Bruce Knight, Veteran FOH Engineer, Passes
Veteran live sound engineer Bruce "BK" Knight passed away Sunday, April 21, 2024. Across a 40-plus-year professional career, he mixed artists as varied as...
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Veteran live sound engineer Bruce "BK" Knight passed away Sunday, April 21, 2024. Across a 40-plus-year professional career, he mixed artists as varied as...
Concluding our coverage of the Iron Maiden 'Legacy of the Beast' tour, FOH engineer Ken "Pooch" Van Druten shares how he approaches each instrument...
After 140 shows in 33 countries for 3 million fans, metal giants Iron Maiden finally finished their latest tour—and are ready for the next...
Every live sound pro has survived their fair share of travel nightmares, but the experience never gets any easier.
FOH engineer Frank Gallagher's stories are always headed somewhere unexpected—like this one, which starts off in late-Seventies New York City.
Frank Gallagher has mixed rock legends since the Sixties; still touring today, he's sharing how it all went down on his new podcast.
FOH engineer Bill Sheppell & recording engineer Obie O’Brien tout the Austrian Audio OD505 use on stage
FOH engineer/blogger Steve La Cerra caught a (technical) bug the other day—and then it traveled with him to other gigs.
FOH engineer/Mix blogger Steve La Cerra is on the road with Blue Öyster Cult, and has noticed that he's needed to ask questions that...
Mix columnist Steve La Cerra writes in from Blue Oyster Cult's FOH console and reports he's not the only one a little rusty from...
FOH engineer Vincent Kowalski died July 17, 2020, closing a 40-plus year career that saw him tour with Blondie, fellow Long Islanders Dream Theater,...
A veteran of the live concert business, Roy Williams helmed the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion and multiple Robert Plant tours.
Speaking from Firenze, Andrea Taglia, FOH engineer for opera superstar Andrea Bocelli, discusses the novel coronavirus from the vantage point of Italy.
FOH engineer Kevin McCoy shares with Adam Savage what it takes to mix the hit show 'Hamilton.'
The Who have 50 years of touring under their belts. For their current production, Moving On!, the band is playing with a symphony orchestra...
Touring the world behind “Fear Inoculum,” Tool’s first album in 13 years, the prog-metal heroes are filling arenas with a massive audio system that...
We stumbled across this good-natured comedy clip picturing a Slipknot soundcheck in the early 2000s, and naturally we had to share it.
The Boston rockers have been on the road for over a year in support of their latest, tearing up arenas and sheds along the...
Solotech recently provided L-Acoustics, DiGiCo gear for multi-hyphenate Hugh Jackman’s 90-date global tour.
FOH Engineer for GRAMMY Award-Nominated R&B Singer-Songwriter Brings Studio Sound to the Stage with DPA’s d:facto 4018VL After auditioning nearly every industry standard microphone...
A mainstay of Italian pop, Jovanotti tours with SSL on an unconventional tour.
By Steve Harvey. Shortly before a block of about two dozen U.S. shed dates in June and July, Shinedown called on Andy Meyer to...
Diablo Digital co-founder and FOH engineer Brad Madix relies on a range of DPA microphones to help deliver pristine percussion to audiences.
FOH engineer Drew Thornton shares how he applies plug-ins to Eilish’s live sound.
By Steve Harvey. UK multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier and his production director, Ben Bloomberg from MIT’s Media Lab, reveal the custom technologies behind the staging...
Charlotte, N.C. — Charlotte-based Elevation Church now has 19 campuses around North Carolina, all with very high production values. Each of the locations has...
By Phil Ward. In-ear monitors may be ubiquitous these days, as they are less likely to damage users’ hearing and also result in a...
By Clive Young. Talking with the audio team behind the scenes on this fall's Thomas Rhett arena tour.
Justin Timberlake has been on the road with his sixth world tour, Man Of The Woods, and along for every step of the journey...
Indie rockers The War on Drugs hit the road with SSLs from LMG.
Obnoxious Drunk Person interrupting me at FOH: “Are you the soundguy? It sounds like %#&@.” I refrain from telling this annoying, inebriated individual where...
On her Fare Thee Well tour, now traveling across North America, Joan Baez' FOH and monitors are being mixed by engineer Jason Raboin on...
Supporting Paul Simon on Homeward Bound—The Farewell Tour, Clair Global is providing production that includes a Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 for front of house.
Supporting Paul Simon on Homeward Bound—The Farewell Tour, Clair Global is providing production that includes a Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 for front of house.
FOH Engineer Jacob Feinberg Keeps It All on Track
FOH engineer and production manager Chris Chalfin explains what goes into making the GTLO sound.
By Mark R. Smith. New wave legend Paul Weller has been presenting current selections from his vast catalog during his “A Kind of Revolution”...