— Waves expands its Modeling Series with four classic compressor / limiters developed with GRAMMY®-winning mixing engineer Chris Lord-Alge —

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL, July 15, 2009 — Waves Audio, a leading provider of digital signal processing solutions, continues its emphasis on collaboration with top engineers, producers, and mixers as it presents the CLA Classic Compressors, developed in collaboration with Chris Lord-Alge. With an engineering/mixing career spanning almost three decades, Chris Lord-Alge has worked alongside such artists as Green Day, U2, Tina Turner, James Brown, Nickelback, Rod Stewart, Santana, Steve Winwood, Celine Dion and many others. At the heart of his sound is a command of compression that gives each and every track he mixes its radio-ready punch. During the development process of CLA Classic Compressors, Lord-Alge worked closely with the Waves R&D team, resulting in impeccable models of four compressors considered true classics by audio engineers the world over. more

SAN FRANSISCO, CA – Auralex Acoustics recently aided the Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), which works to increase opportunities for women in the audio engineering industry, by improving the sound quality of WAM’s new recording studio with the addition of its state-of-the-art acoustical treatments. Auralex’s SonoSuede Panels, pArtScience SCREEN6 SpaceCouplers and its SonoFiber were installed in the control room to balance the audio quality of the space. more

Serafine joins top audio website with over 300,000 members offering more than 100,000 premium sounds and loops by top industry pros

Soundsnap.com, the leading sound library and community on the Internet, announces a new partnership with veteran Sound Designer Frank Serafine, who has worked on such films as Star Trek, The Addams Family, Field of Dreams and was part of the team that won an Oscar for Best Sound on The Hunt for Red October.

“I chose Soundsnap as my online partner because of their commitment to professional sound effects and their nice search capabilities, “ says Serafine of the partnership.

Serafine joins a team of notable sound design contributors including Paul Virostek (Million Dollar Baby, Ali, Batman Begins) and Ric Viers, who has produced sound effects libraries for Apple, Adobe, Sound Ideas, Hollywood Edge.

Soundsnap is the largest membership based sound library on the Internet. Used by music producers, sound designers, film editors, web designers, videogame developers and musicians, it has recently surpassed 300,000 registered members. Soundsnap features more than 100,000 sound effects and loops from some of the best Hollywood sound designers and cutting edge music producers in the industry. All content downloaded from Soundsnap.com can be used royalty free in any kind of production.

For more information, please visit: www.soundsnap.com