Business
Bareilles’ Little Black Dress Tour Goes Big
NEW YORK, NY—Bringing a solid dose of traditional pop smarts to the singer/songwriter genre, Sara Bareilles has made a name for herself over the...
Tour Sound
Business
Ward Powers Usher’s Latest Tour
NEW YORK, NY—As a teaser for his upcoming album, UR, Usher has embarked on a 27-city tour, called The UR Experience Tour, with the...
Business
Mt. Vernon Baptist Grabs Galaxy
Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Curry, Alabama recently upgraded its sound system in order to provide a better worship experience for parishioners. Key to...
Business
Live Sound Legend M.L. Procise Passes
By Clive Young. Live sound pro M.L. Procise III died in his sleep on March 5 at the age of 62. A mainstay of...
Business
Mixing With Mo-FI at Tokyo Dome
Faced with mixing Earth Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey inside the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome, FOH engineer Terry “TJ” Jackson recently used Blue Microphone Mo-Fi...
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Soaring Eagle Monitors With Martin Audio
Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort in Michigan has doubled down on music in recent years, putting its Entertainment Hall, which seats 3,285, to good...
Business
Palm Beach Theater Adds K-array
Palm Beach Dramaworks moved into a new theater in recent years, and as part of renovations for the 218-seat facility, the Company had anew...
Business
AmpliVox Backs Black History Month Event
AmpliVox Sound Systems aided its local community a few days ago when the Northbrook Community Relations Commission sponsored a Black History Month event at...
Business
Galactic’s Got the T-funk
New Orleans funk band Galactic has embraced a variety of microphones from Telefunken Elektroakustik for its stage and studio work, including the M80, M81,...
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Love and Sex and Pro Audio
Lincoln Center Theater’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater opens its latest play tonight—a production of the new drama, The Mystery of Love & Sex. Daniel...
Business
Soundcraft Monitors Massive Attack Tour
Massive Attack recently finished a world tour that found it playing a diverse itinerary, ranging from Italy to Iceland. Throughout the jaunt, monitor engineer...
Business
DPA Attends Post-Oscars Blowout
After the Academy Awards earlier this week, many attendees headed to the Governors Ball, held at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at the Hollywood &...
Business
Setting Sound for Red Bull Crashed Ice
Red Bull has sponsored high-speed, high-danger sports events around the globe for years, and one of the most popular, Red Bull Crashed Ice, a...
Business
RCF Readies SF Event
RCF USA is heading to San Francisco in March to host a product demonstration of RCF and dB Technologies loudspeakers.
Business
Bringing It On For Bocelli
Hard Rock Live was serving up Opera last week when Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli played three sold-out concerts over the Valentines Day weekend at...
Business
Auditoriums Update With Meyer Lyon
Meyer Sound Lyon systems were recently installed in Edmonton’s Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium (NAJA) and Calgary’s Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium (SAJA).
Business
Grammy Stars Grab Sennheiser Wireless
The 57th Annual Grammy Awards, held at Los Angeles’ Staples Center last week, found artists including Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Beyoncé, Madonna, Tony Bennett,...
Business
Cape Audio College Adds Harman
Cape Audio College has long taught students how to approach audio engineering, as it sports 52 multitrack recording studios, mixdown and editing suites and...
Business
Shure Wireless Gets Workout at Grammys
The annual Grammy Awards, held yearly the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, are always a hotbed of RF activity, between the performers’ mics...
Business
Around The World in 80 Days Every Day
For the touring musical production of La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Días (Around The World In 80 Days), FOH and Monitor engineer Hugo Pinzon...
Business
EAW Lands At Century Baptist Church
An EAW QX series loudspeaker system was recently installed at Bismarck, ND’s Century Baptist Church, in order to handle both traditional and contemporary services...
Business
Of Mice & Men Roar with Allen & Heath
Indie rockers Of Mice & Men have been garnering an increasingly larger profile in the music world—enough so that the band recently supported Linkin...
