New Gear

Allen & Heath's iLive Mixpad, an iPad app, connects to an iLive MixRack on a wireless network and provides the essential controls for live mixing, including channel faders and mutes, DCA faders and mutes, image controls, aux sends, channel processing, mic-pre control and full metering.

Presonus' system is not gonna be on big tours with just 24 channels (for now at least) and 10 auxes, but they really upped the ante in iPad control with this free app that just felt great. Not a compromise we could find. Full control, and it takes full advantage of all of the iPad's capabilities, including seamless multi-touch and the ability to draw in an curve on a graphic EQ. Overview displays channel levels, mutes, panning, EQ curves, and more for multiple channels at once. Click for a closeup view of Fat Channel processing. Navigate between gate, compressor, EQ, etc., with the flick of a fingertip.

Lab X Technologies' Titanium 411 1GB AVB Ethernet Switch supports IEEE 802.1 Audio Video Bridging standards, handling hundreds of AV media streams per AVB port.

Juice Goose announces introduction of seven power distribution models in the XP product series. Four models can be mounted in a conventional 19-inch horizontal configuration or mounted vertically on the inside wall of a rack in a "zero U" configuration.

XTA's new DP548 Dynamic Audio Processor starts with the specs of a standard DP448, including a 28-band EQ, eight parametric EQs and delay on every input; high pass, low pass, nine parametric EQs and delay, plus a combination of two limiters, including the D-Max limiter on each output. To that it adds three bands of Dynamic EQ on every input, a variable knee compressor on every output with full control over ratio, threshold, attack and release times. In addition, the DP548 offers full matrix mixing of any input to any output or mix of outputs and provides memory recallable dynamic EQ via AudioCore.

Cerwin Vega's CVi Passive Portable PA speaker Series promise accurate and clear performance coupled with high-quality low frequency response. Pictured here is the CVi-152 full-range speaker.

Crest Audio's Pro-LITE Series power amplifiers starts with the new Pro-LITE 2.0 and Pro-LITE 2.0 DSP. They are designed to be efficient, light in weight and with high power and stable performance into 2-ohm loads.

Hosa Pro Microphone Cables are made with REAN connectors by Neutrik AG and feature 20 AWG Oxygen-Free Copper (OFC) conductors, conductive PVC to absorb handling noise, a 90% OFC braided shield for effective EMI and RFI rejection and a 6.8 mm outside diameter (OD) jacket for durability.

The NX 15-SMA is equipped with new 700 W digital amplifier and 15-inch coaxial neodymium transducer to combine audio quality and definition with light weight. The NX 15-SMA can also be used as a portable PA system, with a powder coated steel pole mount installed on the side.

Proel's SW Series subwoofers, designed to complement full-range speakers, including the NET and FLASH Series, consists of two new models and an update to the existing FLASH15S, which has been renovated and renamed.