Live Sound
Snoop Dogg Prowls with Allen & Heath
Snoop Dogg has been touring with an Allen & Heath dLive system handling his monitors.
Consoles / Mixers – Live
HOW Sound
Woodstock Church Stocks Up on Yamaha
The First Baptist Church Woodstock replaced its aging Yamaha PM1D consoles with new RIVAGE PM10s.
Live Sound
Frahm Takes Stage Tec Desk on Tour
The composer/performer has kicked off a two-year tour with an Aurus platinum FOH console in tow.
Live Sound
Fun, Fun, Fun on Pet Sounds’ 50th Anniversary Tour
By Paroo Streich. Brian Wilson, the visionary behind The Beach Boys, is rolling his "Pet Sounds" 50th Anniversary Tour forward into 2018 with its...
Live Sound
BroadwayCon Panel Dissects Sound Design, Mixing for Theater
By Anthony Savona. Sound designers, associate sound designers, and audio engineers pull the curtain back on creating soundscapes for Broadway.
Live Sound
Francis Takes On New Desk for Katy Perry
The FOH engineer behind GnR and Kanye West switched things up for his current jaunt supporting Katy Perry.
Blog
Photo Essay: Seen on the Scene at NAMM 2018
Check out all the pro-audio excitement of NAMM 2018 right here!
Live Sound
Crafting Mixes at the Arts Club
London's exclusive Arts Club ups it's audio game with new Allen & Heath gear.
Live Sound
McCoy Makes Moves with Yamaha TF Series
McCoy turns to TF consoles for everything from Vegas corporate events to Disney productions.
HOW Sound
New Hope’s New Sanctuary Gets New Audio
When New Hope Presbyterian Church completed its new sanctuary, it needed an audio system that could accommodate both traditional and contemporary music services.
HOW Sound
Live Sound Pros Ready Masterclasses for AES@NAMM 2018
AES@NAMM To Offer Extensive Live Sound Masterclasses
Live Sound
MyMix Takes On Pete Tong at the Hollywood Bowl
By Steve Harvey. Musicians heard themselves on the complicated Pete Tong's Ibiza Classics tour via MyMix systems.
Live Sound
Inside The Audio of The Anthem
57,000-square-foot, $60-million venue opens in Washington, DC with top tech.
Product Reviews
Review: Allen & Heath dLive S Class Console
Alesia Hendley takes a look at Allen & Heath's dLive S Class audio mixing console.
Live Sound
Run the Jewels Roll with Waves eMotion LV1 Mixer
FOH engineer Tomas Wolfe has been using a Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer to mix Run The Jewels’ tour.
Live Sound
Mixing the Holiday A Cappella Sounds of Pentatonix
Mark Woodcock uses a Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 console to handle the house mix for a acappella act Pentatonix.
Gear and Technology
Review: Yamaha TF-Rack Digital Mixer
PSN reviewer Liz May put Yamaha's TF-RACK through its paces, discovering that this rack-mount version of the TF Series is both familiar and unique.
Live Sound
QSC Gets Classical at Château de Grignan
A QSC TouchMix-30 Pro was used to mix a three-month outdoor production of Alfred de Musset’s Lorenzaccio at France's Château de Grignan’s summer festival.
Live Sound
Tears For Fears Squires A New PM10 On Tour
Monitor engineer George Squires has been using a Yamaha PM10 digital audio console on the road for the resurgent Tears For Fears.
Live
Eight Plays, A Streak: Paul McCartney Tours NYC
By Clive Young. Go inside Paul McCartney’s 2017 mini-tour of New York City, where the rock legend and crew tackled eight sold-out shows, playing...
HOW Sound
Wirebox Updates Salvation Army’s Audio
The Salvation Army Temple in Atlanta recently upgraded its audio system, ditching a 20-year-old PA in the process. In its place is a new...
