FOH Engineer Jamie Pollock is still out on Depeche Mode’s worldwide ‘Memento Mori’ tour – check out the RND gear he’s taken with him.

We are delighted to announce that the readers of Sound On Sound have chosen the Newton Channel as this year’s winner in the category of ‘Microphone Preamplifiers’. This marks the company’s seventh SOS Award – we’re extremely honored, and grateful to all SOS readers worldwide.

FOH Engineer Ryan Pickett has been mixing My Morning Jacket live for 20 years – and using RND gear for much of that time. Watch our interview with him here.

See you on January 24th in Los Angeles.

“I don’t really do a whole lot of outboard, and I love my S6L, but I was VERY pleased when I tried the 5059 Satellite. It adds space – width, depth, obviously tonal qualities, sure – but what really shocked me was using Silk.”

We discovered this post on the Production Expert website just before the holidays, and excerpts from it are shared below with kind permission from the author, James Richmond. Thank you James! We couldn't get you a 5088 for Christmas, but we truly appreciated this article.

Vintage King Audio recently installed a 5088 in their Los Angeles showroom, and invited us over for a conversation about the history, design, and philosophies behind our flagship piece of recording & mixing equipment.

Though the majority of our customers use our equipment in the context of music production and live sound reinforcement, we occasionally hear about other manufacturers using our products to do what they do – in this case, creating an amazing virtual instrument for Kontakt 7.

“The Master Bus Transformer completely replaces all the plugins on my mix bus, and it is extremely easy to use. The EQ on the input stage is perfect, Super Silk replaces all my tape and saturation plugins…Super Silk is a wow factor when mixing, it shapes the music in a crazy musical way. I had to leave the room and scream because it just all made sense.”

Meet the 3rd Edition 5088 Custom LEGO® Building set, available Monday 12/18/23 @ 12pm EST.

Dave Catching (Eagles of Death Metal, earthlings?) takes us on a tour of a few of his favorite things over at Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree, California.

FOH Engineer Brad Divens (Disturbed, Enrique Iglesias) walks us through his rig and explains how he's using a veritable mountain of RND gear to do what he does so well.

We recently heard about a customer who’d racked up 16x Newton Channels together, and obviously needed to learn more about this amazing rig.

MxU invited us on their podcast, and we were more than happy to join. Listen here.

“We award full marks to Rupert Neve Designs for this exceptionally capable and versatile channel strip, which not only sounds fantastic, but is also well laid out and boasts excellent build quality.”

We’re jealous of Pål’s home studio…

Austin-based musician & engineer Andy Macintyre has owned a 5057 Orbit 16x2 Summing Mixer for about 2 years, and we checked in with him to see what it was doing for his home studio.

Thank you, SOS! Voting is open now through the end of November – follow the link to cast your vote.

“I always find it gratifying when audio equipment really behaves in practice as the theory suggests. The preamp of the Newton Channel delivers extremely high-quality results with pronounced but smooth highs.”

When we saw that FOH Engineer Kyle Gerhart (Scott Stapp, Fuel) had added an MBT to his rig – thus completing the MBP + MBC + MBT trifecta – we couldn't resist reaching out to ask how everything was sounding.