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Mix Live Blog: Protecting the Investment on Broadway
With the Delta Variant spiking around the country, tours and venues are quickly changing their pandemic-related entrance requirements, and that includes Broadway, as Mix...
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InfoComm 2021 COVID Requirements Announced
AVIXA has announced its COVID requirements for InfoComm 2021, subject to change and expected to be adhered to by all exhibitors and attendees.
Business
AVIXA Talks COVID Safety for InfoComm 2021
Rochelle Richardson, senior vice president of exhibition and event services at AVIXA, discusses health and safety precautions for the upcoming InfoComm 2021.
Live Sound
Live Sound Reawakens As U.S. Tours Return
As U.S. tours cautiously start to hit the road in June, a whole new post-pandemic production world awaits.
Blog
What’s It Like to Mix for 4,000 Fans in a Pandemic?
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?
Blog
Audio Op-Ed: Live Sound Has Answers for Other Markets
Half-formed hybrid plans due to COVID-19 are everywhere; Live Sound and AV can help make them whole, says Graham Hendry of Renkus-Heinz.
Live Sound
Marist’s Pandemic Reopening Aided by A-T
Marist College installed 150 Audio-Technica boundary mics and 50 SmartMixers in classrooms for remote learning during the pandemic.
Blog
COVID-19 and Pro Audio: An Industry Interrupted
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the pro-audio industry in ways both expected and surprising, but while manufacturing and recording are recovering from lockdown, live...
International
Providing Socially Distanced Concert Sound in Belgium
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
Researchers in Germany recently held three concerts in a single day to investigate how the coronavirus is likely transmitted in group settings. The team...
Recording
View from the Top: Glenn Burack, Bose
Glenn Burack, director of aviation, military and broadcast headsets at Bose, looks back at how the company’s military headset technology, first developed in 1986,...
Music, Etc
Music Etc. – Chuck Prophet, ‘The Land That Time Forgot’
Steve Harvey talks with guitarist, singer, producer and raconteur Chuck Prophet about the meandering path that led to the former Green on Red guitarist's...
Live Sound
Live Sound Turns to Congress for Help
The summer months are usually the busiest of the year for the live sound industry. While September typically sees the industry start to ease...
Recording
Building Lil Baby’s Hitmaking Home Studio
Breakout rap star Lil Baby spent three weeks this spring atop the Billboard album chart with “My Turn.” Now Platinum-selling engineer Thomas “Tillie” Mann...
Blog
The Gear of Damian Lillard’s Mini-Studio Inside the NBA Bubble; Hear His Tracks
NBA all-star Damian Lillard has been recording as rapper Dame D.O.L.L.A. while in the NBA Bubble, resulting in the appropriately titled mixtape, Live From...
Recording
View from the Top: Alan Macpherson, L-Acoustics
Alan Macpherson, CEO of L-Acoustics’ new Americas division, shares numerous ways the company’s new arm will serve the United States, and how it’s answering...
Business
Special Report: Studios Reopen Cautiously Around U.S.
Studios are looking to carefully reopen and get back on track, even as the COVID-19 pandemic stages a resurgence.
Business
IMS Report: Electronic Music Industry Will Survive COVID Impact
International Music Summit has released its annual IMS Business Report, assessing the state of the global electronic music industry.
Business
COVID-19 Guidelines for Safe Audio Production Released in UK
Trade group AudioUK has released a 15-page document with COVID-19 guidelines for safe audio production during the pandemic.
Live Sound
Communication System Key to COVID Testing Truck
An all-in-one video collaboration system that includes a Yamaha CS-700 provides communication between medical personnel is being used at some sites offering rapid COVID-19...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Flash Your Headlights
Steve La Cerra worked last weekend! And he found that while the logistics of prepping for a live "drive-in concert" were a bit nerve-racking,...
Blog
Pro Audio Veteran Goes Viral (on YouTube)
A playful cover of the Eighties hit "Easy Lover" has gone viral, bringing a group of L.A. session players into the limelight, including bass...
Business
Report: Global Pro AV Industry Primed to Bounce Back
The global Pro AV industry reached a peak of $259 billion in 2019, according to a new report released by AVIXA, which also predicts...
Music Festival Business
Sound for a Socially Distanced Ravenna Festival
Cancelling this month’s annual Ravenna Festival in Italy was never an option, so audio provider BH Audio is using a revamped d&b system for...
Recording
Tenderdyn Arts Beats Remote Recording Latency
Many artists and musicians have taken to streaming during the coronavirus pandemic but few have attempted real-time collaboration due to latency. Tenderdyn Arts in...
Business
CEDIA Expo 2020 Cancelled; Virtual Event Planned
COVID-19 takes down another trade show as CEDIA moves to a virtual format for this year’s Expo.
Business
Recording Academy Advises How To Reopen Studios
With all 50 states now in the process of reopening, the Producers & Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy has released “Considerations For Recording...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Hello, Boston!
This Friday’s live streaming concert by local favorites Dropkick Murphys, in a baseball stadium with no fans, will raise money for Boston-area nonprofits.
Music Production
How Hip-Hop Stars Are Recording During the Pandemic
Roddy Ricch, YBN Cordae and Young Thug are recording hip-hop at home during COVID-19 times as studios cautiously start to reopen.
Blog
Reopening Live Music Right, Right Now
When the pandemic calms down, how do we re-open live music? Lava Cantina, a hangout outside Dallas, TX, is an early example of trying...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Rise Up, New York!
The city of New York sure knows how to rally in times of adversity, from supporting front-line workers to helping the poor when they...
Business
Nexo Loudspeaker Production Resumes
Nexo loudspeaker production is restarting as the French live sound manufacturer began reopening its operations on May 11.
HOW Sound
House of Worship Sound Moves Outside
When Orlando’s Experience Christian Center moved its Good Friday service outdoors to maintain social distancing, it called on local audio provider MTI Sound, Lighting...
Blog
In-House Full Sail Band Releases COVID-19 Relief Single
Comprised of alumni or co-workers at Full Sail University, The Grouper Cheeks are donating proceeds of their first single to MusiCares.
Blog
Mix Blog Studio: The Spigot Turns Off
The pandemic and the adoption of social distancing measures has hit the music industry hard, and the uncertainties about when, how and even if...
Blog
The METAlliance Report: METAlliance on Lockdown
Chuck Ainlay shares the surprising ways he and fellow recording legends Al Schmitt, Elliot Scheiner, Frank Filipetti and George Massenburg are making the most...
Music Production
How Pros Are Livestreaming During the Pandemic
Take a deep dive into the technology and techniques that artists are using while livestreaming during the pandemic.
The Wire
Working Remotely – TransAudio Group Maintains Its Pro Audio Supply Chain Amid COVID-19 Disruption
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: TransAudio Group, U.S. distributor of high-end professional audio recording equipment, announces that it is able to maintain near-normal operations amid the COVID-19...
Blog
Westworld Improvises ADR Process During Lockdown
Actress Thandie Newton follows shelter-in-place rules as she improvises in a makeshift vocal booth at home to provide ADR for HBO’s Westworld series.
Live Sound
Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix on Mics, Quarantine
Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix muses about his favorite live mic and the unexpected benefits of quarantine times.
Business
Upcoming Pro Audio Training Webinars
Here’s a non-partisan, alphabetical rundown of educational pro-audio webinars coming up, provided by manufacturers across the industry.
Music Production
College Senior Produces Viral Virtual Musical Collaboration
In an effort to bring her community together during the coronavirus crisis, Shelbie Rassler had the idea of recording the Bacharach/Hal David song “What...