Live Sound
L-Acoustics Packs Fuente de Vida with Sound
Tampico, Mexico’s Fuente de Vida church recently installed a new audio system to fix issues with sound coverage and intelligibility.
Venues
Live Sound
Oakland’s Historic Paramount Theatre Updates Audio
Oakland’s Paramount Theatre, a vintage, 3,000-plus capacity movie palace, recently updated its audio systems.
Live Sound
Inside the Audio Sphere, Part 2
U2 FOH engineer Joe O'Herlihy recounts his first impressions of Sphere's incredible audio.
Live Sound
Wolf Performance Hall Upgrades Audio
Ontario’s Wolf Performance Hall recently upgraded to a full EM Acoustics sound solution.
Live Sound
IPS Updates Audio at The Crossing
Chattanooga’s The Crossing Church needed a new P.A. and turned to Franklin, TN-based Integrated Production Solutions to design a system.
Live Sound
Inside the Audio Sphere, Part 1
Advanced technologies make for seamless flexibility, from chest-thumping rock ‘n’ roll to 360-degree multimedia extravaganzas
Live Sound
Mixing U2’s Mighty Sound for the Sphere, Part 2
In Part 2 of our U2 Sphere coverage, Joe O'Herlihy, the band's legendary FOH engineer, shares how he prepped for the Sphere shows, recounts...
Live Sound
Mixing U2’s Mighty Sound for the Sphere
A team of legends—U2, FOH engineer Joe O’Herlihy and producer Steve Lillywhite—re-imagine ‘Achtung Baby’ for Las Vegas' multi-billion-dollar Sphere.
Live Sound
Jazz at Lincoln Center Updates with Nadia
The Appel Room inside New York City’s Jazz at Lincoln Center recently celebrated being the first venue to install a Meyer Sound Nadia platform.
Live Sound
Great American Music Hall Gets New House System
San Francisco’s The Great American Music Hall recently upgraded its house system with new desks and a P.A. to match.
Live Sound
DAS Drives Battle Champs Hip-Hop Festival in Times Square
The three-day Battle Champs festival celebrated 50 years of hip-hop with block-rocking beats provided by DAS.
Live Sound
Sphere Shakes Things Up with Haptic Seating
Sphere in Las Vegas has 10,000 haptic seats with Powersoft’s technology integrated into them.
Live Sound
The Fillmore Updates Audio with UltraSound-Installed Panther System
San Francisco’s 1,200-capacity The Fillmore upgraded its audio with an UltraSound-installed Meyer Sound Panther system.
Live Sound
The Sound of U2’s Vegas Show: A Spherical Miracle?
Mix was inside Las Vegas’ new $2.6B venue, Sphere, for opening weekend of U2’s groundbreaking residency.
Live Sound
Bregenz Festival Stage Floats Like a Butterfly
The Bregenz Festival’s remarkable 300-ton floating stage for Madame Butterfly includes KV2, Kling & Freitag, Adamson and JBL loudspeakers hidden in the set.
Blogs
Mix Live Blog: How Loud Is Too Loud?
"Wait a minute—130 dBC at front-of-house? Are they out of their minds?"
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 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
Eden Prairie Upgrades Amphitheatre
Audio Logic Systems recently upgraded the audio system of the 400-seat Staring Lake Amphitheatre in Eden Prairie, MN.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Live Sound
Boutique EDM Festival Turns to Sound Access, dBS Solutions
For Access The Festival, a three-day EDM dance party in the UK, dBS Solutions collaborated with Sound Access to provide audio.
Live Sound
Sonic Sphere Rolls Into NYC’s The Shed
Sonic Sphere, running in NYC through July 30, is an ambitious temporary art/music venue inside a giant sphere suspended in midair.
Live Sound
Soundworks Supports Boyz II Men Amphitheater Show
Soundworks of Virginia recently provided a Martin Audio WPL system for a Boyz II Men show at the Atlantic Union Bank Pavilion.
Live Sound
St. Louis’ Armory Re-Opens Following Massive Renovation
St. Louis’ The Armory has had an interesting life…and it’s getting a new lease on one, thanks to a massive renovation.
Live Sound
Iceland’s Harpa Nabs Clear-Com
The four venues inside Iceland's Harpa tie together via a Clear-Com system.
Live Sound
Sound and Music Juice Up Las Vegas’ Mad Apple
'Mad Apple' is a Cirque du Soleil show unlike any other—and has a sound design to match.
Business
Fulcrum Acoustic Acquires Venueflex, Creates Immersive Division
Loudspeaker manufacturer Fulcrum Acoustic enters the immersive live sound race, acquiring Venueflex and forming Fulcrum Immersive.
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 Sound
Mount Calvary Baptist Church Updates Audio System
Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Fairfield, CA recently radically updated its long-serving house audio system.
Live Sound
Remodeling House of Blues’ Sound
Updating the sound system on any venue is a daunting task, especially with an active show calendar. Now multiply that times 10 and that's...
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.