Amphion will be displaying the One25A, its first 3-way active studio monitor design. The product debuted at NAMM 2023 and has started shipping globally at the end of November 2023 after a year of touring the globe at trade shows including InterBEE Japan, Music China and Gearfest UK. The One25A will be on display and can be experienced at Booth 15514 in the North ACC Hall in Anaheim at the 2024 NAMM show.

The One25A is constructed of a sealed dual cabinet that employs internal bracing to not only stiffen the support structure, but also serve as a physical-energy dispersion filter. The glue-joints of the enclosure and how the sub-driver is connected to the bracing structure allows the mass of the sub-driver to control the resonance of the cabinet. Amphion also chose to place all the electronics outside the monitor in a well-isolated and removable enclosure to further eliminate any physical vibration and magnetic forces between the drivers. Following the same design philosophy as the passive crossover design that Amphion has perfected, the active monitor utilizes a simple, refined signal path avoiding unnecessary digital processing and conversions to maintain the highest possible level of resolution.

For safe user operation, Amphion included specially designed protection circuitry, which is kept separate from the audio signal path and remains inactive until limiting is needed. In order to ensure optimal performance in all rooms and soffit mounting applications, the One25A has an 8-step boundary control system for fine tuning the bass response below 150Hz. These feature sets combined with Amphion’s advanced acoustic design leads to full-range sound with depth and control, which needs to be heard to be believed.

“Excitement, amazement, even a positive shock, have been most general reactions among those, who have experienced the One25A first hand,” CEO Anssi Hyvönen shares. “It has become clear that One25A knows no boundaries, as feedback is equally overwhelming from all continents and audiences, pro and home listeners alike.”

Learn more about Amphion One25A: amphion.fi/one25a/

Waves Audio is now shipping the Waves Feedback Hunter plugin, an innovative tool that enables live sound engineers to quickly achieve maximum gain before feedback and optimize stage monitors and PA systems, faster than ever, with seamless integration for any live show.

Feedback Hunter facilitates effortless feedback control by revolutionizing the setup process for stage monitors and PA systems. This is achieved by analyzing the mutual response of mics and monitors and creating an EQ curve that optimizes their relationship, ensuring clear sound throughout live shows, with less risk of feedback.

Front-of-house engineers can now eliminate the time-consuming process of ringing out the room and transform the tedious task of ringing out speakers into an efficient, streamlined experience: with Waves Feedback Hunter, your setup can take as little as 30 seconds. Thanks to its user-friendly interface, Feedback Hunter is not exclusive for the seasoned sound engineer but also for anyone who seeks excellent live sound.

Unlike the Waves X-FDBK plugin, which is used during the show and produces single notch bands for problematic frequencies, Feedback Hunter processes the entire frequency spectrum and is used during setup time, when engineers are ready to ring out their wedges or PA.

Feedback Hunter’s intelligent analysis evaluates the mic-speaker interaction, using white noise and it fine-tunes its reaction to the specific acoustic environment in order to maximize gain before feedback in that specific room.

Engineers can also customize results by using the “Frequency Brackets” to confine the affected frequency ranges or modify the processing intensity with the “Depth” knob as required.

Feedback Hunter is adaptable to complex spaces (for example, in noisy environments) or when more headroom is needed: the user adjusts the “Noise” and “Headroom” knobs to customize the plugin’s settings prior to the analysis phase.

Waves Feedback Hunter Features:

Maximizes gain before feedback

Setup can take as little as 30 seconds

Works in noisy environments

Eliminates the need for ringing-out speakers

Customize the affected frequency ranges

Adaptable target headroom

To learn more about Waves Feedback Hunter, click here.

MOTU is now shipping a complete redesign of its popular 828 rack-mounted (1U) audio interface for macOS, Windows and iOS. With analog performance driven by renowned ESS Sabre32 Ultra DAC technology, the 28×32 828 connects to a Mac, PC or iPad via 5 Gbps USB3 with low-latency, high-performance drivers to deliver 60 total channels of I/O and 24-channel mixing with on-board effects processing, including reverb, 4-band EQ and compression.

Front Panel

On the front panel, a large, bright 3.9-inch full-color LCD display provides 480 x 128 pixel high-resolution metering for all analog and digital I/O. Control room features include talkback with front panel “talk” button and “A/B” monitor select, mute, and sum-to-mono buttons for the main outs.

Two front-panel “combo” style XLR/TRS mic/line/hi-Z guitar inputs provide advanced mic channels with cutting-edge components that deliver ultra-transparent sound with -114 dB THD+N, 118 dB dynamic range and -129 dBu EIN. Each mic channel provides individual controls for preamp gain (+74 dB), -20 dB pad, 48V phantom power, and phase invert. All settings can be controlled remotely from a computer or iOS device. Each mic channel includes a dedicated send/return insert for outboard gear processing. When nothing is connected to the front-panel mic inputs, the two rear-panel returns function as additional balanced line inputs with identical signal path characteristics as the other eight line inputs.

Additional I/O

Additional audio I/O includes 8 TRS analog (line-level) in/out, separate main outs on XLR jacks, two banks of 8-channel ADAT optical I/O, stereo RCA S/PDIF digital I/O, and two front-panel headphone outputs. The analog outputs deliver a measured dynamic range of 125 dB with -113 dB THD+N. All inputs and outputs can be calibrated with boost or trim in precise 1 dB increments. Users can create completely customized mixes for each headphone output that include live 828 inputs, host computer channels and built-in reverb. All line outputs are DC-coupled, so they may be used to manipulate and sequence voltage-controlled modular synthesizers from a host DAW.

Advanced Extras

Also included are MIDI In/Out jacks (with optional MIDI Thru), BNC word clock I/O (with optional Thru), and a foot switch input for hands-free punch-in during recording (or to trigger other host software keystrokes).

If the 828 is connected to a computer on a Wi-Fi network, users can control everything wirelessly from the CueMix 5 app running on mobile devices or other computers on the same network — even multiple devices at the same time. Users can manage access to the 828 (and other on-line MOTU devices) with network discovery features and password protection.

The 828 driver provides two loopback USB channels for live streaming and podcasting. Users can easily route computer output back to the computer, where they can mix it with live 828 inputs (microphones, guitars, etc.) in their host software for live streaming or podcasting.

The 828 also supports guitar re-amping. Users can connect a guitar to the front-panel input, use CueMix’s near-zero latency to loop to any output (with a re-amp adapter, if needed), and record both the dry signal and a mic’d up amp simultaneously. Then the dry signal can be re-amped later with different amps and cabs — or amp modeling plug-ins — to experiment with different tones.

Included Software

The 828 includes the following software for musicians to start making music immediately: CueMix 5 app to control mixing and settings from your Mac, PC or iOS device, MOTU Performer Lite and Ableton Live Lite workstation software, 100+ instruments (in Performer Lite), and over 6 GB of included free loops, samples and one-shots from industry leading libraries.

Availability

The 828 is now shipping and replaces all previous 828 models.

Tech specs and feature summary

https://motu.com/en-us/828/specs/