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Why Pepper chooses the StudioLive 24.4.2 for in-ear monitoring

Bellsauce — Fri, 17 May 2013 22:20:47 +0000

Pepper has been touring hard for some time now, and they’ve turned to the StudioLive 24.4.2 to make the rigors of the road a little more comfortable. Band members and FOH engineer Mike Sutherland sing the praises of their StudioLive and how it applies to their in-ear monitoring solution.

Brian BotKiller saves the day with his StudioLive 24.4.2

Bellsauce — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:00:05 +0000

[This just in from PreSonus Artist and hybrid drummin' badass Brian Botkiller]

Hi guys,

I wanted to share with you a great story about my StudioLive 24.4.2 for a gig I was running front of house for the other night.

I got to the venue, and found that there was an old Behringer console there, which I soon worked out to be a serious failure. The musician I was working with was named Willy Porter, and he was very specific about what he wanted in his mix. I knew I needed to make this happen for him, so I went back to my studio and got my 24.4.2, and set it up in the venue with only 40 minutes to doors. I dialed his mix in immediately, using my ipad while mixing in the room, as the console was off in a small booth. I then made custom mixes for his sets, and I was able to record the entire set in Studio One on my laptop for him. He was absolutely floored at how easily I was able to do this, and the quality of the mix was amazing. He said the built-in reverb was the best and most tunable he’d ever heard in a mixer, and that he’d never had a better experience with a mixer. He was quickly made a PreSonus convert!

I just wanted to share this with you, as I think it is a testament to the quality of what you make. No other product could have done this with the ease and speed that I was able to make use of with the 24.4.2.

Another Frog Leap Acoustic Cover: Teardrop!

Bellsauce — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:00:01 +0000

Is that a StudioLive 24.4.2 I see in the background? Probably.

Check out more of these over at YouTube!

KMFDM and the StudioLive 24.4.2

Bellsauce — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 21:38:29 +0000

Long-haul industrial band KMFDM has been at it for 29 years. On their current U.S. tour, they are mixing monitors with a PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2. At the Baton Rouge show, bandleader and multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko cited ease of use and wireless control as primary reasons to choose StudioLive.

See pics from the show over at our Facebook page!

Alt-J Relies on the StudioLive 24.4.2 in Recent Tour

Bellsauce — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:01:34 +0000

[This just in from Lance Reynolds, FOH for Mercury Prize winners Alt-J!]

Well, our tour is nearing its end. We have our last show today in Denver. On most shows for this tour, we used the StudioLive 24.4.2 as a monitor desk, powering our in-ears mixes. Occasionally, we used it at front of house, and in a couple of situations it was used to its fullest as a front of house desk /monitor desk /recording interface.

For example, last week we did a promo event at KRXQ in Sacramento where about 30 lucky fans won a contest to see the band perform a few songs in a very intimate setting. The performance was captured with the PreSonus desk, while also being videotaped. After mixing and editing, the video will be posted by the radio station. Meanwhile, here’s a promo photo we shot after the performance.

Pictured left to right is Joe Newman (lead singer /guitarist), myself (FOH engineer), Gwil Sainsbury (guitarist /bassist /singer), Thom Green (drummer), Ron Sharpless (seated, monitor engineer), and Gus Unger-Hamilton (Keyboardist /singer).

Lesle Lewis and the StudioLive 24.4.2

Bellsauce — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 20:26:48 +0000

[This just in from Sudhin Prabhakar of Pro Musicals, our distributor in India!]

Lesle Lewis is one of India’s well known pop stars, being one part of the Colonial Cousins, a rock/pop act that took the country by storm in the 80s, and has continued their run for decades.

Lesle used the StudioLive 24.4.2 at a concert in Chennai which incorporated a live rock band and full compliment of Bollywood-style dancers.

Lesle chose the StudioLIve for its amazing ease of use, instantaneous setup time, and virtual sound check capability. He also is full of praise for the SMAART technology built in that is used to ring out the room in minutes and control feedback in a jiffy. He’s also able to set up his delay stacks to perfection with no guesswork.

Lesle says, “It’s always amazing to see as to how this compact mixer replaces racks and racks of processing gear and endless tangles of interconnect cables. The preamps sound musically sweet, have loads of headroom, and I get a 24 channel recording at the end of the show with a single touch of a button.”

Regards,

Sudhin Prabhakar

Monster April Savings Opportunities

Bellsauce — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:10:37 +0000

We have a LOT of promos going on this month. Even we’re having a hard time keeping track of them all. That’s all Rick’s fault, really. But it’s because he likes you all so much! Here’s the gist of it:

Buy a StudioLive 24.4.2, get a free PRM1 reference mic! Here’s the Free PRM1 Form. You can get more details here. Offer ends May 31.

We’ve dropped the prices on two of our StudioLive mixers! Get the 16.4.2 for $1,799 and the 24.4.2 for $2,999. No rebates, no buy-two-get-one-free, just a lower price. Wow!

Studio One Professional 2.5, $100 off through April! Get with the best for a low low price! This is an instant rebate that will be available through your local PreSonus dealer or StudioOne.PreSonus.Com.

Save $30 bucks on a TubePre V2. This is an instant rebate available at your local PreSonus dealer. Easy money.

Save a whopping $50 on the PreSonus Studio Channel. This is another easy instant rebate available at your local PreSonus dealer.
Last, but certainly not least, if you upgrade from any other version of Studio One to Studio One Professional 2.5, you are entitled to the Simon Phillips Session Tracks drum loop library for FREE! Click here for the rebate form so you can grab your copy—ASAP!

Controlling Feedback With The StudioLive and Smaart from Sonic Sense Pro Audio

Bellsauce — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:00:26 +0000

Marc Nutter, VP at Sonic Sense shares a couple techniques for controlling stage monitor feedback using the PreSonus Studiolive 24.4.2 and Rational Acoustics Smaart. Thanks guys!

Buy a PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2 with Smaart, Get a Free PRM1 Reference Mic!

Bellsauce — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:38:16 +0000

Improve the sound of your PA system with Smaart® Room Analysis and your FREE PRM1 Reference Microphone ($129 value).

Only StudioLive digital mixers give you the same tools that the pros use for improving live sound and taming room acoustics: Smaart® from Rational Acoustics and a professional reference microphone.

And now when you buy a StudioLive 24.4.2 we’ll send you a PRM1 professional reference microphone so you can take advantage of this awesome PA feature (offer ends May 31, 2013).

Click on over to the official landing page for more info, or Click here to download the Free PRM1 Redemption Form!

StudioLive LIVE at Live at The Loft, LIVE!

Bellsauce — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:00:21 +0000

[This just in from Tone from Live at the Loft, an amazing music video production cleverly disguised as a music venue. All shows are invite-only, free, recorded by a StudioLive 24.4.2, and filmed by a really nice camera. As a result, their website is rife with high-quality live performance footage from about a zillion bands, and if you look close you'll spot a StudioLive in some of them! Tone gave us a little more info about his recording rig for The Loft. It follows.]

We’ve got a 50′ 16 channel XLR stage snake connected right to the StudioLive 24.4.2. The stage snake also connects our stage monitors from the AUX outs of the board. The StudioLive is connected to an i7 Mac Laptop running Capture. We record the DJ sets and live performances through the console and Capture, which usually run about 4 or 5 hours in total. From there, I export the stems from Capture, zip them and upload to WeTransfer for download by our audio engineer in California.

The main reason the StudioLive 24.4.2 kicks butt for us is its ability to control the house mix separately of the mix to disk. That, and its rock-solid reliability, and that it records 24 tracks over FireWire.