Front End Audio

Front End Audio is pleased to announce that it is now the exclusive distributor of Mooktronics Research products. "I'm excited that Front End Audio will be distributing Mooktronics Products. The people at Front End Audio have the right knowledge of professional audio gear and it’s use combined with a great attitude and commitment to service that makes people glad to have chosen to work with them. It’s a great partnership", states Ben Mook; Mooktronics Research’s founder and designer. Mooktronics’ first product is the PDI 500 - a passive Direct Injection module designed for the 500 series format offering the choice of either a Jensen or Cinemag transformer as well as a multiple pad settings. Though many 500 series microphone preamplifiers include direct injection on their front panels, a separate dedicated DI has it’s advantages. Mook explains, "Some engineers prefer the tone instruments produce when terminated to a transformer, and using preamps already availabl...

Last week, Simon Côté from Focal Professional , stopped by Front End Audio to welcome us to their family of authorized dealers and to conduct a thorough training and demonstration of the whole of the Focal Professional line of studio monitors. “We are very excited about taking on the Focal line” says Sales Manager Alan Moon. “The quality of reproduction afforded by Focal’s unique design technologies and years of manufacturing expertise, make for a line of studio monitors that will not only allow you to make mixes that will easily translate to the outside world, but will also allow you to very quickly tune into the minutiae and quickly tweak elements that you would probably have missed if monitoring on other monitors. For example, while evaluating a pair of the Twin6 Be monitors, I had pulled up a mix that I had been working on using a pair of monitors that I have really gotten to know over the past year. I immediately heard balance problems and a reverb buildup that I had been buri...

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