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.
Venues
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.
Live Sound
Red Rocks Rolls Out New Roof
Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, Colorado has installed a new roof that can handle five times the production element load of the previous roof.
Live Sound
Ascot Racecourse Revamps Audio with Bose Pro
Bose Professional recently outfitted Britain's Ascot Racecourse with nearly 1,000 loudspeakers.
Live Sound
Reinventing a Connecticut Tennis Stadium for Music
Built 30 years ago, the former Connecticut Tennis Center has been reinvented as Westville Music Bowl, a 10,000-seat concert venue.
Live Sound
The Hollywood Bowl Rolls Out Its Return
On May 15, the Hollywood Bowl hosted its first show in 18 months with a free concert for 4,000 frontline workers and first responders.
Live Sound
GLEIS4 Pushes Past Pandemic
GLEIS4 Frankenthal recently installed an Allen & Heath dLive system, based around a C3500 Surface and a CDM48 Mixrack.
Live Sound
The Factory Gets To Work in St. Louis
New St. Louis venue, The Factory, is opening with fine-tuned acoustics, a new audio system and thought-out crew amenities.
Live Sound
Medieval Concert Hall ‘De Bijloke’ Updates with d&b
Billed as the oldest building in the world that permanently serves as a concert hall, De Bijloke recently installed a brand-new d&b sound system...
Live Sound
Montreux Jazz Festival Returns
The 55th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, revamped and reinvented for COVID times, has presented challenges for its audio team.
Live Sound
Adamson Goes to Space
Real Music recently outfitted a pair of venues belonging to nightclub chain Space, installing a selection of loudspeaker systems from Adamson
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Newberry Opera House
Eighteen eighty-one, United States. President James Garfield is assassinated. Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company. Billy the Kid escapes...
2019
L-Acoustics Helps Revamp Pittsburgh’s Legendary Roxian Theatre
Reopened Roxian Theatre features upcoming headliners including Snarky Puppy, Bruce Hornsby, Bad Religion, The Psychedelic Furs, Common, Avril Lavigne, and !!!
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Cabot Theatre
This past week I visited the Cabot Theatre in Beverly, Mass., which opened on December 8, 1920, as a venue for vaudeville and silent...
Live Gear
Dead On Live Play Through Mocked-Up Wall of Sound
Tribute act Dead On Live teams with Asbury Audio to replicate the legendary Wall of Sound concert audio system.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: A Peek at The Peak
This past Friday I worked a show in Jim Thorpe, Penn., at a venue called Penn’s Peak. Established in 2003, Penn’s Peak kicked off...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Someone Is Listening
You’re looking at a not-so-sexy photo of the ceiling in a venue I worked last week. The Harvester Performance Center in Rocky Mount, Va.,...
2016
VUE Debuts Two at BottleRock
It’s not easy to debut new live sound products in real world situations. Few engineers want to risk the introduction of new technologies with...
2016
Tribute to ‘RVA’ Legend Thompson at The National
On February 28, 2016, more than a dozen musicians came to The National in Richmond, Va., to salute The RVA’s beloved troubadour Robbin Thompson,...
2016
Montana State University Selects Bose
The Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on the campus of Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana, seats 7,250 people and is home to MSU Bobcats basketball...
2015
Rock in Rio … in Vegas
In the spirit of the many other international “cities” within the city (Paris, New York, Venice, etc.), Rock in Rio has come to Las...
2015
The Regent Theater in Los Angeles
In November 2014, music promoter Mitchell Frank, the owner of Spaceland Productions, reopened the historic Regent Theater as a premier venue in L.A.’s reemerging...
Live Sound
The Hollywood Bowl: A Unique Blend of Natural Acoustics and Amplified Sound
The Hollywood Bowl, that iconic Los Angeles venue so named for the landscape it occupies, not the shell covering its stage, hosted its first...
Live Sound
Alcons Audio Opens U.S. Office
Dutch loudspeaker manufacturer Alcons Audio has formed Alcons Audio USA, which will be headed by David Rahn, most recently national sales manager at Renkus...
Live Sound
Hall of Fame, Mutemath Open Full Sail Live!
It was a busy June at Full Sail University (Winter Park, Fla.) with the induction of the second group into the Full Sail Hall...