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Thomas Dolby’s Studio Harnesses Windpower
Pop music and the ecology have gone together ever since rock fans got covered in mud at Woodstock. It’s a bit surprising, however, that...
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Progress Made Towards Consistent DTV Loudness
It’s a common lament from television viewers: “The commercials are too loud” or “The volume jumps all over the place when I flip through...
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Premium Analog – One Chance To Get It Right
I’m a fan of plug-ins, and most of the time I mix in the box. And as hard as I try to sculpt and...
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Pro Audio Connects in the Social Media Age
by Clive Young. Social media is about being social (duh), so it’s worth remembering that anything that applies to connecting with customers on the...
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Studio Break-in Leaves Artist Undeterred
by Clive Young. In our age of instant downloading, it’s old news that people steal music. For Nashville-based power pop artist Justin Kline, the...
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Cool stuff from PSN’s March Twitter Feed
By Clive Young. Here at PSN, we use Twitter, Facebook and our daily e-newsletter to share all the breaking news that appears on ProSoundNews.com....
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Pro Audio Software Enters the iPad Arena
by Clive Young. With the release of Apple’s long-awaited iPad, early adopters are looking for ways to put their new toys to work--and that...
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A Postcard From Frankfurt MusikMesse—Prolight + Sound
While the USA certainly has it’s share of large trade events, those that are of primary interest to the pro audio community are dwarfed...
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The Inevitablilty Of The Virtual: The Future Is Now
I knew it was inevitable. I’ve just come tonight from the sound check for a major artist gig. There was not a single, solitary...
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Face Value—Physical Interaction In A Virtual World
We live in a world that finds most of us spending ever more time behind our computers and various portable computing devices. Increasingly, we...
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Space, The Finite Frontier
In today’s production paradigms, the technical infrastructure of old is condensed and compressed, the core studio hardware often crammed into little more than the...
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The Character Of Passionate Characters
While considering cover photos for the February 2010 issue of Pro Sound News, I ran across a shot of a friend and ace mixing...
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Is There A Perfect Microphone?
The various subjective comments of our reviewers in the January 2010 microphone issue of Pro Audio Review led me to ponder the question: Is...
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2010: Semiconductors In Audio
by Frank Wells. Each year, Pro Sound News queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage. This year’s respondents are B.J. Buchalter, VP R&D...
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Recording Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s Facing Future
The late Israel Kamakawiwo'ole is probably one of the least known artists ever to have an album go double-platinum. Facing Future, the Hawaii native’s...
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In Memoriam: An Interview with T-Bone Wolk
Renowned bassist Tom "T-Bone" Wolk died of a heart attack on February 27. Best known for his work with Hall & Oates (he often...
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PSN’s February Pro Audio Tweets
By Clive Young. Social media is always a popular topic at PSN, primarily because it’s useful for getting our daily headlines out fast (they...
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Want a Say in FCC Wireless Audio Policy? Speak NOW!
By Clive Young. There’s been a lot of concern in recent years over the FCC’s handling of the wireless frequencies that pro audio gear...
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Why Follow @ProSoundNews on Twitter?
By Clive Young. While we use Twitter to announce when PSN's daily news headlines are live at the website, that’s just the beginning. We...
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Winter NAMM 2010–A Bellwether?
By Clive Young. At the Winter NAMM show in Anaheim earlier this month, it was business as usual. There were product announcements, aging rockstars...
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CES2010 Wrap-Up: Immersive 3D is the Watchword
by Mel Lambert. In the week that James Cameron’s Avatar crested $1 billion in box office receipts, 3D delivery and playback was the prominent...
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sE Electronics Facility Tour Photo Essay
Raw materials in a staging area of sE Electronics’3000 square meter factory and headquarters in Shanghai. All stages of manufacturing are performed onsite,save for...
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A Conversation with Jonathan Lipp, Full Compass CEO and Founder
By Frank Wells. A museum of audio history that is part of the lobby at Full Compass’ new headquarters (see separate story) served as...
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MPSE Explores Watchmen’s Superhero Sound
By Mel Lambert. Los Angeles, CA--Following its recent seminar spotlighting sound design for Star Trek, Motion Picture Sound Editors/MPSE attracted a standing room-only audience...
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What To Get A Live Sound Roadie for the Holidays—Part 3
Every year at Pro Sound News, we run a story on what to get your favorite live sound roadie for the holidays. We look...
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What To Get A Live Sound Roadie for the Holidays, 2009—Part 2: Musical and Unusual Presents.
Every year at Pro Sound News, we run a story on what to get your favorite live sound roadie for the holidays.
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What To Get A Live Sound Roadie for the Holidays—Part 1
Every year at Pro Sound News, we run a story on what to get your favorite live sound roadie for the holidays.
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Radio City Gets Spectacular
By Clive Young. Built during the Great Depression, New York’s Radio City Music Hall has become one of the best-known venues in the world,...
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The Lathe of Heaven?
By Clive Young. Everyone loves the hardware that built Rock ‘n’ Roll. Guitars used by famous musicians wind up in museums; consoles that recorded...
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Studio Sense: On ‘Essential’ Software
Is the software that makes making music easier a "monkey's paw?"
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MPSE Explores Sound of Star Trek at Seminar Screening
By Mel Lambert. A recent Motion Picture Sound Editors' seminar entitled Star Trek--The Sound Show enabled a packed audience in Los Angeles to hear...
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NYC Studios Very Much In Session
By Janice Brown. Fewer commercial studios means more work for those still in business, and there's plenty of business in NYC. "More people are...
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Connectivity in the Modern Studio
For me, the goal of studio connectivity is to decrease the distance between intention and outcome.
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The Road to History: Inside Abbey Road Studios
by Christopher Walsh. 'We were four guys," John Lennon said of the Beatles. Strictly speaking, that is an accurate statement. But within the four...
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Opportunity Is Knocking; Get the Door
By Frank Wells. It's that time of year again--summer is on the wane, and audio professionals begin anticipating each year's best opportunity to recharge...
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Smoke And Lasers: A New Look at Microphones
By Dan Wolfson. Indicative of how the annual AES conventions lay the ground work for tomorrow's technology today, paper presentations at the 1984 convention...
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A Peek Into MP3’s Past
By Dan Wolfson. This year’s AES Convention marks the 25th anniversary of the publication of two watershed technical papers that, in conjunction with the...
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Mackie Move Puts Avid in Apple’s Shoes
By Clive Young. Word has been circulating for a little while, and we at Pro Sound News have covered it too: Mackie’s upcoming Onyx-i...
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Les Paul, Guitar and Studio Innovator, Passes at 94
By Clive Young. Guitar legend, studio innovator, 1950s hitmaker, musical impresario. Les Paul, who was all these things and more, died Thursday, August...
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Reducing the Console Footprint
by Christopher Walsh. The console’s evolution toward a smaller footprint and DAW integration fits with the trend toward personal studio environments. But commercial studios...
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Sweetwater’s Big Three-0 Bash
By Frank Wells. Ft. Wayne, IN--Sweetwater celebrated its 30th anniversary by throwing itself a party in June, inviting customers to a homecoming called...