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1 week ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
New York, NY (May 8, 2025)—The newest product introduction from AEA is a bit of a surprise: It’s a VCA compressor, the first from AEA. The AEA 1029 is a compact (1RU, half-rack width), two-channel VCA compressor employing a combination of VCAs configured in a feed-forward topology, Fred Forssell discrete op-amps featuring a complementary pair of new old stock Toshiba JFETs, and ultra-low-noise, low-distortion op-amps.
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2 weeks ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
Recently introduced from the folks at RF Venue is the CP Stage Antenna, a rugged, IP-rated, high-performance antenna intended for use with wireless microphones and IEM systems. The CP Stage can be operated in the UHF range between 470 and 928 MHz, covering 470 to 698 MHz in North America, 823 to 832 and 863 to 865 MHz in Europe, and the 902 to 928 MHz ISM band.
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2 weeks ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
A month or two back, the Recording Industry Association of America released its year-end revenue report on music sales in the United States for 2024.
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1 month ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
New York, NY (April 11, 2025)—Continuing its collaboration with Yamaha, Waves has released the WSG-PY64 I/O card for the DM7 Series of digital mixing consoles. The WSG-PY64 enables Waves plug-ins to be integrated with Yamaha DM7 mixers, supporting 64 channels at sample rates from 44.1 to 96 kHz with ultra-low latency (0.8 mS), while allowing parallel recording, or playback and processing.
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1 month ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
File this one under “we almost didn’t make the gig.” Here’s the setup…On Thursday, March 27, we had a show at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee. The following day we’d be at the Robins Theatre in Warren, Ohio, which is about an hour from Cleveland. Flying from Milwaukee to Cleveland sounds simple, but the reality is that you can’t fly nonstop, and even with a connection, we’d arrive in Cleveland way too late for a show day.
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1 month ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
New York, NY (March 28, 2025)—PK Sound has announced the release of the Tx Series of intelligent point-source loudspeakers. The first two models in the series are the Tx14 and Tx26, both of which are powered, multipurpose loudspeakers with onboard DSP and network capability.
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1 month ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
Taken from our April, 2025 issue, Steve La Cerra’s deep dive into the Allen & Heath Avantis Solo console is the longest product review in Mix history! Since it runs nearly 5,000 words, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: breaking it up across multiple parts to make it more manageable to read online. Don’t pass up Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4!MIX VERDICT: ALLEN & HEATH AVANTIS SOLO CONSOLETHE TAKEAWAY: “The Allen & Heath Avantis Solo is nothing short of a compact audio beast.
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1 month ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
Taken from our April, 2025 issue, Steve La Cerra’s deep dive into the Allen & Heath Avantis Solo console is the longest product review in Mix history! Since it runs nearly 5,000 words, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: breaking it up across multiple parts to make it more manageable to read online. Don’t pass up Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3!NETWORK CONTROLAllen & Heath offers several free apps to use alongside Avantis: Director, MixPad and OneMix.
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1 month ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
Taken from our April, 2025 issue, Steve La Cerra’s deep dive into the Allen & Heath Avantis Solo console is the longest product review in Mix history! Since it runs nearly 5,000 words, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: breaking it up across multiple parts to make it more manageable to read online. Don’t pass up Part 1 and Part 2!UTILITY VIEWUtility View has five tabs: Status, Memory, Utilities, MIDI and USB Audio.
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1 month ago | 
mixonline.com | Steve La Cerra
Taken from our April, 2025 issue, this deep dive into the Allen & Heath Avantis Solo console is the longest product review in Mix history! Since it runs nearly 5,000 words, we’re doing something we’ve never done before: breaking it up across multiple parts to make it more manageable to read online. Don’t pass up Part 1!IO VIEWThis is where input and output channels are patched to/from the analog I/O jacks, stage boxes, USB or to an Allen & Heath ME monitor system.
