Audio Accessories

The new Mobile In interface isn’t the first device that enables you to connect a guitar to an iPhone or an iPad, but it’s the first one that lets you tap into Line 6’s ever-popular “POD” series of guitar effects and modeling. Mobile In attaches to the 30-pin digital connector on your Apple device.

The new Tascam iXZ is a tiny, pocket-sized device which enables you to connect a professional XLR microphone to an Apple iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. It can also supply a condenser microphone with phantom power. The iXZ runs on two AA batteries and can feed phantom power to a microphone for up to 15 hours.

Home theater systems, whole-house audio systems and their corporate equivalents are big business these days. Of course, B&H carries everything that home enthusiasts and professionals need to assemble these systems. Whether it’s flat-screen TVs, home-theater systems, audio amplifiers, speakers, computers or any kind of related accessory, B&H is your go-to resource.

People are accustomed to going to the theater and hearing sound cues fired off at the right moments. During a show, the sound effects all happen right on the beat; a song will start playing just as the house lights come up, etc.

If you play guitar and you own one of Apple’s world-dominating iPads or iPhones, then you should plug into a Jam by Apogee. Jam is a small device that enables you to plug a guitar or bass directly into one of those handsome Apple gadgets.

Here’s one iPad accessory that the average person might find strange and unusable, yet it’s a dream come true for heavy-duty MIDI fanatics. The new Yamaha i-MX1 offers a painfully simple way to connect one of Apple’s popular iOS devices to a MIDI-capable external piece of hardware. It’s compatible with the original iPad, the iPad2 and the iPhone.

The new DigiTech iPB-10 Programmable Pedalboard brings the power of Apple’s iPad to your guitar playing in an imaginative new way. Like a traditional pedalboard, the iPB-10 is loaded with guitar-effects hardware and foot controls.

You’re probably aware that Apple’s iPad, iPod touch and iPhone have zillions of uses. Were you also aware that there are oodles of accessories for these things that enable you to harness their power for your recording studio? 

The new Fostex AR-4i offers a complete solution for improving the sound quality of the high-definition videos that are shot on Apple’s wildly popular iPhone 4. You slide an iPhone 4 into the cradle of the AR-4i, and it gives you multiple microphone inputs, line-level inputs, level meters and improved A/D converters which enable the phone to capture pristine sound quality.

The iPhone 4 is a revolutionary device that’s capable of recording impressive looking, high-definition video (especially considering that it’s a telephone). But there’s one thing that the iPhone doesn’t have an app for: providing a way to improve the sound quality of its built-in mono microphone.

If you’re a musician or a producer who uses (or is considering using) an Apple iPad in your creative process, one of the most interesting accessories out there for recording and performing music is the Alesis iO Dock.

If you’re master of your home theater, you need a masterful rack to accommodate all those audio/video components. Sanus, a company known for its TV mounts and furniture, just unleashed the latest addition to its Foundations Component 100 Series, the CRF144. At 85-inches tall, the rack features heavy gauge, welded-steel construction that can accommodate 1,000 pounds of A/V gear.

One way you can offset the overall cost of a wedding is this: take on the task of providing the music yourself. Obviously, creating a do-it-yourself wedding DJ system will require a bit more effort on your part.

There’s a wide range of workflows in today’s production world, and the new Sound Devices MixPre-D is a versatile piece of equipment that will flow with the many different kinds of work.

New shotgun microphones come out every once in a while, and more often than not their arrival is met with little fanfare. However, when a giant like Sennheiser releases new models, the professional production world stands up and pays attention.

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