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NYC Club’s Gate to the Future
FOH engineer Richie Clarke with (le) Poisson Rouge’s Avid Venue Profile console. For 38 years, the Village Gate was a New York City landmark–a...
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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Zarkana’s Audio Magic
Since its founding by a group of street performers in 1984, Cirque du Soleil has grown to become an entertainment powerhouse, with tours and...
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Zarkana’s Audio Magic
Since its founding by a group of street performers in 1984, Cirque du Soleil has grown to become an entertainment powerhouse, with tours and...
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NYC: One City, Two Stadiums
While plenty of comfortable, modern sports facilities have sprouted up across the country in recent decades, New York City was saddled with the aging,...
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NYC Club’s Gate to the Future
FOH engineer Richie Clarke with (le) Poisson Rouge’s Avid Venue Profile console. For 38 years, the Village Gate was a New York City landmark–a...
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Radio City’s Revamped Sound
When you’re putting a permanent house sound system into one of the most famous performance spaces in the world, you don’t mess around—which is...
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Radio City’s Revamped Sound
When you’re putting a permanent house sound system into one of the most famous performance spaces in the world, you don’t mess around—which is...
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Book Review: LZ-’75—The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 American Tour
Stephen Davis’s 1985 Led Zeppelin tell-all, Hammer of the Gods pretty much defined the modern rock biography, so it was a bit of a...
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Vinyl Is Back…But For How Long?
Over the last few years, there’s been a growing interest in vinyl records—those big, black, round things that everybody over the age of 30...
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5 Dead, 140 Hurt at Pukkelpop
Five people died and 140 people were injured, 10 criticially, when tents and numerous stages’ rigging collapsed at Belgium’s Pukkelpop festival during a violent...
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5 Dead, 140 Hurt at Pukkelpop
Five people died and 140 people were injured, 10 criticially, when tents and numerous stages’ rigging collapsed at Belgium’s Pukkelpop festival during a violent...
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John Lennon: Producer
Everyone thinks of John Lennon as a Beatle or Songwriter or Musician or Activist or Wit; today, let's look at his work as a...
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Sypro Gyra Bucks Recording Trends And Hits The Clubhouse
Sypro Gyra is still going strong 35 years after its debut album, and September will find the venerable act releasing A Foreign Affair, a...
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Retro PSN: Rolling with The Cars
After 24 years on hiatus, The Cars hit the road in 2011 supporting their comeback album, Move Like This.
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Sean “Sully” Sullivan’s “Go-To” Microphone
Sean “Sully” Sullivan is the dictionary definition of a Journeyman Engineer, having mixed FOH for everyone from Sheryl Crow to Thom Yorke to Beck...
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Behind The Bootlegs
When a mysterious Bob Dylan album, Great White Wonder, suddenly appeared on record store shelves in 1969, it single-handedly created a new kind of...
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Summer’s Mixed Signals for Live Sound
Newspapers have been reporting mid-year statistics from Pollstar that show the grosses on the Top 50 tours worldwide hit a cumulative $1.65 billion, up...
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Summer’s Mixed Signals for Live Sound
Newspapers have been reporting mid-year statistics from Pollstar that show the grosses on the Top 50 tours worldwide hit a cumulative $1.65 billion, up...
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Neat Tweets: Pro Sound News’ Twitter Feed for July, 2011
The hot summer months often slow things down, but not the Pro Sound News Twitter feed! We spent July serving up our daily headlines...
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A Chat with Gobbler’s Chris Kantrowitz
There’s no end of talk these days about “the cloud” and the promise of being able to securely keep all your files, data, applications...
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When Saints Go Machine Go Home
Lots of musicians suffer for their art, and plenty of others record their albums at home. Danish experimental electronica act When Saints Go Machine...
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Art, Sound and Science Collide at BioRhythm
Pro Sound News recently paid a visit to BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body, a fascinating exhibit melding art and audio equipment to explore what...
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Madeon Makes Good with “Pop Culture”
It's the viral video of the moment, and maybe a contender for Dance Song of the Summer: "Pop Culture" by Madeon, a French DJ...
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Inside The Music To Know Festival
In recent years, festivals have become an important part of the live sound landscape, creating destination events that provide a bargain for music fans...
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Ottawa Bluesfest Stage Roof Collapses
A stage roof collapsed at the Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest Sunday night during a Cheap Trick show, sending thousands fleeing and injuring numerous people, one...
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Vintage Gear Under The (Merlin) Moon
Alexander Pizzorni, A.K.A. Merlin Moon, may not be a household name, but his next album, Bohemian Side of the Sky, is currently being put...
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Book Review: The Recording Guitarist
Whether they’re using Apple Garageband or a full-fledged DAW production studio in the basement, ever-increasing numbers of musicians are recording themselves at home these...
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PA-Tuning Tunes with Tim “Quake” Mark
All live engineers have favorite songs that they use to tune the PA, whether it’s the ubiquitous Donald Fagan track, “I.G.Y.”, or for a...
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Discreet Tweets: Pro Sound News’ June 2011 Twitter Feed
June saw Pro Sound News serve up all kinds of news on Twitter—breaking news at InfoComm on new product releases and features; spreading...
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Audio-Technica Does Things Backwards
We’ve all sat through boring corporate videos. Though they’re always designed with the best of intentions, bad corporate clips can put you to sleep,...
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Summer Sound Squabble
Some people say it’s not Summer until Memorial Day or school’s out or some other bellwether. I maintain that it’s not the hottest season...
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Looking After Third Eye Blind
When it comes the chart-topping acts of the late '90s, few bands had the widespread acceptance of Third Eye Blind, one of those rare...
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Metallica, Reed Walk On The Wild Side
News broke over the weekend that the legendary metal band, Metallica, has finished recording a new album in collaboration with the equally iconic singer/songwriter,...
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Show Snapshots: InfoComm 2011, Part 2
Every year, there's tons to see at InfoComm, and the 2011 edition was no exception to the rule. Between new products being released, new...
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Show Snapshots: InfoComm 2011, Part 1
Every year, there's tons to see at InfoComm, and the 2011 edition was no exception to the rule. Between new products being released, new...
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Wrapped Up in GaluminumFoil
The old axiom, “If you want something done, ask a busy person,” is probably at least part of why New York City bands keep...
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Sound Takes Shape at Soundscape
MIAMI BEACH, FL—Every time a new building by renowned architect Frank Gehry goes up, people can’t help but take notice.
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A Look Back with Rascal Flatts
Over the last decade, Rascal Flatts has become one of the biggest acts in country music. Each album has its share of songs about...
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Sound Takes Shape at Soundscape
MIAMI BEACH, FL—Every time a new building by renowned architect Frank Gehry goes up, people can’t help but take notice.
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A Look Back with Rascal Flatts
Over the last decade, Rascal Flatts has become one of the biggest acts in country music. Each album has its share of songs about...
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Inside “Tori Amos: In The Studio”
Nashville-based music author Jake Brown's latest book, Tori Amos: In The Studio, takes a look at the title songstress and the creation of her...
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Herzberg Dies at 40
NEW YORK, NY—Tal Herzberg, an 8-time Grammy nominee for his work as a pop engineer and producer, has passed away at the age of...