JJ Babbitt has brought back the NY (New York) Meyer mouthpiece for alto saxophone. The black hard-rubber mouthpiece will be produced in limited quantities throughout 2019, JJ Babbitt’s centennial year. This model is the original free-blowing New York mouthpiece known for its superb control and playability.
Kurzweil Music Systems’ PC4 packs patented FlashPlay technology, 256-voice polyphony and powerful DSP into a portable performance controller and production station. The PC4’s user interface features a large color display with six soft keys and includes dedicated front-panel transposition and tempo controls; nine programmable knobs, sliders and switches; and dedicated arpeggiator and sequencer transport controls. The 88-note, hammer-action keyboard is fully weighted and velocity sensitive.
DW’s Icon All-Access Earth, Wind & Fire snare drum is crafted from 11 plies of North American hard rock maple in a horizontal-vertical low-timbre grain orientation and finished in laser-cut exotic wood inlays of the EWF logo. The 6- by 14-inch snare comes standard with DW Collector’s series features, such as True-Hoops, True-Pitch Tuning, True-Tone snare wires, a MAG throw-off system with a three-position butt-plate and DW heads by Remo.
The Zoom GCE-3 is a compact USB audio interface that gives musicians easy access to the Zoom Guitar Lab collection of guitar effects, and amp and cabinet simulations. Designed to work with Zoom’s recently updated Guitar Lab 4.0 software, the interface lets users download new sounds and edit/save custom patches and effects chains to take on the go.
Roswell Pro Audio has released the Delphos II all-purpose studio condenser microphone. It retains characteristics of the original Delphos—which featured an unhyped and natural frequency response, high sensitivity and low self-noise—and adds a third polar pattern and refined electronics designed to reduce ultrasonic noise. The updated microphone features a larger body, adorned in custom metallic blue paint.
