Grateful Dead’s ‘Wall of Sound’ PA To Be Auctioned
Sotheby's will auction off gear from the Grateful Dead's legendary 'Wall of Sound' PA system, as well as items that belonged to the Wall's...
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Sotheby's will auction off gear from the Grateful Dead's legendary 'Wall of Sound' PA system, as well as items that belonged to the Wall's...
As concert sound bounces back after the pandemic, there's fewer live sound pros coming back with it.
Mix columnist Steve La Cerra writes in from Blue Oyster Cult's FOH console and reports he's not the only one a little rusty from...
SeaWorld San Antonio’s Electric Ocean Concert Series is bringing shows to the crowds via a new L-Acoustics A-Series PA.
Safe Hands Audio covered the crowd at this year's Formula 1 British Grand Prix weekend with speaker systems from Electro-Voice and Dynacord.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver, Colorado has installed a new roof that can handle five times the production element load of the previous roof.
At the Park Stage, 20 d&b audiotechnik GSL8 and four GSL12 covered the crowd at New Zealand’s Electric Avenue festival.
Built 30 years ago, the former Connecticut Tennis Center has been reinvented as Westville Music Bowl, a 10,000-seat concert venue.
New St. Louis venue, The Factory, is opening with fine-tuned acoustics, a new audio system and thought-out crew amenities.
Ever on the road, live sound pro Steve La Cerra recounts a wretched rental counter encounter—and considers how other touring acts will be affected...
Line array company PK Sound has partnered with audio production provider FM Systems
We look back at the live sound effort that went into the legendary charity concert Live Aid, held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia. With...
U.S. audio pros took the torch passed by London's Live Aid and ran with it, overcoming show-stopping obstacles to bring an unforgettable concert to...
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...
The 55th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, revamped and reinvented for COVID times, has presented challenges for its audio team.
64 Audio has introduced its new U6t Universal In-Ear Monitor, a six-driver IEM designed for touring professionals.
Tour sound production teams haven’t been idle these past 15 months, and now they’re packed and ready to roll.
The pandemic brought live music to a halt on March 12, 2020—the night before Brooklyn Bowl Nashville's grand opening. Here's how Music City's newest...
With Foo Fighters playing next week at a sold-out, full-capacity, vaccination-required Madison Square Garden, the concert touring industry is seeing its first signs of...
Spanish manufacturer Equipson’s Work Pro Audio brand has launched its new Entar Series, a range of two-way professional loudspeakers intended for the installation and...
As U.S. tours cautiously start to hit the road in June, a whole new post-pandemic production world awaits.
When the CT Tennis Center on the Yale University campus became the Westville Music Bowl, changes were no doubt in store for the 10,000-capacity...
Moscow’s Izvestiнa Hall recently hosted rock band Affinage, bringing in outside audio support for the band's stop on its nationwide post-pandemic tour.
As the U.S. gets vaccinated, concerts are starting to come back—but what’s it like to mix for 4,000 fans during a pandemic?
Steve La Cerra was back at FOH last weekend, and that proved to be the easy part following a 17-hour journey from New York...
Live Nation Entertainment and Veeps, the livestream platform run by co-founders Joel and Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte, have started equipping over...
Veteran live sound pro Mario Leccese, director of Operations for Solotech US, has died.
Minuendo Lossless earplugs aim to reduce hearing loss for musicians
After a long hiatus, Steve La Cerra settled in at FOH for his first gig of 2021 and, for a brief moment, found that...
Veteran live sound executive Paul Owen is joining full-service event production company DCR Nashville as its new president.
Usually it's kids in the backseat that ask 'Are we there yet?' Now it's being asked by audio professionals who want to get back...
Front Porch Productions has been supplying the control package for Christian artist Kim Walker-Smith's current series of four-date mini-tours.
Event production company Logic Systems has taken ownership of the first all-black PK Sound Trinity line array system.
ClearSound Design installs an L-Acoustics rig at Cincinnati’s new Fifth Third Center Stage.
Solotech expands its Nashville footprint with the acquisition of event production and system integration company Morris Light & Sound.
Reinvented to meet pandemic protocols, South Australia’s Summer Sounds Festival was a four-week outdoor concert series of 18 shows
Technologies such as 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) are expanding the possibilities for how we can drive live music innovation.
Steve La Cerra just had his second gig since the Covid outbreak, and while it went better in the house, the same could not...
In UK Music’s “Let The Music Play: Save Our Summer” report, the trade organization suggests how to help the live sector recover from pandemic...
Britannia Row Productions marked 45 years in live production this year. Here's the whole story, from Pink Floyd to the Pandemic and beyond.
Even the pandemic could not stop tour and event sound provider Special Event Services from opening its new 52,000-square-foot company headquarters in Mocksville, NC.
Violet Road bought an 80-ton boat, turned it into a tour bus on water, added an Alcons PA and kept touring this past summer.