Business
Gig Gear appoints Pro Audio-Technik as Germany and Austria distributor
"Their products make a perfect fit for our customer base"
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Business
POLAR promotes Will Turney to national sales manager, integrated solutions
Turney will lead POLAR's seven-strong sales team
Business
Riedel makes Chris Johnson general manager of Australia and New Zealand
Riedel Communications – manufacturer and distributor of real-time networks for video, audio and communications – has appointed Chris Johnson as general manager of Riedel Australia. Johnson first joined Riedel Australia in 2016 to be responsible for the company’s rental...
Business
‘We grew over 20 per cent last year and should do the same this year’: Martin Audio’s MD talks the brand’s growing success
Phil Ward catches up with Martin Audio managing director Dominic Harter, who tells us why business is booming a year on from the company’s 2018 management buyout by LDC...
Live
Backstreet Boys take SSL L550 on world tour
FOH engineer James McCullagh came to love 'the quintessential SSL sound', but wouldn’t use an SSL console in a live environment until he was able to convince the wider team following the Backstreet Boys’ residency
Studio
Meet this year’s winner of the MPG LIPA prize
LIPA graduate and 2019 MPG LIPA Award winner Will Mason lets PSNEurope's Fiona Hope in on his experience at the prestigious performing arts university and his plans for the future
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Orbital Sound partners with top Edinburgh Fringe venue for training courses ahead of 2019 festival
Fringe Fundamentals for Sound training sessions will be held at The Pleasance from July 24-25
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2B Heard to handle UK distribution for innosonix
2B Heard will represent MAXX series multi-channel amplifiers from German brand innosonix
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AES Masters of Audio speakers confirmed by PMC
PMC has revealed the line-up of speakers attending the Masters of Audio seminars at the 145th AES convention taking place in New York from October 17-20
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QSC announces Q-SYS control training series
The US audio manufacturer offers online and classroom courses which teach control programming fundamentals for the Q-SYS Platform
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Audinate’s Dante Level 3 certification training now available online
The Level 3 course delves deeper into various advanced networking concepts, mixed-use networks, networking best practices, and troubleshooting techniques
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New PMC monitors make UK debut at Tape London
The exclusive London club has installed BB6 monitors in its members lounge.
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Top 10: this week’s most popular articles
The most-read stories on PSNEurope in the past seven days
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‘These rooms are genuinely brilliant’: ACM Guildford gets SSL flagship studio
Four years after Metropolis Studios and the Academy of Contemporary Music joined forces, a flagship studio has been built at the Guildford campus to mirror the size and scale of the world-class recording studio in London
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Audio experts lined up for AES’ Up Your Output student event
Up Your Output is a two-day event comprising lectures, seminars and all-important networking sessions
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Training academy ACM opens flagship studio to mirror London’s Metropolis Studios
Adele engineer praises the 'genuinely brilliant' facility at the college
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Martin Audio extends webinar training programme
The first guest speaker will be FOH engineer Simon Honywill
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Backstage Academy tours UK on Beat the Street coach to sign up students
The Beat the Street coach will visit 18 locations across England and Wales until February 9
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Britannia Row Productions Training announces courses for 2018
The training body has announced details of a range of short courses and a BSc degree in live sound production
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‘There are no noise restrictions!’: behind the scenes at live events training college Backstage Academy
Wakefield-based college Backstage Academy promises to train the next generation of live industry professionals. Tara Lepore paid them a visit to see how it’s equipping students for one of the fastest-growing sectors of the audio industry…
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Royal Northern College of Music deploys Prism Sound converters to update studio
The conservatoire has now deployed nine Prism Sound ADA-8RX multichannel converters across four recording studios
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Joy Division bassist Peter Hook on the genius work of producer Martin Hannett
Martin Hannett played a pivotal role in shaping the sounds emanating from the north west of England back in the ‘70s and ‘80s
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How David Lynch collaborator and creative technician Alan Splet turned the sound effect into an art form
Alan Splet helped create what we now call 'sound design' in film
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Genius!3: Shioto Okita and the rectangular diaphragm
The brains behind Audio-Technica's pioneering products - part three
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Genius!3: Hideo Matsushita and the dual moving-magnet cartridge
The brains behind Audio-Technica's pioneering products - part two
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Genius! 3: Fumio Kamikura and dual companding technology
The brains behind Audio-Technica's pioneering products - part one
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Top 10: this week’s most popular articles
Our top 10 article round-up features the most read stories on Pro Sound News Europe in the past seven days. This week’s two most popular articles were centred around the exclusive news that a core engineering team from AKG...
