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Live Sound Showcase: Not Just Good; Thorogood
George Thorogood is many things—a guitar slinger, band leader and the man who wrote “Bad To The Bone,” the go-to track for every Eighties...
Clive Young is the co-editor of Mix Magazine and editor of MixOnline.com. He was the editor in chief of Pro Sound News (Future's U.S. Magazine of the Year - 2019) and has been nominated twice for "Best Range Of Work By A Single Author" in the annual Neal Awards. He is the author of two books, "Crank It Up: Live Sound Secrets of the Top Tour Engineers," and "Homemade Hollywood: Fans Behind The Camera." Additionally, he has spoken at more than 400 libraries, universities, museums, academic symposiums and conventions. Young earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Hofstra University and is an adjunct professor at St. Joseph’s University New York.
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The Advocates of Connection
In PSN, we often boil the idea of “good sound” down to equipment specs, but that only tells part of the story, because pro...
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AES Ceremonies Look Back, Ahead
At the Opening Ceremonies of this year’s AES Convention, held October 29-November 1 at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, the...
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The Beatles’ Studio Goes On The Road
The Beatles were nothing if not ambitious, and it seems that every time someone looks to shed new light on the Fab Four’s history,...
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Studio Arson Causes $1.25m Damages
By Clive Young. Kiva Recording Studio, located on Rayner Street in Memphis, was the site of an arson fire in the early morning of...
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How U2 FOH Legend O’Herlihy Tackled the Innocence + Experience Tour
There were a lot of dramatic stories leading up to U2’s Innocence + Experience world tour. Most of them are easily Googled, but here’s...
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An Experiment in Colorado
You’ve probably seen the attitude before—clueless people who say “It’s a big facility that’s a relic from another age.
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Community Sells Majority Stake
Belgium-based Audioprof Group has purchased a majority stake in Community Professional Loudspeakers.
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Bob Moses On Bob Moses
Between a rising debut album and near-incessant touring, Canadian dance music duo Bob Moses has made a name for itself, catching a ...
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John Fogerty Tour Hits A Home Run
by Clive Young. John Fogerty wrote classic after classic while he led Creedence Clearwater Revival, then kicked off his own revival in the 1980s...
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View From The Top: Matt Ward, Plugin Alliance
Some of the most interesting developments in pro audio these days are happening in the world of plug-ins, so it’s only fitting that Plugin...
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Spacelab9 Lands At New York Comic Con
The annual New York Comic Con might not seem like a place you’d find an audio-oriented company, but for Spacelab9, NYCC was a perfect...
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Book Review: Stomp On This! The Guitar Pedal Effects Guidebook
Stomp boxes have seen a resurgence in recent times, and no wonder: Everybody likes cool sounds and pedals provide a wonderfully tactile way to...
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Community Sells Off Majority Stake
by Clive Young. Belgium-based Audioprof Group has purchased a majority stake in Community Professional Loudspeakers. Summing up reactions inside the company, Community CEO Steve...
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Inside Recording Clutch’s Psychic Warfare
Kings of heavy rock since the early Nineties, Clutch went into the studio in early 2015 with producer/engineer Machine (Lamb of God, Every Time...
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NYC’s Avatar Studios Up For Sale
By Clive Young. A legendary studio by any measure, New York’s Avatar Studios has gone up for sale. One of the last surviving big...
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View from the Top: Matt Ward, Chief Executive Officer, Plugin Alliance
Overseeing Plugin Alliance is Matt Ward, who brought a lifetime’s experience to the table when he joined the company in January 2014.
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Foo Fighters Tour Puts Grohl On Pedestal
By Clive Young. Main Foo Fighter Dave Grohl’s broken leg hasn’t stopped him from rocking crowds on the band’s current tour, but it may...
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Dale Pro Audio Debuts New Location
By Clive Young. Manhattan-based Dale Pro Audio has expanded with a second location in Queens, NY at the Jamaica LIRR Station. Under development since...
