Concert

Mixing SNL50: The Homecoming Concert for Broadcast

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 05/06/2025

Music Mix Mobile recently mixed the live broadcast of SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, using Lawo consoles for the project.

Business

FireAid Issues First Wildfire Relief Grants

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 02/28/2025

FireAid, the massive concert benefitting those affected by the Los Angeles wildfires earlier that month, has issued its first grants, totaling $50 million.

Blog

Mix Live Blog: Music for Maui

By Steve La Cerra ⋅ Published: 08/21/2023 ⋅ Updated: 08/28/2023

The music industry showed up early to offer support for the victims of the Lahaina wildfires, with a number of fundraising concerts over the...

The Wire

Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck use Austrian Audio mics on North American Tour

By Martina ⋅ Published: 11/17/2022

Vienna, Austria (November 16, 2022) – To support the release of their new collaborative album entitled 18, guitar legend Jeff Beck and film superstar Johnny Depp...

The Wire

Austrian Audio On The Road With Bon Jovi

By Martina ⋅ Published: 09/27/2022

FOH engineer Bill Sheppell & recording engineer Obie O’Brien tout the Austrian Audio OD505 use on stage

Profiles

Birth of the Bootleg—Part 3: The End of the Road

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 10/08/2021

In Part 3, bootleg label Trade Mark of Quality has to change with the times, fool Led Zeppelin and ultimately bring its illicit business...

Bootlegs like the ones TMQ produced were originally a civil offense, but by 1976, they were made a far more serious federal crime.

news

Birth of the Bootleg—Part 2: The Secret TMQ Studio

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 10/07/2021 ⋅ Updated: 11/26/2024

In Part 2, discover the tech of the TMQ studio, how the legendary Rolling Stones bootleg 'Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be' was recorded, and...

Much of TMQ’s studio was paid for with profits from Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be, a concert bootleg that Rolling Stone magazine called “The ultimate Rolling Stones album.”

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Birth of the Bootlegs—Part 1: The First Bootleg Record

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 10/06/2021 ⋅ Updated: 11/26/2024

A lark that got out of control, 'Great White Wonder,' the first illegal bootleg record, changed the music industry forever.

Safe Hands Audio covered the crowd with speaker systems from Electro-Voice and Dynacord.

Live Sound

Safe Hands Audio Covers Crowds at UK Live Event Test

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 07/28/2021

Safe Hands Audio covered the crowd at this year's Formula 1 British Grand Prix weekend with speaker systems from Electro-Voice and Dynacord.

The recent Road Rage Drive-In Concert at Portland International Raceway was heard through a Trinity robotic line source system from PK Sound.

Live Sound

Road Rage Drive-In Concert Revs Up Crowd

By Mix Edit ⋅ Published: 07/21/2021

The recent Road Rage Drive-In Concert at Portland International Raceway was heard through a Trinity robotic line source system from PK Sound.

Tedeschi Trucks Band performed at the Greenfield Lake Amphitheater through a sizable Martin Audio PA provided by RMB Audio.

Live Sound

Tedeschi Trucks Band Rolls into Greenfield Lake Amphitheater

By Mix Staff ⋅ Published: 07/20/2021

The Tedeschi Trucks Band recently performed at the Greenfield Lake Amphitheater for its grand reopening.

Business

Restart-19 COVID Concert Experiment Shares Results

By Steve Harvey ⋅ Published: 12/03/2020

According to the results of an experiment in Germany, indoor sports and cultural events including music concerts could return soon—under the right conditions.

Blog

Mix Blog Live: Business as Unusual

By Steve La Cerra ⋅ Published: 10/13/2020

Steve La Cerra jumped on a plane last week, headed for Pittsburgh on his first fly-date since the shutdown in March. The airports, he...

Live Sound

Billy Strings’ Drive-In Tour Rolls On

By ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: 09/16/2020 ⋅ Updated: 01/27/2023

Bluegrass sensation Billy Strings’ “Meet Me at the Drive-In” tour is on the move, playing socially distanced drive-in venues like Wilkes-Barre’s Mohegan Sun Arena...

International

Providing Socially Distanced Concert Sound in Belgium

By ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: 09/03/2020

The Studio 100 Pop-Up Theatre in Belgium usually hosts 2,000 spectators, but is now holding concerts for 200 spread across the same space.

Live Sound

Scientists Hold Concerts to Determine How to Bring Shows Back

By Steve Harvey ⋅ Published: 08/27/2020

Researchers in Germany recently held three concerts in a single day to investigate how the coronavirus is likely transmitted in group settings. The team...

Live Sound

Hellooo TV Streams Live with DiGiCo

By ProSoundNetwork Editorial Staff ⋅ Published: 07/29/2020

Hellooo TV, the brainchild of live sound engineer Erik Rogers and producer and documentary photographer Paris Visone, is delivering weekly streamed music performances using...

Live Sound

Miking to Meet Bjork’s Vision

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 05/26/2020

When avant garde songstress Bjork envisioned Cornucopia, 50-piece choirs and invented instruments in an immersive audio landscape was only the beginning.

Business

Live Sound Pro Recovering from COVID-19

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 03/20/2020

Freelance audio pro Joe McGrath is recovering from a near-death experience after contracting COVID-19 on the job.

Artist's rendering of the upcoming Chapel of Sound at Jinshanling Great Wall in China. Image: Open Architecture.

Live Sound

Creating China’s Spectacular Chapel of Sound

By Cynthia Wisehart ⋅ Published: 12/09/2019

Beijing-based OPEN Architecture is putting the finishing touches on its spectacular Chapel of Sound — a boulder-shaped concert hall in a rocky valley at...

Live Sound

Wrangling the RF of David Byrne’s American Utopia

By Clive Young ⋅ Published: 11/20/2019

David Byrne’s American Utopia tour is playing Broadway through February, featuring a massive band that is mobile throughout the performance, thanks to RF wizardry.