T-Amp over at Think Geek

Think Geek has the scoop on the T-Amp, a tiny inexpensive amp, that apparently out classes amps that are many times more expensive.

To put it short and sweet... The T-Amp line of amplifiers from Sonic Impact are revered by audiophiles everywhere for their amazing sound and incredible price. These amps have better sound than others that cost 10 times as much.

The key to the T-Amp is - amazingly enough - Class T amplification. Class T amplifiers offer both the audio fidelity of Class AB (which you'd likely find in your home stereo reciever) and the power efficiency of Class D amplifiers (often used to provide the punch for subwoofer amps).

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Product Page @ Sonic Impact

Mic Port Pro Shipping Now, Mobile Podcasters Rejoice!

XLR Port?
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Phantom Power?
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USB Connectivity?
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Direct Headphone Port?
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Hardware Gain Control?
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Reasonable Price?
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Well I think that just about covers it. If you've read here I'm not a big fan of USB Microphones. I kinda lump them in with TV/VCR combo sets. They get the job done, but if one piece breaks...

Even though it cuts down on mobility I still tend to recommend separate sound card and mic combinations.

Well the mic port pro should help with this.



Yup that's it.

So if you need all of the above, have about $130 to spend, and need to be traveling light, this looks like the solution for you.




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Not a big fan of his films, but damned if his toys don't rule

There are only a few organizations I would kill to work for (Google! Start using Sound!), and Skywalker Sound is most certainly one of them.

My gear lust has risen to an all new height though, when I saw that they've nabbed themselves a DFC Gemini.

"The Academy Award-winning DFC Gemini was the first full-scale multi-operator Digital Film Console. It has rapidly established itself as the premier choice in Hollywood, often with the vast majority of the top-grossing films of the year internationally being mixed on it. Some filmmakers are so impressed with the console's performance that they give it an end credit in the movie. From the outset, the DFC Gemini was designed for optimum mix performance. At the heart of the DFC Gemini is the world's most powerful DSP mix engine, capable of delivering the legendary Neve sound across 1,000 audio signal paths at 96 kHz/24-bit in a single, high-resolution DFC signal-processing tower. No other digital film console can offer the sheer power required to handle the demands of tomorrow's blockbusters. The DFC Gemini is laden with features that take film sound to a new level. They include TFT Channel display, the Encore Plus automation system, Neve EQ, Dynamics and Bass Enhancement plug-ins with linked dynamics, expanded 12 Stem Mixing, and complete integrated machine control."


1000 AUDIO SIGNALS!!! Really?!?! WHY?!?!

I WANT THAT!

You KNOW you're a Geek When... SmartPhone Edition!

I promise this will be loosely related to audio in some small way...

So you know you're a geek when you look at the back of your phone and think "I could do better".

If you haven't figured it out by now I'm a gadget fanatic, and my current weapon of choice is the PPC-6700 smartphone from Sprint. I've been a Windows Mobile fan since the iPaq 3650 (or I could just say "for a while now" I guess), and when it comes to versatility there's nothing better out there right now (in the USA of course, but that's another post).

Full QWERTY keyboard, slider touch screen, highspeed data, this phone gets a lot of things right for a data device. The one thing this phone fails at is ... well ... being a phone. One of the main problems with it is the main speaker on the back isn't very loud. I've tried boosting the volume of the ringtones and alerts, but if the phone is in my back pocket I still might miss a call or email. This also means that the speakerphone setting on this phone is near useless, and the only way I could talk on the phone was with an ear piece.

The problem though isn't that the speaker is under powered, it's that the speaker is covered ... by plastic ... and a vanity mirror ... to take pictures of yourself ... and I'm kinda funky looking ... so I tend not to do that ... very much ... [ahem]


But no longer!



An electric drill, some super fine sandpaper, the mesh from some busted headphones, and about 2 hours of labor (hey I went slow, I love this phone), and voilà, Better phone! Extreme Makeover style! ... OK not quite but still, I am an AUDIO engineer...


Here's the before:


And here's the after:



I know it IS sexy!
cellphones, sound, audio, some audio guy, speakers, mod, ppc-6700, ringtones, volums