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DW Collector’s Series Private Reserve
Exotics
Drum Workshop (DW) is now shipping its Collector’s Series Private
Reserve Exotics, which are hand-crafted at DW’s California custom
shop.
John Good, DW’s drum designer, traveled the world to handcurate
a collection of select wood species that can be ordered as
exotic finishes over available DW shell configurations. Included in the
2020 collection is tortoise shell pommele, moabi, horizontal padouk,
vertical padouk, super maple curl, African chechen, and monkey pod.
Each Exotic can be custom ordered in hand-sprayed polyester gloss
lacquer or matte finish hard satin lacquer. In addition, they can be
combined with a wide array of bursts, fades, and transparent lacquers
to create a one-of-a-kind look.
Every Collector’s Series kit is crafted using a host of available grain
orientation lay-ups and patented manufacturing techniques such as
Cool Tempered Shells and Timber Matching.
For more information, contact Drum Workshop: 805-485-6999,
[email protected], www.dwdrums.com.
DW COLLECTOR’S SERIES
AFRICAN CHENCHEN FINISH
Make Noise 0-CTRL Controller & Step
Sequencer
Make Noise has released the 0-CTRL patchable, clockable controller
and step sequencer for voltage-controlled synthesizer systems.
The 0-CTRL is designed to be “patch pals” with the 0-Coast. It is a tabletop
device with inputs and outputs that follow Eurorack standards,
making it a good partner for a modular system or another patchable
tabletop synth. It is fully analog and patch programmable with no
menus or modes. Users can sequence and control the pitch, strength,
and time of their synthesizer voice, per step. Other features include
voltage control over stop and direction, dynamic reset, and pressure
and touch gate outputs for human-generated events and expression.
For more information, contact Make Noise:
[email protected], www.makenoisemusic.com.
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Avantone Pro Planar Reference-
Grade Headphones
Avantone Pro has released the Planar reference-grade open-back
headphones. They’re designed to provide the comfort and sonic
detail needed by musicians and engineers for long studio sessions,
though can also be used by podcasters, live-streamers, and hi-fi
enthusiasts.
The headphones feature Avantone Pro’s planar drivers, which
were introduced in the MP-1 Mixphones. The new drivers improve
accuracy, high-end detail, clarity, natural bass, and response time.
Traditional moving coil drivers use a magnetic field to push/pull the
driver in one direction and rely on the surround’s elasticity to return
the driver to the neutral position. Planar drivers utilize a technology
that mixes principles between dynamic and electrostatic drivers —
they are constructed by a precise array of magnets that are evenly
spaced across both sides of a thin, electrically-active diaphragm. The
company says that due to the nature of this magnetic field’s precision,
force applied to the membrane is distributed in a symmetric
fashion, which produces a signal with very little harmonic distortion
and faster response times. And because planars use front and rear
magnets to apply equal force in both directions, there is less weight
applied to the driver material, which results in a more natural sound
with less distortion. As well, the open-back design, combined with
a finely-tuned chamber, results in a very flat-frequency environment,
without the typical pressure build-up, acoustic resonance, and
frequency curve of closed-back headphones.
For more information, contact Yorkville Sound: 905-837-8777,
[email protected], www.yorkville.com.