New Products
Shure Expands Axient Digital Portfolio With New AD3 Plug-On Transmitter
Audio professionals can transform any XLR microphone into an Axient Digital wireless microphone.
Shure
Recording
Enviyon Grows from the Garage to the Future
Over the course of 10 years, Romel Williams has grown Enviyon Entertainment from a part-time gig in his garage to a fully staffed, multi-studio...
news
Missing In Alaska’s Sound Puts Listeners in the Search
The intricate sound design of Missing In Alaska takes the investigative podcast from the icy shores of Alaska to the deserts of Arizona. Here's...
Music Production
The Wrecks Go Hi-LoFi for Debut
With the release of the band’s debut album under producer/frontman Nick Anderson, L.A. pop-punk act The Wrecks uses lo-fi production to add an edge...
Music Production
Recording Babyface’s George Floyd Tribute
Kenny “BabyFace” Edmonds recently re-recorded his 1996 Grammy-nominated song, “How Come, How Long,” acoustically as a tribute to George Floyd.
Live Sound
Miking to Meet Bjork’s Vision
When avant garde songstress Bjork envisioned Cornucopia, 50-piece choirs and invented instruments in an immersive audio landscape was only the beginning.
HOW Sound
Supermarket Turned Church Gets Audio Reinvention
Immanuel Baptist Church in Little Rock recently turned a supermarket into its new community center with an 800-seat venue covered by Danley Sound Labs...
Blog
Mix Blog Studio: The Spigot Turns Off
The pandemic and the adoption of social distancing measures has hit the music industry hard, and the uncertainties about when, how and even if...
Music Production
Live on KEXP Podcast Blurs the Lines Between Live and Studio Recording
When engineer Kevin Suggs records a live session for Seattle’s KEXP, that becomes the raw materials for podcasts, radio broadcasts, streaming and other formats.
Business
Major Podcasters Keep Content Coming Despite Pandemic
With audiences and production teams working at home now, major podcasters Stitcher and Parcast have revamped their audio tech and workflows to keep content coming.
Guides
Wireless Audio Systems and Products
Mix focuses on the major professional audio wireless system manufacturers and their recent introductions, whether in systems or new products.
Music Production
How Pros Are Livestreaming During the Pandemic
Take a deep dive into the technology and techniques that artists are using while livestreaming during the pandemic.
Featured
Shure Celebrates 95 Years in Professional Audio
With nearly a century of innovation and industry-defining technology advancements, Shure has helped shape the professional audio industry as we know it.
Business
Upcoming Pro Audio Training Webinars
Here’s a non-partisan, alphabetical rundown of educational pro-audio webinars coming up, provided by manufacturers across the industry.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: The Misfits Attack MSG
The Misfits, headed by singer/songwriter Glenn Danzig and bassist Jerry Only, brought their sinister sound to New York City’s Madison Square Garden this past...
Blog
A Voice-O-Graph Blast from the Past
Songbyrd Music House and Record Café is home to one of the last surviving Voice-O-Graph booths—a 1940s vending machine that recorded customers to a...
Live Sound
David Byrne: Big Performance, Small Stage
These Days David Byrne Is Burning Down a More Intimate House — Broadway’s Hudson Theatre
Product Reviews
Royer AxeMount Dual Microphone Clip – A Real-World Review
Producer/engineer Russ Long has to axe himself, how did we never think of this before?
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Kacey Musgraves
Album of the Year Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves began her world tour in October, 2018 as an opening act, and wrapped it up 13...
Live Sound
Wrangling the RF of David Byrne’s American Utopia
David Byrne’s American Utopia tour is playing Broadway through February, featuring a massive band that is mobile throughout the performance, thanks to RF wizardry.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Weird Al Yankovic on Tour
By Clive Young. If Barbra Streisand and The Who could do it this summer, so could Weird Al—so he did. The prince of parodies...
Recording
Vix in the Mix
A personal production setup these days can be anything from a full-blown recording studio to rival high-end commercial facilities to something as simple as...
2019
Classic Tracks: Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me”
Live in the Studio, With Arrangements on the Spot
Live Sound
Shure Aids Burgled Venue
A small 150-cap venue in England kept its doors open with help from the mic manufacturer.
Live Sound
Masque Sound Takes On Lehmann Trilogy
Epic play gets the immersive audio treatment for New York premiere.
Live Sound
EXCLUSIVE: Inside the Frank Zappa Hologram Tour
By Paroo Streich. Kicking off this Friday, the world tour brings the late Frank Zappa's bandmates together to play live with their leader once...
2019
Wireless Audio 2019: New Systems, New Products
No market segment has to stay on its toes and continually innovate like the manufacturers of wireless audio systems and products.
New Products
Shure Introduces TwinPlex
Today, at the 2019 NAB Show, Shure unveiled TwinPlex™, the Company’s new line of premium subminiature (5 mm) omnidirectional lavalier and headset microphones. Designed...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Panic! at the Disco’s Calm Tour
Panic! At the Disco takes a victory lap around North America’s arenas with an Eighth Day Sound-supplied system.
Live Sound
Behind the Scenes of the Grammys’ Live Sound
Providing live sound for an audience composed of the top music artists and executives is no easy task.
Live Sound
Shure Settles into Super Bowl
Axient Digital mics used for referee calls, pre-game events and halftime show.
Blog
Seen on the Scene: 2019 NAMM Show, Days 2 & 3
By Clive Young. The Winter NAMM Show is over, but the memories remain—and the new gear is coming! Check out our huge photo gallery...
Blog
Seen on the Scene: 2019 NAMM Show, Day One
Dive into our huge photo gallery for all the new products, sights and hoopla of Day One.
Reviews
Review: Shure Axient Digital Wireless
Stellar RF and Audio Performance in the 470-636 MHz Band
Recording
Reinventing ‘Remain in Light’
By Steve Harvey. 2015 Producer of the Year Grammy Award-winner Jeff Bhasker reveals the production process behind Angelique Kidjo's first English-language album, a cover...
Live Sound
Mixing Moby with the L.A. Phil
By Steve Harvey. In a world premiere event celebrating the L.A. Philharmonic's 100th Season, Moby performed with an orchestra for the first time in...
Live Sound
Frank Carter’s Festival Freedom
A swap to new wireless system gave the rising punk band freedom to roam.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Rolling with Thomas Rhett’s Road Show
By Clive Young. Talking with the audio team behind the scenes on this fall's Thomas Rhett arena tour.
Live Sound
Simple Minds Didn’t Forget About You
PSN speaks with the audio team behind Simple Minds' first full U.S. headline tour in more than 20 years.