Global Music Sales: Good News, Bad News
IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), which represents the recording industry worldwide, with some 1400 members in 66 countries, has published its Digital...
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IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), which represents the recording industry worldwide, with some 1400 members in 66 countries, has published its Digital...
LOS ANGELES, CA—There’s no denying that the music business is going through particularly challenging times.
BERKELEY, CA—This year marked a major milestone for Fantasy Studios, which is celebrating 40 years of operation at the same location with a busy...
LOS ANGELES, CA—It’s a family affair for Rick Camp and Noel Edwards, who are that rare thing, a father-andson live-sound mixing team, working together...
LOS ANGELES, CA—It’s a family affair for Rick Camp and Noel Edwards, who are that rare thing, a father-andson live-sound mixing team, working together...
In the January, 2012 issue of Pro Sound News, four noted engineers share news about the latest audio tools they’ve acquired for their personal...
NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA—Recording engineer and mixer Ryan Greene has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles after lengthy sojourns in San Francisco and Arizona,...
The virtualization of production hardware continued apace at the 2011 NAMM Show with the release of new as well as sometimes hard-to-find vintage recording...
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA—Since opening its doors in 1957, the famed Troubadour nightclub in West Hollywood has featured a variety of sound equipment.
LOS ANGELES, CA—The 2011 NAMM Show in mid-January marks the start of another year and another 10-month tour for the John Lennon Educational Tour...
The digital revolution has drastically reduced the cost of entry into production and post production, and as a result, audio professionals have increasingly become...
NEW YORK, NY—Certain recording projects inevitably become milestones in any engineer or producer’s career, and some can even be life-changing experiences.
NASHVILLE, TN—The Shaming of the True, a rock opera by an underappreciated musical talent, Kevin Gilbert, is set for a rerelease soon with a...
N. HOLLYWOOD, CA—British Audio Engineering (BAE) recently expanded its base of operations, relocating to a commercial building in North Hollywood, CA. Once known as...
With the heyday of the record industry and bigbudget album projects now apparently little more than a distant memory, recording studio owners have had...
Billed as a backstage pass to the scariest band ever, Fix – the Ministry Movie, from director Doug Freel and Gigantic Pictures, documents the...
Whether they favor an all hardware signal path, work entirely in the box or use some combination of the two, the majority of mastering...
HOLLYWOOD, CA—Alex Pizzorni, a Caracas, Venezuela-born DJ and musician who records under the name Merlin Moon, recently completed his sophomore album, Bohemian Side of...
LOS ANGELES, CA—While the digital audio revolution helped launch the project studio business, mastering engineers, with their very specific equipment and acoustical requirements, have...
What’s old is new again in the world of plug-ins, as software developers continue to search the vintage equipment racks for popular classic gear...
During the recent NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers) convention, David Bakula, senior VP of entertainment analytics for Nielsen, reported that digital music sales...
LOS ANGELES, CA—One potential problem with building a home-based recording studio is that the construction of a soundproofed, trapezoidal room might adversely affect the...
LOS ANGELES, CA—Vinyl records have been enjoying a surge in popularity of late, with Nielsen SoundScan counting 2.8 million units sold in 2010, the...
For anyone interested in starting or furthering a career in sound recording through formal education, there is no shortage of possibilities, from full-time enrollment...
With so many engineers and musicians now working in the box, there is a ready market for emulations of vintage audio hardware processors as...
HOLLYWOOD, CA—Responding to the process by which many types of music are created these days, Serenity West Recording has repurposed Studio B as a...
What is prog? “Only gluttons for punishment dare try their hands at the definition of ‘progressive rock,’ as it is almost too extensive, too...
CALABASAS, CA—Producer, engineer and musician Alan Parsons was at the Southern California headquarters of DTS recently, discretely mixing a couple of tracks for playback...
In the studio design and acoustics business, from the smallest project room to the largest multi-room complex, every element interacts; change one design component,...
Chicago-based musician, writer and art historian Thomas Negovan is taking old school analog recording to the absolute extreme with his next project, recording to...
GARDENA, CA—PMI Audio Group has found a comfortable niche in the pro audio business, acquiring, and often reviving the fortunes of, a number of...
HOLLYWOOD, CA—Some commentators have pointed to the resurgence in vinyl sales as a beacon of hope in the face of the continuing slump in...
Russ Berger, president, Russ Berger Design Group (RBDG), and Hanson Hsu, principal, Delta H Design, Inc., recently offered their observations on recent and current...
Virtual instrument plug-ins are maturing fast, and over the last several years have reached such a level of sophistication that many television and film...