YSL Pro would like to offer our congratulations to our friend Ron Searles. 40 years ago Ron began his studio career at Toronto’s legendary Manta Sound. Ron is still very active as a Senior Post Production Audio Engineer at CBC Toronto, and is still active in the World of Music Recording. Congratulations Ron, and here’s to many more!

This Thursday (April 15, 2pm EDT) is the Professional Sound Magazine Industry Meetup! Join Jim Norris, Publisher of Professional Sound magazine, and special industry guests for a discussion of what’s ahead in Live Sound, Installations, Recording and Broadcast. Our own Dave Dysart will be one of the Session Leaders, focusing on the Broadcast industry. Sign up at this link.

“Arthur C Clarke once wrote that, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. He forgot to add that, once it enters common usage it soon becomes accepted, if not mundane.” This is a great article by Gordon Reid, Managing Director of CEDAR Audio Ltd, on the (massive) advancements of noise suppression, speech enhancement and audio restoration that CEDAR Audio have made. Link to article

The Cinema Audio Society talks about CEDAR noise suppression on set On-set noise reduction has been a contentious issue ever since CEDAR DNS1000 and DNS1500 dialogue noise suppressors first started to migrate from post-production onto movie sets and TV soundstages. We have always championed the delivery of unprocessed audio alongside processed audio whenever possible, but we are also aware that on-set processing can be a boon if done well, particularly when there is little or no budget for post-production. For […]