Introducing the VHT Special 12/20RT

THE PEDAL-FRIENDLY AMP WITH SELECTABLE POWER RANGES — PLUS ALL-TUBE SPRING REVERB AND TREMOLO!

Street Price from $649.99

Hayward, CA — The VHT Special 12/20RT adds tube-driven spring reverb and tube tremolo to the pedal-friendly Special 12/20 platform. The 12/20RT features two power ranges with an adjustable Watts control plus a Pentode/Triode switch, a unique preamp designed that excels with pedals, and an all-tube buffered effects loop with send and return level controls. It also features VHT’s unique Depth and Texture controls, a convenient built-in 9-volt DC pedal power supply, and an international mains voltage selector switch.

To optimize the amp for a wide variety of output tubes, the VHT Special 12/20RT offers two output-power ranges.  A special voltage range switch safely located behind the rear panel provides the proper voltages for 6V6 or EL84 output tubes (in 12-watt low-voltage/low-power mode). The high voltage 20-watt setting provides the ideal voltages for higher-power 6L6 or EL34 output tubes. The 12/20RT ships with a pair of 6V6 output tubes (VHT 6V6-to-EL84 socket adapters are required for operation with EL84 tubes). In addition, the 12/20RT’s variable Watts control can reduce the maximum output power to less than one watt for whisper-quiet volume levels.

The Special 12/20RT’s preamp was designed to bring the most out of every effects pedal with enhanced clarity, detail and controlled tube compression. Its low-impedance buffered effects-loop send can effortlessly drive the most difficult pedals without tone or signal loss. Thanks to its variable send and return level controls, the 12/20RT’s effects loop can accommodate a wide range of pedal or rack effects.

The 12/20RT’s Reverb, Tremolo, Depth and Texture controls are post effects loop, so multi-effects users can plug directly into the effect return and still benefit from the post-effects tube reverb and tremolo, while fine-tuning the output stage characteristics with the Depth and Texture controls.

The Special 12/20RT combo and head share the same chassis, circuit and layout design and configuration.

The 12/20RT Combo is loaded with a 12” VHT ChromeBack speaker.

The VHT Special 12/20RT combo has a Street price of $749.99; the Special 12/20RT head has a Street price of $649.99

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New "Dangerous Source" Monitor Controller Announced at NAMM

Leader in Monitor Control Debuts Portable & Desktop Unit Anaheim, CA - January 19, 2012 - At the 2012 Winter NAMM show, Dangerous Music announced their newest monitor controller, the "Dangerous Source" - a portable and desktop unit designed for the engineer on the go or to fit a limited space on the desktop. Dangerous Music is one of the industry leaders in dedicated monitor controllers and helped usher in the product category over 10 years ago with the Dangerous Monitor - widely regarded as a  benchmark of quality. Dangerous Music monitoring products have been nominated and won many prestigious industry awards including Pro Audio Review magazine's PAR Excellence Award, TEC Award, EM Editors Choice, MIX Magazine's Certified Hit, and Future Music Magazine's ACE Award among others.
The new sleekly designed "Dangerous Source" builds on this sterling reputation as a perfectly tuned complement to any DAW for its centralized control of speakers, headphones, and more. The Source fits perfectly beneath a 13" laptop computer, but it can also sit unobtrusively on the desktop within arms reach to provide easy control of volume, input selection, speaker switching, and headphone control. An input for USB audio simplifies a traveling mix rig even further. The "Dangerous Source" is set for release in early Q2, 2012, the price is to be announced.

"With the explosion of professional recording and mixing being done on today's powerful laptop computers, we wanted to bring our standard of audio path quality and functionality to portable monitor control," says Bob Muller, President of Dangerous Music. "We've been making monitor controllers since before the product category existed in the mainstream, so the Dangerous Source seemed like  the logical next step in the lineage of Monitor, Monitor ST and D-Box.  We've also added a first for our products in that the Source connects directly to the computer via USB, saving even  more cable hassles for the traveling engineer.

"The Dangerous Music "Source" monitor controller announced at NAMM 2012 shown with a 13" laptop

The "Dangerous Source" monitor controller sports many of the key  professional features of the company's award-winning Dangerous D-Box,  such as speaker switching for two sets of speakers, speaker volume,  AES/SPDIF digital IN, 2 Stereo Analog IN, dual headphone out with a separate level control, and in addition, it can connect  directly to a computer for monitoring of digital audio over USB. Dangerous Source is capable of up to 24-bit 192kHz on both digital  inputs. Although the Dangerous Source is the company's first non-rack mount product, an optional 1RU user-installable front panel  option will be available.


