Business
Sennheiser and Shure Lose Battle for Vacant UHF Channel
The FCC has refused a request from Sennheiser and Shure to preserve a vacant channel in the TV bands for wireless mic use.
Live Sound
Live Gear
Inside Solotech’s Massive New Nashville Base
Years in the making, Solotech has officially opened its new, 120,000-square-foot facility in Nashville, Tennessee.
Live Sound
75th Tony Awards’ ‘Best Sound’ Nominees Announced
Nominees for this year’s Tony Awards, including those in the two Best Sound categories, were announced today.
Live Sound
Istrouma Baptist Updates Its Audio
Baton Rouge’s Istrouma Baptist Church recently updated with audio system with help from production design company Pink Palace Media.
Live Sound
Miami’s Ultra Music Festival Returns
This year’s Ultra Music Festival in March found Unreal-Systems/AgorÀ USA providing sound on the main stage for 55,000 people nightly.
Live Sound
KFC Yum! Center Updates Audio Systems
Louisville’s main sports arena, the KFC Yum! Center, recently updated its house system.
Live Sound
Riding the Mix at RodeoHouston
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo holds all-star concerts 20 nights in a row for up to 73,000 people a night. For 28 years, Malcolm...
Live Sound
Las Vegas’ Madison Square Garden Sphere Construction Continues
When Las Vegas' $1.66 billion Madison Square Garden Sphere is completed in 2023, it will contain a 17,000 capacity arena inside the world's largest...
Live Sound
Nehru Science Centre Looks to the Future
Mumbai’s Nehru Science Centre used its COVID downtime to update its audio system with the help of audio house OdBle.
Live Sound
Burning Man’s Robot Heart Gets A Transplant
Burning Man's jaw-dropping Robot Heart sound-system bus is headed to New York's Central Park to party—and reinvent itself in the process.
Live Sound
Level 42 Returns to the Road
Merlin PA supplied an Electro-Voice and Dynacord sound system to support Level 42's first UK tour since the height of the pandemic.
Live Sound
Conquering Sound in a Polygonal Sanctuary
Zurich’s Church of St. Katharina features classic brutalist architecture that may look beautiful but it is also acoustically challenging with reflective surfaces and an...
Live Sound
Seattle’s Crocodile Gets Complex
Seattle venue The Crocodile has expanded into a full-fledged entertainment complex, all of which is connected with Sommer Cable.
Live Sound
Red Bull Arena’s Audio Kicks
New Jersey's 25,000-seat Red Bull Arena recently updated its audio system with a new L-Acoustics A Series loudspeaker system.
Live Sound
Brooklyn Made Makes Plans to Branch Out
Emerging NYC venue Brooklyn Made has acquired two more properties to build out adjacent venues that will hold up to 2,500 people.
Live Sound
Solotech Helps Evanescence Share The Bitter Truth
Evanescence just wrapped up its first US tour in two years, supporting its latest album, The Bitter Truth, and along for the ride were...
Live Sound
SF’s Revitalized Castro Theatre Set for Audio Upgrades
Until a major audio renovation takes place later this year, San Francisco's Castro Theatre is using temporary Meyer Sound systems provided by rental partner...
Live Sound
Eddie Vedder’s ‘Earthling’ Tour Blasts Off
RAT Sound tackled audio duties for the recent solo tour of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, supporting his new album, 'Earthling.'
Live Gear
Yale Bowl Upgrades Comms
Yale Athletics recently installed an intercom system from Studio Technologies at the school’s 107-year-old football stadium, the Yale Bowl.
Live Sound
Hip-Hop Halftime: Remote-Mixing Music for Super Bowl LVI
Remote-mixing music for Super Bowl LVI from the NFL’s new West Coast facilities was no simple trick.
Live Sound
SES Hits the Road with Joe Bonamassa
Blues master Joe Bonamassa just wrapped up a six-week return to the road with Special Event Services providing audio gear for each stop.
Live Sound
London’s Albany Upgrades Audio for In-The-Round and More
A community arts center in southeast London, The Albany recently replaced its long-standing audio system with an eye towards future projects.
