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TechTalk: Upgrade? Is It Time Yet?
As an engineer, educator, content creator and communicator, I’m constantly wrestling with tech upgrades. But the first question I have to always ask myself...
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Robair Report: The Eternal Swap Meet
Do the products we use for music production ever become obsolete if they still work?
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NJ Raises Ruckus Over NYC Pier 97 Shows
Across the Hudson River, New Jersey residents are getting a free spot to catch some of the summer’s hottest concerts taking place on Manhattan’s...
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Video: Abbey Road Remasters A Classic New Wave LP
The vinyl revival isn’t just a U.S. phenomenon; pressing plants and mastering facilities around the world are seeing the same bump in business we’ve...
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Spectrum Recording Marks 30 Years
August 14, 2014 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of James Kalamasz founding Spectrum Recording Studios in Pompano Beach, FL. Over the years, the long-running...
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Book Review: Behind the Boards II
Riding off the success of his first edition, author Jake Brown recently released Behind the Boards II, the second volume of accounts by record...
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Misperceptions Lead To Reinvention
The internet is a pretty big deal; in fact, you’re probably using it right now. While it has given us interesting advancements like social...
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Sweetwater GearFest 2014: Homecoming In The Heartland
A city of better than a quarter million people, Fort Wayne, Indiana is a two-hop from all but a handful of major airports, and...
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Paul Horn: Blowin’ in the Wind (1930-2014)
Grammy-winning alto-saxophonist and flutist Paul Horn, whose career spanned mainstream pop jazz to the New Age genre he pioneered, died June 29 at...
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Creating Rhythmic Variations Quickly
In an age where spare-room studios are the norm and artists are becoming increasingly DAW-proficient, the lines between songwriting and production are more blurred...
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TechTalk: Do Nothing
I’m always looking for something to do. Call it OCD, OMG, WTF or whatever you’d like—one of my dearest friends calls me her “favorite...
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Heading Downtown
While New York City’s fashionable SoHo neighborhood in lower Manhattan is predominantly known for its designer boutiques, the recording industry still plays a strong...
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MFB Sneak Peek: Clearwater Festival
The Clearwater Festival—officially known as Clearwater’s Great Hudson River Revival—will be featured in an upcoming issue of our new magazine, Music Festival Business, but...
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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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Book Review: Mad World—An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s
Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs that Defined the 1980s interviews a list of acts that reads like a...
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Broadway Backs Sound Designers
In the wake of the Tony Awards Administration Committee’s controversial decision to eliminate the Best Sound Design categories, members of the theater community have...
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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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Insight From Omar Hakim: Working With A Technically Savvy Artist
Pro Sound News columnist Rich Tozzoli sat down with Omar Hakim to discuss how the legendary drummer/producer/composer got started with the studio bug and...
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TechTalk: On Being A Sponge
Everyone knows the Chinese blessing/curse, “May you live in interesting times.” For me, the polarity-flipped blessing would be, “May you always be surrounded by...
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Meyer Making Metallica’s Monitors
In recent times, Metallica has increasingly opted to headline festivals around the world rather than tour, so using smaller, lighter wedges became a priority...
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Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
It’s been a time of changes in pro audio—one filled with new beginnings, like Harman buying AMX, and endings, such as Todd-Soundelux filing for...
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AudioMasters 17th Annual Benefit Golf Tourny Kicks Off
The 17th Annual AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament was held this week on Thursday, May 15, and Friday, May 16, at the Harpeth Hills Golf...
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Plundering The Grateful Dead
Deadheads have always loved "Dark Star," one of the Grateful Dead's most out-there live jams. In the mid-90s, Canadian avant garde composer John Oswald...
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TechTalk: It’s About Time
We all deal with timing every day. From hitting the stoplights on the way to work to setting a song tempo, making business decisions...
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‘Whale’ Creates Immersive Audio Art of the Self
Audio and art have always gone hand in hand, and as technology has advanced, the realms of possibility have only broadened. But while we...
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Dave Rat’s Epic Google Glass Coachella Run
The annual Coachella festival takes months to put together, but even the pros who make it happen can underestimate the sheer size of it....
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Engineering Jack White’s Record-Breaking Single
Saturday, April 19, 2014, independent record stores across the world celebrated Record Store Day, an annual event held on the third weekend in April...
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DVD Review: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Some artists are forever associated with certain studios. You can’t talk about the Beatles without bringing up Abbey Road. Any look at the Beach...
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No Foolin’: April Fools’ Day 2014 Recap
They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb—which is ironic because April 1 is when...
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TechTalk: MetApeel
Metadata is like a banana peel. It looks great on the banana, but once it’s separated, no one wants to own it. Who will...
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Moog Spends a Month at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade
As a precursor to its annual MoogFest in Asheville, NC, the innovative synthesizer company Moog held a residency at Rough Trade NYC in the...
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Minneapolis’ Proposed Ear Plug Ordinance
On April 29, the City Council in Minneapolis will vote on a proposed ordinance that would require all bars, restaurants and sports and...
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DVD Review: Muscle Shoals
The documentary Muscle Shoals, recently released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital services, digs deep into joy, pain and all the other messy, human stuff...
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Lady Gaga Recalls NYC’s Roseland at SXSW
Still facing backlash from her performance at SXSW the night before, where she gave an over the top, theatrical performance involving a mechanical bull,...
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Chaos and Crowd Safety At SXSW
Two people were killed and another 23 were injured Wednesday, March 12, after a suspected drunk driver plowed through a barrier outside the Mohawk...
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Inside the Treehouse Studio
A few weeks ago, we blogged about the unique two-story treehouse recording studio built at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, WA and how its...
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Smart Studios Documentary Hits Kickstarter
Smart Studios, the funky Madison, WI recording facility co-founded by producer Butch Vig, may have closed its doors in 2010, but its legend seems...
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Looking at LFO
Sound has always affected the human psyche. Music raises our spirits, significant others yelling at us makes us agitated, and of course, sound practitioners...
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Bolstering ‘Bringing Human Rights Home’
On February 5th, some of music’s most popular acts graced the stage at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, NY for “Amnesty International Bringing Human...
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Building A Treehouse Recording Studio
We hear stories all the time about studios creating a new atmosphere for its clients, like decorating the interior to look like a log...
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Phish in the Deep Blue Sea
Phish celebrated its 30th anniversary with four sold-out shows leading up to New Year’s Eve 2013 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Receiving...