Recording
Plugging Into Abbey Road
By Frank Wells. On July 10, Abbey Road Studios drew a contingent of pro and consumer audio journalists for the launch of Waves’ Abbey...
Business
18th AudioMasters Aids Audio Pros
Records were set at the JBL Professional AudioMasters Live and Sweetwater AudioMasters, held on consecutive days at the Harpeth Hills Municipal Golf Course on...
Blog
SeisMic Shake Up In Music City (extended article)
The following is an extended version of this article, which first appeared in the February, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News.The mid-1990s saw...
Business
The Scovill Tour is on the Road with Petty and More
Veteran live sound engineer Robert Scovill is on the road with Tom Petty till mid October, playing a dual role as FOH engineer and...
Blog
AES: The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
If a car company can appropriate a Christmas tune for an annual sales event, surely the audio industry can do the same, the sentiment...
Blog
The Ultimate Ears IEM Creation Process—“Analog and Digital”
For those who've had the experience of getting a custom set of IEMs made, there are two steps to the process. First is getting...
Business
Studio Showcase: Bountiful Options, Abundant Flexibility
While noted as the USA’s top online/catalog retailer of professional audio and musical instrument gear in the USA, Sweetwater Sound is also home to...
Business
Professional Audio 2014: Salaries and Careers
Returning to an annual tradition, Pro Sound News recently surveyed its readers about their primary and secondary business activities, job titles, and income.
Blog
Under The Hood: Semiconductors In Audio
Semiconductors are essential building blocks of most modern electronics, with the progression from discrete transistors to integrated circuits largely universal, chips dominating usage.
Blog
Sweetwater GearFest 2014: Homecoming In The Heartland
A city of better than a quarter million people, Fort Wayne, Indiana is a two-hop from all but a handful of major airports, and...
Business
Realizing A Dream: Addiction Sound
While music happens in abundance on Nashville’s Music Row, a creative conclave has also thrived for decades 10 minutes south of the Row in...
Music Production
API Debuts The Box
NASHVILLE, TN—Mixing in The Box takes on a whole new meaning with the introduction of the small footprint, full-featured API The Box analog console.
Business
Is The End Of The Loudness Wars In Sight?
During a Producers and Engineers Wing “Quality Sound Matters” event earlier this year, mastering luminary Bob Ludwig addressed the ongoing issues of the loudness...
Business
Building The New On An Old Foundation
When welcoming attendees at this summer’s 50th AES International Conference on Audio Education at Middle Tennessee State University, the new dean of the MTSU...
Blog
Q&A: Genelec’s Music Creation Series
Genelec is poised to release the first products in its new Music Creation line, the M Series of bi-amplified, active monitors: “high-performance, environmentally sustainable...
Blog
THAT’s Business Today
Recently, Pro Sound News editor, Frank Wells, sat down with Les Tyler, president of audio semiconductor manufacturer THAT Corp., to discuss the myriad issues,...
Blog
The Eternal Quest
Where are you finding new music these days? As ever more music is entering the marketplace (that “democratization of the music industry” ...
Blog
The Propriety of the Proprietary
As covered on page 5 of this issue, Avid has introduced Pro Tools|HD Native for host-based audio processing.
Archives
Pro Tools HD Goes Native
The Pro Tools HD Native system consists of Pro Tools HD software version 8.5 and the Native PCIe core card.
Business
Black River Buys Sound Stage
NASHVILLE, TN—Black River Entertainment is expanding its footprint in Nashville with the purchase of one of Music Row’s stalwart studios, Sound Stage.
Business
Where Art Intersects Science
This month’s issue focuses on preamps and channel strips, on those first-stage devices that couple microphones to the rest of the signal chain, selected...
Business
NRW+E 2012: All In Service of the Song
Nashville, TN—“Songs, that’s the best stuff. Songs.” With those words, artist and personal studio owner Keb Mo, kicked off the 2012 Nashville Recording Workshop...
Blog
NAB Pro Audio Pit Halftime Recap
The Pro Audio Pit at NAB has been bringing some of the industry’s sharpest minds together. It’s been a great venue for highlighting the...
Business
It’s All About the Song
During a vinyl vs. CD discussion in Pro Sound News’ Linked In group, a contributor commented that “it’s all about the song and performance.”
Blog
The Shaming Of The True Revisited: Kevin Gilbert’s Posthumous Rock Opera
Like a shooting star that illuminates the sky and fascinates those who happen to be looking in the right direction, Kevin Gilbert had...
Blog
Wisseloord Studios 2.0
HILVERSUM, NETHERLANDS—Wisseloord Studios in Hilversum, Netherlands, is being rejuvenated for a new century by a confluence of creative minds and with the cooperation of...
Business
Completing the Picture: Avid Introduces Pro Tools 9
Audio professionals would have had to be hiding in a cave to avoid the news that Avid announced the immediate availability of Pro Tools...
Music, Etc
Music, Etc.: Kenny Chesney, ‘Hemingway’s Whiskey’
The debut single from Kenny Chesney’s 13th studio album, his seasons-of-life/ football tribute single, “The Boys of Fall,” spent better than three weeks on...
Business
Navitas Buys SAE Group for $286 Million
NEW YORK, NY—Australian education company Navitas has purchased pro audio educator SAE Group for $286 million.
Blog
Still in a New York State of Mind
The 131st AES Convention last month in NYC was a celebration of, and immersion in, all things audio.
Business
Pro Tools 10 Begins Avid Paradigm Shift
As in San Francisco a year earlier, Avid garnered significant attention at the 131st AES Convention with the launch of the latest version of...
Business
Ten Years of Independence
This year marks the 10th year in business for Nashville’s Independent Mastering, a partnership of engineers Don Cobb and Eric Conn. The business name...
Business
Front Stage Gets New Wings
NASHVILLE, TN—Black River Entertainment,Stage hosted a tour of the new facilities and roundtable discussion of the process that saw Front Stage closed in November...
Business
Midas Opens in Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NV—Midas/Klark Teknik has announced that its North American distribution is moving back inhouse in conjunction with establishing its U.S. headquarters at a...
Business
Midas Opens in Vegas
LAS VEGAS, NV—Midas/Klark Teknik has announced that its North American distribution is moving back inhouse in conjunction with establishing its U.S. headquarters at a...
Business
Putting Their Chips on the Table
After the invention of the transistor in 1947, semiconductors began rapidly supplanting the electron tube for all but the most specialized uses (yes, like...
Blog
The Inevitability of the Virtual: The Future Is Now
I knew it was inevitable. I’ve just come tonight from the soundcheck for a major artist gig.
Blog
NRW+E Educates, Entertains
NASHVILLE, TN—The second annual Nashville Recording Workshop + Expo, held March 5-6 at Belmont University’s Curb Event Center, was packed with informative and evocative...
Music Production
Extreme Makeovers
The eventual ambitious plan had us shutting the room down for a couple of weeks of intensive rebuild.
Blog
And the Survey Said…
Numbers tracking the sales of recordings are in for 2010. Unsurprisingly, the trends from the past decade continue. You know the litany by now....
Business
A-T Focuses on Pro with Edwards
ORLANDO, FL—Audio- Technica has promoted Michael Edwards to the position of vice president professional markets.
Business
And the Survey Said:
Numbers tracking the sales of recordings are in for 2010. Unsurprisingly, the trends from the past decade continue.