Optimal Media Production Premiers VinylDisc – Half CD, Half Vinyl Record

Optimal Media Production, a German concern, has developed a new CD format dubbed, VinylDisc, that contains a CD on one side, and a vinyl recording on the other. The CD side can hold 70 minutes of music, while the vinyl side, due to the dimensions of the compact disc, can only hold about 3 minutes. As a promotional play, it’s a very cool idea for dance music labels. Fightstar, a rock band on the Gut label, will be the first band...

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SSL Unveils Free X-ISM Metering Plug-In

Solid State Logic (SSL) has released X-ISM, free VST/AU plug-in for interpreting inter-sample peaks. The plug-in for Windows and Mac was developed to allow engineers to make informed judgements about the resultant sound quality of the mix. There is currently a trend in the in the audio industry known euphemistically as ‘The loudness war’ in which the engineering process is driven to produce a product which is as loud as is...

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