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Book Review: The Worst Gig
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?”...
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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Reality TV Soundman Killed In Shootout
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...
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If/Then Sounds Off On Broadway
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...
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Appetite for Digestion
Providing live sound for the chow-down throwdown that is the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, NY, is a task to be...
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Burglars Hit Small Buffalo Studio
On Saturday, August 23, Short Fuze Recording Studio, a small, new facility in Buffalo, NY, was robbed; an estimated $20,000 worth of equipment was...
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VIDEO: Inside Florida Georgia Line’s Treehouse Studio
Some time ago, the Animal Planet series Treehouse Masters built a treehouse that could double as a recording space for Bear Creek Studio outside...
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Guest Blog: The Value of Music Education is Incalculable
My friend Jim Anderson, the director of the Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo, recently reminded me of something I did when we were both in...
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Tonys Eliminate Sound Design Awards
NEW YORK, NY—On June 11, The Tony Awards Administration Committee, which oversees the annual awards celebrating the best of Broadway Theater, voted to eliminate...
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Caribou Ranch Sold
BOULDER, CO—Once among the best-known destination recording facilities in the world, Caribou Ranch has been sold for $32.5 million.
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Video: Abbey Road Remasters A Classic New Wave LP
The vinyl revival isn’t just a U.S. phenomenon; pressing plants and mastering facilities around the world are seeing the same bump in business we’ve...
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Spectrum Recording Marks 30 Years
August 14, 2014 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of James Kalamasz founding Spectrum Recording Studios in Pompano Beach, FL. Over the years, the long-running...
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Mixing The Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest
Mixing the biggest competitive eating contest in the world doesn't mean shoving audio down the crowd's throat. Instead, the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July...
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Misperceptions Lead To Reinvention
The internet is a pretty big deal; in fact, you’re probably using it right now. While it has given us interesting advancements like social...
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Caribou Ranch Sold for $32.5 Million
Once one of the best-known destination recording facilities in the world, 1,600-acre Caribou Ranch has been sold for $32.5 million. Closed since a 1985...
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Avengers Assembled
The Avengers is now the third highest-grossing film of all-time; building on the 2012 movie’s tale of superheroes saving New York City, it’s only...
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MFB Sneak Peek: Clearwater Festival
The Clearwater Festival—officially known as Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival—will be featured in an upcoming issue of our new magazine, Music Festival Business, but...
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Book Review: Mad World—An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s
Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s interviews a list of acts that reads like a...
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Broadway Backs Sound Designers
In the wake of the Tony Awards Administration Committee’s controversial decision to eliminate the Best Sound Design categories, members of the theater community have...
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Tony Awards Kill Sound Design Categories
Wednesday, The Tony Awards Administration Committee, which oversees the annual awards celebrating the best of Broadway Theater, voted to eliminate the awards for Best...
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Meyer Making Metallica’s Monitors
In recent times, Metallica has increasingly opted to headline festivals around the world rather than tour, so using smaller, lighter wedges became a priority...
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
It’s been a time of changes in pro audio—one filled with new beginnings, like Harman buying AMX, and endings, such as Todd-Soundelux filing for...
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FILM REVIEW Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Beyond the realm of audio gear, the editors at Pro Sound News are constantly exploring the latest books, shows and exhibits highlighting the music...
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Plundering The Grateful Dead
Deadheads have always loved "Dark Star," one of the Grateful Dead's most out-there live jams. In the mid-90s, Canadian avant garde composer John Oswald...
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Theatrical Sound Design Meets Reality
With the 135th AES Convention held in New York City only blocks away from Broadway, the best-known theatrical district in the world, it only...
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‘Whale’ Creates Immersive Audio Art of the Self
Audio and art have always gone hand in hand, and as technology has advanced, the realms of possibility have only broadened. But while we...
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Dave Rat’s Epic Google Glass Coachella Run
The annual Coachella festival takes months to put together, but even the pros who make it happen can underestimate the sheer size of it....
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DVD Review: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Some artists are forever associated with certain studios. You can’t talk about the Beatles without bringing up Abbey Road. Any look at the Beach...
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No Foolin’: April Fools’ Day 2014 Recap
They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb—which is ironic because April 1 is when...
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Minneapolis’ Proposed Ear Plug Ordinance
On April 29, the City Council in Minneapolis will vote on a proposed ordinance that would require all bars, restaurants and sports and...
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Mpls Proposes Venues Provide Ear Plugs
The Minneapolis music scene may be best known for giving the world Prince, The Replacements and Semisonic, but it may soon become the incubator...
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DVD Review: Muscle Shoals
The documentary Muscle Shoals, recently released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital services, digs deep into joy, pain and all the other messy, human stuff...
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Inside the Treehouse Studio
A few weeks ago, we blogged about the unique two-story treehouse recording studio built at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, WA and how its...
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Smart Studios Documentary Hits Kickstarter
Smart Studios, the funky Madison, WI recording facility co-founded by producer Butch Vig, may have closed its doors in 2010, but its legend seems...
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Looking at LFO
Sound has always affected the human psyche. Music raises our spirits, significant others yelling at us makes us agitated, and of course, sound practitioners...
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Phish in the Deep Blue Sea
Phish celebrated its 30th anniversary with four sold-out shows leading up to New Year’s Eve 2013 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Receiving...
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Tunes For Tuning Steely Dan’s PA
We’ve written a lot of posts on the PSN Blog, but the most popular one ever, hands down, was from 2011: “The ‘Freebird’ of...
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United Sound Systems Opens To Public
By Clive Young. United Sound Systems, the legendary recording studio off I-94 in Detroit that recorded many of Motown’s greatest artists, including Aretha Franklin,...
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Book Review: Social Media Promotion for Musicians
Don’t let the title fool you. Social Media Promotion for Musicians is for anyone in the music biz who’s an entrepreneur—which is to say,...
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P&E Wing Honors Neil Young
During the week before the 2014 Grammy Awards, Los Angeles was abuzz with parties and events tied to Music’s Biggest Night. Case in point:...
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Fun. In The Sun—And Rain
In the depths of winter, it may be hard to remember the warm sunrays and rockin’ tours of summertime, but they did happen, and...
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Reeling In Sound And Chaos
Brooklyn, NY has always been a nerve center of music, but one of its most interesting stories is only now getting told with the...
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Arlyn Augmenting Austin
When you think of Austin, one of the first things that come to mind is the city’s legendary music scene. With more funky venues...