Live Sound
DAS Audio Delivers for NBA’s Miami Heat
The house audio system at Miami’s AmericanAirlines Arena was upgraded recently, with DAS Audio Aero Series 2 and UX Series speakers installed just last...
Regional and Local
Live Sound
Hailing ‘Comet’: Innovating B’way Sound Design
By Clive Young. Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, which closed last month after a celebrated run that saw it rack up...
HOW Sound
At AES: RF Panel: ‘Scan Early and Often’
By Steve Harvey. The successful completion of the FCC's Incentive Auction earlier this year set the countdown clock ticking for wireless mic operators, who...
Live Sound
Bose is the Future of the Crystal Ballroom
Built more than a century ago, Portland’s 1,500-capacity McMenamins Crystal Ballroom recently got an audio refresh with the arrival of a Bose Professional ShowMatch...
Live Sound
Hello d&b
Bette Midler is well-known for her ability to belt a song, but in her current run on Broadway, starting in a revival of Hello...
Live Sound
Nexo Placed in New Place Bell Arena
Place Bell Arena’s grand opening was so recent, it still has that new arena smell. Having officially opened September 1, the Laval, Quebec venue...
Live Sound
A dLive at the Opera
Mixing consoles and liquid typically don’t mix, but they came close when the FINA World Aquatic Championships 2017 held its gala/awards ceremony at Budapest’s...
Live Sound
d&b audiotechnik Set for AES New York
The annual AES Convention is the high point of the pro audio year, and no one ever wants to miss it. That goes for...
Live Sound
Packing Pershing Square with Sound
By Steve Harvey. Burbank, CA-based CenterStaging recently acquired a ShowMatch DeltaQ line array system from Bose Professional, and immediately found itself deploying the PA...
Live Sound
PreSonus Goes Back to High School
Lehigh Senior High School’s Center of the Arts recently got an audio overhaul, with the installation of a new system built around PreSonus’ WorxAudio...
Live Sound
Konzert Theater Bern Sticks with Stage Tec
The Konzert Theater Bern has been a major venue in Switzerland ever since it was built in 1903, and in 1999, it became the...
Live Sound
Sudan Selects DiGiCo for Swiss Rock Club
The Swiss may be known for their knives and watches, but they also make precise decisions as well. Case in point: The 300-capacity club...
Live Sound
NPi AV Tackles EST Fest IV with Yamaha, Nexo
Serving up everything from hip-hop to metal mania to the sounds of the Seventies, the fourth annual EST Fest took over the Ohio Dreams...
HOW Sound
Spectrum Sound Goes Deep with DiGiCo
Nashville-based Spectrum Sound recently updated its inventory with the addition of six new DiGiCo SD12 mixing consoles and four additional SD-Racks. These come in...
Live Sound
Solotech Tackles Montreal Jazz Fest
The annual Festival International de Jazz de Montréal—AKA Montreal Jazz Festival—always presents top-shelf acts from around the world, and this year’s edition was no...
Live Sound
Scovill Hosts Avid Masterclasses in India
Legendary live sound engineer Robert Scovill has been on the road with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ 40th anniversary tour this summer, but the...
Live Sound
DiGiCo, Bose Ride Into Sunset Sounds
Brooklyn is always a hotbed of new music, and this summer has provided another summer concert event series in the NYC borough to showcase...
Live Sound
Martin Audio Rig Powers Fledgling Fest
When most people think of summer, they think going out in the sunshine, but at the Saddleworth Cricket Club in Oldham, 3,000 recently turned...
HOW Sound
T-Mobile Lights Up First 600 MHz Site
T-Mobile has made good on its promise to begin lighting up new 600 MHz services in August, announcing that its first network site, in...
Live Sound
1915 Theater Nets New d&b audiotechnik PA
Built in 1915, The Arcade Theater in Fort Meyers, FL has been a vaudeville house, movie theater and multiplex over the years, but the...
HOW Sound
Congress Writes to FCC About Wireless Mics
By Steve Harvey. A letter to the Federal Communications Commission from a bipartisan Congressional group could potentially make more frequency spectrum available to wireless...