Live Sound
The Mother Mother of All Tours
Canadian alt-rockers Mother Mother are in the midst of a 12-month tour, on the road internationally with a pair of Allen & Heath CT1500...
Classic-Tracks
Taylor Hawkins and Foo Fighters Through The Years
With the unexpected passing Friday of Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, we look back at his and the band's long and prolific careers.
Live Gear
DiGiCo, d&b Beat Latency for 5G Festival’s Remote Music Performance
More than 20 musicians were able to perform together remotely via DiGiCo and d&b Soundscape equipment during the 5G Festival.
Live Gear
British Music Embassy Rocks at SXSW
The British Music Embassy Cedar Street Courtyard at SXSW this year was outfitted with a phalanx of Allen & Heath dLive consoles.
Live Sound
Unheard Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry / Mouse On Mars Immersive Collaboration Debuts
Brooklyn's National Sawdust recently took an unheard Lee “Scratch” Perry/Mouse on Mars collaboration into the immersive realm.
Live Sound
Maroon 5 Rolls into SF’s Oracle Park
Maroon 5 was heard at San Francisco’s Oracle Park stadium recently through a massive EAW Anya system provided by Sound Image.
Live Sound
Powering David Byrne’s ‘American Utopia’
Pete Keppler, system designer and house engineer for David Byrne's 'American Utopia' on Broadway, discusses the show's audio system.
Live Sound
Going All-In for George Strait “Strait to Vegas” Shows
Spectrum Sound is providing a d&b audiotechnik KSL system for George Strait's in-the-round residency at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena.
Live Gear
Spectrum Sound Doubles Down on DiGiCo
Longtime Nashville live sound provider Spectrum Sound has added multiple Quantum7, Quantum338 and Quantum225 desks to its inventory.
Business
New Report Highlights Live Sound Recovery Concerns
The report breaks down how Covid-19 has affected pros, providers and pro-audio manufacturers in more than 40 countries.
Live Sound
Jean-Michel Jarre Debuts Immersive Live Project, ‘Oxymore’
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre recently performed his new immersive live project, Oxymore, at Radio France’s Hyper Weekend Festival.
Business
DiGiCo, d&b audiotechnik Partner on Soundscape Integration
d&b audiotechnik and DiGiCo have partnered to implement control of d&b’s Soundscape on DiGiCo consoles.
Live Sound
Bringing the Sound of Bob Marley to London’s West End
Sound designer Tony Gayle tackled audio for the West End's new Bob Marley musical, the appropriately named 'Get Up Stand Up.'
Live Sound
The Oak Ridge Boys Roll and Little River Band Flow with Avantis Desks
Nashville's Brantley Sound recently set up both the Little River Band and the Oak Ridge Boys with Allen & Heath Avantis desks for live...
Live Sound
Bon Iver Puts L-ISA Processor II to the Test with 7.1 Immersive Concert
A pair of Bon Iver concerts in Los Angeles marked the first official deployment anywhere of L-Acoustics’ 3D audio processing engine, the L-ISA Processor...
Blog
Mix Live Blog: A Sigh of Relief After Mixing on the High Seas
FOH engineer/Mix blogger Steve La Cerra just returned from mixing Blue öyster Cult on Rock Legends Cruise IX, and it was an eye-opening experience.
Live Sound
Riverside, CA’s Harvest Christian Fellowship Updates Audio
Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, CA recently updated its audio system with a new d&b audiotechnik loudspeaker system.
Live Sound
South Africa’s Rivers Church Updates HOW Audio
Rivers Church, one of the fastest-growing congregations in South Africa, recently worked with Stage Audio Works to update its audio system.
Live Sound
Dan + Shay Tour Takes ‘Good Things’ On Tour
PRG provided audio, video, and lighting systems for the latest tour by country stars Dan + Shay, backing their 'Good Things' album.
Live Sound
AtlasIED Dove into The Cove
New $3 million, 42,000-square-foot place waterpark, The Cove, has an equally new audio system based around AtlasIED speakers.