Live Sound
iHeartRadio Theater Digs DiGiCo Desks
The iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles finally got to put its new DiGiCo consoles to work with the recent iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Technology and Applications
Live Sound
Clearwing Productions Flies with XTA MX36
Clearwing Productions recently deca’d down when it purchased 10 XTA MX36 DSP Enabled Console Switching Systems for use on festival events.
Live Sound
Martin Garrix Gets Amsterdam on its Feet with Adamson
EDM mainstay Martin Garrix played two shows at RAI Amsterdam through an Adamson Systems Engineering E-Series loudspeaker system.
Live Sound
Meadows Fest Streams with Indre, DiGiCo
Owner and chief engineer Michael Comstock upgraded the console in his Indre Mobile truck to a DiGiCo SD9 just in time to mix and...
Live Sound
Wrangling RF at Festivals Just Got Harder
For years, certainly since the transition to DTV in 2010, when wireless audio equipment operators had to vacate the 700 MHz band, RF coordinators...
Live Sound
Console Choices Multiply for Festivals
By Strother Bullins. With the popularity of multi-act musical events at an all-time high, mixing console needs at FOH and monitor positions are broader...
Live Sound
NYC Festival Fields 23.1 Immersive System
By Ian MacDonald. Despite its relative infancy, AEG/Goldenvoice’s Panorama Festival has made a splash. Not only did this year’s edition, held July 28-30 on...
Live Sound
Miking Kendrick Lamar at Coachella
With 125,000 in attendance at this year’s Coachella Festival, ensuring that every syllable recited by headliner Kendrick Lamar could be heard loud and clear...
Live Sound
PWS Cruises Through Coachella
This year’s Coachella found Professional Wireless Systems (PWS) on-hand to provide frequency coordination for all wireless microphones, in-ear monitors and communications on the eight...
Live Sound
Audix Set For Jazz Fest
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival may colloquially be known as Jazz Fest, but that’s just about the only thing small about it. The...
Live Sound
MoogFest 2017 Sets Workshops, More
Festivals are all about having a good time, but each one has its own approach to achieving that. For Moogfest in Durham, NC, that...
Live Sound
dLive Tackles Dual Festivals in China
Festival culture is a worldwide phenomenon, and in China, demand is so strong that two major fests were recently held simultaneously in Shijiazhuang City:...
Live Sound
Montreux Jazz Festival Digitizes Archives
Forever ahead of the technological curve, the legendary Montreux Jazz Festival has recently been digitizing its entire archive in conjunction with the Claude Nobs...
Live Sound
Martin Audio Rolls into Riot Fest
This year’s Riot Fest may go down in music history as the day hell froze over when the Misfits reunited with original singer Glenn...
Live Sound
Bassnectar Brings d&b to Bass Center 2016
EDM hero Bassnectar has been holding his trademark annual Bass Center events since 2010, each one bigger than the last, but this year’s edition...
Live Sound
Martin Audio Covers Chicago Fests
Based in nearby Calumet City, Technotrix Inc. knows Chicago like the back of its hand—and the city’s festivals even more so, as it recently...
Live Sound
Networks, AoIP Flourish in Festival Audio
The proliferation of digitally-networked audio rigs and an increased acceptance of the latest AoIP (audio over internet protocol) pro audio technologies in live sound...
Live Sound
VUE Rocks China’s Ningbo Fête
World Music Day was recently celebrated in more than 450 cities in 120 countries around the world, including at the “Croisements Festival” at the...
Live Sound
CMA Music Festival Gets RAD for RF
The annual CMA Music Festival, held June 9-12 in Nashville, offered up more than 500 artists playing more than 250 hours of concerts across...
Live Sound
EAW Plays Coachella
Camarillo, California-based Rat Sound has provided sound systems for numerous stages at the annual Coachella Festival for years. The perennial must-see festival, held across...
Live Sound
Meyer Sound Answers Boston Calling
The recent outdoor Boston Calling festival in Boston’s City Hall Plaza brought the likes of Sia, Disclosure, Robyn, Sufjan Stevens, Janelle Monae, and Haim...
Live Sound
Morris Brings d&b to CMA Music Festival
This year’s CMA Music Festival—held June 9-12 in Nashville—sold out months in advance, attracting a record 88,500 fans each day to catch the latest...
Live Sound
Punching Through with Microphones
Choosing a vocal microphone and wireless system for touring and festival work is largely dependent on musical style, audio system technical logistics and the...
Live Sound
Allen & Heath Storms Embassy at SXSW
Playing SXSW is a big deal for any band, but if you’ve traveled thousands of miles from another continent, the pressure is only heightened....
Live Sound
Martin Audio Takes On Wango Tango
The annual Wango Tango radio festival show in Los Angeles is always a big deal; this year’s edition, held May 14 at the StubHub...
Live Sound
JBL Pro Keeps The Beat at Coachella
The indie and rock acts may get all the mainstream press at the annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Southern California, but...
Live Sound
BassBoss Brings It in Austin
All performers want to look good in front of their hometown crowd, and for loudspeaker manufacturers, it’s the same story. Case in point: BassBoss,...
Live Sound
Savannah Music Fest Makes Most of Meyer
The more than 100 performances comprising the just-completed Savannah Music Festival were all heard via Meyer Sound PAs, as the company’s systems were used...
Festival Business
EAW Anya Augments Fave Fests
Rat Sound has become a go-to sound provider for numerous festivals, and last year, three of them—Taste of Chaos, Knotfest, It’s Not Dead, and...
Festival Profile
Riot Fest Rocks Three Cities
Held in Chicago, Toronto and Denver, Riot Fest served up ample helpings of Billy Idol, Iggy Pop, Motorhead, CIV, the Damned, Ice Cube, and...
Festival Profile
A Dynamic Food Festival in NYC
Dynamic Productions fielded DAS Aero line array enclosures and powered subwoofers for the New York City Wine and Food Festival at Pier 92.
Festival Profile
dLive Tasked With Festival Promessas
Festival Promessas, an annual gospel music event held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, attracts 30,000 people every year, and even more watch the event live...
Festival Profile
New Wave Fest Rewinds Through Time
England was the birthplace of '80s New Wave, and that glossy, synth-drenched vibe lives on with the Rewind Festival—an event so popular that it...
Live Sound
Sensaphonics Educates At Ultra Music Fest
Sensaphonics partnered with audiologists from University of Miami UHealth at last weekend’s Ultra Music Festival in an effort to promote healthy listening to the...
Live Sound
A&H Gets Folksy In NZ
Held annually at the Kumeu Showground, northwest of Auckland, January’s edition marked the 43rd year of the Auckland Folk Festival. Audio provider Sound Light...
Live Sound
Event Safety Alliance Sets Weather Summit
The Event Safety Alliance will hold its 2016 Severe Weather Summit March 8-9, 2016 at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma. Exploring the...
Business
Focusrite Networks Keep On Truckin
New remote trucks from NEP and All Mobile Video have integrated Focusrite’s RedNet series of Dante network interfaces and other Dante-enabled systems.
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