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The Sound Company at Ground Zero on 9/11
When the Twin Towers came down on September 11, 2001, one sound company was particularly affected: RSA Audio of Edgewood, NY, which had been...
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Music To Tune A PA By
The advent of digital recording has forever changed the music industry, and it’s certainly affected the live sound experience, too.
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White Noise Wackiness
If system engineers use white and pink noise to tune a concert PA, and audiophiles vehemently insist that everything sounds better on vinyl, how...
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School Days, Then And Now
Stanley Clarke's "School Days" may be a jazz fusion classic from the mid-1970s, but if you go hear him live in concert today, be...
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Is Recording’s Next Generation at the Library?
Faced with changing demographics, shrinking budgets and yes, dwindling book-circulation numbers, many quick-thinking libraries have begun reinventing themselves by adding Maker Spaces:...
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VIDEO: The Battle to Capture Battles
Battles has always been an interesting band, staking out a musical space somewhere between the conformity of modern electronic loop-based music and the improvisational...
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Rooting Around The Tonight Show’s Sound
Serving up host Jimmy Fallon, three-time Grammy-winners The Roots and an endless supply of musical guests, 'The Tonight Show' uses a complex but flexible...
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Sneak Peek: AKG’s N90Q By Quincy Jones Headphones
Focused as we are on Pro Audio, we don’t usually wade into the waters of commercial audio products, but when AKG invited us...
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Something is Rockin’ in the State of Denmark
Volbeat may have been founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, but the heavy metal band is known around the globe—as its headlining run through North America...
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Something Is Rockin’ In The State Of Denmark [Online Extra]
The July, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News features a Live Sound Showcase on the current Volbeat world tour; what follows is a longer,...
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U2 TM Sheehan Passes
NEW YORK, NY—U2’s longtime tour manager, Dennis Sheehan, 68, died on May 27 in Los Angeles, just hours after the band completed the first...
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Fanarchy Vs. The Usual Way
It’s easy to get stuck in "the same old way of doing things," just because that’s how we’ve always done them. If we’re lucky,...
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Building On Clearwater’s Legacy
by Clive Young. The Clearwater Festival—officially known as Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival—is one of the longest-running multi-day musical events in the Northeast. Held...
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Book Review: The Insider’s Guide to Home Recording
With an authoritative title like The Insider's Guide to Home Recording: Record Music and Get Paid, an engineering book had better be able to...
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Live Sound Showcase: Papa Roach
They say bands don’t sell records in the new Millennium, but since its major label debut in 2000, Papa Roach has sold 20 million...
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VIDEO: Building A Shipping Container Studio
Matt Dever is an Australian sound engineer who specializes in recording entire tours for instant 2-CD sets released at the end of each show;...
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A Gun at Front of House
House engineers hate it when touring engineers try to revamp their audio systems. Touring engineers hate using poorly assembled house systems that barely function....
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U2 Tour Manager Sheehan Passes
by Clive Young. U2’s longtime tour manager, Dennis Sheehan, 68, died early Wednesday morning in Los Angeles, just hours after the band completed the...
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Musicians Institute Hits The Ebooks
There's more to Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA than musical training. With that in mind, the venerable college has released an ebook, Want A...
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VIDEO: Recalling Recording Springsteen’s “Born To Run”
Forty years ago, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded some of their breakthrough Born To Run album at 914 Sound Studios...
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Austin Signal Cuts to the Chase
It’s no secret that record pressing plants are heavily backlogged these days. Aiming to help out bands and simply learn something new, Texas-based Austin...
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Live Sound Showcase: Marc Anthony – Touring on a Need to Know Basis
Playing a handful of Northeast dates early this year—it’d be more accurate to call it a series of one-offs than a mini-tour—the artist and...
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Martin Luther “ML” Procise III, 1953-2015
NEW YORK, NY—Legendary live sound pro Martin Luther “ML” Procise III died in his sleep on March 4 in Dallas at the age of...