Business
VUE Audiotechnik Opens VUE China
VUE Audiotechnik has founded VUE Audiotechnik China. Aiming to serve mainland China, the subsidiary is located in Zhejiang in the Jiashan County. The new...
Tour Sound
Business
Sullivan & Gregory Support 340B Events
Sullivan & Gregory Entertainment, a mobile audio/video event production and rental company, was recently tapped to support 340B University, a traveling educational program about...
Business
Yamaha Merges Pro Audio Businesses
In a bold move, Yamaha Corporation of America is consolidating its Live Sound Department, Steinberg North America and Commercial Audio Units into a newly...
Business
Sound Image Supports Maroon 5
Maroon 5 has been on the road the last few months, carrying audio support from CA-based audio provider Sound Image. Behind the FOH desk...
Business
Deer Park PAC Perks Up PA
Deer Park High School’s 1,500-seat proscenium theater—the Deer Park High School Performing Arts Center—recently updated its audio and video gear, adding a sizable L-Acoustics...
Business
Bose System Now A Museum Piece
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum was modeled after a 15th century Venetian palazzo, so in keeping with the refined visual sense around the facility,...
Business
British Music Embassy Lands At SXSW
This year’s SXSW Music Festival has come and gone (and most attendees have recovered by now). One of the world's largest music conferences, spread...
Live Sound
Treefort Fest Brings Acts to Urban Setting
by Kelleigh Welch. The annual Treefort Music Fest, held throughout downtown Boise, Idaho in March, is about two things—independent music and the local community.
Business
Mango Audio Adds RCF for Festivals
Chicago-based Mango Audio, an audio provider for Midwest events ranging from the annual Chicago Cuban and Puerto Rican festivals, to national soccer tours, to...
Business
SSL Live Lands At French Music Awards
Les Victoires de la Musique, France’s answer to the Grammy and Brit Awards, is broadcast live from the 5,000 seat Le Zénith arena in...
Live Sound
Sound Where You Want It: Finding the Perfect Position for PAs
At multi-stage music festivals, especially those taking place in inner city areas, sound control has become a critical issue for production providers. With pattern...
Live Sound
Chauvet Lights Up Aura Festival
Held at the aptly named “Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park,” which covers 800 acres lined with fragrant Spanish moss draped trees, the weekend-long...
Business
MGG Rocks Pretoria Shows
An annual music concert held at the Moreletapark Auditorium in Pretoria, the Afrikaans is Groot Music Show held nine sold-out shows at the 7,000-seat...
Business
Audio Tech Powers Circuitry of Life
Artist Heather Shaw’s multimedia exhibit “Circuitry of Life: A Journey Through the Evolution of Technology,” was recently presented in Los Angeles on a building’s...
Business
DPA Captures Carlton and Lukather
Larry Carlton and Steve Lukather recently played a string of shows in Asia with FOH engineer Rick Wheeler and a passel of DPA d:facto...
Business
DAS Bolsters BattleFrog Race
The BattleFrog Obstacle Race Series, held earlier this month in Miami, pushed athletes to the limit as they made their way through the Navy...
Business
Second Baptist Church Sizes Up Consoles
Second Baptist Church’s 5,000-seat “in-the-round” worship center on its West Campus in Houston recently added two DiGiCo SD5 consoles, installed by local HOW systems...
Business
Honeymoon in Vegas Doubles Down on Showcontrol
The new Broadway musical, Honeymoon In Vegas, has been using a pair of Out Board’s TiMax2 SoundHub-S48 audio showcontrol delay-matrix systems, along with a...
Business
Taking Care of Business with the TSO
Conceived by producer Paul O’Neill in the early Nineties as an album project, Trans- Siberian Orchestra (TSO) hit it big with an unlikely hybrid...
Business
Installation Diary: PreSonus StudioLive at FaithBridge UMC
BLOWING ROCK, NC—United Methodist house-of-worship FaithBridge is a young and growing contemporary church in a Blue Ridge Mountain valley outside Blowing Rock, North Carolina.
Business
CTS Helps Oprah Tour Inspire
Dubbed one of the world’s most influential women, media superstar Oprah Winfrey has built her career around empowering others.
Business
Iglesias/Pitbull Tour Rides The Waves
Playing to sold-out arenas around the country, the current Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull and J Balvin tour has been making the rounds with audio equipment...
Business
T-funk Goes to SXSW
Telefunken Elektroakustik will be showing its entire line of microphones, including the new M60 FET, at South by Southwest’s Gear Expo in Austin, TX,...
Business
Fellowship Puts Faith In Community
Faith Fellowship Church has held its services in a “stressed membrane structure” since 1999, but last year, it updated the unusual venue’s audio system...
Business
Thunder Audio Still Tied To Slipknot
Slipknot returned to the road this past fall with support from longtime SR provider, Thunder Audio
Business
Take The Vast PA to Clarksville
Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, recently updated the mid-sized audio system in its vast Governors Stadium by installing One Systems loudspeakers.
Business
DPA Captures Experience Concert
More than 700,000 people recently turned out for the ninth edition of The Experience, an interdenominational gospel concert held in Lagos. Performers onhand included...
Business
Mixing Foreigner’s Hot-Blooded Hits Live
by Clive Young. Don't let the name fool you: Foreigner is at home everywhere, still performs all over the world, led by guitarist/songwriter Mick...
Business
Tour Engineer Jeff Kaplan Killed
ANNAPOLIS, MD—Tour engineer/production manager Jeff Kaplan was killed on January 7, when he was hit by an SUV following his own car accident on...
Business
Showco Founder Jack Calmes Dies at 71
DALLAS, TX—Jack Calmes, who co-founded pioneering tour sound company Show-co, died of cancer on January 5 at the age of 71.
Business
Feeling Cavalier
ROSEMONT, IL—Drums and bugle corps competitions date back many decades, yet are in a constant state of evolution.
Business
Firehouse Slam Dunks All-Star Weekend
Excited to see basketball played properly, New York City recently hosted the NBA All-Star Weekend, as top players hit the court at both the...
Business
DiGiCo Desks Debut at Disney
As part of the 50th anniversary of The Music Center, the 2,252-seat Walt Disney Concert Hall—which opened in 2003—recently upgraded its audio systems—a process...
Business
Live Sound Looks Ahead
NEW YORK, NY—While the Sound Reinforcement industry never comes to a halt, the winter months traditionally provide a brief respite sandwiched between the final...
Business
Yamaha Gets Its Game On
The new Multisports Center in Ville de Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada, opened its doors in January to sports enthusiasts, offering basketball, hockey, ice skating, day...
Business
SSL Settles Into Mariners Church
A pair of SSL Live L500 consoles were recently installed inside Mariners Church’s 3,400-seat worship center as part of an audio overhaul. Its current...
Business
ATK Audiotek Fields JBL For Oscars
ATK Audiotek, longtime audio provider for the Academy Awards, brought along a sizable JBL VerTec line array system for the annual movie event held...
Business
Fine Arts Theater Goes Bose
The Fine Arts Theater at Seminole State College of Florida’s Sanford/Lake Mary campus holds 160 on a raked seating array, and these days, it...
Business
Mixing Macefield Music Fest
BALLARD, WA—The annual Macefield Music Festival, held in the Seattle suburb of Ballard, prides itself on its independent spirit, presenting more than 60 artists...
Business
Melbourne Temple Goes Martin Audio
Temple Beth Israel in Melbourne, Australia recently upgraded its audio system in an effort to provide more flexibility for creative development and exploration of...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Hunting Party in the Park
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 15 years since Linkin Park broke out with its debut, Hybrid Theory, but 60 million albums later,...