All of us at Cube-Tec would like to take this opportunity to thank our clients and partners for making 2007 a banner year, and wish everyone a safe and happy Holiday Season. In recognition of the true spirit of Christmas, Cube-Tec has provided a donation to the "Música con vida - Music for survival" project. Please see below for project details.
QUADRIGA FOR U.S. Navy Band
Located in Washington D.C., the U.S. Navy Band has expanded its arsenal of equipment with the addition of a powerful Cube-Tec QUADRIGA / AudioCube system. The system was installed and commissioned by Cube-Tec's Thorsten Juettner at the U.S Navy Yard on the Anacostia River, and training was provided for Peter Czekaj, the primary system operator.. The Navy Yard has been designated a National Historical Landmark by the National Park Service and features the Navy Museum, the "home port" for Navy History. Over the course of the 3 day training session, much of the time was devoted to the design of combined digitization, restoration and CD burning workflows to best meet Peter's requirements
The U.S. Navy Band archive consists of about 3000 analog tapes in stereo and mono (5" (13cm) reels; 7" (18cm) reels; and 10" (27cm) reels) and approximately 250 DAT tapes.
The long term goal is to digitize all of the assests in the archive, some of which will be restored, so the QUADRIGA / AudioCube system is configured with several restoration tools as well. QUADRIGA provides quality controlled digitization from a variety of different players, and the captured material is catalogued, restored when necessary, and then transferred to CD.
Peter Czekaj in his studio, doing QUADRIGA
Peter's QUADRIGA system includes an 9-Pin Import Module with AudioFile-Inspector as well as the BWF-Editor. The initial digitization is done at 24-bit / 96kHz for a high quality version that can be restored when required, and then 44.1kHz / 16-bit versions are automatically created for transfer to CD. The AudioCube portion of the system comes into play for the restoration process, for which Peter uses several of Cube-Tec's most powerful restoration VPI's, including Azimuth; DeBuZZ; DeCrackler; DeNoiser; RepairFilter; SpectralDeHiss Expert; and FreeFilter.
In addition to the QUADRIGA / AudioCube system, Peter is using a Sony APR-5000 and a Revox PR-99 for tape ingest, an Apogee "Mini-Me" A to D, an Apogee "Mini-Dac" D to A, and monitoring through a Mackie 1202 mixer and Dynaudio BM6a speakers.
Cube-Tec Alum Christoph Bammann Wins Diploma Thesis Award
Each year, the Fachbereichstag Informatics (FBTI) hosts a competition
for outstanding student-papers, which are adjudicated by professors from
various locations throughout Germany. One of this year's highlights was
the award ceremony for outstanding student activities. Dipl.-Inf.
Christoph Bammann (26) was one of the five featured graduates, and was
honored for a paper he created at Cube-Tec International (Bremen,
Germany) in 2006. Full PDF article
Prof. Dr. U. Bühler (FBTI), Christoph Bammann, Monika Lappe-Heindörfer (Lufthansa Revenue Services GmbH)
Is it possible to fight drugs, violence and destitution with guitars and drums? Yes, said Magdalena Abrams (21) from Hamburg, Germany. During her one year stay in the slums of “Guasmo Sur“ (Ecuador), she succeeded in building a small music school for beggarly kids.
The schoolgirls and schoolboys of "Musicians Without Borders"
Fifteen music-students from north Germany shared her opinion and created the socially active group “Musicians Without Borders“ and became part of the music school established by Magdalena by continuing the kid’s music education in her honor.
In the summer of 2007, this group of music students from Germany went to Ecuador for the first time. They taught music in the slum for one month and produced a concert in Guayaquil (Ecuador). One of the participants was Jana Truszkiewicz, a trainee in media-design at Cube-Tec International in Bremen, Germany.
... Using Cube-Tec's SpectralDeHiss Expert in combination with RepairFilter and DeBuzz enables me to work with a much higher level of precision than any other plugins...
