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Live Gear
Dialing in the Sound of SXSW
This year's SXSW Festival hosted more than 1,000 acts, and out of the dozens of venues, more than 30 had something in common.
Live Sound
Wonderfruit Festival is a Dusty Delight for Mr Team
The annual five-day, 24/7 Wonderfruit Festival is known for its many performance stages, workshops—and dust. So much dust.
Live Sound
L-Acoustics’ Spatial DJ Platform Makes US Festival Debut
Miami’s III Points Festival hosted the US festival debut of L-Acoustics DJ, a spatial audio system purpose-built for DJs.
Live Sound
Clair Global KSA Weathers Soundstorm Festival
Clair KSA covered many of Soundstorm's 450,000 attendees with an L-Acoustics system on the Big Beast main stage.
Live Sound
BNE Enters Dreamstate Festival
Regional sound provider BNE Productions was at Dreamstate Festival in Long Beach, CA to fill the air with pulsating beats via a PK Sound...
Live Sound
Adamson Launches Vergence Group at Major Festival
Adamson’s new Vergence Group Series made its debut at Vision and Colour Music Festival.
Live Sound
Firehouse Covers 60,000 at Global Citizen Festival
Featuring performances by Shakira and Cardi B, the annual Global Citizen Festival brought NYC’s Central Park to life.
Live Sound
GigantSound Powers Free Festival
This year’s Pol’and’Rock Festival was a hit, and Polish audio provider GigantSound – Letus ensured each attendee could hear every note.
Live Sound
Roskilde Festival Partners with Meyer Sound
The 2025 edition of Roskilde Festival marked Meyer Sound’s eighth year as the festival’s Official Sound Partner.
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
Madame Loyal Marseille Festival Loads Up on Funktion-One
France's Madame Loyal Marseille Festival mixes EDM and theatrical performances for a wild multi-room, two-day music event.
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.
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
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
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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...