We would like to thank each and every one of you who supported us. We still believe the Ambient Microphone Kit is a life-changing device and we would love to see it go to the market. We may not have reached our funding goal, but we reached out to you and found out about the features you want in a device like the AMK, and that is far more valuable at this point.

The biggest takeaway from this experience: if you’re planning to do a Kickstarter Campaign, make sure you’re not doing it in the middle of everyone’s Holidays. Even with a solid plan, things can happen in unforseeable ways.

We would like to thank you again for your continued support for POSSE Audio.

Happy New Year!

The AMK let’s you “turn on” your environment without the need to remove your headphones. Keep those tunes blasting without losing touch of your environment. Not only for your own safety, but for the safety of those around you.

Do you have an active family member that can’t hit the streets or slopes without first plugging into their mp3 player? The AMK will keep them safe and happy

Safe Travels & Happy Holidays!!
from POSSE Audio

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The AMK is a kit that enables you to hear whats happening around without having to take your earbuds out when you’re listening to music. This tech was originally designed for performing musicians to be able to talk to eachother on stage with the POSSE Audio PM01. The AMK gives you that same technology an a smaller, more affordable, and portable package.

The facts displayed in the article below are a big reason why we want to branch out from just performing musicians; this device has some serious potential as a safety device.

Below is an excerpt from an article published in May, 2014 by the Baltimore Sun:

“… a 37-year-old Aberdeen man was struck and killed by a CSX train because he was wearing earbuds and didn’t hear it approaching. Last week, an 18-year-old was killed by an Amtrak train in California as she stood on the tracks using earbuds to talk on her cellphone.

‘It’s akin to wearing sunglasses in the dark,’ said Dr. Richard Lichenstein, director of pediatric emergency medicine research at the University of Maryland Medical Center.

In nationwide research published two years ago, Lichenstein documented a threefold increase in the number of serious injuries to pedestrians wearing headphones between 2004 and 2011. The overwhelming majority of victims were, like Plympton, men under age 30. And more than half of the accidents involved trains, many of which had ‘sounded some type of warning horn prior to the crash,’ according to Lichenstein’s research …”

Read the entire article here:
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2014-05-27/health/bs-md-headphones-20140527_1_csx-train-earbuds-pedestrians

This week we would like to talk a little bit about wrapping cables. The cable wrap will be one of the most important aspects of our kit. If our wire management solution isn’t light, flexible and easy-to-assemble, its not a winner. But more important than that: will it be comfortable to wear? It’s tough finding a single solution to cover all of that criteria, so we’ve been experimenting with all kinds of tubing: silicone, braided, heat-shrink, fabric, split-cut, spiral-cut, wire-clips, all sorts of tape. There are pros and cons with each choice, but on top of that, there are many variables considering how many different types of headphones are already out there on the market. Some headphone wires have a thickness of up to 4mm! We want this kit to be universal, so the AMK will come with a combination of some of the cable management stuff we’ve been experimenting with, and possibly an extra set designed for thicker cables.

Technology is in a constant state of evolution. There is a set of components we have already picked out for the AMK, and if we had to start manufacturing it today, we believe everyone will be happy with that setup. But we’re always experimenting with new and different components, so you might notice the mic in the picture above is different from our previous update. The mic pictured above is a little bigger than the mics we’re ready to use for the AMK. The difference in sound quality between them is almost negligible, so we’re staying with our first choice.

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The big update today is about our windscreen protector! Using microphones outdoors, we needed to design something that can efficiently minimize wind noise without being too bulky. We just posted new pictures on kickstarter of our latest prototype with the windscreen protector. The windscreen protector has two parts. The acoustically-transparent screen, which effectively minimizing wind noise when using the AMK outdoors, and the shock-absorbing capsule, designed to keep wind out.

Every one of our backers wants this thing to happen, and we believe this is a game-changing device, we just need to get more people involved! We would like to invite you to flood our inboxes with your demands and ideas for the project. Whether it’s for the design or just helping getting our name out there, or maybe you have an idea for the logo. Whatever it is, we want to hear from you! Time is running out! So check us out on kickstarter, and tell us how you want to experience your ambient sound.

