Blog
The Aha Moment: Building Momentum for Your Brand
By Peter Janis. By convincing market leaders—in our case, audio engineers and guitar techs—that our product offered a better solution, they became advocates for...
Interconnects
Music Production
Soundmirror Renovates with Sommer Cable
Classical music recording and production house continues updating.
Blog
Is Thunderbolt 3 the Data Savior?
By Craig Anderton. Thunderbolt 3 looks poised to become the breakthrough protocol its originators always hoped it would be.
Live Sound
Nomad Wound Up with Van Damme Cable
Van Damme Cable hits festival circuit with Nomad Sound
Music Production
Sommer Comes to Mexico School
Malvicino Design Group recently completed planning and integration of six new recording studios at Mexico's Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, utilizing Sommer...
Music Production
Skyland Opts for myMix Monitoring
Skyland Studios near Minneapolis has chosen myMix for its artist monitoring needs, making it a staple for its artists, according to Darren Rust, who...
HOW Sound
T-Mobile Lights Up First 600 MHz Site
T-Mobile has made good on its promise to begin lighting up new 600 MHz services in August, announcing that its first network site, in...
Live Sound
Attero Tech Rolls Into Chevy Dealership
Chattanooga car dealer Integrity Chevrolet recently updatged its showroom audio system. Classic Blades Pro Audio designed and installed the system, which is based around...
Live Sound
Hard Rock Café Rolls with QSC System
The Hard Rock Café is known the world over, and that omnipresence no doubt helped ready Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic of Georgia,...
HOW Sound
Worship Audio Accessories
Within most houses-of-worship (HOWs) and modern church environments, audio needs change on a regular basis.
Music Production
Vista Opening with Riedel Comms
Vista Studios, a full-service independent production facility in Los Angeles' Playa Vista technology center, is scheduled to open in February 2017 with installed Riedel...
Music Production
Average Joes Goes with ProCo
When Michael Zuehsow, studio manager and head of engineering at Keystone Studios in Nashville, was designing and building the new facility for Average Joes...
Music Production
Malvicino Group Wires Up Precision Sound
Engineer and producer Alex Sterling, owner of Precision Sound Studios on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, recently hired the Malvicino Design Group to upgrade...
Music Production
Penn Elcom Wires Studio
Penn Elcom has completed the design and installation of a wiring infrastructure for a new recording studio in Hastings, England, owned by songwriter/producer Paul...
Live Sound
Clear-Com Ready for RNC, DNC
In the political arena, it seems there’s little that the two major political parties of the United States can agree on, but when it...
Business
Xilica Bolsters Bills’ Suites
Closing out the NFL season third in their division with an 8-8 record, it was a rough year for the Buffalo Bills, but 2015...
Business
Katara Studios Complex Opens in Qatar
Katara Studios, designed by WSDG-Walters-Storyk Design Group and one of the Middle East’s largest and most technically advanced recording/feature film audio post production complexes,...
Business
RAD Runs With Beyoncé Tour
When Beyoncé hit the road on her recent On The Run tour, numerous arms of the comprehensive production stayed in touch throughout each show...
Gear and Technology
The 139th AES Convention Anderton Awards
It was a cliff-hanger that had showgoers panicked—but literally minutes before the show opened, all lawsuits concerning the catered food at last year’s Anderton...
Business
Focusrite Connects at Belmont
Nashville’s Belmont University, home of the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, offers majors in music business, audio engineering technology, entertainment industry...
Business
QSC Bows AV-IT White Paper
QSC has released a new white paper, analyzing what AV professionals can do to build relationships with IT pros. Built on industry surveys and...
Business
Sommer Cable Joins METAlliance
Sommer Cable has become the newest Pro Partner of The METAlliance (Music Engineering & Technology Alliance) organization.
Business
VUE Attends CNN GOP Debate
The recent second GOP debate, broadcast on CNN, had Production Resource Group on-site, providing audio for all present. Clearly there were a lot more...
Product Reviews
Review: beyerdynamic MCE 86 II Electret Condenser Shotgun Microphone
A shotgun microphone is simply a tool worth having in any “workhorse” microphone collection, and the MCE 86 II is an ideal specimen.
Business
Atrium Audio On The Move
Recording and production facility Atrium Audio in Lancaster, PA is a busy place. Owners Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland produced and mixed a new...
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
Business
The Grateful Dead Splits
After five decades, the Grateful Dead called it a day earlier this month with its Fare Thee Well mini tour. Along for the final...
Business
Lion King Takes Masque To Mexico
The second Spanish-language production of The Lion King recently opened at the Telcel Theatre in Mexico City, Mexico, sporting audio support from Masque Sound,...
Business
WAM Opens New Studio With Donations
Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) moved into the former SF Soundworks Studio earlier this year and has since attracted major donations from audio manufacturers including...
Business
Gearing Up With “The Trio of Oz”
by Rich Tozzoli. Recently I’ve been working on a recording project that was just so refreshing, I wanted to write about it. Sometimes, especially...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Cruise Control – Florida/Georgia Line
Florida Georgia Line named its first album Here’s To The Good Times, and good times are what fans get when they come out to...
Gear and Technology
Third Annual St. John Recording & Review Retreat
For the past three years, Rich Tozzoli has organized a grand recording, gigging and equipment review opportunity by gathering his most fun-loving musician and...
Business
Boston Marathon Connects With Neutrik
Held on April 20, this year’s Boston Marathon attracted thousands of amateur runners, but it also had a radio communications infrastructure for the roughly...
Business
Sharing Signals at Levi’s Stadium
Sound, video, and multimedia design consulting firm Wrightson, Johnson, Haddon & Williams recently completed their installation at San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium, the home of...
Business
DSO Refits with Merging
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO) replaced the entire recording chain at the Meyerson Symphony Center this summer, installing Merging Technologies’ Horus and Hapi Networked...
Business
PAR Studio Feature: Hey, Pro Tools Pros—What’s New? by Rich Tozzoli
PAR Software Editor Rich Tozzoli recently spoke with five engineering peers on their recent purchases and choices in both software- and hardware-based audio tools.
Business
Live Sound Showcase: Katy Perry – Pragmatically Prismatic
NEW YORK, NY-Since the release of her fourth studio album, Prism, back in late 2013, pop diva Katy Perry has hit some significant landmarks...
Business
Back To The Retro Futura
BROOKHAVEN, NY—This summer’s Retro Futura Tour was out to revive that ’80s vibe; aimed squarely at folks with a sweet-tooth for synthpop, the five-act...
Business
Marooned At Conway, Again
LOS ANGELES, CA—Obviously happy with the formula that gave rise to Overexposed, Maroon 5’s 2012 hit album, the band signed up for more of...
Business
Rosenthal Plays on the Edge
David Rosenthal, a professional keyboardist who, for the past 21 years, has played with Billy Joel, credits much of his success to looking for...
Business
PAR On Audio Production Touch Screens
I think one of the big changes on the horizon is touch screen technology utilizing touch screen panels (TSPs). It’s time to re-imagine the...