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View from the Top: Richard Factor, Eventide Audio
Richard Factor, Eventide Audio co-founder and board chairman, describes the push for diversification and the sense of individual responsibility at the company that keeps...
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Hosanna Lutheran Church
Increased musical diversity is opening up houses-of-worship to the influence of songs and hymns of other denominations and genres.
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Examining the Art of Genius at AES
What defines the art of genius? PSNEurope—the European relative of Pro Sound News—offers one possible definition: It’s the moment when the clouds part, when...
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AES LA Convention to get Historical
The upcoming AES Convention in Los Angeles next month promises to have some momentous offerings, including its first International Conference on Audio for Virtual...
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Seen on the Scene: Sweetwater GearFest 2015
Every year for two days, Sweetwater GearFest turns Fort Wayne, Indiana, into the center of the musical instrument and pro audio world. People travel...
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A Look Inside Universal Audio’s Heritage Studio
At the NAMM Show, Universal Audio took visitors back in time via the UA Heritage Studio, a photo op area filled with ...
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Seen on the Scene: P&E Wing Honors Nile Rodgers
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing celebrated its eighth annual Grammy Week with an event at The Village Studios on February 3, 2015,...
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Seen on the Scene: NAMM 2015 – Part 2
The Pro Sound News team was all over this year's NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. Here's some of what was seen on the...
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Pro-Audio Gift Help: PSN’s 2014 Book/DVD Reviews
Finding something for the pro audio person in your life is never easy, so here’s a compendium of books and DVD/Blu-rays we’ve reviewed this...
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Seen on the Scene at InfoComm 2014, Part 2
We were onsite all week at InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas, discovering the latest and greatest in Pro Audio and AV. Here’s just a...
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Seen on the Scene at InfoComm 2014, Part 1
InfoComm 2014 was one of the biggest pro audio events of the year, and we were on the ground to see what there was...
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A Glimpse of GearFest
Sweetwater held its 13th annual GearFest, June 6-7, at its sizable headquarters in Fort Wayne, IN. Open to the public, the event served up...
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Exclusive Interview: Bob Moses, Executive Director, Audio Engineering Society
Times have changed, and the Audio Engineering Society is changing with them—but who's spearheading the effort? Since Bob Moses became the organization's...
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On The Scene: NAMM Load-In
There's more than 1,400 exhibitors at this year's Winter NAMM show, so it's not surprising that the days leading up to the convention...
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Show Snapshots: InfoComm 2011 Load-In
Ever wonder what the exhibitor floor of InfoComm looks like before it’s all set up and ready to go? Well, it ain’t pretty, but...
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Robert Scovill on the Future of Live Sound
Audio luminary Robert Scovill delivered the keynote address at the Webster University AES Student Section’s 5th annual Central Region Student Summit. A six-time TEC...
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Ready for Record Store Day 2011?
By Clive Young. If you’re in pro audio, you dig music. And if you dig music, there’s a good chance you like record stores,...
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Special Report: 2011 Semiconductors in Audio—A Designer Survey
By Frank Wells. Each year, Pro Sound News queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage and the impact on the products you employ....
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Tweet Nothings: Pro Sound News’ January 2011 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog...
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What Did You Get for Christmas?
By Rich Tozzoli. As we start another year of fun, I thought it would be interesting to reach out to some of my industry...
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CES2011: Content Creation’s Next Generation Tools
by Mel Lambert. With US consumer-electronic sales in 2010 reported to have topped $175 billion, followed by a forecast for 2011 sales of some...
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Twitter Wonderland: Pro Sound News’ December, 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog...
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Nashville Gathers Around a Lunchbox
By Russ Long. A who’s who among Nashville’s audio elite gathered at Ocean Way Nashville’s Studio B on December 8th to compare the new...
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Postcard from London: Turner Prize Honors a Different Kind of Audio Installation
By Mel Lambert. The Turner Prize, named after the popular landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, and presented annually to a British visual artist...
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Internet is Public Enemy #1 at Content Protection Summit
By Mel Lambert. “Piracy is the most threatening risk to have ever hit our industry,” stated Directors Guild of America president Taylor Hackford during...
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Should Old Tweets Be Forgotten: Pro Sound News’ November, 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month we collect up the previous month’s ‘tweets’ from the Pro Sound News Twitter feed for some easy, amusing reading....
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Author J.W. Rinzler on The Sounds of Star Wars
By Clive Young. Lucasfilm recently released a book of note for audio enthusiasts—The Sounds of Star Wars, covering the development of sounds known...
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Blu-Con 2010 Spotlights Medium’s Audio Capabilities
By Mel Lambert. According to Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video and president of the Digital Entertainment Group, close to 21 million US...
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All A Twitter: Pro Sound News’ October, 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every day, we use Twitter to bring you links to our latest headlines, but we also use it to spread the...
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The Sights of AES 2010, Wrap-Up
By Clive Young. Here's a visual look back at the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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The Sights of AES 2010, Day One
By Clive Young. Here's some of the early sights of the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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SMPTE Conference Delves Into Loudness Control, Lip-Sync Anomalies
By Mel Lambert. Following its recent passage through the Senate, by early next year it is expected that the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation/CALM Act...
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Book Review: The Sounds of Star Wars
By Clive Young. The creation of the Star Wars films is a story that’s been explored countless times through TV specials, DVD extras, books...
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Entertainment & Technology Summit Digs Deep
By Mel Lambert. This year’s Entertainment & Technology Summit served up the latest in the ongoing marriage between its namesake subjects. Organized by Variety...
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The Boy’s On Top This Fall—Kenny Chesney Q&A, Part 3
By Frank Wells. Here's the conclusion of our exclusive interview with country superstar Kenny Chesney. Speaking with Pro Sound News Editor-In-Chief Frank Wells, Kenny...
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The Boy’s On Top This Fall—Kenny Chesney Q&A, Part 2
by Frank Wells. In Part Two of our three-part interview with Kenny Chesney, Pro Sound News editor-in-chief Frank Wells sits down with the country...
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The Boy’s On Top This Fall—Kenny Chesney Q&A, Part 1
By Frank Wells. Kenny Chesney shares the best recording advice he's ever received, the need to 'put a smile on it,' and mixing Hemingway's...
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Picture A Pocket-Sized Coachella Festival
By Clive Young. The 2010 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was held back in April, but you can get a taste of the...
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Bundles of Plug-Ins
by Christopher Walsh. Most engineers feel that modeling of analog hardware has progressed to a point at which they can confidently work with software-based...
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All the News that’s Fit to Tweet: Pro Sound News’ September 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Everyone uses Twitter in their own way, and this time, Pro Sound News’ monthly compendium of tweets reveals that we use...
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Sound Features At 3D Entertainment Summit
By Mel Lambert. “The greatest soundtrack of all-time was for The Exorcist,” considered film director M. Night Shyamalan during his Pre-Lunch Keynote Session at...
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Talk of the Tweet: Pro Sound News’ August 2010 Twitter Feed
by Clive Young. Every month, we do a recap of Pro Sound News' Twitter posts ("Tweets"), showing a bit of what we wrote about...