Business
d&b Up All Night In Croatia
A favorite night spot in Cakovec since opening in 1998, The Arcus Cafè and Night Bar recently got an update that included a sizable...
Business
Bringing The Pope’s Words To The Masses
When Pope Francis visited the Philippines in mid-January, hundreds of thousands of followers came out to see the Pontiff and hear his words. Helping...
Business
Meyer Joins Crestron Integration Program
Meyer Sound has joined the Crestron Integrated Partner Program—a move that will allow various Crestron products to control Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems in various...
Business
Stevie Wonder Tour Takes Antelope Along
Stevie Wonder has been touring the U.S. performing his complex 1976 double-album, Songs in the Key of Life album, backed by a horn section,...
Business
9:30 Club Makes Time For DiGiCo
A DiGiCo SD8 digital mixing console with an SD Rack, outfitted with a Waves SoundGrid Server and SG Essential plug-in bundle, has taken over...
Business
K-array Hits The Slopes
Held annually on the slopes of the Kitzbuehel Ski Area in Austria, the Hahnenkamm Downhill and Slalom Races make for one of the most...
Business
PSAV Buys AAVC
PSAV has acquired American Audio Visual Center (AAVC), an in-house, high-end production company based in Scottsdale, AZ that provides technology support for more than...
Business
Keeping It Simple at the Super Bowl
As Super Bowl XLIX illustrated all too well, sometimes it pays to do things the simple way (like, say, hand off the ball to...
Business
Dante Hits the Road
Audinate is taking its Dante AV Networking World events on the road to six North American cities beginning in February.
Business
VUE Audiotechnik, H.A.S. Team Up
H.A.S. Productions has become the centerpoint of VUE Audiotechnik’s Southwestern rental network, having added more than 100 VUE loudspeaker boxes added to its rental...
Business
Event Pro Nabs Second Yamaha CL5
Event Pro, Inc. (Hastings, MN) recently purchased its second Yamaha CL5 digital audio console, putting it to work at a number of festivals and...
Business
Bose Sets LA RoomMatch Demo
Bose Professional will host demo sessions for its RoomMatch array loudspeaker systems at the Aratani Theatre in Los Angeles, CA, on Wednesday, February 4,...
Live Sound
Firehouse Productions Celebrates with L-Acoustics
To celebrate the holiday season, the annual iHeartRadio Jingle Ball brings top rock, pop, and R&B artists across the U.S. each December. On hand...
Live Sound
Festival Products: Meyer, d&b, SSL
Choosing the right gear is just one aspect of building the perfect festival, but with the right speaker system, console, amplifier, etcetera, sound companies...
Business
Adamson Readies Webinars
Adamson applications engineers Brian Fraser and Jeremiah Karni will host a series of webinars providing a first-look at Blueprint AV, Adamson's new multi-use predictive...
Business
d&b Appear at Pier of Fear
New York City can be a scary place and it’s also a boiling pot of EDM, so it’s no surprise that the two concepts...
Business
Delicate Takes Martin Audio MLA To KROQ
KROQ’s Annual Almost Acoustic Christmas show has become a mainstay of the holiday season for music lovers in L.A.; this year’s event, held at...
Business
Monitor Engineer Ian Newton Passes
by Clive Young. Journeyman monitor engineer Ian Newton died of a heart attack at the age of 52 on December 19, 2014. A winner...
Business
ADMIRING THE EYE CANDY: TIPS ON WORKING WITH LED VIDEO DISPLAYS FOR MUSIC FESTIVALS
Whether it’s Coachella, Lollapalooza or SXSW, you’d be hard-pressed to find a major music festival that doesn’t feature larger-than-life video displays accompanying performers on...
Business
Showco Founder Jack Calmes Passes at 71
By Clive Young. Dallas, TX (January 7, 2015)—Jack Calmes, who co-founded pioneering tour sound company Showco, died of cancer on January 5 at the...