Business
SSL Monitors David Gilmour Tour
Whether you hear it on one of his solo albums or as part of a classic Pink Floyd track, the emotive sound of David...
Consoles/Mixers-Studio
Business
Recording Tech at AES: From Classic to Cutting-Edge
Advancements in microprocessing technology allow for an increasing number of affordable digital recording tools to be created with each passing year.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Not Just Good; Thorogood
George Thorogood is many things—a guitar slinger, band leader and the man who wrote “Bad To The Bone,” the go-to track for every Eighties...
Business
Monitoring Culture Club Tribes Tour
Culture Club toured the U.S. this year supporting its first album of new material in 15 years, Tribes, and supporting the production was Escondido,...
Business
Allen & Heath Shuffles Off To Buffalo Center
Jeremy Rollefson has toured the world, working as a live sound engineer, monitor engineer and production manager for acts like Toby Keith, Miranda Lambert,...
Business
Yamaha Tours Rivage PM10
Yamaha’s flagship Rivage PM10 digital audio console has been undergoing a real-world shakedown of its software in recent times, being used at select high-profile...
Business
SSL Moves In At COTM
Church on the Move (COTM) has an appropriate name. Its main Tulsa campus, set on 300 acres, is home to several venues including the...
Business
Yamaha Rivage Debuts At Willow Creek
Willow Creek Community Church serves more than 20,000 people every weekend through its six campuses, so when it came time to celebrate the 40th...
Business
TC Furlong Readies Console Expo
Choosing the right digital console is never a simple task. With that in mind, TC Furlong, Inc. will host a Digital Console Expo on...
Business
Finding The Right Console
Implementing a new audio mixing console for a house of worship is never a light matter.
Business
Buying The Last Sound System
There is an axiom in the sound contracting industry that the goal is to sell a house of worship its last sound system.
Business
Juanes Provides Loco De Amor
Colombian singer/songwriter/guitarist Juanes, arguably one of the biggest Latin music artists to emerge from the early 21st century, spent the summer performing to sold-out...
Business
Mixing Monitors for 5 Seconds of Summer
As an experienced sound engineer for over 20 years, I’ve worked with all genres and styles, mixing for acts including Scissor Sisters, PJ Harvey,...
Business
Mills College: Unique Collaborations and Amalgamated Techniques
Mills College is a century-old, all-women’s undergraduate and co-ed graduate liberal arts college with a unique approach to musical collaboration in its Center for...
Business
New Orleans Museum Mints New Music
The only building in the country to have produced both United States and Confederate money, the Old U.S. Mint, part of the Louisiana State...
Business
An Experiment in Colorado
You’ve probably seen the attitude before—clueless people who say “It’s a big facility that’s a relic from another age.
Business
Avid Sets Venue S6L Webinar
Avid will host a webinar on the new Avid Venue S6L live sound system on November 12, at 1pm EST, featuring sound engineer, Robert...
Business
Zac Brown Lands API Legacy Plus
Nashville, TN (November 6, 2015)—Southern Ground Nashville—Zac Brown’s considerable recording studio—has taken delivery of an API 48-channel Legacy Plus console. API built the Legacy...
Business
SF Conservatory Nabs RND Desk
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music just launched its new Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program, covering concert music, sound design, and film &...
Business
Red Bull Brings On Behringer
Red Bull presents a lot of interesting stuff, whether it’s extreme sports or popular music. When it comes to the latter, many of the...
Business
Rose Heights Church Goes Roland
Rose Heights Church in Tyler, TX recently upgraded its sound and lighting systems, adding audio components, video production capabilities, five cameras, video projection, environmental...
Business
The Queen Is Dead on iLive
After a number of cancelled tours in recent years due to health issues, former Smiths frontman Morrissey is currently touring the world, having recently...
Business
Argosy Chats with Chad
Argosy Console has released a new in-depth discussion video featuring legendary drummer Chad Cromwell, who recently acquired the new Halo compact workstation.
Business
Dallas HOW Double Dips With DiGiCo
Dallas’ First Baptist Church bought a DiGiCo SD7 for its FOH position in April 2013, and now a second SD7 has joined it, tackling...
Business
Allen & Heath Attends Grand Prix
The recent Formula 1 Grand Prix in Singapore was a crazy one, thanks to a spectator who jumped on to the track and walked...
Business
NUAGE Goes Virtual At Blue Note Club
Though a cornerstone of the New York City jazz scene, The Blue Note is not a relic from another age. Recently, the club began...
Business
Allen & Heath Takes Bullet On Tour
British metal act Bullet For My Valentine has been touring the world this year supporting its fifth album, Venom. For the U.S. leg, spent...
Business
SSL Pops Up at Bonnaroo
This summer, Bonnaroo Festival’s pop-up Haybale Studio captured the spirit of the event with a little help from an SSL AWS 948 SuperAnalogue console.
Business
Humbug Returns to Audient
Studio Humbug owners Jim and Rob Homes have taken delivery of a 24-channel ASP8024 analogue mixing console—after previously selling a larger version.
Business
Nashville’s Welcome To 1979 Goes Direct-To-Disc
NASHVILLE, TN—The old adage says that you can have it fast, cheap or good—pick two.
Business
Mix Nashville Returns
NASHVILLE, TN—After a few years off the grid, Mix Nashville came back with a bang on August 29, 2015.
Business
Faithless Puts Faith In SSL Live
Long-running UK dance act Faithless is on the festival circuit promoting its latest collection, Faithless 2.0, with its FOH engineer of the last two...
Business
ISP Goes Underground With Studio
Built 30 feet below grade, Platinum Underground Studio is a 4,000-sq.-ft. multi room facility designed by Vincent Van Haaff and equipped with ISP Technologies...
Business
VUE Attends CNN GOP Debate
The recent second GOP debate, broadcast on CNN, had Production Resource Group on-site, providing audio for all present. Clearly there were a lot more...
Business
St. Louis Church Adds Roland M-5000 Desk
Faith Lutheran Church recently updated its audio system with the addition of a Roland M-5000 OHRCA Live Mixing Console, replacing the existing Roland M-400...
Business
Stagelight Nets 4 SSL Live
Stagelight, a successful Dutch hire and events production company, recently purchased four SSL Live consoles—three SSL Live L500 consoles and one SSL Live L300...
Product Reviews
Review: beyerdynamic MCE 86 II Electret Condenser Shotgun Microphone
A shotgun microphone is simply a tool worth having in any “workhorse” microphone collection, and the MCE 86 II is an ideal specimen.
Business
Japan’s NHK Adds API Consoles
NHK, Japan’s national broadcasting network, has commissioned and installed two Vision consoles. Both desks were built with a variety of custom features designed to...
Business
First U.S. Nexo STM Church Install
Overlake Christian Church (OCC) in Redmond WA recently replaced the original PA in its 20-year-old, 5,000-seat sanctuary with a new Nexo STM line array...
Business
Mixing Ariana Grande’s Arena Tour
Toby Francis may be best known for mixing hard rock acts like Kiss, Aerosmith and ZZ Top, but the versatile FOH engineer can’t be...
Business
Wez Clarke Refurbs with SSL
Mix engineer Wez Clarke recently refurbished his London studio, with acoustic design by Munro Acoustics, ME Geithain monitoring, and an SSL AWS 948 console...
Business
A N. Hollywood Studio’s Cautionary Tale
By Mel Lambert. With a storied past, Legends Studios in North Hollywood, CA is being prepped for an auction that could bring the facility...