Live Sound
Dugan Digs Into Sensaphonics 2MAX
Live sound engineer/tour manager Robert Dugan has been using Sensaphonics 2MAX ear monitors while on the road with various acts, including Mike Posner, Rixton...
Headphones / In Ear Monitoring
Music Production
Oufitting a Rock ‘n’ Roll High School
Mount Olive High School (MOHS), rated among the top schools in the nation, made some major upgrades to its facilities over its summer recess,...
Live Sound
Going Above & Beyond at the Hollywood Bowl
Building on 15 years of EDM hits, remixes for high-profile artists like Madonna, big-ticket DJ shows around the world including a sold-out gig at...
Live Sound
Sensaphonics Educates At Ultra Music Fest
Sensaphonics partnered with audiologists from University of Miami UHealth at last weekend’s Ultra Music Festival in an effort to promote healthy listening to the...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Jump Jive An’ Jingle With The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Brian Setzer may be best known as a Stray Cat, but the man’s more like a chameleon.
Business
Keeping Tabs On NY CityFest
As any RF engineer will point out at the drop of a hat, there’s far more audio happening at a major event than just...
Business
Finding The Right Console
Implementing a new audio mixing console for a house of worship is never a light matter.
Business
Juanes Provides Loco De Amor
Colombian singer/songwriter/guitarist Juanes, arguably one of the biggest Latin music artists to emerge from the early 21st century, spent the summer performing to sold-out...
Business
Mixing Monitors for 5 Seconds of Summer
As an experienced sound engineer for over 20 years, I’ve worked with all genres and styles, mixing for acts including Scissor Sisters, PJ Harvey,...
Business
Red Bull Brings On Behringer
Red Bull presents a lot of interesting stuff, whether it’s extreme sports or popular music. When it comes to the latter, many of the...
Product Reviews
Review: beyerdynamic MCE 86 II Electret Condenser Shotgun Microphone
A shotgun microphone is simply a tool worth having in any “workhorse” microphone collection, and the MCE 86 II is an ideal specimen.
Business
On The Road with Primus
Known for liberally mixing alt, prog, country and any other genres lying around (not to mention creating the theme to South Park), Primus hit...
Business
Entec Takes On TCT Concert
The 15th annual Teenage Cancer Trust concert, held at The Royal Albert Hall, found Stereophonics, The Who, Paul Weller, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds,...
Business
Atrium Audio On The Move
Recording and production facility Atrium Audio in Lancaster, PA is a busy place. Owners Carson Slovak and Grant McFarland produced and mixed a new...
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
Live Sound
Something is Rockin’ in the State of Denmark
Volbeat may have been founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, but the heavy metal band is known around the globe—as its headlining run through North America...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Cruise Control – Florida/Georgia Line
Florida Georgia Line named its first album Here’s To The Good Times, and good times are what fans get when they come out to...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Marc Anthony – Touring on a Need to Know Basis
Playing a handful of Northeast dates early this year—it’d be more accurate to call it a series of one-offs than a mini-tour—the artist and...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Hunting Party in the Park
It’s hard to believe it’s been nearly 15 years since Linkin Park broke out with its debut, Hybrid Theory, but 60 million albums later,...
Business
Bareilles’ Little Black Dress Tour Goes Big
NEW YORK, NY—Bringing a solid dose of traditional pop smarts to the singer/songwriter genre, Sara Bareilles has made a name for herself over the...
Business
Mixing With Mo-FI at Tokyo Dome
Faced with mixing Earth Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey inside the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome, FOH engineer Terry “TJ” Jackson recently used Blue Microphone Mo-Fi...
Business
Shure Wireless Gets Workout at Grammys
The annual Grammy Awards, held yearly the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, are always a hotbed of RF activity, between the performers’ mics...
Business
Shure Helps Capture CMA Awards
The recent broadcast of the 48th Annual CMA Awards from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena served up some of the best and brightest in the country...
Business
Sound Isolation On HOW Stages: A Joyful (But Quieter) Noise
Providing balanced and pleasing sound in church settings can be a challenge. After all, one person’s “perfect” is someone else’s “too loud.” Since exorbitant...
Business
Cheap Trick In The Mix
NEW YORK, NY—Since its inception in 1973, Cheap Trick has given more than 5,000 performances, sold 20 million records, contributed to 29 movie soundtracks...
Live Sound
The Comfort of Consistency: Incorporating In-Ear Monitor Technology to the Festival World
It’s arguable that wireless in-ear monitor (IEM) technology has improved live music performances, thus festival audio production, in more ways than any other gear-based...
Business
Chance The Rapper Adds In-Ears
Chicago-based sound engineer Aaron Patkin joined Chance the Rapper in 2013, working with the artist as he grew from an Internet sensation to the...
Business
PAR Studio Feature: Hey, Pro Tools Pros—What’s New? by Rich Tozzoli
PAR Software Editor Rich Tozzoli recently spoke with five engineering peers on their recent purchases and choices in both software- and hardware-based audio tools.
International
Back To The Retro Futura
The Retro Futura Tour was out to revive that ’80s vibe with co-headliners Howard Jones and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, joined by Katrina...
Business
Squint Focuses on AKG
Alternative rock band Squint, which recently transitioned from nationwide touring to recording a Kickstarter-funded album, has been using AKG microphones and headphones to achieve...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Cher—Dressed To Kill, Rigged to Wrap
Her job these days may be to “come out in silly outfits, sing and be fabulous,” as Cher commented onstage at the Staples Center...
Business
If/Then Sounds Off On Broadway
NEW YORK CITY, NY—People the world over may know Idina Menzel as the voice behind the omnipresent “Let It Go” in the recent animated...
Business
Harman Outfits Idaho Church
The Coeur d’Alene Church of the Nazarene recently upgraded its sound system with the help of Spokane, Washington’s Hoffman Pro Systems and Harman Professional,...
Business
Bowie Show Goes with guidePORT
David Bowie Is, a retrospective exhibition of the artist’s career, will make its U.S. debut in September in Chicago with Sennheiser guidePORT technology providing...
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
Night Ranger, AKG Take High Road
It’s no exaggeration to say that Anthony Focx was heavily involved in the creation of High Road, the latest album by Night Ranger; after...
Business
Appelbaum Says Yes to Sennheiser
Los Angeles-based mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum recently put the finishing touches to Heaven & Earth, the latest album from prog rockers Yes, with a...
Business
CAD Audio Adds to Music Education
To help further the musical education program, CAD Audio recently donated a number of MH510 studio headphones to students at one of Aaron O’Keefe’s...
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
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...