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If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time re-educating your interns and assistant engineers. Recording school is great and all, but as...
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If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time re-educating your interns and assistant engineers. Recording school is great and all, but as...
When you think of Austin, one of the first things that come to mind is the city’s legendary music scene. With more funky venues...
NAMM is in a couple of weeks. I’ve been going to these shows since the 1980s, and I always get the same buzz from...
In 1942, while training with the Air Force, Harold Burroughs Rhodes created a laptop keyboard from scrap plane materials he found around the airfield....
The Montreux Jazz Festival has long been a key tourist attraction for the small Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva, but now...
Rutherford Chang is an artist who is also a record collector—which is to say, he collects a record: The Beatles’ White Album. To date,...
The last 12 months have been an interesting ride for our business. Dealers I questioned at Winter NAMM were lukewarm about business, but just...
Arif Mardin was a recording icon, producing and arranging hits for decades as he created career-defining songs for Hall & Oates, Phil Collins, Carly...
It’s the guitar that shook the folk music world—Bob Dylan’s famous Fender Stratocaster, which he used at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he...
Back by popular demand, Pro Sound News once again brings you its “Gift Guide for the Live Sound Engineer.”
New PSN blogger Eyal Levi is a heavyweight when it comes to producing and engineering modern metal, having worked on 50-plus albums...
Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website, always makes for an browse, offering plenty of entertainment—and occasionally a glimpse of the future—as people raise money to bring...
SPARS once again hosted speed mentoring sessions at the 135th AES Convention held in New York, October 17-20, 2013. I dropped in to...
We get an avalanche of press releases every day, sent in from manufacturers, studios, live sound vendors, bands and others around the pro audio...
Since 1938, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has celebrated the art and architecture of medieval Europe with its Cloisters Museum, a separate...
Recently, we blogged about a dance music video that engineer Dan Atkinson of Dan's Labs Studios in Long Beach, CA created using vocal tracks...
Ever wonder what would happen if you didn't pay your engineer? Well, hardcore metal band Altitudes is currently finding out; when the group failed...
At the annual New York Comic Con, Penguin Random House Audio put visitors behind the mic to experience what it’s like to record an...
I’ve talked about quality more than a few times in this column. I’m a firm believer that quality is cheaper when buying gear, and...
I recently played a show at a major performing arts facility on the East Coast, which not only had exceptional sound and lighting, and...
The annual Global Citizen Festival was held September 28 in New York City’s Central Park, promoting and celebrating the efforts of the Global Poverty...
After 17 years of working on creating a film that captures the story of the 1960s group of studio musicians known as The Wrecking...
The passing of audio innovator Ray Dolby on September 12, 2013 at the age of 80 has resonated across the entire pro audio...
After years of touting the need for a music service that provides higher resolution digital audio, Neil Young has revealed his high-profile project, PONO,...
What makes for a great portable recording rig? If you're thinking of a set-up you can carry or roll, you're just not thinking big...
Most people entering the recording field might dream of someday working inside Abbey Road Studios or learning from the master producers who shaped hits...
Royer Labs and Mojave Audio presented an evening of live jazz and classical piano at Universal Mastering Studios in Los Angeles on ...
Avid and Abbey Road Studios are in the midst of a year-long collaboration, one that includes the webseries Inside Abbey Road Studios, which was...
On August 10 and 17, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., a unique New York City roadway that thousands of people travel on every...
Sad news to learn of George Duke's untimely death. He was such a warm-hearted guy, so talented, and much loved and trusted by so...
If you’ve seen the Despacio article in our July, 2013 issue of Pro Sound News, you’ve read about the thoroughly over-the-top system that James...
Despite heavy rains on the first day, the annual Newport Folk Festival once again brought an eclectic mix of folk, blues, rock and...
Following in the footsteps of 1970s workplace sitcoms like WKRP In Cincinnati and The Mary Tyler Moore Show comes the live stageshow/webcast, B-Side Studio,...
Chevrolet recently had Detroit rockers The Gentlemen Mutineers record some of the band's latest single, “Detroit Throttle,” inside a 2014 Impala in order to...
T.C. Furlong has been a well-known name in pro audio for 40 years, but few realize that he once had a Top-15 hit as...
At the 2012 AES Convention, live sound engineers Michelle Sabolchick and Karrie Keyes participated in a panel discussion on women in the audio industry,...
Hosted by Vintage King at its VKLA showroom in Los Angeles, Gear Expo 2013 offered the capacity crowd an opportunity to demo gear, speak...
LiveTunes is an iPhone app that lets you simulate the concert-going experience by playing back your digital music files drenched in wild applause and...
John Vanderslice set out to capture the reality of recording in the video for “How The West Was Won” from his new album, Dagger...
“United Sound should be preserved for its history,” according to Ed Wolfrum, former engineer at the Detroit studio. That may not happen, however; United...
Engineer Andrew Scheps (Adele, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2) recently presented his acclaimed audio format comparison presentation, Lost in Translation, in New York...
Bernie Williams made his name in baseball, but the former Yankee has carved out a niche for himself in the world of jazz...