Binu Sukaman high resolution recording
On December 26, one of the Indonesian famous Sopranos, Binu Sukaman, documented a high resolution recording with a world class pianist Ananda Sukarlan. This rare opportunity recording was held at Yamaha music center auditorium. Digidesign ProTools HD3 accel was used in conjunction with Millennia Media HV3D-8ch mic pre. To capture the piano, a pair of DPA 4023 win ORTF setting were place about 3 feet from the source. Three different microphones, Crowley and Tripp ribbon mic, DPA 4011 carioid and Bluebird captured the beautiful voice of Binu. An omni DPA 4006 was set as ambience mic. See the pictures here.
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
We would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007. Thank you for all of your support, and attention to us. We look forward to seeing you again year. Enjoy a safe Holiday Season.
Russound Visit
Jon Le Blanc of Russound, NH visited us for three days to see the current market in Jakarta, Indonesia which is growing almost double from the previous year. He was pretty happy during his stay and certainly would come back again next year.
DPA microphone on DXD recording
DPA microphones have been used for a groundbreaking project – the first-ever recordings in the new DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition) format being made by Norwegian company Lindberg Lyd AS. DXD is a high sampling rate and multi-bit processing format that preserves the audio quality of DSD in terms of pulse response and bandwidth compared to conventional PCM, and is available to consumers in SACD format.
Lindberg is one of the first companies in Europe to utilise DXD- and SACD-technology in commercial audio production. The signal path is as simple and short as it is technically advanced and the company has devised a formula for the recordings, which they describe as: “Fantastic musicians and adventurous music in a beautiful venue, recorded by DPA 130V microphones…”
The recording of Mozart's violin concertos took place in Selbu Church in Norway with violinist Marianne Thorsen and the Trondheim Soloists. “For this project we wanted to optimise the recording for the multi-channel layer of the SACD-format,” explains Morten Lindberg, the project’s recording producer and balance engineer, who worked together with recording engineer Hans Peter L'Orange. “The stereo became second priority. Previously we’d tried putting up individual microphones for the 5.1 and the stereo, but we found it very hard to monitor both with equal priority.”
The orchestra formed a circle around the microphone set-up, similar to the loudspeakers in a Dolby 5.1 rated for music only, but scaled down to around a quarter in terms of distances. DPA 4003 omnis were used for left and right, with the 50mm acoustic pressure equalisers lending a slight focus and direction. For the centre channel, Lindberg found that a large diaphragm DPA 4041 gave the soloist a nice presence, while the left and right rear surround mics were DPA 4016 wide cardioids.
“The biggest surprise when we started the transition from stereo to multi-channel two years ago, was to find that traditional ambient microphones weren’t much good as rear channels explains Lindberg. “All five channels are equally important, and need to relate to each other rather tightly in time and colour. Our all-DPA microphone rig makes this possible. For the Lfe-channel we’re a little more conservative; a DPA 4012 cardioid on the double bass is delayed to fit in with the main set-up.”
“The listener is placed in such a way to not only hear, but feel the presence of the players around you,” said a reviewer of the Mozart DXD recording on SA-CD.net. “The balance is quite remarkable and life-like, and truly gives you the feeling of being there. The recording quality is I believe quite the best there is in the world today."
TC Electronic Visit
Rune Jacobsen from TC electronic, Denmark visited La Mesa as part of his South East Asian trip. Many discussions have been made, and stay tune for some TC clinics next year.
Holy Ramadhan
We would like to congratulate the Muslim for their Ramadhan. Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1426 H
Simprug Theater
We have just finished building a new home theater at Simprug, Jakarta. Click here for more story
Erha Clinic
The new Erha Clinic building in Kelapa Gading, Jakarta is the largest skin center in Asia. Kling & Freitag speakers are fitted in the main multi function hall along with Infocus 4000 lumen projector and 150" fixed screen. Concealed behind the sound transparent fabric covering this ultra modern Skin center has some of the best equipment for presentation, and training. 
Venue delivery
Our first sales of Digidesign Venue console went to Sun City Entertainment. This facility ordered 48 mic inputs with 16 outputs and 3 DSP cards. As soon as the installation is complete we will put the pictures.
Logic Audio Tour
See and try Logic Pro yourself at the Logic Revolution Tour. Date: 23 August 2006 | Time: 1:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Place: Centro the Club, Jl. Darmawangsa IX, Jakarta 12160. Apogee Ensemble will be on display along with some other third party peripheral. Below is the photo from the set up.
MXL
During JAPEX show, MXL V69 tube received " the best buy" award for mic catagory from AudioPro magazine as the organizer of the event. We were proud to receive the award as the distributor for MXL microphones. V69 tube microphones are well received by the users in here, and by many this mic is considered to be best value for money.
JAPEX
Here are some photos from JAPEX 2006.
Our booth was inside a room, and by many people it was considered the most quite place to talk. Sound level outside our booth was loud.
Line array shoot out. Customer can really take advantage of this event. Great show overall. See you at JAPEX 2007.
MC2 audio 
MC2 audio of UK has appointed La Mesa as their new distributor for Indonesia. We are very happy with MC2 products as we have used them with our dynaudio acoustics speakers for more than a decade. For the first project in 2006, MC2 amplfiers were used for the new ERHA clinic auditorium in Kelapa Gading.
JAPEX
La Mesa is scheduled to participate at the Jakarta Audio Pro Expo at Hall C booth 66, PRJ Kemayoran from July 27-30. We will feature digidesign HD 3 acell with all the plug ins and Digidesign Venue live sound console. Kling & Freitag speakers system will also available for private demo.
Live Sound Seminar
La Mesa in conjuction with Kling & Freitag speaker and Audio Pro magazine present a live sound workshop. Christian Kimmig a top sound engineer from Europe shared his skill. This even will take place at the Nine Muses Club on June 15, 2006. Photos are here
Oxygen recording
On May 26, 2006 Oxygen band recorded their live performance at the Upper Room concert hall in Jakarta. Digidesign Venue with 48 tracks ProTools were used to record their performance.
Approximately over 1000 fans screaming and enjoying the performance.
GMB recording
On April 27, 2006 Digidesign Venue was used to record one of the top Christian bands " Giving My Best" at tennis indoor Senayan, Jakarta.
More than 4500 happy audiences enjoyed the beautiful songs and performance.
Stay tune for the live recording CD, here is a picture of Moko"Big knob" engineer with Venue and ProToolsHD3 accel.
Java Jazz Festival Pictures
The pictures are here. We were pleased with the result of system set up at the Java Jazz Festival. Despite a slight delay on the sound check during the first day, we had a great result with all of the performance for the whole event. Comments from several people, "The sound system was clear and tight, it's not too loud, but just right", "Smooth detail sound, great job for La Mesa", "Phenomenal sound!", "Wow, this is different", "Digidesign Venue is impressive"
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