What's New?
This is where we'll announce the most recent
additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's
changed, take a look here first.
June 2005 - SoundPlug featured in
Entertainment Design. In the June edition of Entertainment
Design the SoundPlug was featured alongside of such notables as the i-pod in an
article about 'The Widgets We love'. Take a look...
11/20/03 -
SoundPlug at LDI. Once again those nice folks at HeatShrink.com
allowed me the corner of their booth to promote my inventions to the
entertainment industry. Thanks guys.
6/20/02 - Now selling
in England and Europe. For those of you
in the UK and Europe who have been wishing to buy the
SoundPlug but have been concerned
about import duty etc., we are now shipping from our distributor over there.
Check out our purchase page for more details...
6/18/02 - Check out the
new CheckMates my students built. As with last academic year,
my second year students all built their own
CheckMate. Check out the new pic.
3/26/02 - Introducing the LiteClip. I know that some of you who
work in Sound as well as Lighting find it difficult justifying buying a
DMXversion SoundPlug in addition to your regular audio SoundPlug. Well,
you don't have to worry any more. Check out the LiteClip.
12/12/01 - KeyClip, New Web Hosting, and Shopping Cart. A lot
has happened in the last couple of weeks. I have developed the KeyClip
for those of you who would like to keep their SoundPlug on their key chain
rather than in their pocket. Also, half way through trying to implement a
shopping cart purchasing system using PayPal my ISP decided to change the way it
does business with me and necessitated www.vizear.com finding a new home
(host). I'm sorry if any of you experienced any problems accessing
my site during the changeover. On a brighter note, the shopping cart now
allows you to buy more than one item at a time. It's pretty basic at the
moment, but should migrate out of the purchasing page to the product pages over
the course of the next couple of weeks.
12/1/01 - Live Sound
International pdf files corrected. For those of you that have been frustrated trying to read the pdf files of the LSI
articles on the ClipCop you are not alone. Unfortunately, that is the way
they came from the magazine (must be a mac thing!). Now, thanks to Grant
Bardsley, Head of Audio at the Citadel Theatre in Edmonton, Canada, you can
easily read the first installment of "Line Up and be Enlightened".
Check the pdf's out on our Downloads page. Thanks Grant!
11/18/01 - SoundPlug now comes in a male 5-pin
DMXversion. Just
like the audio signal SoundPlug, the 5-pin DMX version allows you to hear the
digital 'chirping' of DMX clocking frequency. Good enough to tell if the
cable is good and if there is signal. Same price and colors as the audio
SoundPlug.
11/16/01 - 'Order Now' links fixed
In my haste to put the SoundPlug on the site I screwed up my 'order now'
hyperlinks. Thanks to Bob Beck at Missouri Rep for letting me
know. You can now click on the link and go to my purchase
page. No reason now not to buy that stocking stuffer for your favorite
sound guy!!! Pssss check the site out after this
weekend. Your lighting buddies have stockings too!
11/06/01 - SoundPlug launched at LDI
You should have seen their faces as they put it up to their ear and
suddenly realized what it did. A sparkle in their eye and a big
smile. The biggest comment was "Duh! why didn't anyone
think of this before?" I came back with a couple of hundred
orders. A special thanks to heatshrink.com
who allowed me to be on their stand. "Thanks guys!"
10/28/01 - The
SoundPlug now shipping Those who have witnessed the demo
of the pre-production version have already put their orders in.
Now everybody can get one. It really is the cleverest little
thing since sliced bread. Really, check it
out.
8/1/01 - Sneak
Preview on new product The SoundPlug due out in the
next couple of weeks. No details as of this time except that no
self respecting audio professional should be without one.
5/22/01 - Provisional
information on new product - The CheckMate is a regular push button and LED continuity cable checker in
a rugged die-cast aluminum box that can check XLR's, NL4's, 1/4",
RCA's, MIDI, & 4mm Banana Plugs. My students each built one
this year. Instructions and Kits will be available by the fall. In the mean time, check out
how good they look.
5/20/01 - Development
of the MeterMaid and CopOut put on hold.
Sorry to disappoint anyone, but the both these products never made it
off the test bench last Fall as promised. It turns out that It
is just too difficult to work on any projects during the academic year
due to my Day Job. However, don't lose hope! The
CopOut has changed into something sexier and will be out by the end of
this summer
(I promise). Also, the MeterMaid has led me down another road
which should produce a very neat gizmo for us hum heads by next spring. The MeterMaid will probably have to wait until next
summer 2002.
5/10/01 - Vizear signs up with PayPal for
Internet sales. You can now order on-line using PayPal.
If you already have a PayPal account, just click on the respective
button on the how to order page. Those who wish to can still
send me an order form with a check as per previously. I received
my first PayPal order on Monday last week, and the buyer had a ClipCop
in his hands by Friday instead of having to wait the required 5
business days for his out of state check to clear. Now if I can
only build them quicker!
8/2/00 - ClipCop Circuit
Board wins Honorable Mention in PCB design contest... run
by the magazine Nuts & Volts and ExpressPCB who fabricate
the board. Not bad for a simple little board when you consider
what it was up against. To give you an idea, the second prize
went to a rocket control and data collection system. The prize
was a PalmPilot which I am in the process of learning how to use and
convert into something really useful.
7/10/00 - ClipCop gets new printed circuit
board. The ClipCop now boasts a new double
sided custom fabricated circuit board. The original circuit board, as published in the magazine Live Sound
International, was a generic board from Radio Shack. The new circuit board requires only the 22 components to be soldered to
it. All that additional wiring is now taken care of in it's double sided
design. Additionally, the new circuit board includes labels on the top
copper layer to indicate where each component is mounted - as can be seen
below.
New Circuit Board Design vs. Old Generic Radio Shack Circuit Board
- 7/10/00 - Vizear
gains internet presence. The much anticipated internet presence of the ClipCop which was first
published as a project in the trade magazine Live Sound International
(LSI) at the end of 1999 has finally arrived. David E. Smith,
the developer of the ClipCop has put the finishing touches on the
web-site www.vizear.com and they are
open for business.
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