Forget friends. Your family will forgive you. If you’re thinking about a Christmas present for yourself, it might be worth taking a gander over here.

You can pick up McDSP’s Analog Channel Native plug-in at a reduced rate until the end of December.

Here’s what they have to say.

Analog Channel Native emulates the sounds of high-end analog tape machines, tape, and channel amplifiers.

Analog Channel is 2 plug-ins:

* AC1 – Emulates analog channel amplifier circuits
* AC2 – Emulates analog tape machines

Both in mono and stereo versions.

Analog Channel Native v3.1 is
RTAS and Audiosuite
Mac OSX & Win XP

This from UK Light and Sound

Since its Frankfurt launch earlier this year, the Trantec S5 UHF wireless microphone system has seen some constructive new updates, and is now shipping from its London headquarters. The system is available in two formats, allowing the customer to take advantage of the two price points on offer.

I might come under fire for even bringing this up, but I’d be interested to hear from people who’ve tried these MUJI Cardboard Speakers.

“These Lightweight, collapsible speakers are portable and can be folded away and placed in the included pouch when not in use. Plug them into your personal stereo’s headphone jack to enjoy quality sound.”

Novel, yes. Quality? I doubt they were in the running for this:

The Stereophile ‘Products of 2007′.

I’ll summarize, but you can go and read the piece in full here

2007 Joint Loudspeakers

Dynaudio Confidence C4
Wilson Audio Specialties WATT/Puppy 8

2007 Accessory

RealTraps MondoTraps

2007 Budget Product of the Year

PSB Alpha B1 loudspeaker

2007 Product of the year

Ayre Acoustics MX-R monoblock power amplifier

I hope this is of some use to somebody somewhere.

The world’s largest international trade show for consumer technologies have announced plans for a more Green Friendly ethos for their 2008 outing.

“We will do so by reducing energy consumption, increasing our recycling efforts, improving efficiency where possible, and making strides toward offsetting our unavoidable emissions. “ Says CEO Gary Shapiro of Consumer Electronics Assosiation.

You can read the article in full here

Unfortunately it seems to be the case that if you say ‘Carbon footprint’ and ‘Offsetting’ a lot, then it entitles you to a lot of publicity and a holier than thou attitude.

But I’ll leave that kind of reporting to GREENBANG