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Will It Tune? Cardboard Speakers

Joseph Beaty — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:00:13 +0000

Episode 1 of Will It Tune? is here! How can the boys at Bongiovi Acoustics make cardboard speakers sound good? Watch and learn how to do it yourself using a few inexpensive components and the Digital Power Station (DPS) software. Feel free to comment or respond with a video of your own! Also, Like the song in this video? Check it out in full here- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0sRUPUKkcQ&feature=youtu.be

iHome iW1 Airplay

Joseph Beaty — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:43:52 +0000

Bongiovi Acoustics DPS technology is not just a plugin available at http://dpsplugin.com
It’s not just an iPhone app like you see here- http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bongiovi-dps/id434681565?mt=8
It’s also available right inside the iHome Airplay! A great Holiday gift for the music lover in your home! The iW1 can receive music from AirPlay sources such as iTunes, iPod touch, iPhone, and iPad. The iW1 also supports charging and local audio playback via USB by using the USB sync cable that comes with new iPods and iPhones. Learn more about it in the video above and give the gift of music this holiday season.

How To Connect Your Computer To Your TV

Joseph Beaty — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:00:19 +0000

Many of us use our computers as our main source for media. Why not plug it in to the big old TV and enjoy it a little larger? Joey Butera from DPS Insider talks about easily doing so.

Understanding Microphone Polar Patterns

Joseph Beaty — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:08:58 +0000

Audio Expert, Ryan Copt of DPS Insider and Bongiovi Acoustics talks about polar patterns for microphones. This is a great video for those of you wondering what settings would be best for different types of recording scenarios. Enjoy.

DPS Studio Series – Cassette and Vinyl Transfer

Joseph Beaty — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:00:41 +0000

Sometimes what seems so simple to us (a regular day with a client in the studio) is something very important to someone trying to get the job done. We figured we would show a light demo of how we transfer cassettes (or vinyl) to digital formats. If you have further questions or if you would like to share how you transfer cassette and vinyl to digital formats feel to visit http://dpsinsider.com and post in the forums. Take care!
DPS Team

DPS Plug-In – A Labor Of Love

Joseph Beaty — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:00:25 +0000

Check out this little video of Bongiovi Joe editing some drums. We love audio! Check it out and of course tell your friends about http://dpsplugin.com

Creative & Bizarre Uses Of The DPS Plug-In

Joseph Beaty — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:00:21 +0000

We get a lot of email and feedback about our product, The DPS Plug-In. Thank you so much for your thoughts and suggestions. The Bongiovi Acoustics team was excited when we heard about how one customer uses the DPS plug-in. Here is an excerpt from his email:

What I use your plugin for that is of the most importance is I have lots of language recordings I’ve made of Yanomamö Indians over the years with various gadgets under varying conditions and situations and the recordings vary greatly in sound level and equalization. Before having your plugin I was always having to adjust the volume. At night I like to start the recordings before I go to bed and listen to them as I fall asleep and listen to them if I wake up during the night. Often I’d wake up to something playing way too loudly or way too softly. Now it’s always just right. (Greg)

We would love to hear your stories and how you creatively use the DPS Plug-In. Sound off in our forums by going here:

Creative-Use-Of-The-Dps-Plug-In-Forum-Thread

Streaming Audio

Joseph Beaty — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:00:23 +0000

I have always been a huge fan of music. Going to the record store and picking up vinyl is still fun. Assuming you still have a record store in your town. I am also guilty of still listening to the CD. I usually have one CD in the car and I still listen to my favorites on my home audio system this way. Pristine audio is nice once in a while. If you compare it to your stock system in your car (playing an iPod) you will wonder why people are not still using CDs. However, I am on my PC or laptop when I work and I cannot help but stream audio. Pandora and various other streaming sites provide so so quality audio in the background of my day. I find it also useful in those situations where you are teaching someone a song on the guitar and your phone is in your pocket. Streaming Audio is convenience. We spend way more time online and on our phones. We like that sites like Pandora give us similar tastes. A way to hear new music that we might actually like. I feel the whole streaming audio and movies for that matter. I do it everyday. I still love to buy a piece of music that is top notch though. I guess mediocrity can stay in stream land.

The DPS Insider Forums

Joseph Beaty — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:15:53 +0000

So we do a little bit of everything on the DPS Insider page. We have a regular blog you can look forward to seeing updated many times a week. We also have a great cast of people within the audio field listed on the front of the insider page. We welcome all of you to say hey to all of us. One of the greatest things we have for all audio related talk as well as tech questions for our DPS Plug In technology is our official DPS Forum. Posts range from your favorite band (or DJ) to people just asking how to fix or use something. No matter what it is all about audio and community. Click the link above and say hello, ask a question and be yourself.

Making your music sound great

Joey Butera — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:00:24 +0000

I wanted to take a minute to talk about what makes the Digital Power Station truly unique among audio technologies… The DPS Plug-In has no fancy knobs or meters. It doesn’t have a Minority Report style user interface. It’s just a few buttons. So what gives? Why is it special?

It’s the people.

The buttons on the user interface switch between the different “profiles” you pick in the “preferences” window. So what is a “profile”? A DPS profile is definitely not your everyday “rock” or “jazz” or “hall” eq effect preset! Those presets-of-old tried to tailor the device to suit what you might want the music to sound like. Once you found the preset you liked on your old boombox it pretty much stayed that way, right? That ubiquitous smiley face eq curve. Or maybe you did it Twisted Sister style and slammed all those little eq sliders all the way up! \^^/,

Well, the DPS Profile is a whole new animal. The DPS technology is a powerful and adaptive tool that Bongiovi Acoustics audio engineers can use to optimize the audio for any device. And it is all done by hand.

Hence the people.

So a real live person (like Tony B, Phil or myself) sits down with the proper tools and “tunes” that audio device with the DPS technology to perform as close to an ideal as possible. The ideal we hold is the sound of music being played back in our studio control room. The control room is an acoustically accurate environment in which we have chosen speakers and amplifiers that match that space so we have the tools to create music that sounds great everywhere. The sound in our control room just reaches out and grabs you. And it also tells us what is right and wrong about the sound! So, short story long, the DPS technology optimizes an audio signal to be most efficient for a specific device. And that only happens after a Bongiovi Acoustics engineer has laid their hands on the thing.

You might ask another question… What gives you guys the right to muck about with my audio signal, buddy? The answer is a whole lot of years of making music come out of speakers! Tony got his start at Motown records in Detroit as an engineer when he was just 17 years old and has had the privilege of working with Jimi Hendrix, The Ramones, Ozzy Osbourne and many other music greats. Any of the other engineers that tune devices for the DPS technology have a minimum 15 years of experience behind a recording console. (Check out Power Station Studios ) Let us do the hard work so you don’t have to!

Tony actually invented the DPS technology as a solution to listening to music in his airplane. He has a small twin engine Comanche that has two propellers whirring right next to your ears. It is LOUD in the cabin. Any time he would play music over the stereo in the plane, it would be totally distorted and awful sounding by the time it was loud enough to be heard. After years of experimentation, eureka! The Digital Power Station was born; a device that creates a highly efficient audio signal that the speakers and amplifiers can easily reproduce. Music can be crystal clear in acoustically hostile environment and at low levels all while compensating for differences in volume between songs and restoring previously inaudible frequency content. Nifty!

So we are continually creating new custom profiles for all kinds of popular audio devices. The Windows version of the DPS technology is also right around the corner which vastly opens up the range of devices that can benefit from DPS. We want to be sure profiles are available to those of you who own these devices so let us know what you are using! It’s all about big sound from small packages.