Live Sound
Burgtheater Brings on SSL System Ts
The Burgtheater—the Austrian National Theatre—recently upgraded its audio systems, adding two SSL System T networked production systems along with a building-wide, redundant Dante Audio-over-IP...
Live Sound
Rack-Mixer Revolution
By Strother Bullins. Proprietary mix surfaces are still the norm at FOH positions around the world, yet seemingly every new digital mixing product on...
Live Sound
Alamo Drafthouse Updates FOH Desks
The Alamo Drafthouse theaters in Austin are best-known for their highly curated movie offerings and food, but there’s also drinks, bands and more, all...
Live Sound
Stage Tec Mixes 4,000 Voices on Tour
Marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, “Luther,” a massive pop oratorio about the event toured Germany, with the last of 12 performances taking...
HOW Sound
Renkus-Heinz Rolls into Lake Wales Church
The First United Methodist Church of Lake Wales recently upgraded the audio system in its near-70 year old building with a new Renkus-Heinz PA...
Live Sound
Taking Lincoln Center’s Audio Outside
New York City’s Lincoln Center is known as an artistic enclave, housing multiple major venues like David Geffen Hall, home of the NY Philharmonic...
Live Sound
FOH Stays Dry on Halsey Tour
Halsey has been making the rounds for the last month on her Hopeless Fountain Kingdom Tour with audio provided by Eighth Day Sound. One...
Live Sound
Nickelback’s Back, Rolling with Yamaha
The key to any successful tour is preparation, and if the tour’s engineers are using new consoles for the first time, then it’s even...
Live Sound
Adding Quiet to Brian Wilson’s Pet Sounds
On the road since Spring 2016, Brian Wilson is winding down his Pet Sounds 50th Anniversary World Tour, where he has been the classic...
Live Sound
PreSonus Goes Back to High School
Lehigh Senior High School’s Center of the Arts recently got an audio overhaul, with the installation of a new system built around PreSonus’ WorxAudio...
Live Sound
Tony Bennett Left His PM10 in San Diego
19-time GRAMMY winner Tony Bennett can still belt like nobody’s business, even at the age of 91. On the road to this day, he...
HOW Sound
Spectrum Sound Goes Deep with DiGiCo
Nashville-based Spectrum Sound recently updated its inventory with the addition of six new DiGiCo SD12 mixing consoles and four additional SD-Racks. These come in...
Live Sound
Solotech Tackles Montreal Jazz Fest
The annual Festival International de Jazz de Montréal—AKA Montreal Jazz Festival—always presents top-shelf acts from around the world, and this year’s edition was no...
Live Sound
Blink-182 Turns to SSL L200
New York, NY (August 29, 2017)—Perennial pop-punkers Blink-182 has been on the road behind its latest album, California, with Jason Decter, the band’s front...
Live Sound
DiGiCo, Bose Ride Into Sunset Sounds
Brooklyn is always a hotbed of new music, and this summer has provided another summer concert event series in the NYC borough to showcase...
Live Sound
Tom Petty Tours with Telefunken
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are on the road, marking their 40th Anniversary with a lengthy tour, all the while with longtime engineer Robert...
Live Sound
Depeche Mode Rolls with SSL
Synth-pop progenitors Depeche Mode return to the U.S. in August on the latest leg of the band’s Global Spirit Tour. Once again, the group’s...
Live Sound
dLive Catches Ferry Tour
As smooth as ever, Bryan Ferry is currently on tour in Europe and the U.S., with live sound provided by Britannia Row Productions in...
Festival Profile
Morris Tackles Four CMA Fest Stages
Nashville-based Morris Light & Sound provided audio for four stages at this year’s CMA Festival, serving up Nexo STM line arrays, Yamaha consoles, monitors...
Live Sound
Warpaint Rolls with Allen & Heath
LA-based Warpaint will be touring the U.S. this fall opening for Depeche Mode, but the four-piece, all-female rock band has been playing overseas in...