Lauten Audio Microphones Now Distributed by Audio Plus Services in North America

Champlain, NY — November 19, 2010 — Audio Plus Services, the distributor behind Focal Professional and Vovox products in North America, announced today that they have signed a new exclusive value-added distribution agreement with Lauten Audio for their full line of microphones. Lauten Audio products have evolved over the years to include four distinct microphones: the "Clarion" solid-state low-noise FET, the "Horizon" cardioid tube, the "Oceanus" condenser transformer-less tube, and the "Torch" pressure gradient condenser tube. Each microphone has received rave reviews from both experienced recording engineers and leading pro audio magazines around the world.

"We are extremely excited about bringing on the Lauten Audio microphone line," said Simon Côté, Manager of Professional Products at Audio Plus Services. "The pro audio market has already embraced the quality and sound of these excellent microphones over the past few years and I am sure that our dealers across North America will welcome their product line for their customers. We look forward to a successful sales and marketing relationship with Lauten Audio!"

Brian Loudenslager, Founder of Lauten Audio added, "Audio Plus is a great fit for Lauten Audio and the perfect partner to help us expand our presence in North America. It also allows us to continue our focus on research, engineering and new product development, and work as team to ensure the right products enter the marketplace at the right time. We are very excited to team up with Audio Plus and looking forward to a successful partnership."

Sales Contacts:

USA: Simon Cote - scote@audioplusservices.com

Canada: Ron Sluzar - ron@pacificislandaudio.com

Lauten Clarion FC-357 Review

Check out the review of our Clarion FC-357 microphone by Audio Media Magazine.

Follow this link to our reviews and quotes section: http://www.lautenaudio.com/fc357-clarion-microphone-reviews-feedback.htm

A Phone Call from Robert Jason, Songwriter Producer

We get many phone calls here at Lauten Audio and often times people call just to say how much they love our microphones. Robert Jason was one of those callers.

Randy Kohrs, a long time advocate of our microphones had recommended that Robert try our Clarion FC-357. Robert has been in the industry a long time now and worked with Alabama, Reba McEntire, Barry White, Fox Brothers, Randy Kohrs, ABC, NBC, MTV and New Line Cinema just to name a few. See his full credit list at www.robertjason.com. Robert talked in length while he was driving home with the occasional interruption of police or fire sirens. By they we recommend hands free devices in the car :-). Robert mentioned other mics he had used and where the Clarion FC-357 was excelling.

We love these conversations and it's one of the reasons why we love what we do. At the end of the conversation I asked if he could send us an email with a brief summary of his thoughts on the Clarion. We have provided his quote verbatim below.

"While I can say the Lauten FC357 did a very fine job handling male vocals, it was a session with a female artist that just made my day. Generally, female vocalists can be a bit more challenging to record than male, but the Lauten handled everything she could dish out, all with a smooth, linear, musical result. Who she is is what I got. The low notes of the melody cut through rich and warm, with no proximity effect whatsoever. Despite this microphone's truly modest price of $699 (MSRP) there is NO doubt the Lauten FC-357 mic SOUNDS expensive!"

Robert Jason, Songwriter Producer

www.robertjason.com

Scott Kinsey - Lauten Artist Brief

Jazz synthesizer kingpin Scott Kinsey has been keeping very busy lately. In addition to touring the world with his band the Scott Kinsey Group and the Jimmy Herring Band, he is currently completing work on a new Solo album, putting the finishing touches on the debut Human Element CD (feat Scott, Matthew Garrison, Gary Novak and Arto Tuncboyaciyan) and soon starting work on what will be the first new Tribal Tech CD in 10 years! One important thing all of these new recordings have in common is the Lauten Audio Oceanus and Horizon microphones. "These new microphones are really taking my recordings to a whole new level. They have become my first choice when recording drums and are equally amazing on vocals and saxophones. They really have a unique character to the sound and are making a huge improvement in the quality I can produce out of my studio. I love them!"

Lauten Audio on display at AIMS Show Australia

Come see Lauten Audio microphones at the 2010 (AMAC) Australian Music Association Convention and (AIMS) Australian International Music Show!

übersonic will be displaying the Lauten Audio microphone line in booth number 84

MusicTech Review the Clarion

MusicTech magazine recently reviewed our Clarion FC-357 microphone.

To quote their website. "Some microphones make you feel excited about plugging them in on first sight. It’s hard to define why, but the Lauten Clarion is a case in point. Maybe it’s the classy satin sheen of the metallic grey finish, the crispness of the enamelled badge or the sheer weight and solidity of the build. Either way, this mic impresses before you’ve even removed it from the bamboo box. Other accessories include a suspension cradle shockmount and a slip-over windshield."

Head on over to MusicTechMag.co.uk to download and read the entire review.

Review location: http://www.musictechmag.co.uk/mtm/reviews/clarion

ACOUSTIC GUITAR SAMPLES

Continuing our sound samples from the Chi McClean session at Broken Radio studios in San Francisco we now present Acoustic Guitars. For this session we recorded a Taylor 814ce and a Gibson J45. These two guitars have very different tonal qualities. The Taylor had newer elixir strings and the Gibson had strings of an unkown age, but didn't seem too old.

For these samples we used the Summit Audio 2ba221's and ECS-410 Everest, Brent Avril Neve 1272's and Universal Audio 710s. All of the Lauten Audio microphones were used including our Torch ST-221's in X/Y stereo.

The sound sample starts off with finger picking and then Chi picks up a pick (is that too many picks in one sentence?) for the strumming.

The files are in 24bit/96k and again no compression or EQ was utilized. These files are quite large and we recommend downloading them to your local harddrive prior to listening.

You can access these sound samples in our Lauten Session page here.

Welcome Match Audio & Vision - Netherlands

We would like to welcome Match Audio & Vision to Lauten Audio's network of distributors. Based in Nieuw-Lekkerland, Netherlands, Match AV, is a highly experience team of audio/video enthusiasts and professionals. They will import and distribute the entire Lauten Audio line in the Netherlands.

For more information head on over to their website Matchav.nl

MALE VOCAL SAMPLES ARE UP!

Male vocal samples are now available in the Lauten Sessions area of our website. Look for the Vocals - Chi McClean link under Solo Voice and Vocals.

A couple months ago we spent the day with Producer/Engineer Matt Boudreau at Broken Radio Studios in San Francisco recording Chi McClean, a fantastic singer/song writer with excellent vocal tonal quality. These sound samples are available in 24bit/96k wav files for a high quality listening experience.

We used our Clarion, Oceanus and Horizon microphones for this session a long with a nice diverse selection of preamps including the Summit Audio Everest; my favorite for this session by the way), the Summit 2ba-221, Brent Avril 1272's for you Neve fans, and the Universal Audio 710's.

The signal chain for this session was Mic -> Preamp -> Lynx Aurora Converters -> Pro Tools. As with all our samples, we used ZERO EQ and ZERO Compression.

Feel free to load these into your preferred audio editing software and add EQ or compression. Since these audio files are quite large we recommend downloading them to your local computer before playing. If you want to use these files for anything other than to hear what Lauten Audio microphones sound like, please contact us for usage rights.

Enjoy!

P.S. Next up Taylor 814ce and Gibson J45 Acoustic Guitars!

Paul Ramsay Interview

Paul Ramsay is the FOH (Front of House) engineer for acts like The Who, Doves, Skunk Anansie and Anne Lennox. Our distributer, The Audio Professionals, recently sat down with Paul at Shepperton Studios in London prior to a rehearsal with The Who. Paul had some nice things to say about his Horizon Tube microphone.

Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w7UoPSiR7g