Thanks & Happy Holidays!

Besides the “Room” knob, the POSSE also has mixing knobs for your “Vocal Mic”, “Instrument” and “Aux” which is used to channel in the front-of-house mix. No other monitoring system has all of these features! The POSSE is also fully compatible with wireless microphone and monitoring systems to gain ultimate freedom on-stage for your performance.

The POSSE let’s you hear yourself with crystal clarity, so you won’t be singing or playing harder than you should, just so you could hear yourself, thus saving your strength for the next gig. You’ll hear better, sing better and play better because the POSSE let’s you choose exactly what you want to hear in your monitors. Every show you do will sound exactly the same in your monitors, freeing you from the grip of the grumpy sound guy who doesn’t really care about getting the right monitor mix for each musician. With the POSSE, you can quickly dial-in the same mix to every show. No longer do you have to worry about dealing with crappy monitors at your next venue.

POSSE can be set up in a number of ways to accomodate all types of musicians. Singers, Guitarists, Bassists, Keys and Drummers all love what the POSSE can do for them. Churches will often have a set of POSSE’s permanantly installed and daisy-chained to each other. It is completely compatible with wireless microphones and monitoring systems. POSSE is perfect for rehearsing or recording demo’s at home. It’s a simple set-up and the ambient mics give you the ability to hear what happening around you, like someone knocking at your door. Check out our page on setting up the posse to learn more.

Audio designers are required in essentially every advertising market — whether it’s to dub a TV present, mix a film soundtrack, or help make the newest hit CD — so you’ll find quite a few alternatives when it comes to discovering a job. However, the Institution of Work Data does advise that job rivalry for music designers in cities can be very intense since incomes are greater and the people are extremely capable. And it’s not just advertising markets either, media permeates every facet of modern life. You probably don’t realize how much prerecorded audio you actually listen to. Everything single recording you’ve ever heard has an engineer behind it, probably spending countless hours getting it to sound just right. So don’t be discouraged by our modern music industry, there’s a lot of work out there!

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Speaker Monitoring

Wedge – or presenter – tracking is the normal for both house companies and stay popular music organizations. In stay audio, the pitching wedges are fed from either a individual keep track of panel, which requires a divided from the level and makes a personalized made mix for each artist, or fed from the additional delivers of the front-of-house audio panel. Monitor pitching wedges are often very loud; they’re acknowledged with being one of the factors operating performers have to be so careful about their reading health. The benefits to pitching wedges are very crystal obvious — a lot of performers desire pitching wedges because it allows them to type a personalized made hearing atmosphere that features not only the pitching wedge and the mix returning from it, but their instrument amps and the re-verb of the room. However, most audiologists agree: the loudness of pitching wedges is bad for your reading. Wedge tracking is also difficult for operating companies who have to provide their own PA systems; the techniques are hefty and need a lot of installation time.

In documenting companies, presenter tracking is the normal. It’s complicated to get a excellent mix on headsets unless they’re very smooth and precise. Speaker tracking is also the best way to see what a mix will audio like on a wide range of techniques.

In-Ear Monitoring

In the beginning of in-ear tracking, designers like Marty Garcia at Upcoming Sonics were placing share Panasonic headsets in raw ear-molds attached to hard-wired amps. Now, 20 decades later, we have incredibly complicated in-ear systems; custom-molded earpieces with two or three audio system in each (to manage the mids, peaks, and amounts separately) are becoming the normal, and many in-ear screens are making use of normal techniques into their earpieces to decrease the discovering challenge on in-ears. In-ear tracking has several benefits, the biggest being reading preservation. Reducing yourself off from noisy level pitching wedges is a strategy, as you can control your amount and mix as you want it without difficult.

The negatives are, amazingly, just like pitching wedge monitoring: sometimes audience members force the in-ears higher than they should, losing that by doing so they can hit the same audio demand amounts as pitching wedge screens. Moreover, a lot of designers can’t get used to the privacy, which can be combated by using normal mics on level.