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TuneStudio Gives New Home to Old iPods
By Dave Peterson | July 18, 2008
I confess to a growing interest in audio equipment. I blame the influence of Neal Campbell. He’s going to make an audio geek out of me yet. A couple of months ago, I bought a Blue Snowball mic, stand, and shock mount (okay, yes — a pop filter, too — see, it’s a sickness), ostensibly for voice-over use on an upcoming video project. I’d hoped that might be enough to quell the cravings, but now I’ve seen something else that perhaps I can’t live without.
The Belkin TuneStudio is a 4-channel audio mixer that records directly to an iPod in 16-bit, 44kHz quality, or will stream its output to a PC or Mac through a USB connection. It’s compatible with the iPod Classic, 2nd or 3rd generation Nano, or the iPod with Video (5th generation). Each channel has a 3-band EQ and phantom power on the two XLR inputs.
I always hate to get rid of old iPods, and this is a pretty nifty way to put an old one to good use. Thanks to The Red Ferret Journal for bringing this device to my attention.
Topics: Audio | 1 Comment »
July 5th, 2010 at 1:59 pm
pretty neat device. If they had only included insert point on the two mic inputs you could produce some pretty serious podcasts and live radio stuff. Too bad they didn’t, that means it’s only ever going to be an amateur sounding device.