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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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Blue Sky Introduces SAT 265 | abluesky.com
Designed To Integrate Perfectly with Blue Sky’s New SUB 212 — To Provide A Stunningly Accurate & Engaging Full-Range Monitoring System World-renowned for their accurate, full-range sound, Blue Sky is pleased to introduce its newest critical listening component to its full line of monitoring solutions: the SAT 265 High Output Near-Field Active Studio monitor. Blue Sky’s fresh approach to studio monitor design delivers the highest possible ratio of performance to cost, in turn providing the highest value to our customers. US MSRP: $1500.00 (USD) [caption id="" align="alignright" width="262" caption="Blue Sky | SAT 265"][/caption] By Diane Gershuny: Blue Sky’s SAT 265 is a 2-way, ...
Blue Sky User Profile: Oscar-Winner Resul Pookutty | abluesky.com
From ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ to Big Budget ‘Blue’ By Diane Gershuny Up until about a dozen years ago, the idea and implementation of production sound recording was virtually non-existent in India. As a film school graduate from India’s Film School Institute in 1985—and with inspiration from Spielberg to Lucas—Resul Pookutty aspired to change all that. Riding the wave of the massive success from his work on 2008’s international indie blockbuster, ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ (and subsequent sound design awards including an Oscar, BAFTA, MPSE, CAS, and others), the mixer/sound designer and colleague Akhilesh Acharya launched Canaries Post Sound outside of Mumbai in late ’08. The ...
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.
