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By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 06/13/2011

The old axiom, “If you want something done, ask a busy person,” is probably at least part of why New York City bands keep...

By Frank Wells ⋅ Published: 06/09/2011

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...

By Steve Harvey ⋅ Published: 06/08/2011

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...

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 06/03/2011

Hot on the heels of Pro Sound News' recent magazine redesign, May saw PSN join forces with Pro Audio Review to create a new...

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 04/11/2011

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,...

By Mel Lambert ⋅ Published: 04/10/2011

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...

By hsherman ⋅ Published: 04/08/2011

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...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 04/07/2011

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...

By ProSoundNetwork ⋅ Published: 03/22/2011

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,...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 03/14/2011

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,...

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 02/16/2011

By Clive Young. Recording veteran Richard Langham recently spoke publicly for the first time about his experiences as the Second Engineer on many of...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 02/11/2011

By Frank Wells. Each year, Pro Sound News queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage and the impact on the products you employ....

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 02/08/2011

By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 01/31/2011

By Rich Tozzoli. As we start another year of fun, I thought it would be interesting to reach out to some of my industry...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 01/11/2011

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...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 01/10/2011

By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 01/07/2011

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...

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 01/05/2011

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...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 01/03/2011

By Mel Lambert. The Turner Prize, named after the popular landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, and presented annually to a British visual artist...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 12/09/2010

By Mel Lambert. “Piracy is the most threatening risk to have ever hit our industry,” stated Directors Guild of America president Taylor Hackford during...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 12/06/2010

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....

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 11/23/2010

By Clive Young. Lucasfilm recently released a book of note for audio enthusiasts—The Sounds of Star Wars, covering the development of sounds known...

By ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: 11/16/2010

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...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 11/15/2010

By Mel Lambert. According to Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video and president of the Digital Entertainment Group, close to 21 million US...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 11/10/2010

By Clive Young. Every day, we use Twitter to bring you links to our latest headlines, but we also use it to spread the...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 11/09/2010

By Clive Young. Here's a visual look back at the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 11/04/2010

By Clive Young. Here's some of the early sights of the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 11/01/2010

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...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 10/29/2010

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...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 10/22/2010

By Mel Lambert. This year’s Entertainment & Technology Summit served up the latest in the ongoing marriage between its namesake subjects. Organized by Variety...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 10/20/2010

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...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 10/18/2010

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...