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DVD Review: Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
Some artists are forever associated with certain studios. You can’t talk about the Beatles without bringing up Abbey Road. Any look at the Beach...
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No Foolin’: April Fools’ Day 2014 Recap
They say March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb—which is ironic because April 1 is when...
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Moog Spends a Month at Brooklyn’s Rough Trade
As a precursor to its annual MoogFest in Asheville, NC, the innovative synthesizer company Moog held a residency at Rough Trade NYC in the...
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Minneapolis’ Proposed Ear Plug Ordinance
On April 29, the City Council in Minneapolis will vote on a proposed ordinance that would require all bars, restaurants and sports and...
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DVD Review: Muscle Shoals
The documentary Muscle Shoals, recently released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital services, digs deep into joy, pain and all the other messy, human stuff...
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Lady Gaga Recalls NYC’s Roseland at SXSW
Still facing backlash from her performance at SXSW the night before, where she gave an over the top, theatrical performance involving a mechanical bull,...
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Chaos and Crowd Safety At SXSW
Two people were killed and another 23 were injured Wednesday, March 12, after a suspected drunk driver plowed through a barrier outside the Mohawk...
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Inside the Treehouse Studio
A few weeks ago, we blogged about the unique two-story treehouse recording studio built at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, WA and how its...
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Smart Studios Documentary Hits Kickstarter
Smart Studios, the funky Madison, WI recording facility co-founded by producer Butch Vig, may have closed its doors in 2010, but its legend seems...
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Looking at LFO
Sound has always affected the human psyche. Music raises our spirits, significant others yelling at us makes us agitated, and of course, sound practitioners...
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Bolstering ‘Bringing Human Rights Home’
On February 5th, some of music’s most popular acts graced the stage at the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, NY for “Amnesty International Bringing Human...
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Building A Treehouse Recording Studio
We hear stories all the time about studios creating a new atmosphere for its clients, like decorating the interior to look like a log...
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Phish in the Deep Blue Sea
Phish celebrated its 30th anniversary with four sold-out shows leading up to New Year’s Eve 2013 at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Receiving...
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Tunes For Tuning Steely Dan’s PA
We’ve written a lot of posts on the PSN Blog, but the most popular one ever, hands down, was from 2011: “The ‘Freebird’ of...
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Everything Matters
Hey guys—I had a busy, productive, and awesome January, starting with my CreativeLive class, “Advanced Drum Production” on January 16-18. Over the course of...
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NAMM By The Numbers
While prepping for this year’s Winter NAMM Show, the most important thing on my agenda was to pack a comfortable pair of shoes. A...
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Pete Seeger Passes at 94
The news of folk legend Pete Seeger’s death on Monday, January 27, threw the music community into a state of mourning, as news outlets...
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Book Review: Social Media Promotion for Musicians
Don’t let the title fool you. Social Media Promotion for Musicians is for anyone in the music biz who’s an entrepreneur—which is to say,...
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P&E Wing Honors Neil Young
During the week before the 2014 Grammy Awards, Los Angeles was abuzz with parties and events tied to Music’s Biggest Night. Case in point:...
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Reeling In Sound And Chaos
Brooklyn, NY has always been a nerve center of music, but one of its most interesting stories is only now getting told with the...
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Previewing Advanced Drum Production
If you’re like me, you spend a lot of time re-educating your interns and assistant engineers. Recording school is great and all, but as...
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Arlyn Augmenting Austin
When you think of Austin, one of the first things that come to mind is the city’s legendary music scene. With more funky venues...
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Book Review: Down The Rhodes—The Fender Rhodes Story
In 1942, while training with the Air Force, Harold Burroughs Rhodes created a laptop keyboard from scrap plane materials he found around the airfield....
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Queen’s Studio Opens To The Public
The Montreux Jazz Festival has long been a key tourist attraction for the small Swiss city on the shores of Lake Geneva, but now...
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100 Simultaneous Beatles LPs, Out On Vinyl
Rutherford Chang is an artist who is also a record collector—which is to say, he collects a record: The Beatles’ White Album. To date,...
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DVD Review: The Greatest Ears In Town
Arif Mardin was a recording icon, producing and arranging hits for decades as he created career-defining songs for Hall & Oates, Phil Collins, Carly...
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Dylan’s Newport Fest Strat Hits The Block
It’s the guitar that shook the folk music world—Bob Dylan’s famous Fender Stratocaster, which he used at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when he...
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An Introduction
New PSN blogger Eyal Levi is a heavyweight when it comes to producing and engineering modern metal, having worked on 50-plus albums...
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Getting a Kick Out of Kickstarter
Kickstarter, the crowdfunding website, always makes for an browse, offering plenty of entertainment—and occasionally a glimpse of the future—as people raise money to bring...
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SPARS Speed Mentoring @ AES in NYC
SPARS once again hosted speed mentoring sessions at the 135th AES Convention held in New York, October 17-20, 2013. I dropped in to...
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Making A Studio Stand Out
We get an avalanche of press releases every day, sent in from manufacturers, studios, live sound vendors, bands and others around the pro audio...
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Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet Fills NYC’s Cloisters
Since 1938, New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has celebrated the art and architecture of medieval Europe with its Cloisters Museum, a separate...
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‘EDM Revenge’ Engineer Speaks Out
Recently, we blogged about a dance music video that engineer Dan Atkinson of Dan's Labs Studios in Long Beach, CA created using vocal tracks...
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Engineer Gets Revenge with EDM Remix
Ever wonder what would happen if you didn't pay your engineer? Well, hardcore metal band Altitudes is currently finding out; when the group failed...
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Trying the Art of the Audiobook at NYCC
At the annual New York Comic Con, Penguin Random House Audio put visitors behind the mic to experience what it’s like to record an...
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Global Citizens Get Festive in Central Park
The annual Global Citizen Festival was held September 28 in New York City’s Central Park, promoting and celebrating the efforts of the Global Poverty...
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Kickstarting The Wrecking Crew
After 17 years of working on creating a film that captures the story of the 1960s group of studio musicians known as The Wrecking...
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Recalling Ray Dolby
The passing of audio innovator Ray Dolby on September 12, 2013 at the age of 80 has resonated across the entire pro audio...
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Neil Young’s High-Res Audio Project, PONO, Moves Forward
After years of touting the need for a music service that provides higher resolution digital audio, Neil Young has revealed his high-profile project, PONO,...
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Billionaire Redefines Portable Studio
What makes for a great portable recording rig? If you're thinking of a set-up you can carry or roll, you're just not thinking big...
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Getting Hands On at Abbey Road
Most people entering the recording field might dream of someday working inside Abbey Road Studios or learning from the master producers who shaped hits...
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Miking With The Masters
Royer Labs and Mojave Audio presented an evening of live jazz and classical piano at Universal Mastering Studios in Los Angeles on ...