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What defines the art of genius? PSNEurope—the European relative of Pro Sound News—offers one possible definition: It’s the moment when the clouds part, when the route to success is clear; the “lightbulb moment,” when everything you knew before has...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Sep 28, 2016

The upcoming AES Convention in Los Angeles next month promises to have some momentous offerings, including its first International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality, but you can’t move forward without learning from the past, and that’s...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Aug 4, 2016

Every year for two days, Sweetwater GearFest turns Fort Wayne, Indiana, into the center of the musical instrument and pro audio world. People travel hundreds of miles to converge on the campus of internet retailer Sweetwater to attend educational...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jun 15, 2015

At the NAMM Show, Universal Audio took visitors back in time via the UA Heritage Studio, a photo op area filled with gear and hosts, circa the late 1950s. UA recently shared online all 1,280 photos taken...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Feb 25, 2015

The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing celebrated its eighth annual Grammy Week with an event at The Village Studios on February 3, 2015, honoring musician, composer, arranger and producer Nile Rodgers. Pro Sound News' recording editor, Steve Harvey,...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Feb 9, 2015

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 scene, all captured by Recording/Post/Broadcast editor Steve Harvey.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jan 29, 2015

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 year on the PSN Blog. There's everything from autobiographies to documentaries, and from how-to to...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Nov 26, 2014

We were onsite all week at InfoComm 2014 in Las Vegas, discovering the latest and greatest in Pro Audio and AV. Here’s just a small taste of what we found at the show.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jun 20, 2014

InfoComm 2014 was one of the biggest pro audio events of the year, and we were on the ground to see what there was to see and find out about the gear unveiled at the show. Here's just some...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jun 19, 2014

Sweetwater held its 13th annual GearFest, June 6-7, at its sizable headquarters in Fort Wayne, IN. Open to the public, the event served up its trademark mix of seminars and workshops, along with entertainment, gear expo and even a...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jun 10, 2014

Times have changed, and the Audio Engineering Society is changing with them—but who's spearheading the effort? Since Bob Moses became the organization's Executive Director in January, he's led the effort to reinvent the AES, re-tooling it...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Oct 24, 2012

There's more than 1,400 exhibitors at this year's Winter NAMM show, so it's not surprising that the days leading up to the convention are as busy as the show itself. Sneaking in—OK, flashing an Exhibitor Press ...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jan 19, 2012

Audio luminary Robert Scovill delivered the keynote address at the Webster University AES Student Section’s 5th annual Central Region Student Summit. A six-time TEC Award winner with more than 3,000 live event mixing credits under his belt, Scovill has...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Apr 7, 2011

By Clive Young. If you’re in pro audio, you dig music. And if you dig music, there’s a good chance you like record stores, even if you haven’t visited one in a while. And if you like record stores,...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Mar 14, 2011

By Frank Wells. Each year, Pro Sound News queries audio design engineers about their semiconductor usage and the impact on the products you employ. This elongated web version of our report includes all of the comments from our respondents.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Feb 11, 2011

By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog for your reading pleasure. In January, we covered everything from NAMM factoids to the vintage...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Feb 8, 2011

By Rich Tozzoli. As we start another year of fun, I thought it would be interesting to reach out to some of my industry friends to find out what their favorite “new” software was (with a few hardware treats...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jan 31, 2011

by Mel Lambert. With US consumer-electronic sales in 2010 reported to have topped $175 billion, followed by a forecast for 2011 sales of some $182 billion – matching 2008’s record-setting figures – it would appear that our economy is...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jan 11, 2011

By Clive Young. Every month, Pro Sound News gathers up its Twitter “tweets” from the previous calendar page and presents them on our blog for your reading pleasure. In December, there were fewer posts than usual due to the...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jan 10, 2011

By Russ Long. A who’s who among Nashville’s audio elite gathered at Ocean Way Nashville’s Studio B on December 8th to compare the new Vintech 573 lunchbox mic pre to several immaculately preserved original Neve 1073 modules.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jan 7, 2011

By Mel Lambert. The Turner Prize, named after the popular landscape painter J. M. W. Turner, and presented annually to a British visual artist under the age of 50, invariably attracts an amount of controversy. Staged since 1984 at...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Jan 3, 2011

By Mel Lambert. “Piracy is the most threatening risk to have ever hit our industry,” stated Directors Guild of America president Taylor Hackford during his Creative Keynote at the Entertainment Content Protection Summit in Universal City, CA on December...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Dec 9, 2010

By Clive Young. Every month we collect up the previous month’s ‘tweets’ from the Pro Sound News Twitter feed for some easy, amusing reading. This installment, covering November, 2010, finds us heading off to the AES Convention in San...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Dec 6, 2010

By Clive Young. Lucasfilm recently released a book of note for audio enthusiasts—The Sounds of Star Wars, covering the development of sounds known the world over, from the bleeps of R2-D2 to the ominous breathing of Darth Vader....

By PSN Staff ⋅ Nov 23, 2010

By Mel Lambert. According to Ron Sanders, president of Warner Home Video and president of the Digital Entertainment Group, close to 21 million US households now own a Blu-ray player, with an annual sell-through market of $1 billion. “We...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Nov 15, 2010

By Clive Young. Every day, we use Twitter to bring you links to our latest headlines, but we also use it to spread the word about different things, whether they’re interesting articles in the mainstream media or important announcements...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Nov 10, 2010

By Clive Young. Here's a visual look back at the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Nov 9, 2010

By Clive Young. Here's some of the early sights of the 129th AES Convention at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

By PSN Staff ⋅ Nov 4, 2010

By Mel Lambert. Following its recent passage through the Senate, by early next year it is expected that the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation/CALM Act will action the Federal Communications Commission to put into place important measures that – at...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Nov 1, 2010

By Clive Young. The creation of the Star Wars films is a story that’s been explored countless times through TV specials, DVD extras, books and more. One aspect that’s only been lightly touched upon, however, is the extensive sound...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Oct 29, 2010

By Mel Lambert. This year’s Entertainment & Technology Summit served up the latest in the ongoing marriage between its namesake subjects. Organized by Variety magazine and held at the Loews hotel, Santa Monica, CA, the event attracted players from...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Oct 22, 2010