Come Find Us at PVDFest!

by Kia Davis | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog, Music News, Your Heaven Press

Come Visit us at PVDfest 2019!

By: Allie Trionfetti

Jesús Florido

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Want more information about our CloseUp® System for guitar and bowed strings? Check out our Products page!

I had the honor of interviewing Jesús Florido this past week, and what fun it was! He is full of laughter and smiles, and yet serious about his work and passion. This is the first of what we hope will be a rich and extensive new series of featured artists in this blog!

Saturday June 8th, 12pm–6pm

Sunday June 9th, 12pm–4pm

Come meet Steve, CEO of Your Heaven® Audio, as he demos our CloseUp® System on guitar and violin. Equipped with both headphones and an amplifier, you’ll get the chance to see how our amplification and recording system isolates the true sound of your acoustic instrument.

The CloseUp^® System uses proprietary algorithms developed over years of acoustic research with hundreds of instruments played by dozens of performers to customize itself to the unique sound of your instrument. Our simple, step-by-step process allows you to tailor your CloseUp^® System to your instrument so it sounds real, natural, and acoustic every time. And for additional customization, you can use the EQ module and tone controls to tweak your sound for artistic effect.

Come and see for yourself!

What is Maker Faire?

Maker Faire is a gathering of fascinating, curious people who enjoy learning and who love sharing what they can do. From engineers to artists to scientists to crafters, Maker Faire is a venue for these “makers” to show hobbies, experiments, projects.

We call it the Greatest Show (& Tell) on Earth – a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity, and resourcefulness.

Glimpse the future and get inspired!

Check out our Your Heaven Audio CloseUp System on the Products page.

…more about PVDFEST

PVDFest welcomes its fifth edition with countless opportunities to dance in the streets and experience Providence with thousands of your closest friends! With stunning spectacles curated by FirstWorks and artists from around the corner and across the globe, you won’t want to miss it– for more information visit: www.PVDFest.com

HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!

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Close Up – Innovative microphone system gives minimal leakage (STUDIO IDG)

by your heaven audio | Mar 7, 2017 | Your Heaven Press

NEWS Your Heaven Audio has developed a technology that enables you to have sound quality and authenticity with expensive studio mics – but without leakage and the risk of acoustic feedback.

Recording of the acoustic instruments, or lira LARP with them, is called a challenge, even if you are an okay sound engineer. Close Up looks like a DI box, but a couple of snap more useful than that. The system consists of three components: a small box of electronics and two different microphones. A pickup is the acoustic guitar and the other is for string instruments.

The box contains the processors, who in turn work with algorithms that are listening in your instrument’s special character and then adjusts the sound recording for it. Software for Mac and Windows included, and the entire adaptation process takes about five minutes to complete. The technology used in Close Up is patent pending.

Close-up box can save four different instrument settings, while you can store in your computer, of course. The unit contains a rechargeable battery that lasts four hours or so driven with power via a USB connection.

The price of a Close Up is about 3100 SEK. Shipping will. More info can be found on Your Heaven Audio’s website and here you can see a video of Close-up system:

Your Heaven Audio | CloseUp System from Rob Ranney on Vimeo .

READ THE FULL PRESS ARTICLE HERE.

2017 NAMM SHOW: FRIDAY REPORT (THEGEARPAGE.NET)

by your heaven audio | Mar 7, 2017 | Your Heaven Press

AMPS & CABS

I had a meeting set up with Evan (a.k.a., MasterEvan07) from Fryette and he showed me some of the cool stuff that they had on hand at the show. On the Fryette side, they had the Valulator GP/DI, which is way different from the old VHT with the similar name. The GP/DI offers a flexible guitar preamp with gain controls for two different gain stages, allowing the user greater control over the nature of the overdrive. It also has a speaker simulator for running direct to FOH or into a recording interface. He also walked me through the Power Station, a reactive load / power amp enabling users to re-amp their rigs to manage volume or transform a cranked low-wattage amp into what is effectively a 50 watt rig. Finally, there was the Power Load, combining the reactive load of the Power Station with the speaker simulation of the GP/DI.

