Business
Dallas HOW Double Dips With DiGiCo
Dallas’ First Baptist Church bought a DiGiCo SD7 for its FOH position in April 2013, and now a second SD7 has joined it, tackling...
Tour Sound
Business
Allen & Heath Attends Grand Prix
The recent Formula 1 Grand Prix in Singapore was a crazy one, thanks to a spectator who jumped on to the track and walked...
Business
d&b Bolsters The Bard In Poland
The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre—the first drama theatre to be built in Poland in almost forty years—sports modern design and technology, not to mention a...
Business
Shania Twain Rocks Out, Rolls On
LOS ANGELES, CA—Shania Twain’s Rock This Country Tour, which launched in Seattle on June 5, was intended to be the Canadian country-pop singer’s last...
Business
John Fogerty Tour Hits A Home Run
by Clive Young. John Fogerty wrote classic after classic while he led Creedence Clearwater Revival, then kicked off his own revival in the 1980s...
Business
Allen & Heath Takes Bullet On Tour
British metal act Bullet For My Valentine has been touring the world this year supporting its fifth album, Venom. For the U.S. leg, spent...
Business
Expo Gets Positive Buzz With Meyer
Ending a six-month run at the end of October, Expo Milano 2015—essentially this year’s World’s Fair—features 145 countries, each hosting its own self-built pavilion....
Business
Mojoe Productions Rises For GC Jam
Last month saw the likes of Martina McBride, Keith Urban, Ronnie Millsap, Hunter Hayes, Lady Antebellum, Dwight Yoakam and Miranda Lambert perform at the...
Business
Faithless Puts Faith In SSL Live
Long-running UK dance act Faithless is on the festival circuit promoting its latest collection, Faithless 2.0, with its FOH engineer of the last two...
Business
Localizing Audio For Turkey’s Parliament
The Turkish Parliament building in Ankara is a formidable place, and its fan-shaped debating chamber can hold 500 Parliamentarians. In order to help facilitate...
Business
Sony Adds To Charlie Daniels’ Volunteer Jam
This year marked the 40th annual Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam in August—a mega-concert at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN which raised $300,000 for...
Business
VUE Attends CNN GOP Debate
The recent second GOP debate, broadcast on CNN, had Production Resource Group on-site, providing audio for all present. Clearly there were a lot more...
Business
Club Update Inspires New EAW Line
Avalon Hollywood recently renovated some areas, including the entrance and lobby, restored to their original 1927 grandeur, more VIP seating and a balcony extension....
Business
Capital Handles SW4’s EDM with MLA
Capital Sound recently handled audio for five sites at The South West Four Festival (SW4), an annual dance music events on Clapham Common’s south...
Business
St. Louis Church Adds Roland M-5000 Desk
Faith Lutheran Church recently updated its audio system with the addition of a Roland M-5000 OHRCA Live Mixing Console, replacing the existing Roland M-400...
Business
Stagelight Nets 4 SSL Live
Stagelight, a successful Dutch hire and events production company, recently purchased four SSL Live consoles—three SSL Live L500 consoles and one SSL Live L300...
Business
Community Sells Off Majority Stake
by Clive Young. Belgium-based Audioprof Group has purchased a majority stake in Community Professional Loudspeakers. Summing up reactions inside the company, Community CEO Steve...
Business
First U.S. Nexo STM Church Install
Overlake Christian Church (OCC) in Redmond WA recently replaced the original PA in its 20-year-old, 5,000-seat sanctuary with a new Nexo STM line array...
Business
OSA Expands Martin Audio Inventory
OSA International has added 26 MLA and 18 MLA Compact enclosures to its Martin Audio inventory, increasing what is already the largest inventory of...
Business
Mixing Ariana Grande’s Arena Tour
Toby Francis may be best known for mixing hard rock acts like Kiss, Aerosmith and ZZ Top, but the versatile FOH engineer can’t be...
