AES Names Olive New President; Neil Giraldo Adds Argosy
Today's Top Story - 11.07.13
AES Names Olive New President » New York, NY (November 7, 2013)—The AES welcomes Dr. Sean Olive as its new President, taking over from outgoing President Frank Wells. Currently serving as Director, Acoustic Research, HARMAN International, Olive is based in Northridge, California, which will enable him to be intimately involved in preparations for the AES's 137th Convention, which will take place in Los Angeles in the fall of 2014. More »
Making A Studio Stand Out by Clive Young We get an avalanche of press releases every day, sent in from manufacturers, studios, live sound vendors, bands and others around the pro audio industry. To be honest, some days there's so many that they become a giant blur of promotion where nothing stands out. But today, I stumbled across one release for a new boutique studio in Boston, Plaid Dog—and this one stood out for an unexpected reason. More »
Quote of the Week
"Our audience is extremely loud. When we're indoors, from 140 feet back at FOH, we've metered the audience at 117 [dB SPL] A-weighted between songs. There's points in the show that I know it's coming and we all duck and cover! I'm never going to try to keep up with that with the PA—the system can do it, but I just think that's irresponsible" --Pete Healey, production manager/FOH engineer for Luke Bryan » From the latest issue of Pro Sound News; want to read more? Click here to subscribe to our free online edition!