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Networking Headlines In Live Touring [Online Extra]
Networking is becoming ubiquitous in live sound, both for install and for portable/touring applications. What are the challenges and practical implications as end users...
Steve Harvey is senior content producer for Mix and also contributes to other Future titles. He has worked in the pro audio industry — including as a touring musician, in live production, installed sound, and equipment sales and marketing — since November 1980.
Business
“LA Opera Records In High Def with Soundmirror”
LOS ANGELES, CA—Soundmirror, based in Boston, MA, took up residence in Los Angeles during February at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, one of four venues...
Business
Sound Systems For Challenging Spaces
There can often be a tension between architecture and acoustics in houses of worship, where visual considerations may take precedence over speech intelligibility or...
Business
Fidelity And Workflow Improvements At Rensselaer Polytechnic’s EMPAC
TROY, NY—Founded in 1824, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is the nation’s oldest technological research University.
Business
KM Deploys Wirelessly For CBGB Fest
NEW YORK CITY—Open-air events in inner city areas can present numerous challenges, not the least of which is keeping the sound contained in order...
Blog
Immersive Sound: New Tools Of The Trade [CONTINUED]
The April, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News features a special report, Immersive Sound: New Tools Of The Trade (which can be read HERE)....
Live Sound
Sound Where You Want It: Finding the Perfect Position for PAs
At multi-stage music festivals, especially those taking place in inner city areas, sound control has become a critical issue for production providers. With pattern...
Business
VO Artists Stay Viable with Pro Audio
by Steve Harvey. As an experienced voiceover artist, Claudine Ohayon, an East Coast-based film and television actress and an Emmy-winning producer, has developed a...
Business
Engineers Think Global, Master Local
The internet has opened up an international marketplace for mastering services, according to Maor Appelbaum of Maor Appelbaum Mastering. LOS ANGELES, CA—The digital revolution...
Business
MSR Studio Renovates for the Future
NEW YORK, NY—To paraphrase Mark Twain’s oft-misquoted comment, reports of Right Track’s demise are greatly exaggerated.
Business
Everybody Likes Pie
GLEN COVE, NY—Pie Studios, located in Glen Cove on the North Shore of Long Island—the famed Gold Coast of F.
Business
Studio Showcase: Larrabee Takes Over Schnee Studio
LOCATION—What is a facility to do when the recording studio right next door goes up for sale?
Business
Getting Faithfull With Dimitri Tikovoi
LONDON, UK—Marianne Faithfull has just released a new album, Give My Love to London, marking the fiftieth anniversary of a music career that began...
Business
Making The Old Like New Again
LOS ANGELES, CA—With big tracking rooms back in fashion and analog recording enjoying something of a resurgence, the market has apparently never been better...
Blog
Lines Being Drawn in U.S. Music Licensing Battle
With the release by the U.S. Copyright Office of its 245-page study, "Copyright and the Music Marketplace," the lines are being drawn in the...
Live Sound
Intelligibility Foremost: Sports Venue Loudspeakers
In any sports venue, whether an open stadium or an enclosed arena, and regardless of the sporting event, there is one overriding goal for...
Blog
Perry Margouleff on Supporting Music “for the Right Reasons”
Located about an hour outside of Manhattan in Glen Cove on the North Shore of Long Island, Pie Studios has attracted an impressive list...
Blog
Sounding Off On ‘Unbroken’
The sound team at NBCUniversal StudioPost recently completed work on Unbroken, based on author Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best-selling biography of long-distance runner Louis Zamperini...
Live Sound
Mixing the Perfect Festival
Advances in digital live sound mixing console design have resulted in systems that can manage upward of 100 or more channels, plus dozens of...
Business
In The Groove: Vinyl In The 21st Century
LOS ANGELES, CA—Jonathan Wyner of M Works Mastering in Boston, moderating the “21st Century Vinyl” workshop at the recent AES Convention, noted that vinyl...
