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The METAlliance Report: Make the Most of Your Room
By Frank Filipetti. These days, any space can suddenly become a recording studio. If you’re working in an up-and-coming facility also known as the...
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What’s the Buzz? How to Knock Unwanted Noise Out of Your System
That hum in the system has got to go—here’s how to banish it to audio oblivion.
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The Mix Consultancy: The Psychology of Mixing
The Grammy Award-winning engineer and producer shares some thoughts on keeping an ear to your mix and an eye on yourself.
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The METAlliance Report: Modern Loudness
By George Massenburg. The multi Grammy-winning METAlliance co-founder explores the perils and pitfalls of modern loudness and explains why mastering engineers and artists who...
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Software Tech: The New Mac Pro
By Craig Anderton. Deep dive into the new Mac Pro and discover what it means for audio pros.
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Live Sound Gets Environmentally Sound
By Clive Young. Concerts are scientifically proven to be good for your health; now they're becoming less bad for the Earth, too.
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Software Tech: Will Podcasts Elevate the Small Studio?
By Craig Anderton. While podcasting started out with homegrown audio, listeners’ expectations are rising fast—creating a new opportunity for audio pros.
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Hearing It—Believing It
By Dennis Baxter. After talking to many of my colleagues, I will confidently say that if a sound mixer can reasonably hear immersive sound,...
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The METAlliance Report: Let’s Not Lose the Art in Engineering
By Chuck Ainlay. METAlliance co-founder and multiple Grammy-winning producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay discusses what the art in engineering is and can be, offering suggestions on...
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Peek Inside Twenty One Pilots’ Home Studio
By Clive Young. A perusal through social media takes the curious into the home studio of Twenty One Pilots vocalist Tyler Joseph.
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Literally Unbelievable Pro Audio Products Announced
New audio gear comes out constantly, but every spring, there’s a select few items that upon reading about them, one says (and rightly so),...
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The Aha Moment: Growing Through Acquisition, Part One
Peter Janis looks at growing your pro audio business through acquisition.
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Software Tech: New Trends in Plug-Ins
By Craig Anderton. With over a quarter-century of development, plug-ins are exploring worlds that go way beyond analog emulation.
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The METAlliance Report: What’s Next?
By Elliot Scheiner. With graduation just around the corner, the METAlliance looks at the post-audio school options for the next generation of studio engineers...
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Remembering Hal Blaine (1929–2019)
Mr. Bonzai, co-author of Hal Blaine’s autobiography, shares insight into the legendary session drummer who passed yesterday at the age of 90.
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Software Tech: Last Year Meets Next Year
By Craig Anderton. 2018 laid the groundwork for what might be the dominant computer experience of the future for pros.
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Coming Down with Acquisition Fever
By Clive Young. Major acquisitions were a constant part of the pro audio landscape in 2018.
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The Aha Moment: Dealing with Adversity
A veteran of many a business skirmish, Peter Janis shares how to deal with setbacks in the pro audio industry.
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The 145th AES Convention Anderton Awards
Duck and Cover, because the Anderton Awards are back. You've been warned.
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The METAlliance Report: JBL 7 Series Studio Monitors
Producer/engineer Chuck Ainlay weighs in on how JBL LSR-708p monitors became the go-to speaker for his home studio.
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Hitting the AES Show Floor: Day 1
In this guest blog post, Mix's Editor in Chief Tom Kenny shares his thoughts from the show floor of AES.
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Hurricanes, Studios and Preparing for the Worst
Producer/engineer and regular PSN contributor Rob Tavaglione takes stock of what he got right—and wrong—when Hurricane Florence hit his North Carolina studio in September,...
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Software Tech: 96 kHz vs. 44.1 kHz—Let’s Settle This
By Craig Anderton. Ever since we’ve had a choice of sample rates, there’s been controversy over whether higher sample rates sound better.
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Evil Audio Engineers Strike Again
Audio pros used to be the good guys in movies and TV shows, but not anymore.
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Peek Inside Tommy Lee’s Home Studio
By Clive Young. Motley Crue drummer/occasional producer Tommy Lee asks $4.65M for home and home studio space.
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Software Tech: Can Pro Audio Software Sustain?
By Craig Anderton. The lessons of Cakewalk, Emagic, Steinberg, Digidesign and Syntrillium are instructive because each presents possibly sustainable economic models for pro audio...
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Pro Audio Is on the Rise Worldwide
By Clive Young. What this year’s NAMM Show—and indeed, last year’s AES and InfoComm trade shows, too—proved is that the pro audio industry is...
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Full Compass Grand Opening Expo Photo Tour
Full Compass founder and CEO Jonathan Lipp with the 1975 vintageClone Tone console he built for a local TV station.Full Compass founder and CEO...
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The 143rd AES Convention Anderton Awards
With the restraining order from last year’s Anderton Awards still in effect (but c’mon—no one actually died from the food), this year the world’s...
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Pro Sound News Holiday Gift Guide, 2017 Edition!
The holiday season is once again upon us, and I have a few hints as to what may be the perfect gift for your...
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Yes, Even Guitars
Guitars are more likely to be associated with tubes and retro technology than cutting-edge software, but that’s changing in everything from recording...
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Rich’s Tozzoli’s Gear of the Year, Part 2
Noted TV soundtrack performer/composer and longtime Pro Sound News reviewer Rich Tozzoli finishes his look back at the gear that entered his studio...
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Rich’s Tozzoli’s Gear of the Year, Part 1
Noted TV soundtrack performer/composer and longtime Pro Sound News reviewer Rich Tozzoli looks back at the gear that entered his studio this year and...
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Sounding Out ‘Stranger Things’
It seems like everyone is talking about season two of 'Stranger Things.' It’s fair to guess that there might be a few audio pros...
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Questlove, Michael Brauer Talk Studio Life
Questlove is a busy guy, regardless of whether he’s touring with the Roots, playing nightly on the Tonight Show or writing yet another bestseller....
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Equipping The Ideal Rehearsal Space, Part 2: Cables with Dean Markley’s Blue Steel Series
I hadn’t used Dean Markley cables before this evaluation. In the past, I’ve only used a Dean Markley acoustic guitar pickup, and that was...
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The Calm Before the Storm—12 Years Later
If you look at “new product” introductions at trade shows, often they’re more about reminding people of what was a new product a...
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Rediscovering My “Flying Fingers”
With the AES Convention in New York City this week, I’m excited to hit the show with the intention of checking out how I’m...
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Equipping The Ideal Rehearsal Space, Part 1: Bass Guitar—featuring Peavey’s Cirrus 4
Having been a Fender and Music Man (MM) player for nearly 20 years, I must say I had some “implicit bias” toward a...
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Game Audio Industry Survey is an Eye-Opener
Trying to get ahead in the video game audio business? Get that college degree, pick up some freelance gigs on the side, and above...
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Retro PSN: The Sound of Tom Petty’s Wildflowers Tour
Legendary rocker Tom Petty died October 2, following a heart attack in Los Angeles; he was 66. Over the course of his four-decade career,...
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Five Tracking Solutions (in order of importance)
If an ounce of prevention is preferred over a pound of cure, then it begs the question, “How do we prevent tracking sessions from...