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Postcard from London: Turner Prize Honors a Different Kind of Audio Installation
By Mel Lambert. The Turner Prize, named after the popular landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, and presented annually to a British visual artist...
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Internet is Public Enemy #1 at Content Protection Summit
By Mel Lambert. “Piracy is the most threatening risk to have ever hit our industry,” stated Directors Guild of America president Taylor Hackford during...
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Should Old Tweets Be Forgotten: Pro Sound News’ November, 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month we collect up the previous month’s ‘tweets’ from the Pro Sound News Twitter feed for some easy, amusing reading....
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What To Get A Live Sound Pro for the Holidays, 2010 Edition!
What do live sound engineers want? We ask this question every year and of course, the best answers are intangible: More sleep, a little...
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Author J.W. Rinzler on The Sounds of Star Wars
By Clive Young. Lucasfilm recently released a book of note for audio enthusiasts—The Sounds of Star Wars, covering the development of sounds known...
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Keith Urban Catches The Train
By Clive Young. New York City’s threadbare Penn Station is about as urban as it gets, so perhaps it was fitting that Keith Urban...
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Blu-Con 2010 Spotlights Medium’s Audio Capabilities
By Mel Lambert. According to Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video and president of the Digital Entertainment Group, close to 21 million US...
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All A Twitter: Pro Sound News’ October, 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every day, we use Twitter to bring you links to our latest headlines, but we also use it to spread the...
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The Sights of AES 2010, Wrap-Up
By Clive Young. Here's a visual look back at the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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The Sights of AES 2010, Day One
By Clive Young. Here's some of the early sights of the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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SMPTE Conference Delves Into Loudness Control, Lip-Sync Anomalies
By Mel Lambert. Following its recent passage through the Senate, by early next year it is expected that the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation/CALM Act...
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Book Review: The Sounds of Star Wars
By Clive Young. The creation of the Star Wars films is a story that’s been explored countless times through TV specials, DVD extras, books...
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Entertainment & Technology Summit Digs Deep
By Mel Lambert. This year’s Entertainment & Technology Summit served up the latest in the ongoing marriage between its namesake subjects. Organized by Variety...
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The Boy’s On Top This Fall—Kenny Chesney Q&A, Part 3
By Frank Wells. Here's the conclusion of our exclusive interview with country superstar Kenny Chesney. Speaking with Pro Sound News Editor-In-Chief Frank Wells, Kenny...
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The Boy’s On Top This Fall—Kenny Chesney Q&A, Part 2
by Frank Wells. In Part Two of our three-part interview with Kenny Chesney, Pro Sound News editor-in-chief Frank Wells sits down with the country...
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The Boy’s On Top This Fall—Kenny Chesney Q&A, Part 1
By Frank Wells. Kenny Chesney shares the best recording advice he's ever received, the need to 'put a smile on it,' and mixing Hemingway's...
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Picture A Pocket-Sized Coachella Festival
By Clive Young. The 2010 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival was held back in April, but you can get a taste of the...
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Des Moines dB Soap Opera Continues
By Clive Young. About a month ago, we blogged about a venue in West Des Moines, the Val Air Ballroom, and how its manager,...
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From Screen to Book to Stage–The Music of the Lord of the Rings Films
By Clive Young. Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a powerful piece of filmmaking, in no small part due to Howard...
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Bundles of Plug-Ins
by Christopher Walsh. Most engineers feel that modeling of analog hardware has progressed to a point at which they can confidently work with software-based...
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All the News that’s Fit to Tweet: Pro Sound News’ September 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Everyone uses Twitter in their own way, and this time, Pro Sound News’ monthly compendium of tweets reveals that we use...
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My First Pro Microphone
On Friday, September 14 in 1990, I bought my first "pro" microphone, a Yamaha MZ 204 cardioid dynamic from Sound Track Music in King,...
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Unveiling ‘That’s Voiceover’
Ask engineers how to get the most out of a vocalist, and they’ll start talking gear and psychology. Ask them how to do the...
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Awesome Audio Art at World Maker Faire
By Clive Young. Maker Faire is an unusual DIY science and technology event that began in Northern California five years ago, bringing together entrepreneurs,...
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Sound Features At 3D Entertainment Summit
By Mel Lambert. “The greatest soundtrack of all-time was for The Exorcist,” considered film director M. Night Shyamalan during his Pre-Lunch Keynote Session at...
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Talk of the Tweet: Pro Sound News’ August 2010 Twitter Feed
by Clive Young. Every month, we do a recap of Pro Sound News' Twitter posts ("Tweets"), showing a bit of what we wrote about...
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Ryan Cecil’s Go-To Mics
By Clive Young. It helps any live sound engineer to have a resume with big name acts on it, but it helps even more...
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Zac Brown Band On Tour With Martin MLA
By Clive Young. The Zac Brown Band is on the concert trail, stumping for its sophomore album, You Get What You Give. While the...
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Dave Rat’s Go-To Microphones
By Clive Young. Dave Rat wears many hats—gear designer, consummate pro audio blogger, co-founder of Rat Sound—and he’s been known to mix a gig...
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Tweetastic: Pro Sound News’ July 2010 Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Every month, we gather up all the “tweets” that we posted the previous month on our ever-flowing Twitter stream. Not only...
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Robert Scovill’s Go-To Mics
By Clive Young. Robert Scovill’s a busy guy. Though he spent much of 2010 on the road mixing FOH once again for Tom Petty...
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The Dave Matthews Band’s Mysterious Fonz Foot Wedge
By Clive Young. The Dave Matthews Band knows how to put on a show, and it’s always clear when they're locked into the moment...
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On the Fate of Physical Media
By Frank Wells. When was the last time you bought an audio or video release on physical media? Or, perhaps a better question, when...
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Crowded House and David Byrne: Once In A Lifetime
Crowded House closed out a sold-out, three-night stint at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom on July 22 with a great show, capped off by...
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Live Aid — July 13, 1985
By Clive Young. There had never been anything quite like it—sure, there’d been George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh and the No Nukes shows of...
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Live Aid: July 13, 1985
There had never been anything quite like it—sure, there’d been George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh and the No Nukes shows of 1979, but this...
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Summertime Tweet: Pro Sound News’ June Twitter Feed
by Clive Young. Every month here at Pro Sound News, we summarize our previous month's Twitter posts so you can see what else we've...
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Advancing Loudspeaker Technology: Genelec’s 8260A
Genelec CEO Ilpo Martikainen and marketing director Will Eggleston discuss the creation of, and theory behind, the 8260A.
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The Last Days of Rock ’n’ Roll
Fred Goodman, managing editor for Pro Sound News and Pro Audio Review, recently released his latest album, The Last Days of Rock ’n’ Roll,...
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A Postcard from London
by Frank Wells. Gorgeous sunny days, mid-80s for high temperatures, nothing but blue skies above. While that’s not a typical depiction of London weather,...
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Right In The Tweet Spot: PSN’s May Twitter Feed
by Clive Young. Pro Sound News posts ‘tweets’ on Twitter all the time. Many of them are our weekday headlines from prosoundnews.com (five stories...
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Beyond The Line Array With Martin’s MLA
By Frank Wells. Observant visitors may have noticed an unfamiliar loudspeaker system hung in Martin Audio’s display at the 2010 Frankfurt ProLight & Sound...