A few early notes: The day started with EAW showing its much-talked about entry into front-of-house consoles, the umx.96 see the Mix Blog for details); and it concluded with Digidesign's release of Pro Tools 7. In between, JBL showed off its new monitor in the LSR series and Yamaha keeps moving forward with digital solutions...namely the MCL digital board. Presonus showed the gangable 4-channel Inspire FireWire I/O box for $199. Schoeps has a new ultralight shotgun, the CMIT 5U, with DSP-based filtering and rolloff. Sony showed its new PCM-D1 portable field recorder. Yow! About $2k, including 4-gig Flash memory off rechargeable or AA batteries. Linear PCM recording or compressed audio files. Auralex showed its new line of materials developed by Russ Berger.

There's so much more being shown...from SSL's new C300 post console to Shure's new UHF-R wireless launch.

Check out our blog, and we'll keep the hits coming.
The Editors

Fairlight Constellation-Anthem
Constellation-Anthem joins Fairlight's Dream family and is designed specifically for today's audio media creators, both in production and mixing. MORE

HHB FlashMic
Combining 1 GB of Flash memory with a Sennheiser omni condenser capsule, the FlashMic DRM85 is the world's first pro digital recording mic. MORE

iZ Technology RADAR V
iZ Technology's RADAR V line of dedicated hard disk recording products feature new Adrenaline Plus recording engine technology. MORE

Schoeps CMIT 5U Shotgun Microphone
Schoeps Microphones unveils the CMIT 5U, its first shotgun mic, which features a lightweight (31/8-ounce) design, 48-VDC phantom power, high wind noise immunity and consistent horizontal and vertical polar response. MORE

Mackie Onyx 1200F Firewire Interface
This multiple I/O, 24-bit/192kHz FireWire computer audio/MIDI interface for Mac or PC features 12 premium Onyx preamps, a control room section with talkback and four headphone mixes with amplified outputs. MORE

Renkus-Heinz ICONYX Series
Now shipping, the ICONYX Series of Digitally Controlled Column loudspeakers use advanced technology to provide intelligible speech and musical sound in highly reverberant environments. MORE

Dolby Media Producer
Dolby debuted its Dolby Media Producer suite of HD and DVD creation tools. The Mac-based (OS X "Tiger") software includes Dolby Media Encoder, Dolby Media Decoder and Dolby Media Tools, a set of utility tools. MORE

E-mu PM5 Precision Monitors
Long known for its world-class sampling and digital audio production systems, E-mu enters the studio monitor market. The company's new PM5 Precision Monitors feature a custom 40W/40W bi-amplified power section and world-class drivers to deliver hyperaccurate audio in a compact design. MORE

Ron Kuper, Cakewalk: This AES we're proud to be showing SONAR 5, which is pretty much a big watershed release for us. There's a lot of really interesting technology -- and of course features -- in this new release.

The first techie accomplishment in SONAR 5 is our native x64 support. There has been a great deal of buzz around "64 bit" in the last few years, and we were first to show a native x64 DAW back in January with the SONAR x64 Technology Preview. Well, today I'm proud to announce that we're shipping this innovative new version.

Dave Malekpour, PAD: In addition to our core business of providing refurbished & warranted Certified Pre Owned SSL consoles, we have been building a lot of custom main monitors that are designed by George Augsberger and Dynaudio Acoustics, and providing complete studio equipment packages combining cutting edge new gear with refurbished vintage classics.

Chris Walsh, AXI: I'm excited for AXI coming into this AES show. Tube Tech has joined our family of companies. The tradition of quality first tube processor continues with their newest products. The MMC1A offers their multi-band compressor coupled with the micpre. This is an especially good solution for the small studio (and is nominated for a TEC award).

John Meyer, Meyer Sound: Hi, I'm John Meyer from Meyer Sound. It's great to be back in New York. I remember when the AES shows were in the Waldorf, and we had a small table, and demo booths that were hotel rooms. It was at the AES where we first demoed our Ultra Monitor stage monitor by playing music into it to 110dB SPL and then having someone come up to the microphone and singing into the microphone -- and they could hear themselves! It was the first stage monitor with an external processor.