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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...
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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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Keith Urban Catches the Train—and a Crowd—at New York’s Penn Station
New York City’s Penn Station is as urban as it gets, so it was fitting that Keith Urban kicked off his new album, Get...
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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...