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Slipknot returned to the road this past fall with support from longtime SR provider, Thunder Audio
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Slipknot returned to the road this past fall with support from longtime SR provider, Thunder Audio
by Clive Young. Don't let the name fool you: Foreigner is at home everywhere, still performs all over the world, led by guitarist/songwriter Mick...
ANNAPOLIS, MD—Tour engineer/production manager Jeff Kaplan was killed on January 7, when he was hit by an SUV following his own car accident on...
DALLAS, TX—Jack Calmes, who co-founded pioneering tour sound company Show-co, died of cancer on January 5 at the age of 71.
NEW YORK, NY—Larry Smith, producer of pioneering rap hits by Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow, Whodini and others, died December 19 at the age of 63.
NEW YORK, NY—While the Sound Reinforcement industry never comes to a halt, the winter months traditionally provide a brief respite sandwiched between the final...
One of the first studio engineers in England to break through into producing, Glyn Johns worked with the greatest acts of the Classic Rock...
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 15 years since Linkin Park broke out with its debut, Hybrid Theory, but 60 million albums later,...
Back in the early days of punk rock, FOH engineers had to make sure the console didn’t get hit by The Three Bs: Beers,...
As reported in Pro Sound News by Clive Young: Live sound pro M.L. Procise III died in his sleep on March 4 at the...
By Clive Young. Live sound pro M.L. Procise III died in his sleep on March 5 at the age of 62. A mainstay of...
The Glastonbury Festival is legendary in the UK festival world; founded in 1970, the five-day event has become the premiere music event of the...
by Clive Young. The building that houses historic Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia has been sold for $1.55 million, with the intention of renovating...
Vinyl records aren’t the only recorded format rebounding these days; the often overlooked world of audiobooks, too, has been experiencing a renaissance...
As Super Bowl XLIX illustrated all too well, sometimes it pays to do things the simple way (like, say, hand off the ball to...
The Pro Sound News team was all over this year's NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, sharing the sights with followers through an...
With a title like The Sound Book (W.W. Norton & Co.), you might expect Trevor Cox’s new tome to be a dry textbook full...
by Clive Young. Journeyman monitor engineer Ian Newton died of a heart attack at the age of 52 on December 19, 2014. A winner...
By Clive Young. Dallas, TX (January 7, 2015)—Jack Calmes, who co-founded pioneering tour sound company Showco, died of cancer on January 5 at the...
Left for dead in the early Nineties as consumers switched to compact discs, the lowly vinyl LP has bounced back in recent times, adopted...
HOUSTON, TX—They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and Houston’s Reliant Stadium certainly fits the bill.
By Clive Young. Larry Smith, producer of landmark rap hits by Run-DMC, Kurtis Blow, Whodini and others, died Friday, December 19 at the age...
Given that women have better hearing than men and also comprise more than half the professional workforce in the U.S., you’d think they’d be...
Remember B-Side Studio, that wacky 1970s sitcom about a struggling Chicago recording studio? No? Well, maybe that’s because it wasn’t really a hit. Or...
One of the first studio engineers in England to break through into producing, Glyn Johns worked with the greatest acts of the Classic Rock...
The much-contested historic RCA Studio A in Nashville, which narrowly avoided being demolished earlier this year, will officially be sold to the non-profit group...
Legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns’ autobiography Sound Man is filled with cool stories about creating classic albums with dozens of household names. The tales are...
LOS ANGELES, CA—When Ken Caillat began working as a engineer for Fleetwood Mac in 1976, the band was in the process of falling apart,...
Twenty-plus years since they first broke through with hits like “Name,” the Goo Goo Dolls have become a staple of AC radio.
When Iron Maiden re-released all eight of its albums from the 1980s on 180-gram black vinyl, Parlophone Records interviewed Abbey Road mastering engineers Sean...
Recognizing that "knowledge is power," the folks at Audio-Technica have released How To Mic A Zombie, an 8-minute instructional video on, well, how...
For most people, being an assistant engineer on The Beatles’ Abbey Road would be the high point of their careers. For a 19-year-old Alan...
Legendary recording engineer Bruce Swedien might be best known for his work with Michael Jackson—he recorded all of the late singer’s prime ...
The Project Studio Expo first debuted two years ago during the last West-Coast AES Convention; an unqualified hit, it's become a mainstay that attendees...
By Clive Young. When Ken Caillat began working as a engineer for Fleetwood Mac in 1976, the band was in the process of falling...
The Retro Futura Tour was out to revive that ’80s vibe with co-headliners Howard Jones and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, joined by Katrina...
The vinyl revival has been a fascinating social movement, as Millennials have gotten into buying LPs, joining ranks with nostalgic Baby Boomers and Gen...
Over the years, I’ve interviewed a lot of live sound engineers for PSN, and occasionally I’ll ask them, “What was your best gig ever?”...
By Clive Young. Bryce Dion, a soundman for the long-running reality TV show, COPS, was killed by police gunfire in Omaha, NE on Tuesday...
NEW YORK CITY, NY—People the world over may know Idina Menzel as the voice behind the omnipresent “Let It Go” in the recent animated...