Live Sound
UltraSound Brings Panther to Festival
San Francisco’s long-running Outside Lands festival covered Golden Gate Park with audio from a slew of Meyer Sound loudspeakers.
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Live Sound
Sounding Off at Milwaukee Irish Fest 2024
This year's Milwaukee Irish Fest featured 16 stages of entertainment, all mixed on Allen & Heath consoles provided by Clearwing Productions.
Live Sound
Bad Weather Productions Rolls with Rocking the Daisies
One of the highlights of the South African festival season, Rocking the Daisies bloomed with the help of audio provider Bad Weather Productions.
Live Sound
Festival Mines the Daze Between
The third annual Daze Between festival—held between the two stretches of Jazzfest—attracted top artists, crowds and two sizable Meyer Sound systems.
Live Sound
Gondek Sound Enters Dreamstate at Festival
Gondek Sound recently provided an Outline audio system for Poland’s annual Dreamstate Festival, devoted to trance music.
Live Sound
Jeep Beach Festival Hits Daytona Speedway
Daytona Speedway recently hosted the second annual Jeep Beach music festival, featuring Lee Brice and a new TT+ Audio P.A.
Live Gear
Familiar Festival Connects via Comms
Riedel Communications and RMi Inc. recently teamed up to deploy intercom systems at a certain popular festival.
Live Sound
Allen & Heath Closes Out SXSW 2024
Another South by Southwest has come and gone, bringing together artists, audiences and audio pros from around the world.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: The Wrong Kind of Zoo
Electric Zoo turned out to be anything but a stroll through Wonderland.
Blogs
Mix Live Blog: How Loud Is Too Loud?
"Wait a minute—130 dBC at front-of-house? Are they out of their minds?"
Live Gear
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival Marks 15th Anniversary
For 15 years, Outside Lands has been one of the Bay Area’s premiere music events, sporting Meyer Sound systems provided by Ultrasound and McCune...
Facilities
American Mobile Refines Festival Streaming Setup
American Mobile, which has been live-streaming audio from festivals for two decades, recently upgraded its production workflow.
The Wire
Oxbow Riverstage Offers World Class Sound Quality With EAW® Adaptive Audio Speaker System
Anya Loudspeaker and Otto 3-Way Full-Range Array Module Provide Complete Coverage and Unrivaled Flexibility at Outdoor Festival-style Venue
Live Sound
Getting the Show on the Road: Tour Sound in 2022
There are more tours than ever this summer, but in the live sound world, gear shortages and staffing challenges remain.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Country Takes a Stand
For the first time, the CMA Festival banned display of the Confederate flag on festival grounds. My reaction when I heard the news? What...
Live Sound
Burning Man’s Robot Heart Gets A Transplant
Burning Man's jaw-dropping Robot Heart sound-system bus is headed to New York's Central Park to party—and reinvent itself in the process.
Live Sound
Day Zero Festival: Welcome to the Jungle
The tenth annual Day Zero Festival, held in the Mayan jungle, had three stages using Funktion-One sound systems.
Live Sound
Furnace Fest 2021 Heats Up
Alabama's heavy metal meltdown Furnace Fest came back in 2021 after a full 18 years on hiatus, with Allen & Heath desks used for...
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Rule Number One
FOH engineer Steve La Cerra tries to make sense of the unfathomable in the wake of the Astroworld tragedy.
Live Sound
Going Country at The Gorge
Carlson Audio Systems provided sound for the Watershed Festival at The Gorge in George, WA in late July.
Live Sound
Newport Jazz Festival Returns
Arguably the best-known jazz festival in the U.S., the Newport Jazz Festival returned this summer after a pandemic year off.
Live Sound
Lollapalooza Kicks It Off!
The first of the full-capacity major music festivals returned this summer, with LD Systems on-site tackling both main stages.
Live Sound
Bringing Back NYC’s Blue Note
New York City's Blue Note is one of the best-known jazz clubs in the world, but at the height of the pandemic, it was...
Live Sound
Sound and Lighthouse: Creating Unique Audio For A Seafaring Festival
How do you hold an all-day festival for 7,000 music fans on a 40x40-foot island with barely any electricity?
Live Sound
d&b Rocks Down To Electric Avenue Festival
At the Park Stage, 20 d&b audiotechnik GSL8 and four GSL12 covered the crowd at New Zealand’s Electric Avenue festival.
Live Sound
Inside the Live Sound of Live Aid, Part 1: London
We look back at the live sound effort that went into the legendary charity concert Live Aid, held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia. With...
Live Sound
Montreux Jazz Festival Returns
The 55th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, revamped and reinvented for COVID times, has presented challenges for its audio team.
Live Sound
Inside a Six-Month Festival’s Pandemic Audio
OPAV has been providing sound for 350-plus concerts and events at Orlando's Frontyard Festival since December 2020.
Live Sound
iHeartRadio Theater Digs DiGiCo Desks
The iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles finally got to put its new DiGiCo consoles to work with the recent iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Music Festival Business
Inside the Live Sound of Live Aid, Part 1: London
This article has been moved and reformatted; please click through to read it at https://www.mixonline.com/live-sound/inside-the-live-sound-of-live-aid-part-1-london
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...
Festival Profile
Ahava Festival Gets in Under the Wire
Held just before the pandemic took hold of the U.S., New Orleans’ new Ahava Festival charity event was assisted by Danley Sound Labs.
Festival Profile
N-Ray Rolls Out at Kassel Festival
SR provider Ambion fielded a beta system of Coda’s new N-Ray line array at the Kulturzelt music festival in Kassel, Germany.
Festival Profile
SonRise Music Festival’s Speedy Soundchecks
For the SonRise Music Festival, S&S Production Services fielded Allen & Heath desks.
Live Sound
Technotrix Rolls into Riot Fest 2019
The Calumet City, IL-based audio provider tackled four stages of sound at this year’s Riot Fest in Chicago.
Festival Business
Audio Biz Steps into Irish Fest
The indie rep firm fielded a preshow/demo suite to ensure visiting engineers were up to speed on FOH and monitor consoles at the massive...
Live Sound
Yorkville Digs Into Oh Canada Ribfest
More than 54,000 people came out to the decade-old ribfest, getting their fill of food and music via a Yorkville Sound PA.
Live Sound
Italy’s Medimex Festival Turns to International Sound
Italian conference/festival hosted Clock DVA, Adrian Sherwood, others.
Live Sound
Raising the Roof—and Expectations—at Summerfest
By Steve Harvey. Many concerts have raised the roof at the 23,500-seat American Family Insurance Amphitheater, the flagship venue of Milwaukee’s Summerfest, but this...
Festival Business
Meyer Sound Rolls into Roskilde 2019
2019 marked the second year of the ongoing collaboration between Meyer Sound and Northern Europe’s biggest festival.
Recording
Zylia to Capture Bluegrass Festival
Old-school bluegrass to be captured with immersive recording technology.
Live Sound
Morris Light & Sound Takes on CMA Fest
Morris tackles audio for Russell Dickerson, Maren Morris, Hunter Hayes and others as it fields d&b on five stages.