Business
St. Madeline Sophie Upgrades to Community
The St. Madeline Sophie Church in Schenectady, NY recently upgraded its sound system to a Community Professional Loudspeaker system to accommodate the acoustics of...
International
Business
SSL Live Joins Killers for Fests
Following their 2013 Battle Born world tour, the Las Vegas-based band The Killers continue their tour circuit, making appearances at a number of music...
Business
Mixing The Nathan’s Hot Dog Contest
Mixing the biggest competitive eating contest in the world doesn't mean shoving audio down the crowd's throat. Instead, the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July...
Business
Soundcraft Supports MO Festivals
Bob Walter, owner of the small production company Strictly Audio STL, employed a Harman Soundcraft Si Expression 2 console to help mix some his...
Business
Swing House Builds Bigger Digs
Swing House Studios, now in its 20th year in business, has announced that it will be relocating to a 21,000-sq.ft. facility in L.A.’s Atwater neighborhood.
Business
Community Launches New Branding
Community Professional Loudspeakers has unveiled its new corporate brand identity, along with the new I Series loudspeakers.
Business
Martin Audio Takes on Glastonbury
Martin Audio’s Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) made its Glastonbury debut this year, with the system deployed on the Pyramid Stage at the festival.
Live Sound
Global Citizen Festival to Feature Jay Z, No Doubt
This year’s Global Citizen Festival, held on the Great Lawn in New York City’s Central Park, will feature performances by Jay Z, No Doubt,...
Live Sound
The Big Picture: 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
Eighteen Sound Launches Loudspeaker Lyceum
Eighteen Sound has launched Loudspeaker Lyceum, an ongoing video and text resource that encourages users to further their education about essential topics surrounding loudspeaker...
Business
Lake, Belew Bring Bose
As the tour manager for guitarists Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and Adrian Belew (Frank Zappa, King Crimson), André Cholmondeley needed a system...
Business
SynAudCon Seminars Announced
Synergetic Audio Concepts (SynAudCon) has announced its in-person seminar schedule for the fall of 2014.
Business
Adamson Powers Toby Keith
For his recent Shut Up & Hold On tour, Toby Keith brought along an Adamson Energia system for his Canadian dates, provided by Halifax,...
Business
Onstage Tackles Strait’s Final Show
For the final show of country music icon George Strait’s career, nearly 105,000 fans filled the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, setting the national...
Business
Cross Pointe Goes Meyer Mica
The Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, GA recently replaced its audio system with new gear that included a Meyer Sound Mica line array system...
Business
Rental Staging RoadShow NYC Ready To Roll
The Rental Staging Roadshow returns to New York City on July 23, and in addition to the great presentation and panel discussions on the...
Business
CCF Sets Sound for 10,000
Christ's Commission Fellowship has become one of the world's mega-churches over the last three decades, and as befits an organization with thousands of worshipers...
Business
First Baptist Brings On Bose
The First Baptist Church in Lawton, Ok recently upgraded its sound and broadcast video systems with the help of AV integrator and systems designer...
Business
WSDG Tackles World Cup Stadiums
In preparation for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the acoustic architecture firm Walters-Storyk Design Group contributed audio and video systems integration services...
Business
Sound Image Adds VUE Audiotechnik
Sound Image, audio provider for acts such as Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffet, Taylor Swift, Brian Setzer and John Legend, has purchased a VUE Audiotechnik...
Business
Master Mix Live Moves
Master Mix Live has moved into a new, 2,000 square-foot soundstage/studio. A flexible, multi-use facility that will alternate use as a recording studio, rehearsal...
Business
Soundcraft Launches How-To Videos
Harman’s Soundcraft has added a “How To” instructional video series to its website to guide users through the Si Series of digital consoles.
Business
Mackie Bouys Britannia Stadium
Home to the Premiership Football Club, the Britannia Stadium recently upgraded to a Mackie DL806 iPad Control Wireless Mixer to help stadium announcer Steve...
Business
Renkus-Heinz Reinforces Lecture Hall
The University of Oslo’s main Campus Medica building, home to the offices of many of the school’s scientists and doctors, recently installed a Renkus-Heinz...
Business
MOOGFEST 2014
I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Moogfest and found it was certainly a different kind of festival.
Business
NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL CELEBRATES 60 YEARS
It was in the winter of 1953 that Elaine Lorillard first walked into the Storyville jazz club, downstairs beneath the Copley Square Hotel in...
Business
SETTING THE STAGE: BEING READY IN THE “ANYTHING-CAN-HAPPEN” WORLD OF FESTIVAL STAGING
Wristbands on, hands in the air, lost in the music; the festival audience doesn’t care how that blissful moment came to be.
Business
AUDIO MUST-HAVES: ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR KEEPING THE FESTIVAL ON TRACK
With multiple musical acts gracing each stage, a constantly changing lineup of microphones, DIs and backline are juggled.
Business
ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL
When it comes to supplying sound equipment for an Electric Dance Music (EDM) festival, careful consideration needs to go into the reinforcement of the...
Business
Vue Debuts al-4-sb Sub
Vue Audiotechnik debuted its latest addition to its al-Class line array family during InfoComm 2014: the al-4-sb Flyable Isobaric Subwoofer.
Business
Ashly Added to Funeral Home
Long-standing funeral home, the Craig K. Kepf Funeral Home, recently expanded its facility, hiring local A/V firm Crookston Audio to design and install the...
Business
PWS Manages Night of Hope RF
Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound Company, provided wireless services for the outdoor broadcast of Joel and Victoria Osteen’s Night of Hope from...
Business
JoeCo To Capture Monty Python Shows
When the curtain rises tonight on first of British comedy troupe Monty Python’s farewell shows at London’s O2 Arena, the moment will be captured...
Business
Sennheiser Moves Miley to Digital
For her current tour promoting the album, Bangerz, Miley Cyrus is performing with Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 microphone system.
Business
Masque Sound Hollers on Broadway
"Holler If Ya Hear Me" opened last week on Broadway, featuring the rhymes of famed rapper Tupac Shakur. The production tapped the talents of...
Business
Peace and No Quiet
Morrissey will release his tenth studio album in July, World Peace is None of Your Business, which was recorded in France in February with...
Business
“Hedwig Heads To Broadway”
Revived from its off-Broadway and cult classic film counterparts, Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch follows an East German transgender rockstar’s struggle to fame...
Business
Avengers Assembled
The Avengers is now the third highest-grossing film of all-time; building on the 2012 movie’s tale of superheroes saving New York City, it’s only...
Business
Sound Image Fields EAW For Petty Tour
Following its purchase of an Eastern Acoustic Works Anya system, Sound Image will use the new PA on Tom Petty’s upcoming Hypnotic Eye arena...
Business
Cerwin-Vega Supports NMS
Cerwin-Vega's P-Series Professional PA system was recently used as the audio system for all the presentations and performances at the New Music Seminar in...
Business
FCC R&O Puts Squeeze On Pro Audio RF
Wireless audio equipment operators and coordinators could face an increasingly tougher time finding usable frequency spectrum over the next three years as a result...
Business
At InfoComm: Sennheiser Sets Streaming Subsidiary
Sennheiser has founded a new subsidiary aimed at creating streaming solutions: Sennheiser Streaming Technology (SST). Based in Hamburg, the new subsidiary will initially focus...