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Audition for Mac on the Studio1A Mac Pro.

It seems like yesterday. I was working in a cramped radio station production studio with sound effects libraries on vinyl, cart machines and reel-to-reel decks to the left and right of the mic boom. Creating and editing a good spot was easy if your razor blade was sharp and your splices were marked well. How far we have come.

Today, Adobe announced that Audition for Mac is available as a public beta download. Having worked with the beta for some time, I can tell you that it’s come a long way. For many years, Audition fans (including myself) have clamored for a Mac version. Today, Adobe makes multi-track History for droves of fans that needed more in a Mac based multi-track editor and recorder.

I’m most happy about what Adobe did not do. So many ports of great programs get lost in the translation. Not with Audition. If you’re a seasoned Windows Audition user, you should be editing and bouncing in no time at all. The interface was designed to be as close as possible to the Audition we know. New highlights include intelligent multi-core CPU support on a completely re-built playback engine, World-class audio restoration tools, thousands of royalty free loops, effects and beds and much more.

All of this is great, but nothing beats turning to my Mac Pro and being greeted by an old friend. The search is over.

At Studio1A, we’ll be following up with you and tracking Audition for Mac to its final release. Stay tuned!

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Just in time for your big Thanksgiving trip, check out these new best selling audio books over at CastLibrary.com.

1. Decision Points by George W. Bush

Summary: President George W. Bush describes the critical decisions of his presidency and personal life.

Decision Points is the extraordinary memoir of America’s 43rd president. Shattering the conventions of political autobiography, George W. Bush offers a strikingly candid journey through the defining decisions of his life.

In gripping, never-before-heard detail, President Bush brings listeners inside the Texas governor’s mansion on the night of the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard Air Force On…

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2. The Confession: A Novel by John Grisham

Summary: An innocent man is about to be executed.

Only a guilty man can save him.

For every innocent man sent to prison, there is a guilty one left on the outside. He doesn’t understand how the police and prosecutors got the wrong man, and he certainly doesn’t care. He just can’t believe his good luck. Time passes and he realizes that the mistake will not be corrected: the authorities believe in their case and are determined to get a conviction. He may even watch the trial of the person wrongly accu…

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3. Worth Dying For: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child

Summary: Number-one New York Times best-selling author Lee Child follows the electrifying 61 Hours with his latest Reacher thriller – a story that hits the ground running and then accelerates all the way to a colossal showdown. There’s deadly trouble in the corn country of Nebraska… and Jack Reacher walks right into it. First he falls afoul of the Duncans, a local clan that has terrified an entire county into submission. But it’s the unsolved case of a missing child, already decades-old, that…

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4. Hell’s Corner by David Baldacci

Summary: John Carr, aka Oliver Stone-once the most skilled assassin his country ever had-stands in Lafayette Park in front of the White House, perhaps for the last time. The president has personally requested that Stone serve his country again on a high-risk, covert mission. Though he’s fought for decades to leave his past career behind, Stone has no choice but to say yes.

Then Stone’s mission changes drastically before it even begins. It’s the night of a state dinner honoring the British prime minis…

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5. American Assassin by Vince Flynn

Summary: Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorist’s worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world… and then tragedy struck. Two decades of cutthroat, partisan politics has left the CIA and the country in an increasingly vulnerable position. Cold War veteran and CIA Operations Director Thomas Stansfield knows he must prepare his people for …

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6. The Reversal: Harry Bosch, Book 16 by Michael Connelly

Summary: Longtime defense attorney Mickey Haller is recruited to change stripes and prosecute the high-profile retrial of a brutal child murder. After 24 years in prison, convicted killer Jason Jessup has been exonerated by new DNA evidence. Haller is convinced Jessup is guilty, and he takes the case on the condition that he gets to choose his investigator, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch. Together, Bosch and Haller set off on a case fraught with political and personal danger. Opposing them is Jessup, n…

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7. Fall of Giants: The Century Trilogy, Book 1 by Ken Follett

Summary: Fall of Giants is Ken Follett’s magnificent new historical epic. The first novel in The Century Trilogy, it follows the fates of five interrelated families – American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh – as they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man’s world in the Welsh mining pits…. Gus Dewar, an American law student rejected in love, finds a surprisin…

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8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue…. It’s about the disappearance 40 years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden…and about her octogenarian uncle, determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. It’s about Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently at the wrong end of a libel case, hired to get to the bottom of Harriet’s disappearance…and about Lisbeth Salander, a…

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9. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson

Summary: The stunning third and final novel in Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling trilogy. Lisbeth Salander – the heart of Larsson’s two previous novels – lies in critical condition, a bullet wound to her head, in the intensive care unit of a Swedish city hospital. She’s fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she’ll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have …