Live Sound
Coda Audio Tackles Saitama Super Arena
When Japanese singer T.M. Revolution played a string of shows in May at The Saitama Super Arena near Tokyo, audio provider Hibino Sound and...
HOW Sound
Pros Prep For Sound Summit Seattle
Clear-Com, DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics, Sound Devices, and K-Tek will host The Sound Summit Seattle in August, taking over the Columbia City Theater in Seattle...
HOW Sound
FCC Issues 600 MHz Consumer Disclosure
By Steve Harvey. The Federal Communications Commission has issued an Order that provides the specific language for the Consumer Disclosure notice to be displayed...
Live Sound
AV Roadshow To Hit New York August 2
By David Keene. Registration is heating up for the Rental Staging Roadshow that will take place Wednesday, August 2 in New York City. Stagers...
Live Sound
Masque Sound’s New Gig is Pretty Sweet
Broadway may be known as the city’s theater district, but there’s a new factory sitting in the middle of it—specifically Charlie and the Chocolate...
HOW Sound
Nexo Goes On Tour
That Nexo loudspeakers are going on the road may not come as a surprise, but what makes this instance unique is that it’s the...
Live Sound
Clearwing Gives ‘Em Shell
The Sinnissippi Music Shell at Sinnissippi Park in Rockford, Illinois is a beautiful piece of architecture—but it can’t bear the weight of a typical...
Live Sound
DAS Audio Assists MLB All-Star Pre-Game Celebration
The Design Oasis provided a DAS Audio P.A. system for the 2017 MLB Allstar Pre-Game Celebration outside of Marlins Park.
HOW Sound
T-Mobile to Enter 600 MHz in August
By Clive Young. Pro-audio RF wranglers and wireless users may be in for a surprise next month, as T-Mobile announced yesterday that it will...
HOW Sound
Sennheiser Unpacks FCC Wireless Ruling
Sennheiser is applauding the Federal Communications Commission’s Order on Reconsideration and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, ratified on July 13, 2017.
Live Sound
Grand Ole Opry Gets New Monitor Console
No matter how ‘ole’ the Grand Ole Opry gets, the fabled home of country music remains timeless, and playing the hallowed Nashville stage has...
HOW Sound
FCC Clarifies New RF Microphone Rules
The Federal Communications Commission has revised and clarified its rules to promote more effective spectrum access for wireless microphone operations in the TV bands,...
Festival Profile
Inside The One Love Manchester Concert
By Phil Ward. On May 22, a suicide bomber detonated a device in the foyer of Manchester Arena in northern England, killing 22 and...
HOW Sound
Filling Fellowship Chapel with Sound
Opened in December 2016, Fellowship Alliance Chapel’s new Worship Center seats 1,700 worshippers on the main floor and another 500 in the balcony.
Live Sound
Attero Tech Rolls Into Chevy Dealership
Chattanooga car dealer Integrity Chevrolet recently updatged its showroom audio system. Classic Blades Pro Audio designed and installed the system, which is based around...
Live Sound
Indian Concert Hall Digs d&b audiotechnik
The Sir Mutha Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall (SMVRCH) is a respected live performance space located at the bustling Harrington Road area in the central...
Live Sound
At InfoComm: Yamaha Bows VXL1 Arrays
Yamaha is unveiling its new VXS1L Series of slim column array speaker systems will make their official debut at InfoComm 2017, along with the...
Live Sound
Renkus-Heinz Aids New Smithsonian Museum
Since the Smithsonian Institution's new National Museum of African American History and Culture opened last September, it has attracted more than a million visitors...
Live Sound
Switchfoot Kicks It with Bose
Everyone knows absence makes the heart grow fonder, but who knew it applied to PA systems? Switchfoot’s live sound engineer/road manager, Ryan Nichols, looked...
Live Sound
Hughie’s Digs DAS Audio
Having put its existing DAS Audio system to extensive use, Hughie’s Event Production Services recently expanded its inventory significantly.
Live Sound
Southeastern U. Accepts Martin Audio
The latest jewel in Southeastern University’s crown is its new College of Arts & Media facility, a new multi-use facility, with classrooms and an...