Mastering engineer Dave McNair unravels some of the mysteries of how he makes music sound good over iTunes and MP3s played over $20 computer speakers. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg ...

Boom mics, those big puffballs at the end of a long pole, were once the most common method to record movie dialogue. Now small, wireless microphones are ubiquitous on film sets, and that's the domain ...

If you are new to the industry or know a budding audio professional who’s looking for a specific direction, broadcast engineer and radio producer Ann Charles has only good things to say about the ...

"He's the most down-to-earth artist I've ever worked with," sound engineer Davide Lombardi tells PEOPLE Daniele Venturelli/Getty Andrea Bocelli is still wowing his fans — and his team — 30 years into ...

“We need to raise enough money to pay his rent, bills and living expenses for a year or two,” said his friend and collaborator Emily O’Halloran, who set up the GoFundMe page. “This will give him the ...

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What makes NPR’s broadcast sound so crisp and bright, while many local public radio stations have a bassier, boomier tone? Adam Ragusea, host of our podcast The Pub, wanted to find out, so he recently ...

Former NPR audio engineer Bill Deputy died over the weekend of lung cancer. He understood how sound could create pictures — pictures as vivid as any painting and as clear as any photo. He was 58.

"She's this incredible artist, and she's also one of the most incredible people I've ever met," sound engineer Caram Costanzo tells PEOPLE Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in ...

It’s been confirmed that audio engineer Michael B Tretow - often referred to as the fifth member of ABBA - has died at the age of 80. Although production credits on all ABBA’s albums were shared ...