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A Gun at Front of House
House engineers hate it when touring engineers try to revamp their audio systems. Touring engineers hate using poorly assembled house systems that barely function....
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Networking Headlines In Live Touring [Online Extra]
Networking is becoming ubiquitous in live sound, both for install and for portable/touring applications. What are the challenges and practical implications as end users...
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Review Previews: First Impressions with ADAM and Sennheiser
In my job as Reviews Editor, I listen to a lot of different studio monitoring systems in my workspace. When this ADAM AX...
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Musicians Institute Hits The Ebooks
There's more to Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA than musical training. With that in mind, the venerable college has released an ebook, Want A...
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VIDEO: Recalling Recording Springsteen’s “Born To Run”
Forty years ago, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band recorded some of their breakthrough Born To Run album at 914 Sound Studios...
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Austin Signal Cuts to the Chase
It’s no secret that record pressing plants are heavily backlogged these days. Aiming to help out bands and simply learn something new, Texas-based Austin...
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Guest Post: What Audio Should You Feed to the Assistive Listening System?
Brian Davidson, Production Director at Dallas, TX-based Park Cities Baptist Church, shares his thoughts and experience as to how best to make the most...
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PAR Advice: An affordable mic for singer/songwriters
As it happens from time to time, I get requests for advice from fellow engineers. Sure, there's questions about compressors or methodologies, but the...
Mr. Bonzai's Music Smarts
Stan Freberg 1926 — 2015
This interview with the remarkable Stan Freberg, from the Lunching With Bonzai series of 167 interviews, first appeared in Mix magazine in 1983. I...
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VIDEO: Sinatra in the Studio
Frank Sinatra knew his way around a recording session, as this seven-minute, fly-on-the-wall clip of the singer recording “It Was A Very Good Year”...
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In The Studio with Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal
How metal is guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal? The guy has played with Guns n’ Roses and Lita Ford, and co-wrote and performed the theme...
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Immersive Sound: New Tools Of The Trade [CONTINUED]
The April, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News features a special report, Immersive Sound: New Tools Of The Trade (which can be read HERE)....
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VIDEO: Students Invent Sound Wave Fire Extinguisher
“All About That Bass” may have been a hit song last summer, but it’s also the basic concept behind a prototypical fire extinguisher that...
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Reviewing Monoprice
If you’re on Facebook and are public about your musical habit, you’ve likely seen ads from Monoprice. They sell their own branded musical...
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VIDEO: The Ramones’ Smartphones-at-Shows Solution
Back in the early days of punk rock, FOH engineers had to make sure the console didn’t get hit by The Three Bs: Beers,...
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Martin Audio’s Massive Lego Glastonbury
The Glastonbury Festival is legendary in the UK festival world; founded in 1970, the five-day event has become the premiere music event of the...
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Oldies and Broadcasters: No Longer Happy Together?
The Turtles, a California rock group that performed from 1965 to 1970, had their first hit record in 1965, a cover of Bob Dylan’s...
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Touchscreen Mixing Looks Good In Print
Above the slogan "People who don't have time make time to read the Wall Street Journal" is will.i.am: "producer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and Wall Street...
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A Look Inside Universal Audio’s Heritage Studio
At the NAMM Show, Universal Audio took visitors back in time via the UA Heritage Studio, a photo op area filled with ...
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There’s More: Touchscreen Mixing Arrives
Additional insights and observations shared by some of the interviewees in the Pro Sound News March, 2015 cover story, "Touchscreen Mixing Arrives."
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Lines Being Drawn in U.S. Music Licensing Battle
With the release by the U.S. Copyright Office of its 245-page study, "Copyright and the Music Marketplace," the lines are being drawn in the...
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RadioShack Goes The Way of American Leisure
Personal, not-for-profit projects require blocks of free time—to think, to experiment, to create. And electronic projects—whether one, 150-in-one or literally thousands over...
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Seen on the Scene: P&E Wing Honors Nile Rodgers
The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing celebrated its eighth annual Grammy Week with an event at The Village Studios on February 3, 2015,...
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Audiobooks Bounce Back
Vinyl records aren’t the only recorded format rebounding these days; the often overlooked world of audiobooks, too, has been experiencing a renaissance...
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SeisMic Shake Up In Music City (extended article)
The following is an extended version of this article, which first appeared in the February, 2015 issue of Pro Sound News.The mid-1990s saw...
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Seen on the Scene: NAMM 2015 – Part 2
The Pro Sound News team was all over this year's NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA. Here's some of what was seen on the...
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Seen on the Scene: NAMM 2015 – Part 1
The Pro Sound News team was all over this year's NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA, sharing the sights with followers through an...
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Android Meets Pro Audio At NAMM 2015
This evening, I’m only one day into NAMM 2015 and I’ve already seen “Android” on literally dozens of manufacturer booths, banners and promotional materials,...
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Book Review: The Sound Book
With a title like The Sound Book (W.W. Norton & Co.), you might expect Trevor Cox’s new tome to be a dry textbook full...
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40 Years Of Gear
The music industry suffered a loss in December, 2014, when Ardent Studios and label founder John Fry suffered a cardiac arrest and died at...
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PAR for the Course: First Impressions on the Mackie DL32R
From an applications standpoint, the DL32R covers the broadest range of audio tasks in the simplest way of any single product I’ve reviewed, ever.
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Is The Vinyl Revival No Longer A Fad?
Left for dead in the early Nineties as consumers switched to compact discs, the lowly vinyl LP has bounced back in recent times, adopted...
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Perry Margouleff on Supporting Music “for the Right Reasons”
Located about an hour outside of Manhattan in Glen Cove on the North Shore of Long Island, Pie Studios has attracted an impressive list...
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Sounding Off On ‘Unbroken’
The sound team at NBCUniversal StudioPost recently completed work on Unbroken, based on author Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best-selling biography of long-distance runner Louis Zamperini...
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Setting Up SoundGirls.Org
Given that women have better hearing than men and also comprise more than half the professional workforce in the U.S., you’d think they’d be...
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B-Side Studio: A ’70s Throwback Sitcom
Remember B-Side Studio, that wacky 1970s sitcom about a struggling Chicago recording studio? No? Well, maybe that’s because it wasn’t really a hit. Or...
Mr. Bonzai's Music Smarts
Studio Life: The Other Side of the Tracks
Join the crew at Ryan Recording—Mr. Bonzai, chief engineer Cart, receptionist and apprentice engineer Layla, and chief tech Smilin’ Deaf Eddie—as they...
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Book Review: ‘Sound Man’ Is A Breezy Read
One of the first studio engineers in England to break through into producing, Glyn Johns worked with the greatest acts of the Classic Rock...
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Pro-Audio Gift Help: PSN’s 2014 Book/DVD Reviews
Finding something for the pro audio person in your life is never easy, so here’s a compendium of books and DVD/Blu-rays we’ve reviewed this...
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10 Things We Learned From Glyn Johns’ “Sound Man”
Legendary producer/engineer Glyn Johns’ autobiography Sound Man is filled with cool stories about creating classic albums with dozens of household names. The tales are...
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FCC Wireless Changes on Horizon [Expanded Edition]
The following is an expanded version of the cover story for Pro Sound News, November 2014.On September 30, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released...
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VIDEO: Mastering Iron Maiden
When Iron Maiden re-released all eight of its albums from the 1980s on 180-gram black vinyl, Parlophone Records interviewed Abbey Road mastering engineers Sean...