Business
Rational Acoustics, Eclipse Audio Team To Develop
A new agreement between Rational Acoustics and Eclipse Audio finds both companies collaborating on Smaart product line.
Live Gear
Business
Sonic Destruction: L-Acoustics Demolishes Counterfeit P.A. Systems
L-Acoustics held a “destruction event” to dispose of counterfeit audio gear headed to recycling.
Business
Clair Global Spins Out Cohesion as Stand-Alone Installation Brand
Clair Global's proprietary Cohesion label has now been made its own stand-alone brand in the installation and integration space
Live Gear
Guns N’ Roses Roll with Austrian Audio
When FOH engineer Dave Natale joined Guns n' Roses' world tour, he brought along some favorite mics for the ride.
Business
Grateful Dead Live Gear, Wall of Sound Replica Head to Auction
Analogr will auction off Jerry Garcia’s last touring guitar rig, multiple Hard Truckers loudspeakers, and a 1:4 scale working replica of the legendary Wall...
Business
ACT Entertainment Takes On PK Sound for North America
Longtime entertainment tech supplier ACT Entertainment will distribute PK Sound’s robotic line arrays in North America.
Business
Harman Jumps into Immersive with Flux Acquisition
Harman Professional will acquire French immersive audio company Flux Software Engineering.
Live Gear
Building 140 Wireless Mic ‘Flight Pack Kits’
CTUS has assembled and deployed 140 custom wireless microphone kits for use staging corporate events for its high-profile clients.
Business
Billy Joel Exhibition to Honor Phil Ramone’s A&R Recording
A new Billy Joel museum exhibition will explore the entertainer’s career, including his studio work inside New York CIty's legendary A&R Recording studio.
Business
d&b Teams with EntertainmentLAB on Immersive Audience Experience Challenge
d&b group is collaborating on ways to increase audience interactions in mass-event experiences.
Live Gear
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival Marks 15th Anniversary
For 15 years, Outside Lands has been one of the Bay Area’s premiere music events, sporting Meyer Sound systems provided by Ultrasound and McCune...
Live Gear
Best-Tronics Packs Rockers’ Racks with RF Venue
Chicago-based Best-Tronics Manufacturing has been building racks for acts like Queensrÿche, Veil of Maya, Mt. Joy, Scarlett O’Hara and more.
Live Gear
Oregon Festival to Power Stages with Hydrogen
Taking place this week, Pickathon will use experimental Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Generator to power stages.
Business
PRG Goes Big on L-Acoustics’ L Series
As a Pilot Phase Partner, PRG has made “a significant eight-figure investment” in L-Acoustics’ L Series Speakers.
Live Gear
To Hear The Sphere: First Peek at Landmark Vegas Venue’s Immersive Sound
With the opening of the 18,000-seat Sphere in Las Vegas only weeks away, we take a look at its unique immersive sound system.
Live Gear
Genoa’s First Festival Brings the Audio Firepower
Show Technologies fielded a sizable Outline rig for the annual Techno blowout in Genoa.
Blog
Rat-Packed with History, Rare UA Console Hits the Market
Built for Ceasars Palace in 1966, the Universal Audio tube mixing console has a lineage stretching from Frank Sinatra to Vincent Gallo.
Business
Inside InfoComm’s Audio Demo Rooms, Part 1
InfoComm 2023 had a record 22 audio demo rooms, jammed full of new live sound and installation solutions.
Business
L-Acoustics to Distribute Mixhalo with L-ISA 3.0
Mixhalo’s technology will come pre-loaded as part of L-Acoustics’ spatial audio ecosystem, L-ISA 3.0.
Business
View from the Top: Cesar Milano, Founder/CEO, Clear Tune Monitors
Cesar Milano created his company in 2010 with a plan to bring ear monitors not only to a different part of the marketplace, but...
Business
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 Gear
Bringing The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound Back to Life
Some say the Grateful Dead's legendary, short-lived "Wall of Sound" was the greatest PA system ever; now a Connecticut man has built a working,...
