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Audio Design Labs Inc. (ADL) is a leading designer and manufacturer of products for the professional and consumer electronics industries. Products designed and manufactured by ADL are used around the world, by such notables as ESPN, Skywalker Sound, SSI, The School of Audio Engineering (SAE), Activision, Alicia Keys, among many others.
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Products, such as Blue Sky's Sky System One and Big Blue, were designed by ADL to conform to the rigorous standards set forth by THX Ltd. ADL's design team has a long history of designing and manufacturing products to meet or exceed both professional and consumer performance standards. To learn more about the principle partners at ADL please follow this link. »
Blue Sky User Profile: Gregory Allen & Apparatic | abluesky.com
By Diane Gershuny: Award-Winning Gaming Audio Guru Gregory Allen Flies Solo To Create ‘Apparatic’ Audio Outsourcing Company. Allen’s Austin HQ Is First Facility To Test Drive Newest Blue Sky SAT 265 Speaker. When we last caught up with Gregory Allen, the game audio guru was overseeing a large audio team, as Senior Audio Director, at Electronic Arts’ downtown Chicago facility. There, he helped design and gear up nine production, mix and Foley rooms, all equipped with a range of Blue Sky systems. During his 5-year tenure at EA, Allen worked with project teams to create the sounds and audio mix for a ...
Blue Sky User Profile: Sonic Union | abluesky.com
By Diane Gershuny: State-of-the-art, inventive post facility ‘sonic union’ emerges at center of NYC’s production scene. Renowned Mixers Michael Marinelli & Steve Rosen Unite to Open Union Square Post House. A new audio post powerhouse, Sonic Union, soared onto the scene last fall in New York City’s famed Union Square. An alliance of industry veterans, Michael Marinelli (formerly of Buzz/NY) and Steve Rosen (formerly of HSR/NY), Sonic Union’s clientele includes the top advertising agencies such as BBDO, McCann Erickson, Publicis, Saatchi & Saatchi, Fallon, DDB, J.W.T, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Y&R, and many more. Situated in the historic 19 Union Square West ...
Blue Sky Introduces SAT 8 and SUB 212 | abluesky.com
The SAT 8 and SUB 212’s Sealed-Box Design, Combined With Sophisticated Bass Management Electronics, Provides A Seamless Transition Between SAT & SUB. The End Result Is A Stunningly Accurate Full-Range Monitoring System. By Diane Gershuny: World-renowned for their accurate, full-range sound, Blue Sky is pleased to introduce two new critical listening components to its full line of monitoring solutions: SUB 212 400-Watt Push-Pull Active Subwoofer and the SAT 8 300-Watt, Compact Mid-Field Monitor. The SUB 212 is designed to be an integral part of the monitoring system, enabling a studio monitor, such as the SAT 8, to be positioned for the ...
Blue Sky’s Big Blue Monitoring System now THX® pm3 Approved | abluesky.com
Blue Sky International announced today that its Big Blue Monitoring System, which is comprised of the SAT 12 and SUB 15 Universal (pictured), is now approved for use in THX pm3® (professional multi-channel mixing and monitoring) Certified Studios, which are among the premiere mixing and mastering facilities in the world. Read the complete press release by following this link to the Blue Sky website. » Blue Sky International was founded, and is jointly owned by Group One Ltd. and Audio Design Labs Inc. The company was established by combining the marketing, sales and distribution expertise of Group One Ltd. with the knowledge ...
Confusion: LFE, Subwoofer & Bass-Management?
When talking to people about 5.1 audio, one of the more common problems in helping people understand certain concepts, is the confusion involving some of the basic terminology. What is the .1 / LFE Channel and why does it exist? The .1 or LFE is a channel which is exclusively used for frequencies below 120Hz (below 80Hz for DTS). It is therefore a bandwidth limited channel, but it is not the same as the subwoofer, which is the speaker that typically reproduces the LFE channel in a home audio or studio monitoring system (more information is provided below). The purpose of this ...
Why are TV commercials so loud?
As an avid audio / video enthusiast, my friends and family will often contact me when they have a question about their home AV system. One of the most common questions I get, is regarding the relative inconsistency in audio level between different TV programs, channels and in particular commercials. The complaint about TV commercials has been around for a long time, but with the advent of HDTV and digital broadcast television, new technologies are available to the content creators and broadcasters which are designed to mitigate the severity of these differences in level. Unfortunately, even with HDTV and digital ...
Design Philosophy: Blue Sky Studio Monitors
This article was also published in the October 2006 edition of Resolution Magazine. You can download a PDF copy by following this link to the Blue Sky website (143KB Adobe Acrobat PDF). Intro About 8 years ago, my business partners at Blue Sky and I had a number of meetings to discuss designing a new series of studio monitors. After much debate, we decided there was little point in building another set of “me too” monitors, in the typical 5”, 6” and 8” 2-way configurations. What we felt was needed was a different approach that overcame some of the limitations of ...
Professional Studio Monitoring System Calibration
The Instructions: Instructions for electro-acoustic calibration of a professional stereo, 2.1 and 5.1 studio monitoring systems (speakers) using a SPL meter and ADL’s test files. If you are interested in calibrating a home theater system, we recommend using the test signals and procedures included with your home theater receiver. Before starting, download the ADLTestFiles.zip (15 MB). To download the zip file, “Right Click” and select “Save Target As” and the file will begin downloading. Once downloaded, either burn the test files on to a CD or import them directly into your DAW and follow the instructions below.
