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Veteran Female Audio Engineers Found SoundGirls.Org
At the 2012 AES Convention, live sound engineers Michelle Sabolchick and Karrie Keyes participated in a panel discussion on women in the audio industry,...
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Pictures At An Exposition – Gear Expo 2013
Hosted by Vintage King at its VKLA showroom in Los Angeles, Gear Expo 2013 offered the capacity crowd an opportunity to demo gear, speak...
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Something Like The Real Thing
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...
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Vanderslice Video Captures Studio Reality
John Vanderslice set out to capture the reality of recording in the video for “How The West Was Won” from his new album, Dagger...
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Detroit Studio Destined For Destruction?
“United Sound should be preserved for its history,” according to Ed Wolfrum, former engineer at the Detroit studio. That may not happen, however; United...
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Scheps, Scheiner, Fleischman Say Hear It Like I Hear It
Engineer Andrew Scheps (Adele, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, U2) recently presented his acclaimed audio format comparison presentation, Lost in Translation, in New York...
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Inside Bernie Williams’ Home Studio
Bernie Williams made his name in baseball, but the former Yankee has carved out a niche for himself in the world of jazz...
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Digital Arts NY Brings 4K to NYC
Combining the latest technologies with an eye for meticulous detail in its overall studio design, Digital Arts has brought the first 4K post-production...
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Building A Beer Bottle Edison Cylinder
The latest weird recording feat finds great minds in New Zealand turning a beer bottle into an Edison cylinder.
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British Studio Owner Collects Vintage Gear
Coming from a musical family, where his great grandfather was taught to compose by Chopin himself, and now with two older brothers entering...
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One Year On, Gobbler’s Growing
Since its public launch in February 2012, the cloud file transfer system know as Gobbler has made inroads with all types of music...
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DVD Review: Sound City
Here's some stray thoughts about Dave Grohl’s love letter to the Neve 8028 console he bought from Sound City when it went bust in...
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Ray Manzarek: Opened Doors
I first saw the Doors perform before they were major stars, at an all-night rock club with a revolving stage in Hollywood. It...
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Studio Stars In New MySpace Series
The Log Cabin Studio is located on the fourth floor of the Manhattan Center on West 34th Street in Manhattan. Since opening in...
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B/A Conversion: Mr. Bonzai Meets Weird Al Yankovic
It's not every day that Pro Sound News lands a video interview with a world-famous superstar—so today, we're talking with "Weird Al" Yankovic instead....
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Gathering of the Vibes Returns for 18th Year
Anticipating the start of the Gathering of the Vibes’ 18th year, fans can expect to see a number of bands returning to the stage...
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Cassie Taylor Rocks New York’s Hill Country BBQ
American blues musician Cassie Taylor made a stop in New York City on May 3rd as part of her “Out of My Mind”...
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Forget ‘Cutting Wax’—Time To Cut Some Wood
Amanda Ghassaei has created instructions on how to use a laser cut machine to create records using a variety of materials, including wood, acrylic...
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Kickstarting A Sound Design Video Game
Sound designer David Sonnenschein’s newest project is 3 Deaf Mice, a computer game that stems from the lessons in his book, Sound Design:...
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This Producer Tells The Biggest Lies
From the lies they tell musicians (“That was great”) to the lies they tell themselves (“We’ll fix it in the mix”) to the lies...
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Help Wanted: Submit Your Music Festival Videos and Photos to PSN
In celebration of the resurgence in popularity in music festivals, Pro Sound News and Pro Audio Review are creating a new tabloid publication—Music Festival...
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Studio Spotlight: An Interview with New Sound Studio’s Tommy Vetterli
Pro Sound News recently spoke with Tommy Vetterli, a trash metal guitarist with bands including Coroner and Kreator and owner of The New Sound...
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The Quest For Perfection, In Perpetuity
What do the New York Audio Show; the closing of landmark record store Bleeker Bob's; the semi-annual Crossroads Guitar Festival; $68,000 speakers; a Bowie/Jagger...
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Phil Ramone: A Life in the Hit Zone
It was a beautiful memorial gathering on April 9 at Capitol Recording Studios for Phil Ramone, providing a bit of closure. Many of...
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Museum, BoDeans Founder Honor Les Paul
As part of the grand opening of the Waukesha County Museum’s The Wizard of Waukesha Les Paul exhibit, BoDeans founder-turned-solo-artist Sam Llanas and his...
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Book Review: Behind The Boards
Music biographer Jake Brown’s latest book, Behind the Boards: The Making of Rock ‘N’ Roll’s Greatest Records Revealed, takes the reader behind the...
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Q&A: Genelec’s Music Creation Series
Genelec is poised to release the first products in its new Music Creation line, the M Series of bi-amplified, active monitors: “high-performance, environmentally sustainable...
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Steering Renkus-Heinz To The Next Level
Though he was content at JBL and with his Harman career, Scott Leslie was attracted by the professional opportunities presented by his new position...
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DIY Record Cutter Edges Towards Mainstream
The obscure subculture of lathe-cut records—vinyl records hand-cut in real time by hobbyists and entrepreneurs—got a big shove towards the mainstream at the annual...
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Dave Grohl Talks Ultra LoFi Recording at SXSW
Although we’re still just getting into 2013, there’s no doubt that this year has been a successful one for Dave Grohl. With the release...
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NYC Mayor Tackles Hearing Loss Prevention
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in early March that the city will attempt to raise hearing preservation awareness. Targeting earbud headphones...
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Industry Leaders Unite to Support The Recording Academy® Producers & Engineers Wing® GRAMMY® Week Event
Audio Industry Leaders Gather for the Sixth Annual GRAMMY® Week Celebration at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles Honoring Music Producers...
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Mixes Fit For a Runner
Producers and engineers spend their days locked away in dark studios, hunched over DAWs and instruments, so it's no surprise that many of them...
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We Buy White Albums
Pro Audio exists to serve sounds—to create and preserve them so that they can be distributed and take on relevance beyond the spaces where...
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Mixing The Hip Hop Violinist Live
Pro Sound News met up with FOH engineer Rob McWhorter during the recent Lindsey Stirling concert at Webster Hall in NYC to talk about...
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THAT’s Business Today
Recently, Pro Sound News editor, Frank Wells, sat down with Les Tyler, president of audio semiconductor manufacturer THAT Corp., to discuss the myriad issues,...
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Recording The First Beatles Album
The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released March 22, 1963. Today, in an age where it can take days just to...
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Videos: Grammy Week Salute to Quincy Jones & Al Schmitt
The Grammy Awards are known as "Music's Biggest Night," but if you're in the production side of the industry, an event like the...
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Video: Extreme Makeover—Home Studio Edition
These days, having a home production environment is a given for music professionals, but unless you’re one of the few who can decorate your...
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Video: Young Guru Explores AES
If you couldn't make it to the 2012 AES Convention in San Francisco, you missed out, but checking it out with Jay-Z's legendary...
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Ask SPARS mentoring at NAMM winter show is well received
SPARS recently matched some 20 industry leaders with more than 125 students, recent graduates and active recording professionals in a two hour Ask SPARS...
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Vinyl Revival Brings Back The Bootleg
Since 2007, vinyl records have been making a remarkable comeback at retail, with sales growing exponentially year over year. The latest Nielsen Soundscan figures...