11/14&15/2009 West L.A. Music Expo

Saturday and Sunday went to jam-packed recording expo at West L.A. Music in Santa Monica. Lots of amazing new gear, learned about latest versions of Sonar and Digital Performer, Talked with Ableton Live rep about grid-style controller. Met Eve Anna, Owner of Manley Labs, makers of high end tube mics. Met Paul Hudson rep from IK Multimedia, and Justin Vencel who's starting a website called recordingquestions.com. Saw demonstration of the Digidesign Eleven, which is a ProTools interface with fx inside, so it can be used as guitar stage fx into your amp without a computer. Another interesting item was a Presonus DAW, very new but very simple workflow. fx, instruments, etc can be dragged and dropped anywhere. Went to a clinic on Digital Performer 7, and messed around with pitch correction feature.