Live Sound
The Bellwether Opens, Ready to Rock L.A.
The latest cool club in L.A. is The Bellwether, a 1,600-capacity, 45,000-plus-square-foot, multi-room complex with an audio system that's ready to rock.
Live Sound
Business
Pro AV Industry Revenues to Jump Nearly $100 Billion by 2028
The Pro AV industry is forecast to reach $402 billion in revenues yearly by 2028, according to AVIXA's latest IOTA report.
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 Sound
Knockdown Center Upgrades P.A. for Impact
Arts center and venue chose L-Acoustics system to bring quality sound to shows across all music genres and of varying crowd size.
Live Sound
LD Systems Takes Its New Desk to the Rodeo
Newest SSL Live console ties in to live sound-meets-live broadcast infrastructure.
Live Sound
Santa Fe Opera Reimagines the Sound of Hades
The open-air venue delivered an immersive live sound experience to the audience in its innovative reimagining of Monteverdi’s Orfeo.
Live Sound
Travon Snipes Gives Post Malone the Quantum Treatment
Whether on a Quantum5 or Quantum7, the popular artist’s monitor engineer stays in perfect sync with FOH engineer Kevin Brown, also on a Quantum7
Live Sound
Girl Named Tom Chalk Up Touring First
Pop trio of siblings employs new digital wireless system for vocals and guitars throughout nationwide tour.
Live Sound
Yamaha Releases New Rivage PM Firmware
New features include the Genius.lab for enhanced workflows, Interphase plug-in for more flexible sound creation, new dynamics and other enhancements.
Live Sound
Product of the Week: Stage Right by Monoprice SR Studio 2-Channel 1073-Style Microphone Preamp
Vintage-style mic, line and instrument preamp designed to provide the Neve 1073 sound at an affordable price.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Music for Maui
The music industry showed up early to offer support for the victims of the Lahaina wildfires, with a number of fundraising concerts over the...
Live Sound
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise the Roof on the Road, Part 2
Discover how the audio team on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' "Raise The Roof" tour brought the chemistry on stage to the crowds nightly.
Live Sound
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise the Roof on the Road, Part 1
How the audio team on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' "Raise The Roof" tour brought the chemistry on stage to the crowds nightly.
Live Sound
Eden Prairie Upgrades Amphitheatre
Audio Logic Systems recently upgraded the audio system of the 400-seat Staring Lake Amphitheatre in Eden Prairie, MN.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Christmas In July
Taylor Swift gave out bonuses of $100,000 to more than 50 truck drivers on her tour, but it's not only generous; it's good business.
Live Sound
The Mission Return to the Road
TDA Germany-provided consoles became the crew’s tower of strength for 33-date tour.
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 Sound
Camelot Returns—with a New Speaker Setup
The Lincoln Center Theater recently presented a new take on Camelot in a production that used d&b audiotechnik V, Q and E series loudspeakers.
Live Sound
Brit Row Takes L-Acoustics’ New L2 System to Soho House Festival
L-Acoustics’ new flagship L2 System was in the house at London’s Soho House Festival.
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.
Live Sound
Mixing Metal for the Masses: Gojira and Mastodon on the Road
Gojira and Mastodon have been tearing it up on the road this year, co-headlining the Mega-Monsters tour with complimentary crews bringing the metal to...
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 Sound
The Longhorn Lives! Legendary Dallas Venue Revived, Revitalized
Dallas' Longhorn Ballroom has always been cool, but in recent times, it was also closed; now the legendary venue is back.
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.
Live Sound
Tony Bennett Sings and Swings Live in 2001
"When I first met Tony, he’d stand next to me on the stage, sing without the microphone, and say, ‘Just make it sound like...
International
All That Jazz: Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga Live
When Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga took the stage of Radio City Music Hall, FOH pro Tom Young made it sound perfect.
Live Sound
Touring’s New Efficiencies – Part 2: Consoles
Desire to cut costs and reduce carbon footprint is driving the move toward compact, lightweight, power-efficient concert system packages
Blogs
Mix Live Blog: This Is Not OK
The recent trend of throwing increasingly weird -- and often dangerous -- stuff on stage during concerts has gotten out of hand.
Live Sound
Maroon 5 Goes Immersive Live in Vegas
The mix team behind Maroon 5's live sound has adapted its work to the immersive format for the band's residency in Las Vegas.
Business
Touring’s New Efficiencies – Part 1: Loudspeakers
The need to cut costs and reduce carbon footprint is driving the industry toward more compact, lightweight, power-efficient concert system packages.
Live Sound
2023 Roskilde Festival Rocks On
Northern Europe’s annual Roskilde Festival has brought the rock—and EDM and pop and country and…you get the idea—for more than half a century
Business
Adam Hall Group: The Hows and Whys of Entering the North American Market
After nearly three decades of growth throughout Europe, the Adam Hall Group, manufacturer and provider of a wide range of live sound systems and...
Live Sound
Ed Sheeran’s Mathematics Tour Finds A Sound Solution, Part 2
The massive Ed Sheeran world tour is breaking attendance records at every venue it plays—but it’s up to the audio team to make a...
Live Sound
Ed Sheeran’s Mathematics Tour Finds A Sound Solution, Part 1
The massive Ed Sheeran world tour is breaking attendance records at every venue it plays—but it’s up to the audio team to make a...
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Astroworld 2021 Revisited
Lawsuits still abound around the 10 deaths and 300 injuries at Houston's 2021 Astroworld Festival, but at least some positive safety changes are coming...
Business
EAW Co-Founder Kenton Forsythe Passes
Kenton Forsythe, revered loudspeaker engineer and co-founder of EAW, died Sunday, July 9, at the age of 78.
Live Sound
New Sound at Old Church of St. John the Baptist
Now used as an arts venue, the 400-plus year-old Old Church of St. John the Baptist recently added a Renkus-Heinz loudspeaker system.
Live Sound
The Sound of CMA Fest’s Main Stage
Sound Image Nashville covered more than 90,000 music fans at Nissan Stadium during CMA Fest.
Business
d&b group Acquired by Providence
U.S.-based private equity firm Providence has acquired d&b group in a buyout from another private equity firm, Ardian.
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.
Live Sound
Tileyard London Launches Dolby Atmos Playback Space
Tileyard London allows guests to experience the latest immersive albums and scores in a social listening environment.