American Music & Sound (AM&S) has been appointed USA distributor for beyerdynamic Pro Audio Products including the company’s vast offering of wired and wireless microphones, headphones, and broadcast related products, effective January 1, 2010.

“This is a momentous occasion for AM&S,” comments Lynn Martin, President of American Music & Sound. “With more than 85 years experience manufacturing the world’s best microphones and pro audio products, beyerdynamic is an incredible fit with our other live sound product lines, and we are looking forward to expanding their penetration in the US. Together with beyerdynamic, we are now able to offer the finest transducer-to-transducer live sound solutions in the United States.”

Additionally, Paul Froula has been appointed National Sales Manager for American Music & Sound. Froula, an industry veteran, has managed various beyerdynamic business units for a decade. “This union offers tremendous synergy with the AM&S portfolio of brands. The ability to offer the market with end to end solutions will provide the next level development for the beyerdynamic brand. We continue to extend our reach into the market and look forward to this partnership with AM&S”

For more information about beyerdynamic, please visit http://www.beyerdynamic-usa.com

American Music & Sound (AM&S) is a leading independent US distributor of Pro Audio, Musical Instruments, and Music Creation Products from the world’s finest manufacturers including Allen & Heath, beyerdynamic, Focusrite, Fostex, NetCIRA, Hagstrom Guitars, Jay Turser Guitars, Kurzweil Keyboards, Mano Percussion, Ministar Guitars, Nord Keyboards, Novation Keyboards, Phonic, Profile Stands & Tuners, Quik Lok Performance Structures, Studiologic Keyboards, Turbosound, Vestax, Walden Guitars, and Wharfedale Pro.

Tech Producer DSP goes over 16 Gigabytes

Cluster Sound launches a massive upgrade for Tech Producer DSP that now goes over 16 Gigabytes. Registered users can download the new section Drum Rack section expressly dedicated to Live users and two Xpander Packs (Induster & Downclock). The free libraries in detail:

CS Dracks – Drum Rack Section
CS – DRACKS is a massive upgrade for Ableton users and consists of 4.360 Drum Racks clips & devices. The Drum Racks are obtained by converting the REX2 loops included in your Tech Producer DSP and allow Live users to benefit of slicing technique.

Induster – Xpander Pack 05
Induster is an electro industrial loop library, specifically designed for incisive downtempo productions. Electro-fi your tracks with the infusion of glitchy breaks, digital synths, agressive and disjointed ryhthms, modular hi-frequencies microbeats and much more. This powerful download collection consists of 170 worldclass quality WAV loops, 170 REX and 340 Ableton Live devices and Drum Racks.

Downclock – Xpander Pack 06
Concrete machine sounds, vocodized beats, glitches and blips, crispy noises, distorted low frequencies. Downclock is an industial loop library with a minimal mechanic flavour and consists of 190 worldclass quality WAV loops, 190 REX and 380 Ableton Live devices and Drum Racks. These punchy and terse loops are built around puzzle structures that will allow you to create customized rhythms in few steps, the sliced versions (REX – Live DRacks) guarantee you easy manipulation and re-structuring.

For more information, visit their web site at www.clustersound.com

Meet Neokitsch.humtoo.com in his North London studio, complete with handmade synth, Omnichord o300 and Theremin.

HUMCAST is HUMTOO’s Video Podcast series featuring musicians from their online community.

Bring the magic of the Middle East to your desktop with these enchanting and mysterious Arabian breaks. This spectacular loop pack contains fully mixed cuts of music that feature traditional instruments, melodies and rhythms from all over the Middle East. We’ve got entire orchestral arrangements, darbuka drum solos, oud, zither, quabub, buzuk, tabla, dombak, kamanja (Arab fiddle), vocal acrobatics and lots more.

These authentic breaks include sounds from Syria, Baghdad, Morocco, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern locations that boast some of the most spellbinding music in the world. With 152 loops and 18 one shot samples Arabian Breaks V1 offers you a wealth of inspiration whether you’re a hip hop producer or a singer songwriter.

We worked hard to secure licensing deals with one of the world’s leading publishers of Ethnic music so you can expect to see more impressive titles in this category. Let Arabian Breaks V1 add an exciting new dimension to your recordings with exotic sounds from ancient cultures. Tempos range from 82 to 158 bpm. All samples are mixed and mastered edits with no single instruments. Multi track Mix elements are not available.

Go to their website to order and download right away.

HUMTOO is a free online music marketplace and user-generated production music library.

Recently, a new project was posted on the site looking for music. It’s a 2 minute brand film looking for a rock track, worth £750. It’s free to pitch your join HUMTOO and to pitch your music for projects on the site.

HUMTOO is also looking for talented musicians to write for it’s user-generated production music library and various mixtapes.

More information can be found at www.humtoo.com

HUMTOO makes it only about the music.

www.humtoo.com

Yamaha Corp has capitalized on the craft and standard of some of the world best instrument technicians, in order to bring attention to its latest technology.

A service centre in Buena Park, California, is home to an advanced instrument customization technique, which involves cryogenically freezing instruments, and then using fibre optic endoscopes to analyze the inside of woodwind and brass instruments.

The point of this? Well, if successful, could have major implications for the trade, as the services will include overhauling instruments, and designing new ones. If successful, it will surely only be a matter of time until more instruments are incorporated.

More from the LA Times:

Alterations can be as slight as shaving a component by 50-millionths of an inch or as dramatic as plunging a French horn into liquid nitrogen, freezing it at 300 degrees below zero to enhance its sound.

“We [musicians] are always trying new things, searching for the perfect mouthpiece or the perfect instrument,” said Bergeron, a Grammy-nominated studio artist who plays lead trumpet for the musical “Wicked” at the Pantages Theatre.

I’m still relatively new to blogging. I’ve done some blogs on Myspace and suchlike for my band, Vitriol I.D. I only started this blog – my first proper, daily blog – Audio Tech News, two months ago.

So how have I now got a #2 position in Google searches for multiple keywords and phrases? Some might say I’m stupid to share the information, although there is plenty of it out there, free, and on the internet – from people with far more experience and relevance than me.

It’s been beneficial getting help and experience from Greenbang – my brother’s blog.

Most of you have probably followed Courtney Tuttle’s blog; you probably even changed to his brilliant Keyword Sniper theme. I did.

So lets look at some of these key phrases that I’ve been getting hits from.

Not the ACTUAL key phrases, obviously, or I might see some unwelcome competition. Step number one – don’t share all of your secrets. I’m sure Courtney doesn’t.

I can honestly say the biggest part of this success so far has been content-keyword driven.

More to come later this week.

Universal Audio have got two new products out – the Precision Buss Compressor, a dual-VCA-type dynamic processor:

They’ve also teamed up with Sound Performance Lab for the Transient Designer

The Transient Designer has a multitude of studio applications and can be used to solve many types of audio track problems. You can shorten or lengthen the attack and sustain of percussive signals such as kick drum, snare or toms, easily take the bleed from open mics, or expand the room sound of overheads.

Just click on the relevant links above to find out more.

John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd must be ever so ticked off.  This from Sound On Sound

“Early on Monday Nov 5th, a white M.A.N. 7.5 tonne truck with tail lift, reg FN54 FPZ on hire to John Hornby Skewes & Co. Ltd. and containing an HK Audio COHEDRA line array concert and numerous other PA systems, was stolen from the car park at the Innkeepers Lodge, Sheldon, Birmingham.”

Anyone with any information on this theft should contact 0845 1135000, and ask for Stetchford Police Station, quoting crime reference number 20D31517707, or JHS themselves at +44 (0) 113 286 5381.