Gear and Technology
AES Live with DirectOut Technologies’ Luca Giaroli
Chats with Mix editor Tom Kenny about new Prodigy MP and GLOBCON.
PSN Staff
Gear and Technology
AES Live with Warren Hawley of Mackie
Field support associate talks about Mackie's new ProFX v3 mixing console
News
Mix Presents Sound for Film & TV 2019
All-day exhibition and conference returns to Sony Picture Studios on Sept. 28, 2019.
Gear and Technology
Live from NAMM: Meyer Sound
John Meyer and Bob McCarthy talk SIM's induction into the TEC Hall of Fame
Gear and Technology
Live from NAMM: Mackie Celebrates 30 Years
An interview with Mackie's Matt Redmond on the company's anniversary and the launch of the DRM Series Loudspeakers
Gear and Technology
Live from NAMM: Audionamix
An interview with artists Joachim Garraud and Venomisto about XTRAX STEMS
News
QSC Marks 50 Years of Pro Audio
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.
HOW Sound
Hosanna Lutheran Church
Increased musical diversity is opening up houses-of-worship to the influence of songs and hymns of other denominations and genres.
Blogs
Examining the Art of Genius at AES
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...
News
60 Seconds: Alan Macpherson, Yamaha Professional Audio
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.
Blogs
AES LA Convention to get Historical
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...
Blogs
Seen on the Scene: Sweetwater GearFest 2015
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...
Blogs
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 gear and hosts, circa the late 1950s. UA recently shared online all 1,280 photos taken...
Blogs
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, honoring musician, composer, arranger and producer Nile Rodgers. Pro Sound News' recording editor, Steve Harvey,...
Blogs
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 scene, all captured by Recording/Post/Broadcast editor Steve Harvey.
Blogs
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 year on the PSN Blog. There's everything from autobiographies to documentaries, and from how-to to...
Blogs
Seen on the Scene at InfoComm 2014, Part 2
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.
Blogs
Seen on the Scene at InfoComm 2014, Part 1
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...
Blogs
A Glimpse of GearFest
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...
Blogs
Exclusive Interview: Bob Moses, Executive Director, Audio Engineering Society
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...
HARMAN Professional To Debut Crown HiQnet Band Manager™ 2 At Winter NAMM: Next Generation Connectivity And Control System For Portable PA Brings Advanced Feature Set, Ease Of Use To Smaller Systems
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...
Blogs
On The Scene: NAMM Load-In
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 ...
HARMAN Professional Division Bolsters Russia/CIS Leadership Team With Appointment of Sergey Trotskiy As Director Of Business Development
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...
Blogs
Show Snapshots: InfoComm 2011 Load-In
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...
Blogs
Robert Scovill on the Future of Live Sound
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...
Blogs
Ready for Record Store Day 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,...
Brooklyn is Alive with the Sound of Music
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...
Inside Selenium’s Transformation Into Harman Brazil
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...
Blogs
Special Report: 2011 Semiconductors in Audio—A Designer Survey
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.
Blogs
Tweet Nothings: Pro Sound News’ January 2011 Twitter Feed
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...
A Lesson Learned On The Road
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,...
Blogs
What Did You Get for Christmas?
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...
Blogs
CES2011: Content Creation’s Next Generation Tools
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...
Blogs
Twitter Wonderland: Pro Sound News’ December, 2010 Twitter Feed
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...
Blogs
Nashville Gathers Around a Lunchbox
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.
Blogs
Postcard from London: Turner Prize Honors a Different Kind of Audio Installation
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...
Blogs
Internet is Public Enemy #1 at Content Protection Summit
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...
Blogs
Should Old Tweets Be Forgotten: Pro Sound News’ November, 2010 Twitter Feed
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...
Blogs
Author J.W. Rinzler on The Sounds of Star Wars
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....
The ROI Of Insurance
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...
Blogs
Blu-Con 2010 Spotlights Medium’s Audio Capabilities
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...