Live Gear
Las Vegas Takes Immersive Live, Part 2 — Aerosmith and Adele
Find out how Adele and Aerosmith are pushing the audio envelope, using spatial music mixing in their Las Vegas residencies.
Live Gear
Republika Tribute Rocks Live in Immersive
The music of Polish rock legends Republika was recently performed in immersive using an Adamson FletcherMachine setup.
Business
Dr. Michael Santucci: A Lifetime of Researching Hearing Health—for Musicians and Engineers
Audiologist Dr. Michael Santucci, president of both Sensaphonics and ASI Audio, discusses the cutting edge for hearing health for audio pros.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Hang On to Your Antenna—Here Comes WMAS
Earlier this week, Sennheiser revealed its been developing a wireless technology that could be a game-changer for large-scale, multi-channel RF applications.
Live Gear
Måneskin’s Mic Gets Spiky Anti-Cupping Accessory
Enrico La Falce, FOH engineer for Italian glam rockers Måneskin, found a simple way to ensure lead singer Damiano David doesn’t cup his mic....
Live Gear
Rihanna Rocks Super Bowl Sound
While Super Bowl halftime shows in recent decades have been heard via temporary groundstacks, this year's edition did something different.
Business
POOLgroup Takes The Plunge with Panther
Germany’s POOLgroup has purchased nearly 200 of Meyer Sound’s flagship Panther loudspeakers.
Business
Sound Productions Marks 50th Anniversary, Thanks to Elvis
Pro-Audio and AV retailer Sound Productions is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year—and it owes it all to Elvis Presley.
Business
Community Europe S.A. Acquires Apex
European pro-audio conglomerate Community Europe S.A. has acquired another Belgian company—the installation amplifier brand, Apex.
Live Gear
Social Distortion Goes Digital
Analog purists Social Distortion brought digital into the mix on its current tour with the arrival of a DiGiCo desk in monitorworld.
Live Gear
SAW Sinks Teeth into Shark Dissection Mobile Stage
SA Van Conversions teamed with Stage Audio Works to design a mobile stage truck used for demonstrations that include dissecting sharks.
Live Gear
New Bar is On Track to Entertain
At The Bar in the newly renovated Penn Station, system integrator Osbee Industries has installed 10 Genelec 4430A Smart IP speakers.
Business
d&b Group Launches Immersive Business Unit
d&b audiotechnik has launched a new, far-reaching Immersive Business division, which will be led by industry veteran Al McKinna.
Live Gear
Seven Feathers Casino Pulls Triple-7 with EAW System
World Stage Lighting recently fielded an EAW Anna/Otto system for a Smash Mouth concert at Seven Feathers Casino Resort.
Live Gear
Bill Burr Packs Fenway with Scorpio Sound
Bill Burr played to a packed house at Fenway Park with the help of Scorpio Sound Systems, which fielded a d&b audiotechnik KSL rig.
Facilities
Master Mix Live Upgrades for Immersive Productions
Studio and live sound engineer Rick Camp has upgraded his Master Mix Live facility in Las Vegas with an SSL System T S300-48 console.
Live Gear
One Way or Another, Blondie Tours Through 2022
Blondie and their longtime live sound crew had a tumultuous post-pandemic world tour, but got through it, one way or another.
Live Gear
Adam Hall NA, Breaking Sound Team for NYC Events
Adam Hall North America and Breaking Sound have teamed up for a series of events in New York City.
Live Gear
L-Acoustics L-ISA Studio 2.4 Software – A Real-World Review, Part 2
In Part 2 of our review, we discover what happens when binaural mixes created with L-ISA Studio are transferred to an immersive playback system...
Live Gear
Mixing Dance Gavin Dance Live
FOH engineer Travis Wade has been on the road this year with post-hardcore act Dance Gavin Dance and an A&H dLive S5000 desk.