Business
ReAmp It Up
TUSTIN, CA—ReAmp Studios opened a second Southern California location in mid-October: a new flagship facility, dubbed Studio G, situated in Tustin, CA.
Business
FCC Wireless Changes on Horizon
WASHINGTON, DC—On September 30, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) putting forward amendments to Part 15 of its...
Blog
FCC Wireless Changes on Horizon [Expanded Edition]
The following is an expanded version of the cover story for Pro Sound News, November 2014.On September 30, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released...
Business
HOW Loudspeaker Systems: Narrow-Profile Steerable Solutions
Digitally beam-steerable loudspeaker arrays offer a number of unique capabilities in house of worship applications, where the architecture can present significant challenges to the...
Business
Icon Petty Reaches #1 in Just 37 years
LOS ANGELES, CA—Nearly 37 years after their debut record first entered the Billboard 200, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers scored their first U.S. Number...
Business
Mix This! Upgrades Solar, Adds Atomic
PACIFIC PALISADES, CA—Renowned for producing, engineering and mixing a who’s who of music clients, Bob Clearmountain is perhaps less well-known for his advocacy of...
Business
40 Years On, Deep Purple And Crew Reunite
COSTA MESA, CA—Deep Purple, part of the triumvirate of U.K. bands— along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath—that kickstarted hard rock and heavy metal...
Business
Marooned At Conway, Again
LOS ANGELES, CA—Obviously happy with the formula that gave rise to Overexposed, Maroon 5’s 2012 hit album, the band signed up for more of...
Business
NightBird Flies Underground At Sunset Marquis
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA—“To be honest, I never planned on being in the studio business,” says Jed Leiber, composer, producer, arranger, songwriter and owner of...
Music Production
Really Remote Recording, With A Mission
CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—In August 2013, Wired for Sound, a mobile studio funded by Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA), drove around Mozambique,...
Recording
Spicing The Mix In Philly
PHILADELPHIA, PA—At age 13, he started building computers; at 16, he began designing speakers and established a business custom-configuring PCs; and by age 20,...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Cher—Dressed To Kill, Rigged to Wrap
Her job these days may be to “come out in silly outfits, sing and be fabulous,” as Cher commented onstage at the Staples Center...
Business
Ojai Gets Immersive
OJAI, CA—Established in 1947, the Ojai Music Festival presents an eclectic and challenging program curated each year by a guest music director, who this...
Business
Blurring Boundaries Between Recording and Post
N. HOLLYWOOD, CA—On the face of it, a traditional music recording studio might not seem to be the ideal location for an audio post...
Blog
Photo Fest: Yamaha Marks First Synth’s 40th Anniversary
Yamaha marked the 40th anniversary of the introduction of its first synthesizer, the analog SY-1, with a special event at its offices in Burbank,...
Business
Michael Marquart Makes His Windmark
Michael Marquart, a multi-hyphenate on both sides of the studio glass, acquired the Flyte Tyme Productions building in Santa Monica late last year, renaming...
Business
Peace and No Quiet
Morrissey will release his tenth studio album in July, World Peace is None of Your Business, which was recorded in France in February with...
Business
Creating Transparency In A Glass House
After spending more than three years looking for a new house into which he could relocate his private production studio, Eric Hart was able...
Business
FCC R&O Puts Squeeze On Pro Audio RF
Wireless audio equipment operators and coordinators could face an increasingly tougher time finding usable frequency spectrum over the next three years as a result...
Business
Intelligibility Foremost : Sports Venue Loudspeakers
In any sports venue, whether an open stadium or an enclosed arena, and regardless of the sporting event, there is one overriding goal for...
Business
FCC R&O Puts Squeeze on Pro Audio RF (cont.)
The June, 2014 issue of Pro Sound News features an extensive discussion between numerous major players in the FCC R&O concerning RF and its...
Business
Balancing Art and Commerce
HOLLYWOOD, CA—The ninth-annual ASCAP “I Create Music” Expo, held in Hollywood in late April, provided an opportunity for numerous businesses to put themselves in...