Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering Research 3D Sound Cloak Technology

Those nutters at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering have come out of their labs to inform us that 3D sound cloaking technology is theoretically possible. What the F is 3D sound cloaking? Well, it seems that using special acoustic material would “essentially open up a hole in space and make something inside that hole disappear from sound waves.” The announcement almost a year after the same group built a...

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McDSP Unveils DE555, FutzBox and NF575 Plug-Ins For Mac & PC

McDSP has declared three new plug-ins, DE555 de-esser, the FutzBox signal distorter and noise generator, and the NF575 noise filter. McDSP claims the DE555 is a new generation of de-essing technology, providing transparent, precise de-essing with unique flexibility. FutzBox is a distortion and noise generator plug-in for creating low-fidelity versions of audio signals. The NF575 noise filter is a high-resolution filter set designed to...

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