Live Sound
Bringing the Sound of Bob Marley to London’s West End
Sound designer Tony Gayle tackled audio for the West End's new Bob Marley musical, the appropriately named 'Get Up Stand Up.'
Venues
Blog
Mix Live Blog: A Sigh of Relief After Mixing on the High Seas
FOH engineer/Mix blogger Steve La Cerra just returned from mixing Blue öyster Cult on Rock Legends Cruise IX, and it was an eye-opening experience.
Live Sound
Yorkville Sound Hangs at Filthy McNasty’s Saloon
To be more specific, Yorkville Sound hangs are used at Filthy McNasty’s Saloon.
Live Sound
KFC Yum Center Arena Slam-Dunks Sound Upgrade
Louisville’s KFC Yum! Center recently updated its audio system, updating the house system and a newly expanded video production facility.
Live Sound
St. Louis Muny Enters The Matrix
A pair of AHM-64 Audio Matrix Processors have replaced the St. Louis Muny amphitheatre’s older distribution system.
Live Sound
Minnesota Orchestra Dives into DiGiCo
Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the home of the Minnesota Orchestra, recently got a trio of DiGiCo mixing systems for use throughout the facility.
Live Sound
11th Century Chapel Gets 21st Century Network
Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucester, England dates back to the year 1089, but now it has an Audinate Dante network from 2021.
Live Sound
Amphitheatre Built In 161 AD Gets Soundscape Update for Roger & Brian Eno
Brian and Roger Eno used d&b Soundscape for their first joint performance, held at the Odeon of Herodes Atticus amphitheatre in Greece.
Live Sound
UBS Arena: Built for Hockey, Made for Music
The new $1.1 billion UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y. opened with great fanfare in mid-November.
Live Sound
The Cap Comes Back
A legendary venue that hosted everyone from the Grateful Dead to Pink Floyd, The Cap hit hard times, then bounced back stronger than ever.
Live Sound
Furnace Fest 2021 Heats Up
Alabama's heavy metal meltdown Furnace Fest came back in 2021 after a full 18 years on hiatus, with Allen & Heath desks used for...
Live Sound
Edinburgh International Festival Flows
The Edinburgh International Festival used a d&b soundscape system this year to make outdoor classical music concerts sound as if they were indoors.
Live Sound
Philadelphia’s Verizon Hall Returns Refreshed
Philadelphia's Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts recently reopened with a new Meyer Sound system.
Live Sound
Third Man Records Gets Live in London
Rocker Jack White's budding Third Man Records empire has opened its latest outpost in London, combining a retail space, exclusive live venue and more.
Live Sound
Church Streams Organ Music to Parish
Petruskerk van Leens, one of Holland’s oldest churches, now livestreams masses and its famed organ by using DPA Microphones.
Live Sound
Milwaukee’s Summerfest: The “Big Gig” Is Back
After a hiatus in 2020, Milwaukee’s Summerfest returned in September with Clearwing Productions providing audio, lighting, video and more, as seen in this photo...
Live Sound
Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort Bets on EAW
Oaklawn Racing Casino in Hot Spring, AR has installed an EAW ADAPTive PA system.
Live Sound
Montréal International Jazz Festival Returns with Solotech
The Montréal International Jazz Festival returned this year, with 30 acts on two outdoor stages performing through Solotech-supplied Meyer Sound systems.
Live Sound
Brooklyn Made Makes Good: Inside NYC’s Latest Must-Play Concert Spot
Brooklyn Made, a new 500-capacity venue in NYC, is looking to reinvent small venues from the ground up, from treating the artist well to...
Live Sound
Dolby Atmos-Based Venue Launches in Las Vegas
Dolby and MGM Resorts have teamed up to launch Dolby Live at Park MGM, touted as “the first fully integrated performance venue of its...
Live Sound
Paragon 360 Renovates First Baptist Jacksonville
First Baptist Church of Jacksonville renovated the Lindsay Memorial Auditorium with Paragon 360.
Live Sound
Masque Sound Returns to the Muny
St. Louis' The Muny, America’s oldest and largest outdoor musical theater, presented five productions this past summer with audio by Masque Sound.
Live Sound
Installation Drives into Gibson Garage Experience Center
Systems Innovation outfitted the Gibson Garage Experience Center in Nashville with an audio system based around QSC gear.
Live Sound
Going Country at The Gorge
Carlson Audio Systems provided sound for the Watershed Festival at The Gorge in George, WA in late July.
Live Sound
Newport Jazz Festival Returns
Arguably the best-known jazz festival in the U.S., the Newport Jazz Festival returned this summer after a pandemic year off.
Live Sound
Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof Preps for a New Home
In Heidelberg's Old Town, Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof concert hall/nightclub has a new audio system while it waits to move into a new venue.
Live Sound
Inside the Sound Design of Moulin Rouge! The Musical
The Broadway smash mashes up more than 70 pop songs to create the ultimate jukebox musical. Sound designer Peter Hylenski shares how the audio...
Live Sound
Bringing Back NYC’s Blue Note
New York City's Blue Note is one of the best-known jazz clubs in the world, but at the height of the pandemic, it was...
Live Sound
Stadium Shows Return With Illenium
On July 3, Illenium held the first stadium concert of the pandemic—here's how it came together in just five weeks.
Live Sound
iHeartRadio Awards Returns to Live Event
ATK Audiotek provided a JBL Professional-based audio system for this year's iHeartRadio Music Awards in Los Angeles.
Live Sound
Taking Opera Outdoors In Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Opera opted to perform outdoors this summer using L-Acoustics’ L-ISA immersive technology provided by Firehouse Productions.
Live Sound
Sound and Lighthouse: Creating Unique Audio For A Seafaring Festival
How do you hold an all-day festival for 7,000 music fans on a 40x40-foot island with barely any electricity?
Live Sound
Broadway Audio Pros Ready for September Return
The Great White Way is ready to reopen in September, marking the return of live theater in New York City.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Protecting the Investment on Broadway
With the Delta Variant spiking around the country, tours and venues are quickly changing their pandemic-related entrance requirements, and that includes Broadway, as Mix...
Live Sound
First Baptist Brings On Ford AV
Following a fire, First Baptist Church in Texarkana, TX rebuilt its sanctuary and now has a Fulcrum Acoustic system designed by Ford AV.
Live Sound
Miking Puccini’s Tosca Outdoors
An immersive production of Puccini's 'Tosca' was staged in the courtyard of Palazzo Farnese in Northern Italy's city of Piacenza.
Live Sound
Buddy Holly Hall – That’ll Be The d&b
Ballet and orchestral music may not be synonymous with Buddy Holly, but they will be exactly what the new Buddy Holly Hall of Performing...
Facilities
Venue/Studio Brings Music to Cape Cod
While The Music Room is an 88-seat venue offering top acts five nights a week, it also has a recording studio located behind the...
Live Sound
QSC Jungle Cruises into Disney World Premiere
QSC pros designed, built and installed an audio system just for the world premiere of Disney’s new “Jungle Cruise” film.
Live Sound
Hope Church Expands HOW, Audio System
Hope Church in Simpsonville, SC recently got a new audio system based around Alcons Audio RR12 loudspeakers.
Live Sound
L-Acoustics Dives Into SeaWorld Concerts
SeaWorld San Antonio’s Electric Ocean Concert Series is bringing shows to the crowds via a new L-Acoustics A-Series PA.
Live Sound
Safe Hands Audio Covers Crowds at UK Live Event Test
Safe Hands Audio covered the crowd at this year's Formula 1 British Grand Prix weekend with speaker systems from Electro-Voice and Dynacord.