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Customized Console Keeps It Simple
Producer/engineer Allen Farmelo is an advocate of simplicity and originality when it comes to equipment — so much so that he customized his API...
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Homemade Star Wars Movie Lands at Skywalker Sound
If you’ve spent any time poking around You Tube, you’ve probably come across a Fan Film or two—those homemade, amateur movies that pay tribute...
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Bikers Power Festival’s Sound System
San Francisco’s bicycle community once again took its love of the sport to a new level this year after hosting the sixth annual San...
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Recounting A Career of Classics
For readers of a certain age, Ken Scott’s work as an engineer and producer has likely formed a significant part of the soundtrack to...
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The Eternal Quest
Where are you finding new music these days? As ever more music is entering the marketplace (that “democratization of the music industry” ...
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Dave Grohl Goes To The Movies With ‘Sound City’
In 2011, Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl bought the classic Neve console at the heart of Sound City, the Los Angeles recording facility behind...
Mastering Matters
Can I Get A Plug-In ?
Plug-ins. Do we use them at Bernie Grundman Mastering? Well, yes and no. Have we ever? Yes. Is it common? Not really. When...
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Ken Caillat Reveals Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Rumours’
Ken Caillat, the legendary engineer and co-producer of Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 album, Rumours, recently spoke at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY,...
SPARS PatchBay
SPARS ends fiscal year with successful events, increased membership and participation
SPARS ended its 2011-2012 fiscal year recently, producing several well attended and successful events. In addition, the 33 year old recording association experienced an...
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The Propriety of the Proprietary
As covered on page 5 of this issue, Avid has introduced Pro Tools|HD Native for host-based audio processing.
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Soundguy’s Revenge
Live sound engineers suffer for their art. The hours are long, the pay isn’t always that great, but what makes it all worthwhile are...
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On The Road With The Beach Boys 50th Anniversary Tour
All surviving members of The Beach Boys have reunited this year for the band's 50th Anniversary, embarking on a world tour and releasing...
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Strike Up The Violens
Brooklyn, NY-based Violens recently released its second album, True, on Slumberland Records, unleashing another flurry of doomy guitar pop, drenched in reverb like a...
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Seen On The Scene: InfoComm 2012
There was plenty going on at InfoComm 2012, from new products being announced to educational offerings to networking (the old-fashioned handshake kind) and...
SPARS PatchBay
SPARS spotlights Web design and hosting company, JazzCorner
Over two years ago, when SPARS decided to redesign its web presence, the 33-year-old recording association had the good fortune to be introduced to...
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Seen On The Scene: InfoComm 2012 Load-In
It's that time of year again, as InfoComm has invaded the Las Vegas Convention Center for this year's confab. Here's a bit of what...
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Constructing ‘Deconstructing The Beatles’
The Beatles’ music has inspired millions of people over the years. Some were stirred to enter the music world, becoming recording engineers...
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Mr. Rogers, Electronica Hero
Going viral with astonishing speed is “Garden of Your Mind,” a melodic mashup video of children's television legend, Mr. Rogers, given the auto-tune treatment...
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The Story Behind Steve Vai’s Story of Light
Legendary guitarist Steve Vai is ramping up for the release of his upcoming album, The Story of Light—a sequel to his last solo studio...
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Foster The People Packs Central Park
Foster The People has made a name for itself over the last year, serving up slithering dance music with a dash of alternative rock...
Studio Sense
It Takes Two Kinds
Surely you've heard the saying, “There are two kinds of people in this world,” as it has been creatively applied to most any discipline,...
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EARS Chicago features Phil Ramone at May Meeting at Shure Headquarters
EARS Chicago recently honored iconic engineer, producer, and music legend Phil Ramone during the recording group’s April meeting. The event was held at the Shure Theater...
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Car Audio Moves Forward Into The Past
One of the highlights of the recent AES Convention in Budapest was the premiere of a unique surround sound project—music mixed and mastered specifically...
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PSN Extra: Inside Coachella
The May, 2012 issue of Pro Sound News features our coverage of the recent Coachella festival in Indio, CA, but here’s even more insight...
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PSN Is Rockin’ Into Summer
Last summer, Pro Sound News and Pro Audio Review managing editor Fred Goodman released his latest album, The Last Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll,...
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Interview: Dave Brandwein of Galaxy Smith Studios
The old song says that if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. In recent times, though, more and...
Mr. Bonzai's Music Smarts
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A few choice words from Mr. Bonzai's MUSIC SMARTS -- The Inside Truth and Road-Tested Wisdom from the Brightest Minds in the Music Business,...
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Weeknd Update with Andy Ebert
I believe it was the noted Canadian socio-economic theorists Loverboy who once said, “Everybody’s workin’ for the weekend.” Thirty years later, someone else is...
Studio Sense
Tubes = Tone: Is It Time For Some Guitar Amp TLC?
Attention recording engineers: Are you looking to inspire guitarists and capture noteworthy tones?
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John Cooper On Breaking Into Live Sound
John Cooper has mixed plenty of household names—Lionel Richie, Sheryl Crow and Ringo Starr to namedrop only a few—but for the last 10 years,...
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Inside Zambri’s House of Baasa
Zambri recently released its debut album, House of Baasa, but the collaborations stretch far back for the duo. As sisters, Cristi Jo and Jessica...
The Tesseract
Recording Tip 33: What Goes On Behind Closed Doors
Recording Tip 33: I’ll often listen to a mix playback outside of the control room...mostly with the door closed.This is a tip is another...
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Book Review: A Story of Six Strings
A TV news theme we’ve heard a thousand times is arguably more deeply enmeshed in our lives than the songs that we more readily...
Studio Sense
Final Master Delivery for Our Post-Physical Media World
"Today I delivered 26 files, spread across six discs (or folders), to my client for their four song project. Hmm, I remember when that...
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Thoughts on the Invisible FOH Engineer
The Thread, the blog of Duke University’s Duke Performances department, recently interviewed Ken Jacob, chief engineer and director of the Bose Live Music Technology...
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NAB Pro Audio Pit Halftime Recap
The Pro Audio Pit at NAB has been bringing some of the industry’s sharpest minds together. It’s been a great venue for highlighting the...
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Record Store Day Returns
For most people, the big shopping holiday every year is Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. For vinyl record fans (and its safe...
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Les Paul’s Studio Gear To Be Auctioned
Though he died nearly three years ago at the age of 94, Les Paul’s legacy will continue on for generations. A true renaissance man,...
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The Storm Before the CALM Act
Ahead of the CALM (Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation) Act going into effect, today's guest blogger, Lon Neumann, consulting engineer with Neumann Technologies and a...
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Eyebeam Reaches Sound Research Summit
We’ve written about Eyebeam Art + Technology Center before—the forward-thinking mini-muesum in New York City’s Chelsea District. Always looking at new ways to explore...
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SPARS SoundBite | Fragmentation is Good!
As we head off to another NAB, we find that media production in general is experiencing a tremendous amount of fragmentation—a trend that is...
Studio Sense
The Art (and the Risk) of the Rough
Admittedly, the beginning of a recording project is the best part; all the optimism, all the teamwork, and all the focus on the big...