Our Recap Of The AES and NAB New York Show.
The co-located AES and NAB New York shows brought together nearly 20,000 professionals in the audio, broadcast, media and production world in the heart of New York City. A multitude of manufacturers were on hand showing the latest and greatest in gear.
Best of all, our team was in the middle of it all, hosting a booth for people to meet our Sales Professionals, see some new products, and network. Our team also scoured the show floor for new developments and technologies advancing the world of sound.
"Being in New York, this is an important show for Dale. Its proven when we see how packed our booth was this year, probably even more than last year," noted Dale's Ross Lager. "For as long as Dale has been around, shows like this are beneficial to us. We can connect on a more intimate level with our customers, vendors, and friends, whether the relationship is of 6 months or 20 plus years."
Some of the things that caught our eye:
- Allen & Heath released a new smaller version of the Avantis, the Avantis Solo, packing the same power into a more compact unit with less faders.
- We got our first in-person look and listen to the Shure SM7dB broadcast microphone, combining the legendary SM7B with onboard gain boost.
- RTW is now shipping their TouchControl 5 monitor controller and meter, designed for critical immersive monitoring applications.
- Millennia Media was back for the first time in a few years, with an exciting new "multi-path" technology and Imersiv mic preamp coming soon.
- Genelec showed both their new 8381A "Main Ones" monitors and gave us an early look at the new 9320 UNIO monitor controller, coming soon.
- Rupert Neve Designs lent us one of their new MBT master bus transformer units for our booth - it was hard to send it back, it sounded so good!
- DPA Microphones came out with their first shotgun model, the 2017.
- DirectOut took everything you loved about their PRODIGY series modular interfaces and put it into a new, digital-only, PRODIGY.MX matrix interface.
- CEDAR Audio released a new plugin called VoicEX, making removal of noise and other sound from voice recordings sound like neary magic thanks to a new AI algorithm.
- Solid State Logic unveiled their new PURE DRIVE multi-channel mic preamps with AD-DA converters. Available in a 4-channel or 8-channel model.
- AVID showed off their new Pro Tools 2023.9, complete with built-in Dolby Atmos rendering among other great new tools.
- Need to convert a lot of signals from one format to another? The Appsys Pro Audio MVR-64 MkII can do up to an astounding 704x704 channels.
- Eventide has begun to develop immersive versions of some of their plugins, starting with Blackhole and MicroPitch.
- Pliant Technologies is now shipping their MicroCom XR all-in-one headsets which were introduced this summer.
- Sonifex has released the AVN-AH8, a problem-solver 8-channel Dante headphone amp that's sure to be useful for all sort of remote applications.
- Orban introduced three new broadcast audio processors in the Optimod family: the 5950, 5750, and Trio.