On the Sound City side, they have the Sound City 30, a 30W combo version of their larger amps.

A few years ago, I helped George Metropoulos with some tech issues on his web site (http://www.metropoulos.net). It was nice to finally meet him in person. This year, he’s introduced the SuperPlex, a head based on the JTM45/100 for those seeking a sweeter tone that that of the MetroPlex. It runs KT66’s in the power section at a somewhat lower voltage than the Marshall that inspired it to give a less strident top end.

FX

Boss is very much enamored of the Katana. I finally got a chance to sit down with one and try out a head. It probably sounds much better through a guitar cab but the speaker simulator in the device had the sizzle that seems to be something of a trademark in Boss modeling products.

This modular FX unit from Liberatoe has a variety of modules (24 at the current time) and packages them in a tidy little package.

Your Heaven Audio has a new product for micing acoustic instruments. You do some prep (they call it “profiling” the instrument) and then their mic will provide an “in the room” sounding signal to the mixer/interface. It seems to work well (sounds way better than any piezo) and the guitar version offered very good isolation in the din of Hall D (D is for “Drums”).

After much wrangling, I finally was able to see the mysterious HeadRush modeler from InMusic. To date, there was precious little info on the device. Here are my impressions: Physically, it’s a little smaller than Helix (mainly front to back). The touch screen looks great and the UI is very responsive. Mike (the demo guy) let me set up a couple presets from scratch and it was super easy to add/modify blocks as well as recording them. Foot switches are programmable on a per-preset basis and colors are user-selectable. There’s also a Helix-like hand-free edit mode so you can tweak tones while the device is on the floor. An editor app is planned but not currently available.

Okay, Alec. Enough about the pretty stuff, how does it sound? I thought it sounded pretty good. Mike’s presets were pretty wet with effects so when given the chance, I dialed up a preset with a plexi into a cab and nothing else. It sounded pretty much what I’d expect from a quality modeler in 2017 that has the benefit of IRs. The response to picking dynamics seemed good from what I could tell in a room where DJ gear was also getting demoed. I did something similar with a Vox model and thought it was good. I can confirm that their claims of gapless preset switching are true and was told (but did not test) that the device offers spillover.

The big thing that was missing from my demo experience was a Product Manager. First, there was the brain damage around getting into the room. It took a lot of time and effort on my part through multiple channels to get on their schedule. Mike could do a nice demo but nobody in the room could answer technical questions such as the processor(s) used and the number of samples used by IRs. Mike mentioned that the modeling algos “had their math rewritten”. Reading between the lines, it sounds like the algos are pretty much what was in the 11R with perhaps higher precision floating point arithmetic and higher internal sample rates.

As the videos indicate, the product is oriented towards artists in modern genres. While the device does have a lot of classic tones, I suspect that many of the enhancements will be oriented towards less traditional players. That doesn’t limit its ability to service traditional players but could offer some “interesting” features going forward.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

YOUR HEAVEN DEBUTS CLOSEUP MIC SYSTEM (CHURCHPRODUCTION.COM)

by your heaven audio | Mar 7, 2017 | Your Heaven Press

Acoustic instrument mic captures transparent sound for live applications

By CP Staff
January 20, 2017 10:36 am EST

Topics: NAMM 2017 News Feed, Industry Buzz, Product Announcements, Audio,
Tags: instruments, microphones, mics,

New technology developer Your Heaven has released its new CloseUp mic system at the 2017 NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Seeking to solve mic’ing issues with acoustic instruments, the CloseUp system is tailored for acoustic guitar, violin, cello, upright bass, drums, and other non-electric instruments in a live setting.

The company says that unlike traditional pickup systems, the CloseUp is sonically transparent, allowing the true sound of the instrument to be reproduced. A high level of feedback rejection suits the microphone for use in noisy, live settings as well as the studio.Along with live use, the system is also compatible with a USB interface, giving users the ability to record into any digital audio workstation.

