Live Sound
Ode to Blues Festival Hits Bangalore
A complete Harman Professional live sound system supported the fourth annual Ode to the Blues Festival in India, with a variety of JBL loudspeakers,...
Consoles/Mixers-Studio
Business
Wind Over the Earth Adds API
Wind Over the Earth (WOTE) has commissioned an in-house API 1608 console. Situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, WOTE offers recording sessions...
Business
iLive Journeys to the Center of the Earth
When Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman recorded his solo composition, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, based on the novel by Jules Verne, budgetary...
Business
SSL Powers World Chess Olympiad
Under the direction of Andrew Eljas, the Norwegian Arctic Philharmonic Orchestra along with a choir and ensemble of Norwegian musical performers accompanied the 41st...
Business
SSE Audio Adds Soundcraft Vi3000
SSE Audio Group is now a Soundcraft Vi Select Dealer, recently purchasing a Soundcraft Vi3000 digital console from Harman’s UK distributor Sound Technology.
Business
SSL Live Covers Commonwealth Concert
Before the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow this year, a 2.5 hour multi-act concert was held at Edinburgh Castle, with performances by Culture Club, OneRepublic,...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: National Pastime
After years of hard work and dedication, The National is seemingly universally adored for its brand of unsettling indie rock, but more than a...
Business
Ojai Gets Immersive
OJAI, CA—Established in 1947, the Ojai Music Festival presents an eclectic and challenging program curated each year by a guest music director, who this...
Business
Studio Showcase: The Legacy of Sound Emporium
NASHVILLE, TN—Since 1969, Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios has operated just off of what is known as Music Row—and more than geographically.
Business
InfoComm 2014 The Largest To Date
LAS VEGAS, NV—InfoComm International called its 2014 conclave the largest ever, with some 37,000 AV professionals passing through the Las Vegas Convention Center in...
Business
Guitar Center Puts Pro Audio In Times Sq.
Staging its grand opening yesterday, Guitar Center opened a new 28,000-square-foot flagship store in the heart of New York City's Times Square. To help...
Business
Casino Bets on The Box
The Casino, a Nashville studio owned and operated by Eric Masse, has installed API’s The Box.
Business
PreSonus Powers Belushi Club
Comedy actor Jim Belushi recently partnered with his cousin, Chris Karakosta, to open a new restaurant in Fort Meyers, tapping the services of Cape...
Business
Avid Everywhere at Gent Jazz Festival
Avid was chosen as an exclusive partner of the 2014 Gent Jazz Festival’s Garden Stage live sound workflow—a move which the manufacturer says highlighted...
Business
API First Birthday, Full Sail
Full Sail University’s flagship recording arts degree program recently celebrated the first anniversary of its 64-channel API Vision analog console in Studio B.
Business
Montreal Jazz Fest Jumps With Yamaha
The annual Montreal Jazz Festival served up the likes of Earth, Wind & Fire, B.B. King, Tony Bennett, Diana Krall, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross,...
Business
Mates Sums with SSL Matrix
Mixer, engineer and producer Ethan Mates has outfitted his newly relocated, purpose-built private studio with an SSL Matrix.
Business
Soundcraft Works with Metronome
Brendan Connors at Studio Metronome in Brookline, NH recently upgraded to Harman’s Soundcraft Si Expression 3 console.
Business
Yamaha Sets August Training Sessions
Yamaha Commercial Audio Training Sessions (YCATS) has reformatted its console seminars into two new console classes—Console Operation Levels 1 and 2, while adding two...
Business
SSL Live Joins Killers for Fests
Following their 2013 Battle Born world tour, the Las Vegas-based band The Killers continue their tour circuit, making appearances at a number of music...
Business
Sound Emporium Adds Legacy Plus
Sound Emporium Studios in Nashville has installed a 48-channel API Legacy Plus console after consulting with Rob Dennis at reseller Rack-N-Roll.
Business
Yaniv Outfits with GC Pro
Yaniv Farber, for over 20 years a high-end tile, granite and marble installer, recently created a production facility with assistance from Guitar Center Professional.
Business
Master Mix Live Moves
Master Mix Live has moved into a new, 2,000 square-foot soundstage/studio. A flexible, multi-use facility that will alternate use as a recording studio, rehearsal...
Business
Soundcraft Launches How-To Videos
Harman’s Soundcraft has added a “How To” instructional video series to its website to guide users through the Si Series of digital consoles.
Business
MOOGFEST 2014
I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Moogfest and found it was certainly a different kind of festival.
Business
PAR On Audio Production Touch Screens
I think one of the big changes on the horizon is touch screen technology utilizing touch screen panels (TSPs). It’s time to re-imagine the...
Business
Masque Sound Hollers on Broadway
"Holler If Ya Hear Me" opened last week on Broadway, featuring the rhymes of famed rapper Tupac Shakur. The production tapped the talents of...
Business
Michael Marquart Makes His Windmark
Michael Marquart, a multi-hyphenate on both sides of the studio glass, acquired the Flyte Tyme Productions building in Santa Monica late last year, renaming...
Business
Peace and No Quiet
Morrissey will release his tenth studio album in July, World Peace is None of Your Business, which was recorded in France in February with...
Business
“Hedwig Heads To Broadway”
Revived from its off-Broadway and cult classic film counterparts, Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch follows an East German transgender rockstar’s struggle to fame...
Business
Full Sail Enrolls API Vision
A year into Full Sail University's ownership of its 64-channel API Vision analog console in Studio B, the school’s recording arts degree program has...
Business
Vue Supports Fiesta Hermosa
Southern California’s Fiesta Hermosa Arts & Crafts festival celebrated its 44th anniversary over Memorial Day Weekend with the help of Bell Event Services, which...
Business
GLD Dives Into World Cup
Before “the Macarena” was the bane of wedding attendees everywhere, it was the name of Brazil’s iconic Maracana stadium, originally built in 1950 for...
Business
VK Helps GCC Upgrade
Vintage King recently worked with Glendale Community College in Arizona to upgrade its recording studios.
Business
A&H Broadcasts Brazil’s Carnivale
Allen & Heath’s iLive-112 digital systems helped manage the live performances at this year’s carnivale celebration in Brazil. Mixes from performances by Claudia Leite,...
Business
Muse Man Sums with Sigma
Italian producer, recording and mix engineer Tommaso Colliva has installed the new SSL Sigma remote-controlled analogue summing unit in his private mix room, Toomi...
New Products
Studio Review: Rich Tozzoli’s St. John Recording Retreat
This year's recording session in the U.S. Virgin Islands features AEA, DPA, Fender Passport Studio, Grace Design and Universal Audio products.
Business
Allen & Heath Plays Broken Bells
While touring with American indie rock band Broken Bells, FOH engineer Dave McDonald is using an Allen & heath modular iLive system—specifically an iLive-112...
Business
Seoul School Scores SSL
Educational facility Record Factory Music Academy in Seoul has added a Solid State Logic AWS 924 hybrid console/controller to its newly built studios, reportedly...
Business
Williams Hits The Road With StudioLive
Country Music Hall of Famer Don Williams has been touring in support of his latest album, Reflections, and along for the ride are engineer...
Business
Cool Pony Gets in The Box
Record label and artist development company Cool Pony Media recently updated its studio with API’s The Box for writing, tracking, creating stems, and mixing.
Business
MI Adds Avid System 5
Musicians Institute College of Contemporary Music in Hollywood, CA, an Avid Learning Partner, has expanded its partnership with Avid with the addition of the...