Sound On Sound announce dream Studio Giveaway

The line-up of prizes for our massive Dream Studio gear giveaway, which will take place at the inaugural SRT show, part of the London International Music Show. Visitors will have free entry to the prize draw on SOS stand and the winner will be announced after the show. We've teamed up with 20 pro audio exhibitors to bring you 30 fabulous prizes worth over £20,000 that, together, will equip you with the home studio that's the stuff of dreams.

The prize centres around a super-fast, eight-core Apple Mac Pro with a 23-inch Apple Cinema display running Logic Studio. Connected to this will be an Apogee Ensemble Firewire audio interface for all A-D and D-A conversion duties. Complementing the ample software suite in Logic are two additional DSP hardware processors: SSL's Duende PCIe, which fits inside the Mac Pro, and TC Electronic's Powercore X8, which connects via Firewire. These will open up even more options when choosing plug-ins.

Giving the winner hands-on control over their mixes will be the Euphonix MC Mix, the latest in control surface technology, while a Roland Fantom G6 will act as the master keyboard and a hardware synth/sound module. Additional data-entry equipment in the form of an Akai MPD32 and an Alesis Control Pad will enable the user to program their beats using MPC-style pads, or using good old-fashioned drum sticks, and a Yamaha Tenori-On — the first in the world to be offered as part of a prize giveaway — will let the winner sequence grooves using its innovative flashing matrix interface.

A generous handful of microphones are included, with the superb Rode K2 valve mic, SE Electronics' promising new SE4400a, a matched pair of M-Audio Pulsar II small-diaphragm condensers (with the fabulous new Rycote Invision shockmounts keeping them rumble free), the solid all-rounder KSM27 from Shure and the mic that no decent studio is without: the Shure SM57. Mic preampification will be supplied by the new Allen & Heath ZED 22FX compact mixer, which has direct outputs that can be patched straight into the Apogee interface, but also from the TL Audio Ebony A1, a twin-channel preamp and DI device. If you're after even more bespoke mic preamplification, SSL's latest Mynx housing for the XLogic modules enables a further two SSL mic preamps to be included, or, if you'd prefer, the highly sought-after SSL bus compressor. For the guitarists among you, an Emerson Williams Bluestone Pro dummy load and DI box (a limited SRT ’08 edition, no less) will let you get the sound of your amp at full volume without waking the neighbours.

Monitoring for the bundle will be handled by a Presonus Monitor Station feeding a pair of Genelec's 8040 nearfield monitors, which will be perched on Primacoustic's Recoil Stabilisers. Ghost Acoustics' Studio Kit 3 will help tame any nasty room modes and refections, while two pairs of M-Audio Q40 headphones will allow performers to monitor signals from the DAW without sending spill into the mics.

Korg's brilliant DSD recorder, the MR1000, will ensure your audio backups retain the best possible audio quality, while the Edirol R09HR portable recorder will give you the chance to record 24-bit/96kHz audio anywhere at any time. Last, but by no means least, an M-Audio MIDISport 2x2 will let the winner plug any of their existing MIDI equipment into the shiny new rig.

But there's more. The lucky winner of the home studio bundle will get their gear installed by SOS Editor In Chief Paul White and Technical Editor Hugh Robjohns using cables and priceless gadgets supplied by Studiospares, and they'll be featured in Sound On Sound Magazine! To top it off, Alchemea will supply the winner with fully certified Logic Pro training, making sure that they're a whizz on their brand new system.

For more information on the SRT show and competition terms and Conditions see: http://www.soundonsound.com/news?NewsID=10040 and for more information on the London International Music Show see: http://www.londoninternationalmusicshow.com/

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