Neil Young has just demoed his PONO HD audio playback system at SXSW. The highest definition is 24/192 (which is the same as HD Tracks). This project has been bubbling away for a while now...it remains to be seen if it will be commercially viable.

I installed Mavericks, and so far everything still works. Even Pro Tools 10 doesn't seem to mind. The upgrade is free and I had no problems with the installation. Mavericks has 'tags' for files and folders (I preferred the labels), Safari seems a bit faster, and battery running time is improved.

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Waves have just released a plugin that emulates the famous EMI J37 1" 4 track.

Today I was reworking an Excel spreadsheet that I wrote back in 1991 to calculate room modes. I needed to update a macro that handles a sort function and was about to delete the old macro and write a new one, but thought why not try to modify it first. So I edited it and guess what - off it went working perfectly. I can't even remember which version of Excel I wrote that on way back then. I have to hand it to MS - when it comes to backward compatibility this is amazing.
I love it when software soldiers on through lots of OS updates etc. Logic is brilliant at this too. Pro Trolls...well that's another story.

Fairfax Recordings have setup in the building that was Sound City. Here, Dave Pensado takes a tour (it starts at 14 minutes). Part 2 is here.

SKB have just introduced the world's first amplified pedal board. It has a 5W amplifier and 6" speaker built in. It's main feature, of course, is that it is a world first. Other notable features are...um...I dunno...I mean you are going to need a proper amp for gigging, and if you use this for practice how do you get used to your stage setup? Maybe I'm missing something here, but I'm not sure there is a point to this invention.

The nice people at Rane have put together this list of how to write technical words and abbreviations that we deal with in audio engineering. For example: MIDI is all caps. If you don't know your acrynom from your elbow, you can find help here.