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10. At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson

Summary: From one of the most beloved authors of our time – more than six million copies of his books have been sold in this country alone – a fascinating excursion into the history behind the place we call home. "Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up." Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew …

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11. Pre-Order Dead or Alive by Tom Clancy, Grant Blackwood

Summary: Simply pre-order Dead or Alive now, and you’ll get to hear the first two chapters of the book before anyone else! And when the complete book – which is more than 20 hours long – releases on December 7, it’ll be waiting for you in My Library. Jack Ryan, the former president of the United States, is out of office, but not out of the loop about his brainchild, the "Campus" – a highly effective counter-terrorism organization that operates outside the Washington hierarchy. But what Ryan d…

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12. The Girl Who Played with Fire (Unabridged) by Stieg Larsson

Summary: The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal best seller The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ("An intelligent, ingeniously plotted, utterly engrossing thriller" The Washington Post ), and this time it is Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, who is the focus and fierce heart of the story. Mikael Blomkvist, crusading journalist and publisher of the magazine Millennium , has decided to publish a story exposing an extensive sex trafficking operation between Eastern…

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13. Freedom: A Novel by Jonathan Franzen

Summary: From the National Book Award-winning author of The Corrections , a darkly comedic novel about family. Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul – the gentrifiers, the hands-on parents, the avant-garde of the Whole Foods generation. Patty was the ideal sort of neighbor, who could tell you where to recycle your batteries and how to get the local cops to actually do their job. She was an enviably perfect mother and the wife of Walter’s dreams. Together with Walter – envi…

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14. The Help (Unabridged) by Kathryn Stockett

Summary: Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid, Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman rai…

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15. The Hunger Games (Unabridged) by Suzanne Collins

Summary: Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don’t live to see the morning? In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by 12 outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who l…

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16. Room: A Novel by Emma Donoghue

Summary: To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire world. It is where he was born and grew up; it’s where he lives with his Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a life for Jack. But she knows it’s not enou…

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17. The Heroes of Olympus, Book One: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

Summary: After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own: Seven half-bloods shall answer the call, To storm or fire the world must fall. An oath to keep with a final breath, And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death. Now, in a brand-new series from blockbuster best-selling author Rick Riordan, fans return to the world of Camp Half-Blood….

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18. Cryoburn: A Miles Vorkosigan Adventure by Lois McMaster Bujold

Summary: Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. Barrayaran Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan can hardly disapprove – he’s been cheating death his whole life, on the theory that turnabout is fair play. But when a Kibou-daini cryocorp – an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future – attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter, Miles, to check it out. On Kibou-da…

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19. The Way of Kings: Book One of The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson

Summary: [At nearly 46 hours long, this epic novel would normally require a cost of two credits. But we're happy to announce that through October 31st, 2010, AudibleListener members can get The Way of Kings - the first in the new fantasy series that everybody's talking about - for just 1 credit.] Widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time saga, Brandon Sanderson now begins a grand cycle of his own, one every bit as ambitious and immersive. Roshar is a world of …

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20. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race by Jon Stewart

Summary: Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a massive mission to write a book that summed up the human race: What we looked like; what we accomplished; our achievements in society, government, religion, science, and culture – all in a lavishly produced audiobook of approximately 200 minutes. Afte…

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The GXL3000 Studio Microphone from CAD Audio.

I first noticed the unassuming GXL3000 microphone as part of a BSW promotion. Intrigued by the low price; word on the ‘net was that this inexpensive (sub – 0USD) piece is a great performer.

After trying it out myself, I can say this one excels, even if you disregard the great price point. Why?

Before even plugging in, I liked the looks of this one. Squint your eyes a bit and stretch out the body. That little mesh crown at the top reminded me of a U47 on a diet. Looks aside, this model comes with a ‘pinch’ type shock mount …and a zipper leatherette pouch. You’ll find 3 pickup patterns included. Omni, figure-8 and cardioid. For everyday VO and speech/vocal work, I concentrated on cardioid. A glance at the microphones back reveals a 10db pad and a 100hz high pass filter.

How does it sound? Let’s fire up phantom and give it a try.

Well, the best answer is to listen in and hear the 3000 in Studio1A. In words, I would say it has excellent speech articulation. Nice and crisp. The bottom end is well cared for, allowing me to get by with barely a p-pop, even without a filter. I always listen for that articulation bump and how it is characterized. It gives a nice crispy, but subtle punch.

Let me know what you think? In the sub-0USD category, I think this is a lot of microphone for the money. That’s just my opinion though. Stop by and listen in!

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