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한동안 소개를 하고 싶기는 했는데 웨이브사에서 공식적으로 광고를 하기전에는 베타테스터로서 정보를 제공할 수 없다는 안타까움이 있어서 소개를 못하고 있었는데.. 오늘 웨이브 웹페이지에 가보니 드디어 광고가 떳내요.

새로운 플럭인은 Dorrough 미터입니다. 하이엔드 오디오 스튜디오나 비데오 관련 스튜디오에서 사랑을 받던 말그대로 하드웨어 미터를 웨이브 사에서 플럭인 버젼으로 카피를 했네요. 특별히 저처럼 Dorrough 미터에 대한 향수가 있었지만 그 높은 가격때문에 그것을 사지 못했던 사람들에게는 희소식(?) 일 수 있을것 같습니다.

저 같은 경우는 프로툴스 화면중 하나에 고정적으로 띄어 놓고 사용하는데 보기 좋네요. ^^;
화면 해상도와 모니터 크기에 따라 플럭인의 사이즈도 3가지로 조정해서 사용할 수 있기에 더 유용한 것 같네요.

여러말보다 사진이 더 설명을 잘 할테니.. 사진 몇장과 웨이브사에 소개글을 올립니다.





Dorrough Electronics designs and manufactures precision audio and video monitoring devices. For over 20 years, Dorrough has pioneered new technologies in audio signal processing and monitoring for the broadcast, motion picture, and recording industries.

Dorrough Electronics founder Mike Dorrough grew up with a love for radio and an insatiable desire to understand how sound devices worked. In the early 1960's, Mike worked as a sound mixer for a recording company owned by radio icon Casey Kasem and Bob Hudson. During that period, he devised a revolutionary Multi-band (or “Discriminate”) Audio Processing system. By achieving optimum relationships between frequency, time, and amplitude in the complex waveform, Discriminate Audio Processing provided greater loudness with no reduction in fidelity.

The initial success of Discriminate Audio Processing led Mike to a position with Motown and later to RCA Records. Realizing that his system had even greater implications for the broadcast market, in 1965 one of his first Multi-Band Composite Audio Processors was installed at a popular LA radio station.

In 1971, Mike decided to set up his own factory to produce his processors, and launched Dorrough Electronics. Within a few years, a variety of terms widely used in the audio field today like “Multi-band Processing,” “Psycho-Acoustics,” “Relative Audio-Power to Peak Amplitude,” and “Sound-Density” would either be coined or popularized by Dorrough, to describe the effects and benefits of the Discriminate Audio Processor.

Dorrough realized that the perceived loudness of sound is a mathematical function of time and amplitude, and the Dorrough Loudness Monitors grew directly out of the Discriminate Audio Processor. Using patented technology developed to give broadcast and recording engineers a true indication of loudness as perceived by the human ear, Dorrough Loudness Monitors graphically display audio power. Because Average and Peak readings are based on a real-time waveform analysis, the degree of processing, compression, and even distortion are indicated by the relationship between the average and peak indicators.

For his many contributions to world of professional audio, in 2000, Dorrough was honored with a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

마지막으로 요즘 베타 테스트를 하고 있는 또 다른 웨이브사의 플럭인이 있는데요. 멀티 채널 오디오에 관한 것이라 저야 거의 사용을 안하고 있긴 하지만.. 5.1 믹스에 관심있으신 분들은 한번 눈독을 들이실만한 제품이 곧 출시될 것 같습니다. (힌트~ ㅎㅎ) ^^;

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