Impulse Power

SKU: HL.1105212

UPC: 663961055849. 19.5x29.5x29.5 inches.

The Mackie DRM212 represents everything we've learned across decades of designing loudspeakers for venues, clubs, mobile DJs, and more. From karaoke night to sunday service, the DRM212 comes equipped with all the power, reliability, and versatility needed for modern high-demand applications. With custom high-output transducers, Advanced Impulse DSP and high-efficiency amplification, you'll always get the cleanest sound possible – to matter where the stage is. The DRM Series is available in multiple point source configurations, line array, plus a companion powered subwoofer.

SKU: HL.301330

UPC: 888506090066. 5.5x4.0x2.25 inches.

The Hotone Omni IR is a compact, Impulse Response-based cabinet simulator pedal that delivers realistic emulation of classic guitar and bass miked speaker cabinets. The Omni IR includes 40 high-quality legendary guitar and bass cabinet impulse responses, along with a detailed 4-band semi-parametric EQ. An internal voltage boost circuit provides tons of headroom ensuring the input signal will stay clean, regardless of the instrument's output level. A high-contrast OLED screen makes editing and recalling setting easy in high and low light environments. Omni IR has 40 editable presets which can be adjusted on the pedal or managed via free Mac/PC software. The footswitch can be assigned to bypass the effect or mute the signal. A 1/4″ thru jack provides an unprocessed dry signal to other devices or amplifiers. The pedal includes a 1/4″ output, a balanced XLR out to connect to mixers or audio interfaces, an 1/8″ headphone monitor and an 1/8″ stereo aux input making the Omni IR perfect for both live and recording setups. Features include: •Compact, easy-to-use IR cabinet simulator pedal • Advanced DSP-powered platform ensures high sound quality • 24-bit AD/DA conversion • Internal voltage boost circuit for exceptional headroom • 40 high-quality legendary guitar and bass cabinet impulse responses • Support for third-party IR files • Detailed 4-band semi-parametric EQ with 12dB maximum boost and cut • Micro USB jack for updating firmware and loading/managing impulse responses via free Mac/PC software • 1/4″ input and thruput • XLR and 1/4″ outputs • Ground/Life switch • 1/8″ stereo Aux In for line level devices (unaffected by Omni IR) • 1/8″ headphone output for practicing and jamming • 40 presets • High-contrast OLED screen • Assignable footswitch with LED • 9V DC (center positive) power supply and USB micro cable included.

SKU: HL.276760

UPC: 888506100024. 3.0x5.0x2.5 inches.

Grown out of next-generation XTOMP technology, the Hotone Binary Series lets loose versatile pro-level effects in compact cases. Based on the same modeling/original effect library that amazed XTOMP users worldwide, Binary Series are dedicated to gather a bunch of high quality effects in a box with more affordable, competitive price. They feature compact casing, dual-footswitch design, versatile inputs/outputs and bright, clear OLED display, which blur the line between “classic pedals” and multi-effects. At the core of all Binary Series pedals, a powerful dual-DSP platform and CDCM (Comprehensive Dynamic Circuit Modeling) modeling system ensure a realistic playing experience. The CDCM system is built on an extremely complex dynamic variation matrix, able to realistically express every detailed change that occurs during the operational process of actual circuitry: Everything is ALIVE and performs like its original. The Hotone IR Cab is an impulse response-based cabinet simulator effects pedal that delivers 100 authentic legendary (vintage and modern) guitar and bass cab models. In addition, the IR Cab features CDCM-based legendary studio microphone and power amp models, as well as a variety of detailed mic position (X, Y, Z) and room simulations.

SKU: HL.293808

UPC: 888506050022. 10.0x16.0x2.75 inches.

The Hotone Ampero Amp Modeler / Effects Processor is a game changer! It's heart pounding amp modeling and uber quality effects are powered by the new-gen, dual-DSP CDCM HD (Comprehensive Dynamic Circuit Modeling High Definition) & F.I.R.E. (Field Impulse Response Enhancement) system. Packaged in a lightweight case with a 4″ hi-def color touch screen, Ampero delivers all the real sounds of rock... past and present. Built on Hotone's powerful XTOMP, acclaimed Binary Series, and breakthrough VStomp Amp virtual plugin, the CDCM HD & F.I.R.E. system showcases Hotone's new high-shelf circuit modeling methods. Unlike the static state circuitry of most mainstream modeling, CDCM HD & F.I.R.E. technology “rebuilds” the entire circuitry using modeled electronic components, resulting in a tone that is vivid, accurate and expressive. CDCM HD & F.I.R.E. provides Ampero with 64 amplifier models, 60 cabinet models, 100+ legendary pedal models, and mic type/position simulations. In addition, Ampero shares the same 244 effects as the ever-growing XTOMP library, as well as 50+ new Hotone original effects and so much more. Ampero can handle up to nine effect modules simultaneously, and even includes a user custom IR loader with 3rd party IR support. Ampero is incredibly easy to set up and program. A straight-forward user interface features a 4″ 800 x 480 touch screen with dynamic color display and three quick access knobs for hands-on parameter tweaking. Its four assignable footswitches with halo LEDs and built-in expression pedal only add to Ampero's overwhelming benefits to electric instrumentalists, acoustic players and keyboardists alike.

