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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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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
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...
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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...