Highlights of the "Dangerous Source" Monitor Controller:

•  Desktop form factor sits comfortably under a 13" laptop
•  Optional 1RU front panel available
•  Supports 2 pairs of speakers
•  Alternatively select both speaker outputs simultaneously for speakers and subwoofer combination• Layering of multiple inputs in both the speaker and headphone outputs
•  2 Analog IN: unbalanced 1/8" mini stereo at -10 dBv, balanced XLR/1/4" combo jack at +4 dBu
•  AES/SPDIF digital IN, up to 24-bit/192 kHz
•  USB IN, up to 24-bit/192kHz for Windows and Mac
•  Line-level pass-thru for Control Room output
•  Buffered digital thru output for AES/SPDIF input
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•  Set for a Q2 2012 release, price TBD

About Dangerous Music

Dangerous Music, Inc. designs and builds products that are indispensable to any DAW-based recording environment. Dangerous Music electronics designer Chris Muth has spent over 20 years working in and  designing custom equipment for top recording and mastering studios. Muth and company founder Bob Muller pioneered the concept of  the dedicated analog summing buss for digital audio workstations with  the Dangerous 2-Bus in 2001. Today the company offers a wide range of  products for recording, mastering, mixing and post-production facilities, all designed and built with mastering-quality standards and a  practical aesthetic. Key products include the Dangerous 2-Bus and 2-Bus LT, Dangerous Monitor ST-SR and its Additional Switching System expansion units, Dangerous D-Box, Dangerous Master, Dangerous Liaison, Dangerous Monitor and Dangerous Bax EQ.

For more information on Dangerous Music visit http://www.dangerousmusic.com

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The Great Prism Sound SADiE/CBA Africa Tour

12/10/2011

Press Release: Prism Sound & SADiE are running a Great African Tour, based on their highly successful ‘Mic to Monitor’ tours that have seen audiences in the professional production world benefit from experiences of the professionals throughout the UK, America and South Africa.

The pan-African tour will comprise three phases: radio drama and features production in Nairobi and Rwanda, music and broadcast production in Capetown and Johannesburg, and broadcasting workshops, surgeries and presentations in Ghana.

The first phase encompasses two events hosted at Shujaaz FM in Nairobi, Kenya on 7th November, and Urunana DC in Kigali, Rwanda on 9th November.

Shujaaz FM in Nairobi is a youth-orientated project that has the biggest print publication in Kenya as well as a syndicated radio soap. Set up as part of the Well Told Story project, more details can be found at www.shujaazfm.com.

In Rwanda, ‘Health Poverty Action’s’ ground-breaking, flagship radio soap ‘Urunana’ (Hand-in-Hand) has been broadcast by the BBC World Service and Radio Rwanda since it was established in 1997. The Urunana studios will be the venue for the Rwanda leg, more details on the SADiE website and at www.urunanadc.org.

Both these events will feature UK-based BBC radio programme maker, Peter Nash, bringing a rich mixture of drama-documentary making and high-end feature production, with many BBC programme examples for the workshops. Open to all, updates on both these events, and a free registration process, can be found at www.sadie.com.

The second-phase sees SADiE’s return to South Africa with four separate information-packed events, two music and two broadcast focussed. The venues are planned to be at SABC’s studios in Johannesburg 10th & 11th November and Capetown on 14th & 15th November.

Attendees at both these venues will experience two evenings under the title ‘Suspending Disbelief’. The first will be music production focused, featuring both studio and location recording, with Sound on Sound’s Hugh Robjohns as special guest discussing studio acoustics, monitoring and microphones, as well as Pete Nash on mastering issues and the recent recording of Roger Waters’ ‘The Wall’ live in Athens.

The second will be looking at creativity in broadcasting - high-end feature making, drama production and lessons learned from the BBC’s digital integration in radio. Panel discussions will conclude each of the evenings’ sessions and will comprise Pete Nash, Hugh Robjohns and Akim Mogaji from the CBA, with delegates coming away with goodie bags and there will be 200 copies of Sound On Sound magazine to give away!

The third phase of the tour is in association with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and Ghana Broadcasting Corporation and is following immediately on from the Electronic Media Forum in Ghana.

Running from 17th – 22nd November, the ‘Live in Accra’ event will be held at Ghana’s National Film & Television Institute and will comprise workshops, presentations and surgeries from a number of organisations including the British Council, CBA and of course SADiE.

For more details on all these events, details of how to attend and free registration, please see the ‘Great Africa Tour’ event page on the SADiE website: www.sadie.com.

The SADiE/CBA Great African Tour is presented in association with Health Poverty Action, Shujaaz FM, Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, Ghana Broadcasting Corporation, British Council and National Film & Television Institute, Ghana and the Prism Sound Group.

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