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Roger Waters uses Digico console on North American leg of Us + Them tour
Roger Waters’ much-talked about Us + Them tour is using a Digico SD7 console on monitors. Armed with a 10-piece band, the former Pink Floyd frontman has been treating sell-out audiences to tracks from the band’s back catalogue, performing...
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2017 Pro Sound Awards: And the winners are…
The team behind One Love Manchester took home two of the top prizes at the Pro Sound Awards this evening (September 28) as the best in the biz gathered to recognise the great work in the industry over the...
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The future of audio: Meet the 2017 Pro Sound Awards’ Rising Star finalists
As the industry gears up for tomorrow night’s all-new Pro Sound Awards, those on the coveted Rising Star shortlist are certainly contending for a big prize. Rising Star winner and studio engineer George Murphy on his career highlights so...
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Last chance to get Pro Sound Awards tickets
The 2017 Pro Sound Awards, in association with Miloco, take place next Thursday (September 28) – and with tickets selling out fast – why not get yours now? Recognising excellence in the pro audio industry, the fifth Pro Sound Awards...
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Gifted student awarded full scholarship on ACM music production degree
The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) has announced the first recipient of its music production degree scholarship. Madison Claridge will graduate from ACM’s Guildford campus free from tuition fee debt thanks to the Music Gateway Music Production full scholarship...
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Pro Sound Awards: Five reasons why you can’t afford to miss next week’s event
Now in its fifth year, the Pro Sound Awards recognises the excellence in the pro audio industry over the past 12 months. Taking place next Thursday (September 28), the 2017 event has moved to an all-new location in the...
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The Pro Sound Awards take place next week… get your tickets now!
The Pro Sound Awards take place in London next Thursday, celebrating the best of the best in the pro audio industry. Having already announced Funktion-One’s Tony Andrews and Meyer Sound as the Lifetime Achievement and Grand Prix award winners...
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DPA Microphones marks 25 years of product knowledge with Get Closer masterclasses
DPA Microphones’ 25 masterclass events to celebrate its 25th anniversary are moving to Canada and Europe after a successful start in the USA. The Get Closer tour focuses on educating participants on the theory behind the products, with panel...
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‘Flawless operation’: Alcons Audio LR28 line array debuts at Dance Valley festival
Seven years after Alcons Audio’s announced plans to launch into the touring sector with a clear-cut large format set, the LR28 pro-ribbon line source system entered the stage last month at the annual Dance Valley festival. Marc Maes sent...
Broadcast
‘Being ahead of the curve is a necessity’: Waves’ Mick Olesh on the plugin specialist’s future plans
Take a peek inside the toolbox of just about any audio producer or engineer, be they from the live, studio, broadcast or any other sector, and more often than not you’ll find an abundance of Waves plugins. For years,...
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Audiovisual Finland CEO Johanna Karppinen steps down to focus on ‘new challenges’
Johanna ‘Nunnu’ Karppinen, CEO of film and TV export firm Audiovisual Finland, has stepped down after four years in the role to focus on “new challenges”. She remains in the role until September 30. Over the course of her...
Business
Rising Star winner and studio engineer George Murphy on his career highlights so far
Last year saw budding studio engineer George Murphy honoured with the coveted Rising Star gong at the 2016 Pro Sound Awards. Daniel Gumble asked him what he’s been up to since and how his career has continued to blossom…...
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Pro Sound Awards: Five reasons why you can’t afford to miss this year’s event
Now in its fifth year, the Pro Sound Awards reflects on the excellence in the pro audio industry over the past 12 months. Once the business cards have been shared out, celebrating the best goings-on in the business over...
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Opinion: Engineer Olga Fitzroy explains why she’s campaigning for Shared Parental Pay for freelancers
Revered recording engineer Olga Fitzroy is launching a petition to make shared parental pay available to the self-employed. Here, she tells PSNEurope about her career so far and why this subject is so important for the audio industry… I...
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Broadcast special: New issue of PSNEurope out now
The September issue of PSNEurope is out today – and this month’s is a broadcast special, featuring a round-up of the newest innovations on show at IBC 2017 and a look into some of the best broadcast consoles on the...