp. It features instrument, line and microphone inputs with selectable input impedance, high gain and highpass filter. The compressor stage is a discrete FET-based VCA compressor with variable threshold, ratio, attack, release and make-up gain, while the EQ is a discrete, Class-A 4-band parametric EQ with switchable high/low Q. NAMM Booth #6330.
www.presonus.com

SOLID STATE LOGIC X-RACK STEREO COMPRESSOR MODULE: The Stereo Bus Compressor Module, a component for the X-Rack modular rack system, is the first double-width module occupying two X-Rack slots and makes complete mixes sound bigger, with more power, punch and drive. The new module, which is being introduced at AES, delivers the classic tonal characteristic of the G Series Compressor but with the added benefit of the ultrahigh-bandwidth, ultralow-noise SuperAnalogue(tm) circuit design. NAMM Booth #6907.
www.solid-state-logic.com

SPL TRANSDUCER: This analog cabinet/miking simulator replaces the guitar speaker cabinet and mic(s) so the time- and resource-intensive mic processing of this loud source is no longer necessary. Transducer also offers much more sonic flexibility and variety than a single mic/cabinet setup, as it allows varied speaker and mic simulations while retaining accustomed features of individual setups (such as the ability to vary level-dependent loudspeaker characteristics and micdistances). NAMM Booth #1639.

SPL TONELUX TRANSIENT DESIGNER: Tonelux has appointed SPL from Germany to produce Transient Designer modules in the format for the modular Tonelux VRack and the new V8 Rack systems. Unveiled at AES, this new SPL Model 2745 module has independent rotary controls for Sustain, Attack and Output, along with link and bypass switches. NAMM Booth #1639.
www.spl-usa.com

TC ELECTRONIC DIGITAL KONNEKT X32: This digital patchbay, format converter and FireWire audio interface offers integration possibilities with external TC effects. The $1,745 unit features eight AES/EBU channels, eight channels of S/PDIF and Toslink, eight channels of ADAT (up to 96kHz SMUX) and word clock I/O. In addition, the included Integrator plug-in makes other TC hardware effects units act like standard VST/Audio Units plug-ins from within a DAW, with control of routing, levels and latency compensation. NAMM Booth #6840.
www.tcelectronic.com