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Ryan Cecil’s Go-To Mics
By Clive Young. It helps any live sound engineer to have a resume with big name acts on it, but it helps even more...
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Dave Rat’s Go-To Microphones
By Clive Young. Dave Rat wears many hats—gear designer, consummate pro audio blogger, co-founder of Rat Sound—and he’s been known to mix a gig...
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Tweetastic: Pro Sound News’ July 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month, we gather up all the “tweets” that we posted the previous month on our ever-flowing Twitter stream. Not only...
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Robert Scovill’s Go-To Mics
By Clive Young. Robert Scovill’s a busy guy. Though he spent much of 2010 on the road mixing FOH once again for Tom Petty...
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The Dave Matthews Band’s Mysterious Fonz Foot Wedge
The Dave Matthews Band bassist Stefan Lessard briefly used a homebrew wedge that provided vibe but not sound — the Fonz Foot Wedge.
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Advancing Loudspeaker Technology: Genelec’s 8260A
Genelec CEO Ilpo Martikainen and marketing director Will Eggleston discuss the creation of, and theory behind, the 8260A.
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The Last Days of Rock ’n’ Roll
Fred Goodman, managing editor for Pro Sound News and Pro Audio Review, recently released his latest album, The Last Days of Rock ’n’ Roll,...
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Right In The Tweet Spot: PSN’s May Twitter Feed
by Clive Young. Pro Sound News posts ‘tweets’ on Twitter all the time. Many of them are our weekday headlines from prosoundnews.com (five stories...
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Beyond The Line Array With Martin’s MLA
By Frank Wells. Observant visitors may have noticed an unfamiliar loudspeaker system hung in Martin Audio’s display at the 2010 Frankfurt ProLight & Sound...
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2010: Semiconductors In Audio
by Frank Wells. Each year, Pro Sound News queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage. This year’s respondents are B.J. Buchalter, VP R&D...
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PSN’s February Pro Audio Tweets
By Clive Young. Social media is always a popular topic at PSN, primarily because it’s useful for getting our daily headlines out fast (they...
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Want a Say in FCC Wireless Audio Policy? Speak NOW!
By Clive Young. There’s been a lot of concern in recent years over the FCC’s handling of the wireless frequencies that pro audio gear...
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Why Follow @ProSoundNews on Twitter?
By Clive Young. While we use Twitter to announce when PSN's daily news headlines are live at the website, that’s just the beginning. We...
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Winter NAMM 2010–A Bellwether?
By Clive Young. At the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim earlier this month, it was business as usual. There were product announcements, aging rockstars...
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CES2010 Wrap-Up: Immersive 3D is the Watchword
by Mel Lambert. In the week that James Cameron’s Avatar crested $1 billion in box office receipts, 3D delivery and playback was the prominent...
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A Conversation with Jonathan Lipp, Full Compass CEO and Founder
By Frank Wells. A museum of audio history that is part of the lobby at Full Compass’ new headquarters (see separate story) served as...
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MPSE Explores Watchmen’s Superhero Sound
By Mel Lambert. Los Angeles, CA--Following its recent seminar spotlighting sound design for Star Trek, Motion Picture Sound Editors/MPSE attracted a standing room-only audience...
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The Lathe of Heaven?
By Clive Young. Everyone loves the hardware that built Rock ‘n’ Roll. Guitars used by famous musicians wind up in museums; consoles that recorded...
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MPSE Explores Sound of Star Trek at Seminar Screening
By Mel Lambert. A recent Motion Picture Sound Editors' seminar entitled Star Trek--The Sound Show enabled a packed audience in Los Angeles to hear...
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NYC Studios Very Much In Session
By Janice Brown. Fewer commercial studios means more work for those still in business, and there's plenty of business in NYC. "More people are...
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The Road to History: Inside Abbey Road Studios
by Christopher Walsh. 'We were four guys," John Lennon said of the Beatles. Strictly speaking, that is an accurate statement. But within the four...
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Opportunity Is Knocking; Get the Door
By Frank Wells. It's that time of year again--summer is on the wane, and audio professionals begin anticipating each year's best opportunity to recharge...
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Smoke And Lasers: A New Look at Microphones
By Dan Wolfson. Indicative of how the annual AES conventions lay the ground work for tomorrow's technology today, paper presentations at the 1984 convention...
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A Peek Into MP3’s Past
By Dan Wolfson. This year’s AES Convention marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of two watershed technical papers that, in conjunction with the...
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Mackie Move Puts Avid in Apple’s Shoes
By Clive Young. Word has been circulating for a little while, and we at Pro Sound News have covered it too: Mackie’s upcoming Onyx-i...
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Les Paul, Guitar and Studio Innovator, Passes at 94
By Clive Young. Guitar legend, studio innovator, 1950s hitmaker, musical impresario. Les Paul, who was all these things and more, died Thursday, August...
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Sweetwater’s Big Three-0 Bash
By Frank Wells. Ft. Wayne, IN--Sweetwater celebrated its 30th anniversary by throwing itself a party in June, inviting customers to a homecoming called...
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Interview: Lebolt Bolts Digi-Avid for Apple
By Mel Lambert. The news in late June that Dave Lebolt had left Avid to join Apple sent a wave of speculation through...
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Dharma Bum, On the Road
by Christopher Walsh. Choglamsar, Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir State, India--A stream runs behind the house I'm staying at in this town outside of Leh,...
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Recording, Live Sound Pros Remember Michael Jackson
By Clive Young. Fans weren't the only ones shocked and dismayed by the passing of Michael Jackson on Thursday, June 25, 2009;...
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’s Audio Action: Part 3
By Steve Harvey. Culver City, CA--The final mix for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at Sony Pictures' Cary Grant Theatre paired effects re-recording mixer...
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On the Road with Invisible Waves RF Analyzers
by Seamus Fenton. I have been a monitor engineer for some time now. Though I don't consider myself an "RF guy," monitoring...
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Getting Rip-ped: Thoughts on a Manifesto
by Clive Young. It's hard to get people excited about documentaries; say the word and folks start picturing PBS specials on larvae mating habits....
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Can Audiobooks Be Saved?
By Clive Young. When we think of the recording industry, audiobooks aren't the first format that comes to mind. Nonetheless, plenty of audio pros...
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Do the Harlem Shuffle
by Christopher Walsh It’s always nice to come across a collective of like minded musicians and audio pros sometimes they are both and one...
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Researching ‘Recording The Beatles’
by Clive Young. More words have been written about the Beatles than any band; every nook and cranny of John, Paul, George and Ringo's...
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Of Capabilities and Sensibilities
By Frank Wells. As I write, my home AES section, AES Nashville, has just concluded a successful regional event titled the Nashville Recording Workshop...
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The Last American Virgin Megastore
By Clive Young. The Virgin Megastore Times Square closed its doors for good yesterday.
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Long Live Analog? Yes!
By Christopher Walsh. Not too long ago, I took the L train into Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood to visit Daptone Records. Home to Sharon Jones,...
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What to Do with 700 MHz Wireless Systems
By Clive Young. With the move on February 17 to digital TV comes a secondary move: All wireless microphone users are required to...
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Butch Vig on Green Day, the Subways and the State of the Industry
By Christopher Walsh. Green Day, one of a dwindling number of rock and roll outfits that has demonstrated real staying power and lasting influence,...