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
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.
Live Gear
L-Acoustics L-ISA Studio 2.4 – A Real-World Review, Part 1
Veteran live sound pro Steve La Cerra dives into L-Acoustics' L-ISA Studio 2.4 software to create an immersive sound experience.
Live Gear
Miami Live Sound Provider True Audio Expands Inventory
Regional live sound provider True Audio recently updated its inventory with PK Sound systems.
Live Gear
Adamson CS-Series Nets Milan Certification
Adamson Systems Engineering’s CS-Series is now Milan Certified, making the speakers interoperable with all other Milan-certified devices on a network
Live Gear
Panther Prowls Outside Lands’ Main Stage
UltraSound’s new Meyer Sound Panther line array system covered the main stage of this year's Outside Lands festival in San Francisco.
Business
Inside PK Sound’s New HQ
PK Sound is now fully set-up in its new 50,000-square-foot headquarters and manufacturing facility in Alberta, Canada.
Live Gear
QSC Appoints David Angress Atop Pro Audio Division
QSC has appointed veteran industry executive David Angress to lead the company’s new pro audio division.
Live Gear
Tokyo Concert Hall Installs Analog Recording Desk
The Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre recently installed a Solid State Logic Duality Fuse console in its recording room.
Live Gear
Volume Streaming Service Centers Around Mixer
Nashville-based streaming service Volume has been capturing live performances during the pandemic using an Allen & Heath SQ-6 mixer.
Live Gear
Slamhammer Audio Glam Slams at Prince Mural Reveal
Regional audio provider Slamhammer Audio tackled audio for the recent street party unveiling a 100-foot-tall mural of Prince in Minneapolis.
Featured
Karol G Rocks Coachella with the Waves LV1
For Karol G's main-stage performance at Coachella, FOH engineer John Buitrago and monitor engineer Robin Barrera mixed on the Waves eMotion LV1.