Welcome to Dan Dugan Sound Design

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Dugan mixers have become essential components of CBS Late Night with David Letterman, and Oprah. Hollywood Squares said they couldn't do the show without it. "Dugans" are used for public affairs programs at WABC in New York, WETA (Washington Week), and WVIZ in Cleveland. The major staging contractors like A&M, Alford Media, AudioTek, AV Concepts, AVHQ, AVPS, BBI Engineering, Clair Soundworx, Creative Technology, Hi-Tech Rentals, LMG, Masque Sound, McCune A/V, OSA International, PLS Staging, Precise Corporate Staging, Production Plus, Promix, The Show Department, Show Sound, T.C. Furlong, Ultrasound, Video Equipment Rentals, Vista Productions and Visual Horizon Communications don't leave home without them. Dealers List

News and Status

The Model E-1 is now shipping!
Meet Dan at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, April 14-17, 2008. Dan will be demonstrating Models D-2 and E-1 at booth N4217.
Meet Dan at Infocomm in Las Vegas, June 18-20, 2008. Dan will be demonstrating Models D-2 and E-1 at booth C4477. Economical Protech Audio Dugan mixers for installed sound will be there, too.
Model E Firmware Updates: Check your Model E's web control panel for your versions of the firmware. Current versions are: Firmware 1.9, DSP 1.4, Web CP 1.4.
The Model E Manual is available for download.
Sound and Video Contractor profiled Dan as an "AV Industry Icon" in the May, 2006 issue!
D and D-1 maintenance upgrade: After many years on the road, some internal audio connectors in Ds and D-1s are becoming intermittent. An upgrade to higher-pressure contacts is available: click here.
Review of the Model D-2 in Pro Audio Review.
A Dugan Users Group mailing list is available for mutual support. Help others, get help!

photo: Fractured Frame

More Pages at This Site

Dugan Automatic Microphone Mixers: Introduction and Product Information

Notes to Letterman show demo tape

Low-Print Tapes For Dialogue

Dan Dugan Personal Page

Sections on This Page Below

Nagra Audio Recorders
Other Products for Location Audio Recording
Studio Services: Sound for Dance Performance & Figure Skating
Rental Equipment
Nature Sounds Society
Pro Audio Links

Nagra Audio Recorders

Dan Dugan Sound Design is the Northern California service station for Nagra recorders, made by the Swiss company Kudelski SA, Nagraaudio.com. We offer Nagra pro audio products for sale, custom calibration to high-performance standards, and warranty service with hundreds of parts in stock.

Nagra V

Nagra has issued a new edition of the Nagra V stereo recorder, incorporating many improvements suggested by users. The recording medium is now a removable ATA hard drive plus an optional internal hard drive. Timecode and a dual-channel modulometer are available as options. 24/96, BWF file format, M/S decoder, Pre-recording buffer, Battery powered.

ARES-PII+ Handheld Solid-State Recorder

The ARES-PII+ is an improved version of Nagra's hand-held solid-state (flash memory card) digital recorder with a microphone socket (mono or stereo) on top. It records mono or stereo uncompressed .wav files or MPEG files on PC-cards. Editing is possible in the field.

ARES-BB+ Location Solid-State Recorder

The ARES-BB is a field recorder with all the features of the ARES-PII in an over-the-shoulder package. It has larger controls, standard XLR connectors, and a USB port. The front panel tilts for table-top operation. Battery life (six AA) is eight hours.

ARES-M Location Solid-State Recorder

The ARES-M can be carried in your jacket pocket as a replacement for MiniDisc. It records mono or stereo PCM, or MPEG compressed files for longer recording times, in a 2 GB built-in memory. The unit is powered by two “AA” batteries that give 10 hours of operation. Equipped with a built-in mono microphone and a plug-on stereo microphone (shown above) for high quality audio recordings. The ARES-M offers instant start-up, one button recording, optional automatic level control and an internal loudspeaker.

Nagra Master Equalization

Most Nagra IV-S users ignore the second 15 ips position on the speed switch, labeled "Nagra Master." This is too bad, because it's a very useful tool. Read more about it here.

Nagraaudio.com

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Other Products for Location Audio Recording

Sales and Service

AEA M/S products, historical reproduction mics, ribbon mics, and audio accessories
Coles microphones
Cooper Sound Systems mixers and audio accessories
Denecke timecode products and audio accessories
K-Tek boom poles
Maxell DAT and cassette tapes
Sonosax mixers and audio accessories
Sound Devices field preamps, mixers, and recorders
Zaxcom Deva hard-disk field recorder

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Studio Services

Sound for Dance Performance

Ballet • Modern Dance • Ethnic Dance • Figure Skating

Working from live music, CDs, DVDs, LPs, or any kind of tape.
Seamless, on-the-beat music editing with Pro Tools
Changing tempo without changing pitch
Recovery of sticky tapes - baking sticky tapes
Restoration of old recordings
Stereo or surround sound production
Your program exactly the way you want it on a custom CD, DVD, MD, DAT, or analog tape.

CD Mastering

High-fidelity mastering without squashing the life out of it.

DVD Authoring

Surround sound production for home, theater, or presentation.

Audio Verification Service

Does this pressed CD sound like my CD-R? Did the pressing plant screw up my sound? We can do a subtraction test of source and product and make a definitive report on whether audio has been degraded or altered in any way. $150 per song.

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Rental Equipment

National: Dugan automatic mixers (please book well in advance)
National: ABX double-blind comparator system
Local: Nagra recorders and location recording equipment
Local: Some beat up but still good playback & sound reinforcement equipment that rents cheap