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December 2009 Edition

All of us here at Sonic Studio wish you a safe, joyous and memorable Holiday Season as well as a healthy and prosperous 2010!

In this communiqué:

- Sonic Studio Software Users Get Grammy Noms
- New Pricing On Sonic Studio Series 300™ Hardware
- Sonic Studio Software Users Featured In Mix Magazine

- Sonic Studio Customer Support Portal
- Sonic Studio Product Rentals
- Support for OS 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Find A Dealer Or Buy Online at www.sonicstudio.com

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- Sonic Studio Software Users Get Grammy Noms ::

Sonic Studio tips our virtual hat to the following mastering engineers who, to their compliment, have received a nomination for a Grammy® Award!

Best of luck to each of you!


Airshow Mastering
David Glasser
Boulder CO

Charlie Pilzer
Takoma Park, MD

 


Best Zydeco or Cajun Album
Alligator Purse
Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet
Mastered by
David Glasser

Best Native American Album
Riders Of The Healing Road
Johnny Whitehorse

Mastered by
David Glasser


Best New
Age Album
In A Dream
Peter Kater, Dominic Miller, Kenny Loggins & Jaques Morelenbaum
Mastered by
David Glasser


Best Traditional
Folk Album

Singing Through The Hard Times: A Tribute To Utah Phillips
(Various Artists)
Mastered by
Charlie Pilzer


Best Tejano Album
Borders Y Bailes
Los Texmaniacs
Mastered by
Charlie Pilzer


Best Southern, Country, or Bluegrass Gospel Album
In God's Time
Barry Scott & Second Wind
Mastered by
David Glasser
 


Best Musical Album for Children
Banjo To Beatbox
Cathy & Marcy With Special Guest Christylez Bacon
Mastered by
Charlie Pilzer

 

Independent Mastering
Don Cobb
Eric Conn
Nashville, TN

Best Americana Album
Willie And The Wheel: Willie Nelson
and Asleep at The Wheel


Stephen Marsh Mastering
Stephen Marsh
Hollywood CA


Best Pop/Contemporary
Gospel Album

The Long Fall Back To Earth
Jars of Clay
Mastering Engineer
Stephen Marsh


Classic Master

Carlos Freitas
Sao Paulo, Brasil


Latin Grammy Home Page


Producción
Mejor Ingeniería de Grabación
Telecoteco
Mastering Engineer
Carlos Freitas

Support these fine artists and purchase a song or an entire album from them.

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New Pricing On Sonic Studio Series 300 Hardware ::

Model 305 ::
$5,995.00* Americas
$6,345.00
Europe

The Model 305 is the Sonic Studio-branded ULN-8 that includes Sonic Console control software (with soundBlade templates) plus Sonic EQ. It builds on the already massive capabilities of the Model 304(below) with the addition of eight transformerless or custom Jensen transformer–coupled microphone preamplifiers. This gives you a complete, 8 channel location recording package equally at home for post production in your studio.

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Model 304
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$5,195.00 USD* Americas
$5,495.00 Europe

The Model 304 is the Sonic Studio-branded ULN-8 without microphone preamplifiers that includes Sonic Console control (with soundBlade templates) software plus Sonic EQ. It provides a 16 in/18 out FireWire interface for soundBlade and all Core Audio applications. As with the 303, eight channels of bidirectional 192 kHz AES/EBU I/O are complemented by SMPTE/EBU LTC I/O plus massive hardware DSP. For multichannel work or when you need to effect your signal via either analog or AES/EBU outboard gear, the Model 304 affords the highest fidelity with amazing versatility at a very reasonable price.

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Model 303

$3,195.00 USD* Americas
$3,495.00 Europe

The Model 303 provides an 8 channel AES/EBU FireWire interface for soundBlade and all Core Audio applications. Eight channels of bidirectional 192 kHz AES/EBU I/O are complemented by SMPTE/EBU LTC reading and generating plus massive hardware DSP. For multichannel work or when you need to effect your signal via AES/EBU-only outboard gear, the Model 303 is a versatile choice.


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Model 302 Stereo DAC/ADC/AES ::

$2,695.00 USD* Americas
$2,995.00 Europe

The Model 302 is the Sonic Studio-branded ULN-2 + 2d Card + DSP License that includes Sonic Console control software (with soundBlade templates) plus Sonic EQ. It provides a 4 in/6 out, completely portable interface for soundBlade and all Core Audio applications. With 2 channels of bidirectional, 96 kHz AES/EBU I/O plus hardware DSP, the Model 302 includes line level analog, and low noise headphone monitoring. The Model 302 is a small, lightweight maximum machine for stereo work on the go or, in the studio.

*U.S.A. pricing. Pricing will be different in other regions.

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- Sonic Studio Software Users Featured In Mix Magazine ::

The December 2009 issue of Mix Magazine features a series on Mastering: 'Fix It In The Master'. Most of the mastering engineers highlighted in those articles are Sonic Studio software users, including the cover shot of Michael Romanowski's beautiful mastering suite with soundBlade featured in the center of the shot.

Featured users include:

Michael Romanowski Mastering On The Cover section
 Terra Nova Mastering Sessions section
ACMastering Project Studio section
Airshow Mastering New Mastering Studios section
– Universal Mastering L. A. Grapevine section
Independent Mastering Nashville Skyline section
– Stephen Marsh Mastering Track Sheet section
– Gavin Lurssen Another Gray Area article

Behind every good mastering engineer stands good software. Notice what's on the computer screen behind most of the engineers spotlighted in this issue and you will notice one similarity: Sonic Studio software.

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– Sonic Studio Customer Support Portal ::

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Sonic Studio has launched a new Customer Support Portal on our web site. This portal updates our customer support request interface with a new form that's easy to complete and submit.

To submit a new support ticket please visit:
http://www.sonicstudio.com/support/support.html

We would encourage our users to take advantage of this method of reporting issues with our software.


– Sonic Studio Product Rentals ::

Do you need to clean up a recording, but don't have our NoNOISE™ or reNOVAtor™ option on your soundBlade system or have our FixIt™ product on your PreMaster CD system?

You can now rent options for your existing system on a time-limited basis or rent to own an entire customized workstation from Sonic Studio. Rates are reasonable and rentals apply toward purchase.

Contact us at sales@sonicstudio.com for a complete price list. Also, Sonic Studio Europe has all rental prices online in USD, EUR and GBP

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– Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) Update ::
soundBlade 1.3.5, PreMaster CD 3.1.2, secureDDP and all other Sonic Studio Mac OS applications are approved for use on Apple's new operating system, Snow Leopard.

At this time, Series 300 Hardware using Sonic Console is not supported running Mac OS 10.6. Sonic Console with support for 10.6 is in testing. If you need to use Snow Leopard (for example, it came with your new Mac ) please contact support@sonicstudio.com.

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