SKU: HL.3712017

UPC: 196288279259. 4.5x8.75x9.0 inches.

The DT 770 PRO is a closed, dynamic headphone for professional use as a monitoring headphone in studios. Its design has been tailored for use in a studio. The single-sided cable makes it easier to handle the headphones when they have to be constantly put on and taken off. The robust spring steel construction gives the headphones a secure fit and the mechanical reliability needed for daily use. Soft, adjustable ear cups and a single-sided cable contribute to a high level of long-term comfort. The connecting cable is fitted with a gold-plated mini stereo jack plug (3.5 mm) with a 1/4″ adapter (6.35mm) and can therefore be connected to all common headphone outputs. With its impulse behavior, the DT 770 PRO comes close to electrostatic headphones and delivers a natural and balanced sound. Even the deepest bass is reproduced with clarity and punch. High frequencies are converted into an analytical, clear and differentiated sound that does not produce screaming or shrieking even with powerful treble sounds.

SKU: FG.55011-372-5

ISBN 9790550113725.

Images of the sea figure prominently throughout my life and memories: from holidays on the Atlantic coast during my Canadian childhood to my current Baltic home, and the imagined, only later experienced Mediterranean of my ancestral heritage. As an immigrant (son of an immigrant) bound to two northern countries, the sea is emblematic of my twin homelands, from the expanses of water surrounding them to those separating them. A Mari usque ad Mare. The sea is also an enduring image of the unknown, of expanses unexplored, of the raw power of nature and, for too many currently, of terror holding a hope of refuge - or the pain of loss.
Such disparate ideas were captured for me in the seascapes of the New York painter MaryBeth Thielhelm, whom I met in 2008 during a residency on the Gulf of Mexico. Her vast, abstract, nearly monochromatic depictions of imaginary seas in wildly varying moods were the catalyst for a concerto where the piano is frequently far from a hero battling a collective, but rather acts as a channel for elemental forces surging up from the orchestra, floating - sometimes barely so - on its constantly shifting surface. There are few themes to speak of, beyond a handful of iconic ideas that periodically cycle upward. Rather, the piano's material is largely an ornamentation of the more primal rhythmic and harmonic impulses from the orchestra below - a poetic interpretation, if you will, of the more immediate experience of facing the vastness of some unknown body of water.
The title Nameless Seas is borrowed from one of Thielhelm's exhibitions, as are those of the four movements, which are bridged together into two halves of roughly equal weight - one rhapsodic and free, the other more single-minded and direct, separated only by a short breath. The opening movement, Nocturne, is predominantly calm, if brooding, darkness and light alternating throughout. Lyrical arabesques sparkle over gently lapping cross-currents in the strings and mirrored timpani, the piano's full power only rarely deployed. The waves gradually build, drawing in the full orchestra for a meeting of forces in Land and Sea, a brighter, more warmly lyrical scene that unfolds in series of dreamlike, sometimes even nostalgic visions, which for me carry strong memories of sitting on rocks above surging Atlantic waves. The third movement, Wake, is a fast, perpetual-motion texture of glinting, darting rhythms and sudden shafts of light, with a prominent part for the steel drums, limning the piano's quicksilver figurations. An ecstatic climax crashes into a solo cadenza that grows progressively calmer and more introspective rather than virtuosic. Much of the tension finally releases into Unclaimed Waters, a drifting, meditative seascape in which the piano is progressively engulfed by a series of ever-taller waves, ultimately dissolving into a tolling, rippling continuum of sound.
It has been a great privilege to realize such a long-held dream as this piece, and to write it for not one, but two great pianists. Risto-Matti Marin and Angela Hewitt, both of whose friendship and support have been unfailing and humbling, share the dedication. Nameless Seas was commissioned by the PianoEspoo festival and Canada's National Arts Centre, with the premieres in Ottawa and Helsinki led by Hannu Lintu and Olari Elts. Thanks are due also to the Jenny and Antti Wihuri fund, whose generous grant provided me with much-needed time, and Escape to Create in Seaside, Florida, the source to which I returned to do a large part of the work.