Business
Hardpop Builds New System, Reputation
Ricardo Tejada founded his EDM club, Hardpop, with the aim of making it a dance music mecca, but found resistance from high-end DJs he...
Business
In-The-Round Sound Outdoors in Mexico
Mexico marked its 205th Independence Day on September 15, and nowhere was the celebration bigger than Zócalo public square in Mexico City, where five...
Business
Lemons Talks Mixing Willie Nelson’s Vocals
Bobby Lemons fell into his longtime gig handling FOH for Willie Nelson almost by accident. Known around Austin, TX, he filled in for the...
Business
On The Road with Primus
Known for liberally mixing alt, prog, country and any other genres lying around (not to mention creating the theme to South Park), Primus hit...
Business
Alabama Shakes Settles On SSL Live
As “the” southern rock buzz band of the last few years, Alabama Shakes has made a name for itself with rousing live shows,...
Business
3G AV Updates El Rey Theatre’s Audio
Everyone loves to hear about a historic theater being renovated and given a second lease on life—but time marches on and eventually those updates...
Business
Lyon Caught in the Northern Lights
Not all the Northern Lights are in the sky. Every summer, Canada’s Parliament Buildings in Ottawa serve as the backdrop for Northern Lights, a...
Business
Entec Takes On TCT Concert
The 15th annual Teenage Cancer Trust concert, held at The Royal Albert Hall, found Stereophonics, The Who, Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds,...
Business
Foo Fighters Tour Puts Grohl On Pedestal
By Clive Young. Main Foo Fighter Dave Grohl’s broken leg hasn’t stopped him from rocking crowds on the band’s current tour, but it may...
Business
Dale Pro Audio Debuts New Location
By Clive Young. Manhattan-based Dale Pro Audio has expanded with a second location in Queens, NY at the Jamaica LIRR Station. Under development since...
Business
Brogaard Brings On BAE For Rod Stewart
Rod Stewart is perpetually on the move; this summer alone, the man played a three-week residency at Caesars Palace, a Faces reunion benefit show,...
Business
200 Bosch Systems, To Go
People say love makes the world go around, but in reality, it’s probably coffee. Even in China, a country known for its tea lovers,...
Business
ISP Gets Hands On At Rascals
et to open in November in a newly constructed wing of Albany’s Crossgates Mall, Rascals is an unusual proposition: a 16,000-square-foot music venue/high-end steakhouse....
Business
Solving The Devil’s Dilemma: Road Recording
ANTIOCH, CA—After several years of separately developing their own mobile workstations for use on the road, veteran touring FOH engineers Brad Madix and Greg...
Gear and Technology
Studer Unveils Vista 1 Black Edition Desk
Studer has unveiled the Vista 1 Black Edition digital mixing console, intended for live, production and broadcast use, at IBC 2015.
Business
CMA Music Fest Breaks Records
NASHVILLE, TN—It’s no exaggeration to say that the CMA Music Festival, held every June in Nashville, is a big deal.
Business
Papal Production for 1.2 Million
GUAYAQUIL, ECUADOR—Hundreds of thousands of people traveled to Guayaquil, Ecuador to witness Pope Francis celebrate an outdoor mass at Samanes Park, located on the...
Business
Danny Elfman/Tim Burton Concerts Hit NYC
While director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have famously made eight movies together, that doesn’t even come close to the number of collaborations Burton’s...
Business
Yamaha Takes Its Seat at the Algonquin
Updating a venue’s console is always a risk, as it has to be familiar and rider-friendly, yet also as future-proof as possible. The 400-seat...
Business
FCC’s Latest Rulemaking
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Federal Communications Committee’s August 5 rulemaking helped bring the future into slightly better focus for wireless microphone operators in the United States.
Business
Front Fill For Gill
Throughout his storied career, country music mainstay Vince Gill has taken his own considered approach to things, so it stands to reason that his...
Business
Music To Tune A PA By
The advent of digital recording has forever changed the music industry, and it’s certainly affected the live sound experience, too.