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Diving into The Sounds of Star Wars
Author J.W. Rinzler discusses working with legendary sound designer Ben Burtt on his book, The Sounds of Star Wars.
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Open Channel: To Get the Right Answer…Ask the Right Question
If our creative recording skills are going to move forward, we need to rethink what we're trying to achieve and how we're going to...
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Mix Live Blog: Pluses and Minuses
Mix columnist Steve La Cerra writes in from Blue Oyster Cult's FOH console and reports he's not the only one a little rusty from...
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Mix Blog Live: Rental Gouge
Ever on the road, live sound pro Steve La Cerra recounts a wretched rental counter encounter—and considers how other touring acts will be affected...
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Authenticity and the Art of Performance
"Yes, anything goes, and that’s what this column is about. Expect opinions, praise, complaints, controversy, and of course, occasional moments of blinding stupidity."
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Mix Blog Live: At Home, On Tour
The Boss reopened on Broadway a few days ago and has announced plans for a 2022 tour, though the two types of performances are...
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Find Your Next Gig Now! The Complete ‘Sounding Board’ Series
This limited series by audio industry veteran Mike Dias shows you specifically how to career network in the pro audio industry; this is not...
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Mix Blog Studio: Skewed Critical Focus
The ease with which people can offer opinions online and then call themselves a music critic means that ... well, there are a lot...
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Sounding Board: Community Is Why We Network
Audio industry veteran Mike Dias closes out his 'pro-audio career networking' column with some final thoughts and thank-yous.
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Mix Blog Live: Ready, Set, Go
With Foo Fighters playing next week at a sold-out, full-capacity, vaccination-required Madison Square Garden, the concert touring industry is seeing its first signs of...
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Mix Blog Studio: Be Ready to Record—Wherever and Whenever
You never know when a song idea or a guitar riff is going to pop into your head, so it helps if you have...
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Peek Inside Hunter Hayes’ Home Studio with this Video Tour
Country star/producer Hunter Hayes has built a well-appointed home studio for himself in the hills above Los Angeles. Let's go gear-spotting as he gives...
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Mix Blog Live: Two Gigs in One Weekend!
Steve La Cerra is getting back into the rhythm of the road after setting up travel, backline and the FOH mix for two shows...
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Why are PSN and Mix Merging?
You may have heard about what’s happening here at PSN. It’s big: Pro Sound News and Mix are merging.
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Mix Blog Studio: Track Organization Quiz
There are as many ways to approach mix as there are engineers, ranging from the hyper-methodical, 'must-color-code-now' to the free-wheeling, 'I'll-figure-out-what-I-did-later." Which one are...
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Sounding Board: Networking in Three Dimensions
For networking to be effective, you need a simple way to document, store, and access contact information, your notes and records of correspondence—a CRM.
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Mix Blog Live: Get That Chip Off Your Shoulder
The ongoing, worldwide shortage in ICs is delaying product manufacturing across nearly every industry, and pro audio, it appears, will be taking a back...
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Book Review: Major Label Mastering—Professional Mastering Process
Mastering is one of those corners of pro audio that everyone knows about, but doesn’t necessarily know what it truly entails. Shedding some light...
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Mix Blog Studio: Cassettes? Really?
Mike Levine, who was there for the emergence of the Portastudio back in the day, is mystified by the resurgence in popularity of the...
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Editor’s Note: Influence and Inspiration
There’s a scene in the movie School of Rock where the Jack Black character, the temp music teacher at a private school, is walking...
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Mix Blog Live: Ten-Foot Kick
We like loud, we like clarity and we like dynamics. That's what we do in live performance. But now is not the time to...
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Mix Blog Studio: 500 Series As a Gateway to Analog
After years of mixing in-the-box, Mike Levine discovered a range of 500 Series units; he now employs a hybrid approach to his mixes that...
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What’s It Like to Mix for 4,000 Fans in a Pandemic?
As the U.S. gets vaccinated, concerts are starting to come back—but what’s it like to mix for 4,000 fans during a pandemic?
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Mix Blog Live: Spring Training
Steve La Cerra was back at FOH last weekend, and that proved to be the easy part following a 17-hour journey from New York...
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Software Tech: Build Your Windows Audio PC
Pro audio legend Craig Anderton recently built the recording PC of his dreams -- here's some of the questions, issues and answers he discovered...
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Mix Blog Studio: Tear It Down and Build It Up
Mike Levine can't get to his third-floor studio for a few more weeks, so he moved some of it downstairs, all the time thinking...
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No Need to Go It Alone
If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past year of isolation, there’s no need to go it alone.
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Craig Anderton’s Multimedia PA&RT Summit Keynote Now Available
The first-ever Pro Audio & Radio Tech Summit featured a thought-provoking Keynote Speech focused on true collaboration by industry visionary Craig Anderton.
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Mix Blog Live: Muscle Memory
After a long hiatus, Steve La Cerra settled in at FOH for his first gig of 2021 and, for a brief moment, found that...
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Mix Blog Studio: Loops By Subscription
The software subscription model has made its way into pro audio, and Mike Levine finds that the new wave of loop sites provide great...
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Editorial: Are We There Yet?
Usually it's kids in the backseat that ask 'Are we there yet?' Now it's being asked by audio professionals who want to get back...
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Sounding Board: Networking is Knowing How to Map Your Connections
Audio pro Mike Dias explains why networking isn't just something you do when you're looking for a job; it enables you to do your...
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Mix Blog Live: Vegas Reopens at 50 Percent
While not a long-term solution, the move in Las Vegas to open venues at up to 50 percent capacity (or 250 people, whichever is...
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This One’s a Reader
I entered the graduate journalism program at Indiana University in 1986, about seven or eight lifetimes ago in technology years. In the summer of...
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Mix Blog Studio: iZotope and NI—One Plus One Equals…?
A new alliance between two powerhouses in pro audio and music production has some intriguing possibilities for creators, including the incorporation of AI into...
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Sounding Board: Networking Without Audio Trade Shows
Real networking opportunities happen every day, all year, independent of time, space or location. Here's how you can make them happen for you.
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Mix Blog Live: GRAMMY Time
Grammy Week and Music's Biggest Night will look a lot different this time around, but as Steve La Cerra points out, the performers are...
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Evil Audio Pros are Back with ‘Sound of Violence’
The new indie flick 'Sound of Violence' brings back our favorite niche horror movie trope: The Evil Sound Professional.
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Mix Blog Studio: Console Yourself
Mike Levine is beginning to rethink his mix workflow by looking at console emulation plug-ins rather than mix-and-match dynamics and processing.
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The Mix Consultancy: The Four (and a Half) Jobs in a Studio
Grammy Award-winner Dom Morley takes us through the variety of jobs in a modern studio and the responsibilities they entail.
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Well, It’s Been a Year Now…
My daughters like to tease me that I use a few too many ellipses in my texts and emails. “Oh yeah, dad, he’s king...