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Richard Factor, Eventide Audio co-founder and board chairman, describes the push for diversification and the sense of individual responsibility at the company that keeps progress on track.
Chats with Mix editor Tom Kenny about new Prodigy MP and GLOBCON.
Field support associate talks about Mackie's new ProFX v3 mixing console
All-day exhibition and conference returns to Sony Picture Studios on Sept. 28, 2019.
John Meyer and Bob McCarthy talk SIM's induction into the TEC Hall of Fame
An interview with Mackie's Matt Redmond on the company's anniversary and the launch of the DRM Series Loudspeakers
An interview with artists Joachim Garraud and Venomisto about XTRAX STEMS
QSC founders Pat Quilter, Barry Andrews and John Andrews reflect on 50 years of pro AV advances for live sound, cinema and corporate installations worldwide.
Increased musical diversity is opening up houses-of-worship to the influence of songs and hymns of other denominations and genres.
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...
When I was named general manager of the brand-new Yamaha Professional Audio Division in April of 2015, I was given an amazing opportunity to create an all-encompassing P.A. juggernaut.
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
ANAHEIM, California – In an introduction that provides audio professionals, musicians and enthusiasts with advanced system set up and design capabilities coupled with a highly intuitive user interface, HARMAN Professional today introduced Crown HiQnet Band Manager™ 2 at the...
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 ...
MOSCOW, Russia— Reaffirming its ambition to deepen customer and distributor engagement in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), HARMAN Professional today announced the appointment of Sergey Trotskiy as Director Of Business Development for the region. In his...
Ever wonder what the exhibitor floor of InfoComm looks like before it’s all set up and ready to go? Well, it ain’t pretty, but it’s really cool to look at! The show, which runs June 15-17, 2011, at the...
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 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 Clive Young. Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata’s debut album, The Hills Are Alive, takes on the classic Broadway songs of The Sound of Music, with the tight musicians careening from genre to genre like a Rolls-Royce out of control. Just...
By Frank Wells. In 2010, Harman acquired Brazilian speaker manufacturer, Eletrônica Selenium. During the January NAMM Show, Pro Sound News discussed the transformation of Selenium into Harman Brazil with Blake Augsburger, EVP Harman, President Professional Division, Americas Country Manager...
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 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...
In the live sound world, dealing with difficult artists is an occupational hazard. Sometimes, however, handling them goes beyond merely being professional and biting one’s lip. Today’s guest blogger, former touring monitor engineer Tricia Huffman (Dolly Parton, Tom Cochran,...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Mary Bakija. This year, Take 1 is celebrating its 15th year of service to the entertainment industry at large and 15 years of serving as the exclusive endorsed insurance provider for InfoComm members. While most insurance programs typically...