Fred Goodman, managing editor for Pro Sound News and Pro Audio Review, recently released his latest album, The Last Days of Rock ’n’ Roll, with his band Fred and the Fredettes. Here's the video to his title track!

by Clive Young. You can learn a lot about a month simply by looking at the Twitter posts ("tweets") that got made throughout the course of it. Take our April 2010 Pro Sound News tweets: The first few were links to goofy fake April Fool's Day articles covering everything from Lectrosonics to Kanye West. Next up were a rash of links to Pro Audio apps for Apple's iPad, which was introduced the first weekend of the month. By the time we mentioned FOH engineer Robert Scovill's blog about Tom Petty tour rehearsals, you knew it was getting towards shed season. And in between, there was ephemera ranging from NAMM and AES trade show announcements, to the 'I can't look away' violent destruction of an aged DDA Q-Series monitor desk. All of which means you should follow us on Twitter at @ProSoundNews -- clearly our Twitter feed ain't just headlines. To wit, here's most of our April tweets, minus the links to daily news stories on prosoundnews.com.

By Clive Young. While we use Twitter to announce when PSN's daily news headlines are live at the website, that’s just the beginning. We also point you to cool pro audio stuff around the web; give you up-to-the-second news reports from events like AES and NAMM; look for potential interviewees for articles (if you want to get into the pages of PSN, this is a great ‘in’); chat a bit and, heaven forbid, even crack the occasional joke. We still bring you breaking pro audio news every day, but we're not above posting a photo link to a cat hilariously sprawled across the capstans of an old Studer tape machine. To give you an idea of what we’re talking about, here’s a sampling of “tweets” starting in mid-January (minus the daily headlines), presenting the good, bad and just plain weird.

by Christopher Walsh. The console’s evolution toward a smaller footprint and DAW integration fits with the trend toward personal studio environments. But commercial studios are also taking to small-format consoles, often for the same reasons private studio owners have done so.

by Clive Young. New York (December 9, 2008)--Ask any rock star lying in the gutter and he/she/it will tell you: New York City is the home of Rock. Cleveland may be where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame resides, but NYC is practically a Rock Museum by the sheer fact of its existence.

By Frank Wells. It is a disappointing, if unsurprising, development. As you likely know, from this month's cover story if not before, the FCC has approved unlicensed low-power consumer devices (WSDs, or White Space Devices) for operation in the areas of the broadcast television spectrum not lost to recent auctions and public service reassignment. Even the most hopeful of potential outcomes will mean less resources available for the operation of wireless microphone and communication devices, challenging the current application of conventional wireless technologies for major events and in crowded markets.