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PA-Tuning Tunes with Tim “Quake” Mark
All live engineers have favorite songs that they use to tune the PA, whether it’s the ubiquitous Donald Fagan track, “I.G.Y.”, or for a...
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Mr. Bonzai's Music Smarts
Chad Smith: Portrait of a Red Hot Drummer, Part II
For this interview and photo session, I visited Chad Smith at his home in Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Although he is active...
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Discreet Tweets: Pro Sound News’ June 2011 Twitter Feed
June saw Pro Sound News serve up all kinds of news on Twitter—breaking news at InfoComm on new product releases and features; spreading...
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Audio-Technica Does Things Backwards
We’ve all sat through boring corporate videos. Though they’re always designed with the best of intentions, bad corporate clips can put you to sleep,...
The Tesseract
Greetings!
Greetings to all who tune in to the ProSoundNetwork! My name is David Schober. What you’ll find here will be various tips and observations...
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TechTalk: Connections
Modern culture is all about connections: social, wired and wireless. Social networking has changed the way we interact with our friends, family and even...
Mr. Bonzai's Music Smarts
Chad Smith: Portrait of a Red Hot Drummer, Part I
For this interview and photo session, I visited Chad Smith at his home in Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Although he is active...
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Book Review: Mountains Come Out of the Sky—The Illustrated History of Prog Rock
What is prog? “Only gluttons for punishment dare try their hands at the definition of ‘progressive rock,’ as it is almost too extensive, too...
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Summer Sound Squabble
Some people say it’s not Summer until Memorial Day or school’s out or some other bellwether. I maintain that it’s not the hottest season...
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Looking After Third Eye Blind
When it comes the chart-topping acts of the late '90s, few bands had the widespread acceptance of Third Eye Blind, one of those rare...
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Metallica, Reed Walk On The Wild Side
News broke over the weekend that the legendary metal band, Metallica, has finished recording a new album in collaboration with the equally iconic singer/songwriter,...
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Show Snapshots: InfoComm 2011, Part 2
Every year, there's tons to see at InfoComm, and the 2011 edition was no exception to the rule. Between new products being released, new...
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Show Snapshots: InfoComm 2011, Part 1
Every year, there's tons to see at InfoComm, and the 2011 edition was no exception to the rule. Between new products being released, new...
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Show Snapshots: InfoComm 2011 Load-In
Ever wonder what the exhibitor floor of InfoComm looks like before it’s all set up and ready to go? Well, it ain’t pretty, but...
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Wrapped Up in GaluminumFoil
The old axiom, “If you want something done, ask a busy person,” is probably at least part of why New York City bands keep...
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PSN Extended Article: Crown In The 21st Century
What follows is an extended version of the "Crown In The 21st Century" article from the June, 2011 issue of Pro Sound News, more...
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In-Depth Interviews: Film Composers On Monitoring
Supplementing "Creating The Score, Parts 1 & 2" (May and June, 2011 issues of Pro Sound News), we present additional interviews with film composers...
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Simple Plan’s Plan
Montreal’s Simple Plan just finished its fourth studio album, due to hit record store shelves and online outlets next month.
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Inside “Tori Amos: In The Studio”
Nashville-based music author Jake Brown's latest book, Tori Amos: In The Studio, takes a look at the title songstress and the creation of her...
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Survival of the Most Versatile
For well over a year now as the global economy stutters along towards recovery, “cautious optimism” has been the phrase I’ve felt best described...
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Kickstarting It Old School
Chicago-based musician, writer and art historian Thomas Negovan is taking old school analog recording to the absolute extreme with his next project, recording to...
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The Magic of Martin Rushent
Influential UK producer Martin Rushent died on Saturday, June 4, at the age of 63, leaving in his wake a legacy of New Wave...
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Neat Tweets: Pro Sound News’ May, 2011 Twitter Feed
Hot on the heels of Pro Sound News' recent magazine redesign, May saw PSN join forces with Pro Audio Review to create a new...
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TechTalk: It’s All About Trust
As I was learning the craft of engineering, I was fortunate enough to assist some of the best ears in the business, which gave...
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In-Depth Interviews: Live Sound Education
Pro Sound News' May, 2011 cover story, “SR Education On The Rise,” offered insights and updates from three top sound reinforcement educators around the...
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Extended Special Report: Studio Acoustics
Russ Berger, president, Russ Berger Design Group (RBDG), and Hanson Hsu, principal, Delta H Design, Inc., recently offered their observations on recent and current...
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In-Depth Interview: Mark Graham, CEO, Loud Technologies
At Frankfurt’s Musikmesse/ProLight & Sound in April, five months after his appointment as CEO of Loud Technologies, Pro Sound News Editor Frank Wells sat...
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Lectrosonics’ Growing HQ [Photo Tour]
By Frank Wells. On the eve of Lectrosonics’ 40th anniversary celebrations, Pro Sound News was given a factory tour of the company's Rio Rancho,...
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Pro-Audio Community Remembers Bruce Jackson
During the moving memorial on April 9 for the late Bruce Jackson, some 100-plus family, friends and colleagues paid tribute to the popular and...
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The Dropkick Murphys Drop Into Roseland Ballroom
My dad always said that there are only three certainties in life: life, death, and taxes. Well, there’s one more thing that you can...
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Robert Scovill on the Future of Live Sound
Audio luminary Robert Scovill delivered the keynote address at the Webster University AES Student Section’s 5th annual Central Region Student Summit. A six-time TEC...
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Lighthouse Pro Audio Sham-Rocks St. Patrick’s Event
By Clive Young. Believe it or not, some family reunions can be fun—take, for instance, the massive 2011 St. Patrick's Day Irish Family Reunion,...
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Book Review: The Rock Bible
By Clive Young. Henry Owings, editor of the snarky zine Chunklet, has compiled The Rock Bible, a book-length list of commandments for rockers and...
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Ready for Record Store Day 2011?
By Clive Young. If you’re in pro audio, you dig music. And if you dig music, there’s a good chance you like record stores,...
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Inside Recording The Beatles’ First Album
By Clive Young. Recording veteran Richard Langham recently spoke publicly for the first time about his experiences as the Second Engineer on many of...
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Special Report: 2011 Semiconductors in Audio—A Designer Survey
By Frank Wells. Each year, Pro Sound News queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage and the impact on the products you employ....
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Tweet Nothings: Pro Sound News’ January 2011 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog...
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What Did You Get for Christmas?
By Rich Tozzoli. As we start another year of fun, I thought it would be interesting to reach out to some of my industry...
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CES2011: Content Creation’s Next Generation Tools
by Mel Lambert. With US consumer-electronic sales in 2010 reported to have topped $175 billion, followed by a forecast for 2011 sales of some...
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Twitter Wonderland: Pro Sound News’ December, 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog...
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Nashville Gathers Around a Lunchbox
By Russ Long. A who’s who among Nashville’s audio elite gathered at Ocean Way Nashville’s Studio B on December 8th to compare the new...
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Five Fingers Vs. Pro Audio
As a word of warning, although this blog post contains pro audio-related material, you will not be educated or informed on pretty much anything...