READ THE FULL PRESS ARTICLE HERE

NAMM 2017: Your Heaven CloseUp Microphone System Review (Rexbass.com)

by your heaven audio | Mar 7, 2017 | Your Heaven Press

Aloha!

Setting up a microphone and getting the warm, authentic sound for an acoustic instrument is a tricky business, whether you are doing it for live performance or in the studio. Dynamic microphones are cheap, but are not always very high fidelity, and good condenser microphones are really expensive; both of these options will also pick up every other sound in the room. Of course you might have a great pickup system installed in your instrument, but those do not come cheap either.

There is another option out there for you to consider: Your Heaven Audio’s CloseUp System. Your Heaven Audio is based in Providence, Rhode Island and its founders studied music and technology at Brown University where they came up with the idea for this project as well as the EzQ Drum System. After years of development (including a few new patents) these products are now on the market, with applications for acoustic guitar, and string quartet instruments (viola, violin and cello), with models for other string instruments are on the way (including a double bass model!).

With the CloseUp System kit you will get the EzQ processor (the aluminum box with all of the electronics in it), the transducer, a soundhole cover for acoustic guitars, if you want (or need) to use one, a USB cable, a mute pedal, a 110-volt power adapter, and a TRS to XLR cable, all packaged up neatly in a really nice case.

The EzQ processor is the heart and brains of the system, and it is powered via a 9-Volt battery (for approximatley 7 or 8 hours of battery life) or through the USB port. This USB port can also be used for output to a recording device, with the other output being a balanced ¼-inch out. Inputs include the XLR microphone input and a ¼ footswitch jack that can be used to mute the unit. Controls are simple, with just tone and gain knobs. This is a very user-friendly unit!

Installation is a breeze, and it can be done with no tools as the microphone clips on to the instrument with no tools needed. The longest part (5-10 mins) of the installation is setting the unit up with your computer to configure it to your specific instrument. It just takes a few minutes of playing the instrument and clicking icons on the screen and you are done. There are four presets in the unit, so you can have up to four of your instruments saved in memory, in case you want to switch the microphone attachment over to another guitar or violin.

Your Heaven gave a nice demo of the CloseUp System at the 2017 NAMM show and I came away impressed. They had a mid-level steel string acoustic on hand that was equipped with an LR Baggs undersaddle piezo and preamplifier, and it was set up for an A/B comparison. I was already familiar with the Baggs system, as I have owned and played instruments with it before. It is a pickup that is “just good enough” with kind of an edgy tone, and of course there was good outside noise isolation due to its design.

I was a bit skeptical about how well the CloseUp System would work at the show because the Your Heaven Audio booth was right in the middle of the drum hall, which is a crazy and noisy environment. But, with the soundhole cover in place there was no outside noise coming through the microphone. I was even more impressed with the tone of that was produced by the EzQ processor. The sound was very natural, with none of the brittleness that I find with onboard piezo systems, so the inherent warmth of the instrument was allowed to shine through. As an added bonus, because it does not rely on undersaddle transducers, the balance from string to string very even, so I did not have to adjust my playing style to get the guitar to sound right.

Overall, I think Your Heaven Audio’s CloseUp System is a winner when used with the acoustic guitar. I did not get a chance to hear it on a violin, but from their demo videos it appears that this technology crosses over very well to other string instruments. Pricing is around $350 for acoustic guitars, which is a good deal when you figure out how much it would cost to have a nice system installed in your guitar, not to mention that this system can be easily moved from instrument to instrument. For more details and ordering information, head over to www.yourheaven.net

Mahalo!

NAMM 2017 DAY 2 Friday / Your Heaven Audio, ROLI, Gear Secure, Clear Tune Monitors, Zemaitis Guitars

by your heaven audio | Mar 7, 2017 | Your Heaven Press

Noisy Cavern Network
(Noisy Cavern Music Sessions)

Coverage of NAMM at the Anaheim Convention center

NAMM 2017
Anaheim Ca

Intro Music by:
Justin Amen and The Hybrids
“Enjoy the Ride”