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 Sound
Live Sound
The Killers Rampage Through U.K. with Capital Sound
Veteran alt-rockers The Killers spent May and June touring the U.K. and Ireland with the help of Capital Sound and a d&b GSL system.
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.
Live Sound
Back on the Road with Billie Eilish, Part 2
In Part 2, the Billie Eilish tour's audio team preps for its 2022 run, rethinking everything from the ground up.
Live Sound
Back on the Road with Billie Eilish, Part 1
After a two-year pandemic pause—not to mention an Oscar win and a hit album—Billie Eilish and her sound team are back on the road,...
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.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Back to Normal? Almost…
The summer festival season is back in a big way, as Steve La Cerra reports, though he adds that if you are working...
Live Gear
Dead & Company Debut PANTHER on Tour
Stadium/Shed System from UltraSound Anchored by 72 PANTHER Loudspeakers
Live Sound
An ‘Air’ of Sophistication: Sound Design 1,401 Feet Above New York City
Air, an immersive art experience at the top of One Vanderbilt in New York City, uses mirrors and sound design to evoke endless expanses.
Live Gear
DAS Audio’s Lara Line Array Makes Live Debut
DAS Audio’s Lara self-powered cardioid line array made its world debut at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.
Business
Designing an All-New Loudspeaker
How Meyer Sound added power and cut the weight with its new flagship PANTHER line array loudspeaker.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Country Takes a Stand
For the first time, the CMA Festival banned display of the Confederate flag on festival grounds. My reaction when I heard the news? What...
Live Sound
Umphrey’s McGee: Rocking in Reykjavik
Veteran jamband Umphrey's McGee headed to Iceland earlier this year for “Röckjavik,” a special three-night run at the 1,800-seat Eldborg Concert Hall in Reykjavik.
Live Sound
75th Tony Awards’ ‘Best Sound’ Winners Announced
The Tony Awards, honoring the best work on Broadway during the current theatrical season, came just nine months after the previous edition.
Live Sound
AVIXA Market Insights Outline AV Industry’s Sound Footing
AVIXA's Market Insight Lunch at InfoComm revealed that despite challenges, the industry's long-term outlook remains unaffected.
Live Sound
Making ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ Sound Natural
Billy Crystal’s new Broadway musical, 'Mr. Saturday Night,' features a Kai Harada-designed audio system based around Meyer Sound speakers.
Business
NAMM Show Returns, Wary but Ready to Roll
The NAMM Show is a convention like no other, but the 2022 edition, which opens today, will be like no other NAMM Show.
Live Sound
Mix Live Blog: Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the…
FOH engineer/Tour Manager Steve La Cerra checks in with his latest tale of getting from Point A to Point B without losing his band,...
Live Sound
Simple Minds Returns to the Road with Brit Row
Simple Minds just wrapped up the first leg of its long-awaited 40 Years of Hits Tour with audio support from Britannia Row.
Live Sound
Jazmine Sullivan Hits the Road with Clair
Tonderick “TW” Watkins is manning Jazmine Sullivan’s FOH mix on one of her tour’s two DiGiCo SD12 96 consoles supplied by Clair Global.
Business
Shure Joins ITU, UK Spectrum Policy Forum Steering Board
Shure recently joined the International Telecommunication Union and the UK Spectrum Policy Forum Steering Board.
Live Sound
Jack White Gets Bats with Harman
Baseball bat manufacturer Warstic Sports, co-owned by rocker Jack White, recently opened a new HQ/retail space outfitted with JBL Pro and Crown audio gear.
Live Sound
Scovill Adds Alcons for Chesney Tour
Veteran FOH engineer Robert Scovill has brought along Alcons Audio speakers for use as mix position nearfield monitors on the current Kenny Chesney tour.
Live Sound
Melissa Etheridge On The Move with Midas
FOH engineer Jim Roese brought along Midas Heritage HD96 desks supplied by Sound Image on the current Melissa Etheridge tour.
Live Sound
Parsons Audio Outfits Lynn Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium
The 2,000-seat Lynn Veteran's Memorial Auditorium recently had a d&b audiotechnik V-Series loudspeaker system installed.
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 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...