"Click Kicker" for Creating High Quality
Click Tracks
December 14, 1996
Many PC based MIDI sequencers, drum machines
and other common tempo producing devices provide metronome outputs of poor
quality. For years, recording industry professionals had relied on the clean,
easily heard "clicks" produced by high quality digital metronomes. Now,
with so much music production being conducted by computers and sequencers,
musicians and engineers make do with the beep-beep of Macintosh speaker
outputs or MIDI triggered percussion samples as metronome signals. A device
called the "CLICK KICKER" has been developed to produce high quality click
tracks with existing equipment.
The CLICK KICKER is designed to convert low level or inferior sounding
metronome outputs to clean, powerful clicks like those produced by professional
digital metronomes. The unit consists of a small "black box" with 1/4"
unbalanced input and output jacks and an external wall transformer type
power supply.
The metronome audio output of your tempo producing device (computer,
sequencer, sync box, drum machine, etc.) is connected to CLICK KICKER's
input jack. CLICK KICKER will trigger on each incoming signal and produce
a click pulse at the output without delay.
The unit is designed to produce clicks from pulse or tone burst type
metronome signals. Most percussive instrument sources, direct or recorded,
can also be used to trigger the CLICK KICKER. It may also directly drive
loudspeakers with impedance ratings of 8 ohms or more.
The CLICK KICKER is currently in use by top studios and composers from
coast to coast and is available directly from the manufacturer for $119.00
each. For more information:
Brunswick Instrument, Inc.
6150 W. Mulford St.
Niles, IL 60714
Phone: (847 )965-9191
FAX: (847) 965-9193
Email: 71213.153@compuserve.com
Contact: Kelvin Palmer
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