Live Gear
QSC In Paris | Las Vegas’ Chateau Nightclub and Gardens
Chateau Nightclub and Gardens, the latest venue to open on the Las Vegas strip, offers an expansive audio/visual system, designed and installed by Bob...
By Sarah Benzuly
Facilities
The Loop Studios
Coming off of the recent Linkin Park tour as programming/playback engineer/keyboard tech, Dylan Ely announces the opening of his new studio, The Loop Studios...
Profiles
Mastering Ignacio Val
Symbiotic Records recording artist Ignacio Val has just completed mastering on his debut self-titled album at Bernie Grundman Mastering. The album was produced by...
Facilities
B Town Expands
Burlington, Ontario–based B Town Sound recently hosted an expansion party to celebrate its Studios B and C rehearsal spaces coming online. The Hamilton Music...
Films-TV
Turner Turns to Lawo
Turner Studios, the broadcast production division of Turner Entertainment Group, has taken delivery of a second Lawo mc290 production console in its Audio Control...
Live Gear
Church’s New KARAi System
Christ Fellowship Church’s flagship Palm Beach Gardens worship center is the first U.S. facility to take delivery of the new L-Acoustics KARAi system, as...
Facilities
Converse Rubber Tracks Studio
Converse is reaching out to aspiring musicians by offering free recording sessions (usually one to two days in duration) with its onsite engineers at...
Live Gear
Masque Sound Sparkles at 75
Jersey Boys, Billy Elliott, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Cats—Masque Sound has been integral to Broadway sound ever since three stagehands, in 1936,...
Live Gear
20 Years for Audio Logic Systems
What began as a small audio production company, Audio Logic Systems (Bloomington, Minn.) now boasts full-service production and installation services, including the recently upgraded...
Recording
Review: Adele ‘Live At the Royal Albert Hall’ (Columbia Records)
A slew of canceled show dates due to throat-health surgery and numerous Grammy nominations for her meteoric-rising 21, the release of Adele’s Live At...
Live Gear
2012 Live Sound Events
On February 1-3, 2012, the second-annual Event Live Expo will take place at the Los Angeles Convention Center, coinciding with the Club + Venue...
Live Sound
Martina McBride | Playing for Awareness
At the end of October, Martina McBride wrapped up her ELEVEN Across America Powered by Amtrak tour, boarding a train for a four-day, 11-city...
Facilities
Nieman Brings in API
Juno Award–winning composer/producer Ian Nieman recently brought in an API 1608 console for his Canadian studio, Nieman Music, where he can be found creating...
Live Gear
QSC Covenant Church Installation
Covenant Church is the first house of worship in the U.S. to purchase QSC’s new KLA Series fixed-accurate active line array system, employing it...
Facilities
No Allusion About Auralex
When Allusion Studios (Tucson, Ariz.) head engineer Jim Pavett made the call to overhaul the space—including the control room, live/drum room, vocal booth, iso...
Live Gear
Soundcraft Mixing With Professionals Recap
Soundcraft recently wrapped up its first U.S. Mixing With Professionals series, starring front-of-house engineer Gert Sanner (Deep Purple). “It was great fun to go...
Recording
‘The Bridge School Benefit Concerts—25th-Anniversary Edition’ (Reprise Records)
If you’ve never experienced the Bridge School Concert in Northern California, stop reading this and run out to your local music store and buy...
Profiles
Classic Tracks: Mudhoney “Touch Me I’m Sick”
Jack Endino has been in the press an awful lot in the past few months. With the 20th-anniversary celebration of Nirvana’s Nevermind, everyone wants...
Live Gear
MOM Gets QSC Treatment
Part of an A/V system integration for Budapest’s MOM Cultural Center is a QSC ILA line array system, with a dedicated SC28 system controller...
Live Gear
DBS Supplies the Vibes
DBS Audio Systems (Coatesville, Pa.) handled sound for the Gathering of the Vibes festival in Bridgeport, Conn., that featured Further, the Levon Helm Band,...
Live Gear
Meyer Mixing Workshops Online
Buford Jones, front-of-house engineer and founder of Meyer Sound’s Nashville office, has been promoted to live audio and education specialist, where he will focus...
Facilities
Saga Recording Grows
To accommodate the growing number of singer, songwriters and groups booking Saga Recording (East Vancouver), owner/operator Michael Nowak hired Russ Berger Design Group to...
Facilities
Oberlin Beefs Up Studio Space
The Oberlin Conservatory of Music’s new recording facility/performance venue, the Joseph R. Clonick Studio, was built for surround sound and offers a Rupert Neve...
Profiles
SSL for Abbey Road Online Mixing Service
To help celebrate 80 years in the biz, Abbey Road Studios (London) has opened its new production/mix room, Studio 52, which features an SSL...
Live Gear
Iridium Club | Live From the House of Les
Though still considered a nascent technology, concert Webcasting—especially in a festival atmosphere—can be a great marketing opportunity or alternate revenue source for artist and...
Facilities
Dallas Baptist University | Education Opportunities in Dallas
Recently completed, the new 12,000-square-foot Joan and Andy Horner Hall (at Dallas Baptist University) includes a 2,400-square-foot recording studio designed by Russ Berger Design...
Recording
Carmen Rizzo ‘The Space Left Behind’ (Electrofone Music)
While Carmen Rizzo may be best known as an electronic and world music producer, collaborating with such heavyweights as Seal, Paul Oakenfold and Ryuichi...
Live Gear
Aviom to the Symphony
Not only home to the New World Symphony, Miami Beach’s New World Center also offers Pulse, a spin on the traditional orchestral experience within...
Live Gear
Danley Plays In BeatBox
New San Francisco live music venue BeatBox is the first club on the West Coast to feature Danley Sound Labs loudspeakers and subwoofers. The...
Facilities
Into the Bunker
Miloco Studio’s new programming/writing room The Bunker (London), in association with producer Stephen Street, was custom-built by Miloco’s recently launched Miloco Builds studio design/construction...
Live Gear
Music In the Park
Walking through Madison Square Park this past summer, you would have heard the sounds from concert series “The Oval Lawn Series.” The New York...
Facilities
Noble Street Studios
Studio owner Henry Gooderham has opened the doors to his 800-square-foot, purpose-built Noble Street Studios (Toronto), hoping to attract local and international music projects,...
Profiles
Red Hot Chili Peppers In Three Parts
It makes sense. As most listeners will check out a new album on iTunes—or at least the first single from a long-awaited I’m With...
Recording
Radical Face ‘The Family Tree: The Roots’ (Bear Machine)
It’s an interesting concept: In addition to sculpting the lyrics around a family in the 1800s, indie pop-folk artist Ben Cooper (aka, Radical Face)...
Profiles
Extreme Mastering Makeover
When Extreme Music (London), the production music arm of Sony ATV, wanted to upgrade its layout and acoustics in its new mastering facility, the...