LAVRY ENGINEERING SUPPORTS INSTITUTE FOR THE MUSICAL ARTS WITH LAVRYBLACK MP10

Massachusetts Intensive Summer Program Educating Teenage Girls in the Recording Arts Benefits from Contribution of MP10, Lavry’s Newest Stereo Mic Preamp

SEATTLE: Lavry Engineering (www.lavryengineering.com) is assisting in the development of the next generation of audio engineers, with its contribution of a LavryBlack MP10 Stereo Microphone Preamplifier to the Institute for the Musical Arts (IMA). A non-profit organization, the Massachusetts-based program’s mission is to support women and girls in music and music-related businesses.

“The genesis of IMA is all about music, and making a statement that we are changing the role of women in the music industry,” says June Millington, Artistic Director of IMA. “The pre-teen and teenage girls who attend the IMA recording camp get hands-on skills, business advice and the foundation for life-long relationships that will enable them to take the dream of moving women forward in the music industry, and turn it into an actual reality.

“We’re extremely appreciative that Lavry Engineering has contributed a LavryBlack MP10 to IMA -- having the Lavry Engineering equipment in our studio has had a profound impact on what we can teach in our intensive 10-day recording camp,” Millington continues. “It has all the transparency and air that a seasoned professional could hope for, but the toggle switches on its interface makes it so much easier for the girls to use. Our campers have to be able to run this studio by the end of the camp, and the LavryBlack MP10 is key in translating the notion of, ‘This is an easy piece of equipment to control: Now let’s use it.’”

Once the IMA campers learn how to operate the studio, which is built into a circa early-1800’s barn on the IMA’s rustic 25-acre property in Western Massachusetts, they find that the clarity and precision of the LavryBlack MP10 makes it ideal for a wide range of projects. “The sound of the LavryBlack is extremely clear, clean and smooth, with an extended top end,” reports Lee Madeloni, Engineer/Producer for IMA. “It gives us a lot of headroom – up to 70 dB of gain – which really lends itself to ribbon mics. We use them for everything from vocals to overheads to room mics, for styles ranging from rock, reggae, classical and beyond.”
The LavryBlack MP10 embodies Founder Dan Lavry’s design philosophy of sonic transparency. With features like wide range digitally controlled analog gain circuitry, impedance switch, and balanced or unbalanced outputs, the MP10 offers flexibility and ease of integration into both home and studio recording environments. Precise gain settings from 20 to 75 dB’s give the MP10 enough range to easily accommodate low output ribbon microphones, or feed unbalanced “-10dBV” inputs using high output condenser microphones without loss of signal quality. Designed to rival the sonic performance rivals of much more expensive units, the LavryBlack MP10 is extremely consistent over the entire gain range. Accurate matching of the two channels also makes the MP10 ideal for true stereo recording applications.
Also on site at IMA is a 4-channel LavryBlue MicPre. Designed for clean, transparent high end performance, LavryBlue MicPre provides state–of-the-art noise performance that accommodates even the weakest microphone signals, and a wide input range for the strongest mic signals. Ultra-low distortions across the complete audio frequency band insure maximum signal transparency at all gain settings.
For Lavry Engineering, donating the LavryBlack MP10 to IMA has been an extremely satisfying way to give something back to the pro audio community. “Lavry Engineering stands ready and willing to support the IMA,” says Priscilla Lavry, CEO of Lavry Engineering. “Women’s organizational abilities are legendary, and Lavry would like to see more women in audio. Women and men are at the very least equal in their ability to listen and make the decisions necessary to create great recordings.”

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About Lavry Engineering:
Lavry Engineering, located in Poulsbo, Washington, was founded by digital audio expert Dan Lavry in 1993. The company specializes in products for professional audio, broadcast, audiophile and surround markets designed to satisfy the growing demand for hi-res digital audio performance. Lavry Engineering’s Gold, Black and Blue product lines offer a range of systems accommodating a wide range of budgets and applications. For more information, please visit www.lavryengineering.com.
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About The Institute for Musical Arts:
For more information, please visit www.ima.org