After 20+ years in professional audio: live sound engineering, studio technical direction (Deep Forest, Pierre Jacquot), head of digital marketing at Playback.fr. A first-hand witness to the analog-to-digital shift, I track the whole audio landscape and break it down here — no fluff.
French brand oZoe introduces the Drum Box, a seven-track drum machine that bets everything on direct control: one parameter, one knob, no menus. A WAV sample-playback engine, a 16-step sequencer and modern touches like ratcheting and humanise.
At IBC 2026, Calrec unveils the Type RT, a compact, self-contained broadcast console with 6, 12 or 18 faders and native ST 2110 connectivity, alongside the modular Apex M6 I/O platform. The goal: bring IP broadcast audio to smaller galleries, radio and podcast.
Arturia refreshes its flagship desktop interface. The AudioFuse Studio Rev2 keeps the chassis but reworks its four DiscretePRO preamps and Bluetooth module around 24-bit/192 kHz conversion and a genuine studio-hub feature set. Price: 999 euros / 1,199 dollars.
Intercom is the invisible backbone of a control room and a studio floor. Analog party-line, point-to-point matrix, IFB, IP intercom and wireless beltpacks: here is how the communications of a radio or TV production are organised.
The mic preamp is the first link in any recording, and one of the least understood. Gain and noise, input impedance, transformer or transistor, colour: here is how it actually works and how to set it.
Yorkville refreshes its Paraline range with four compact powered enclosures, two full-range tops and two subs, built around Tom Danley’s Paraline Lens and Synergy Horn. Ground-stacked or flown, IP54-rated, they aim at small and mid-size rooms.
Elektron ships the Outbox 8, a hardware interface that gives most of its instruments eight individual outputs over a single USB cable. Every output is switchable between audio and CV, with 32-bit converters, for 349 dollars.
The second generation of Sonnox’s specialist gate no longer just closes on spill: it aligns time, polarity and phase across drum mics in one click, clips each hit and refines resonance. A detection engine built for drums, at around EUR 172.
Tuning a PA is not “EQ by feel”. It is measuring, aligning in time and phase, then shaping a coherent response across the whole listening area. Here is the method, the tools and the pitfalls, so the room sounds like your reference — not like luck.
DHD is announcing the biggest step in its 30-year history for IBC 2026: a new third-generation audio mixing surface that stays compatible with already-installed processing cores. A head-on answer to obsolescence, aligned with the EBU’s Dynamic Media Facility initiative. Reveal on 11 September in Amsterdam.