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...
Live Sound
New Products
Li.LAC Microphone Disinfector Debuts
The Li.LAC Microphone Disinfector is a rack-mounted encasement that uses ultraviolet light to clean microphones.
Live Sound
3 Doors Down Rolls Out with Special Event Services
3 Doors Down hit the road this summer to mark the 20th anniversary of its debut album, with Special Event Services providing audio production.
Live Gear
Parvaaz Circles Around to New Tour
Bangalore-based Parvaaz just wrapped up its multi-city Full Circle tour, the first tour of its kind in India since the pandemic began.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Cyber Evil
This morning, when Steve La Cerra went to check his email, he was a little surprised to find 107 new messages.
Live Gear
Martin Audio Nets XE Monitor Waveguide Patent
Martin Audio has been awarded a United Kingdom Patent for its XE stage monitor waveguide.
Live Sound
Third Man Records Gets Live in London
Rocker Jack White's budding Third Man Records empire has opened its latest outpost in London, combining a retail space, exclusive live venue and more.
Live Gear
Solotech Loads Up On L-Acoustics K3s
Solotech has purchased a total of 56 L-Acoustics K3 compact line array cabinets, split equally across its North American and European locations.
Live Sound
Church Streams Organ Music to Parish
Petruskerk van Leens, one of Holland’s oldest churches, now livestreams masses and its famed organ by using DPA Microphones.
New Products
64 Audio A4s 4-Driver Custom In-Ear Monitors Launches
64 Audio has introduced its A4s 4-driver custom in-ear monitor, marking the company’s second hybrid custom IEM model.
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.
New Products
Meyer Sound Spacemap Go Plug-in Debuts
Meyer Sound has introduced a Spacemap Go plug-in for Avid’s VENUE S6L live sound mixing platform.
New Products
JBL Professional EON700 Portable PA Debuts
Harman's JBL Professional brand has unveiled its new EON700 Series portable PA loudspeakers and subwoofer with Bluetooth.
New Products
d&b audiotechnik ArrayCalc Adds En-Scene Simulation Tool
d&b audiotechnik has updated its ArrayCalc simulation software with En-Scene Simulation, allowing SPL and localization mapping within an object based workflow.
Live Sound
3G Productions Revamps, Restructures, Readies for 2022
3G Productions has restructured, moving to a new facility in Vegas, undergoing recapitalization, and dropping some operations and services in the process.
Live Sound
Milwaukee’s Summerfest: The “Big Gig” Is Back
After a hiatus in 2020, Milwaukee’s Summerfest returned in September with Clearwing Productions providing audio, lighting, video and more, as seen in this photo...
Live Sound
Beartooth Singer Mixes Band’s Monitors Live
Metalcore band Beartooth has been tearing it up on stage recently with vocalist Cabel Shomo mixing monitors from center stage for all five...
Live Sound
Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort Bets on EAW
Oaklawn Racing Casino in Hot Spring, AR has installed an EAW ADAPTive PA system.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: (Not) Everybody’s Working for The Weekend
What does the recently averted Hollywood labor strike say about the future of entertainment (including live sound)?
The Wire
Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort Hits the Jackpot With EAW ADAPTive Speaker System
Anna 3-Way Full-range Arrays and Otto Subwoofers Provide Complete Coverage and Unrivaled Clarity for New Event Center
Live Sound
ICOPER Rigging Code Up for Review
ICOPER, the International Code of Practice for Entertainment Rigging, is up for reassessment and industry comments are requested.
New Products
CODA Audio Space Hub Immersive Processor Launches
CODA Audio has launched its new immersive processor, Space Hub, which works within the Space Immersive System Solution.
Live Sound
Bringing Avatar’s Death Metal to Life on Tour
Death metal faves Avatar hit the U.S. this fall, tearing up theaters and festivals along the way—FOH man Erik Rogers tells all
New Products
SSL Launches L450, L650 Consoles, More Processing, V5 Software for Live Sound
SSL has aggressively revamped its live sound offerings, announcing two new consoles as well as scalable DSP for existing desks, support for Meyer Sound...
Live Sound
Clair Global Acquires ATK Audiotek
Clair Global has acquired broadcast event sound reinforcement specialist ATK Audiotek.
Live Sound
Montréal International Jazz Festival Returns with Solotech
The Montréal International Jazz Festival returned this year, with 30 acts on two outdoor stages performing through Solotech-supplied Meyer Sound systems.
The Wire
ATK Audiotek to Join Clair Global
LITITZ, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 2021: Clair Global CEO, Troy Clair, and ATK Audiotek President, Michael MacDonald, jointly announced that their companies have reached a...
Live Sound
Brooklyn Made Makes Good: Inside NYC’s Latest Must-Play Concert Spot
Brooklyn Made, a new 500-capacity venue in NYC, is looking to reinvent small venues from the ground up, from treating the artist well to...
The Wire
The Jonas Brothers are Burnin’ Up With DPA
Large Collection of DPA Microphones Selected for Group’s “The Remember This Tour”
Live Sound
A&H Found at Atlas Weekend
This year's Atlas Weekend in Kyiv, Ukraine saw comedian and pop singer, Andriy Danylko, mixed through an Allen & Heath dLive system.
Live Sound
Dolby Atmos-Based Venue Launches in Las Vegas
Dolby and MGM Resorts have teamed up to launch Dolby Live at Park MGM, touted as “the first fully integrated performance venue of its...
Live Sound
Mix Live Blog: Get Back Inside!
FOH engineer and Mix blogger Steve La Cerra heads to New Hampshire and discovers the Tupelo Music Hall is a sweet-sounding space.
New Products
Alcons QRP20 Pro-Ribbon Point Source Column Debuts
Alcons Audio has introduced its new QRP20 2-way column array system, intended for use in both permanent and portable applications.
Live Sound
Creating a Monitor Sound that Styx
Styx’s monitor engineer Evan McElhinney has been using Audix gear during the band’s current tour for its Crash of the Crown album.
Live Sound
Life is Beautiful Festival Rocks Vegas
Solotech provided a selection of Meyer Sound systems for mid-September's Life is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas.
Live Sound
Masque Sound Returns to the Muny
St. Louis' The Muny, America’s oldest and largest outdoor musical theater, presented five productions this past summer with audio by Masque Sound.
Live Sound
Hella Mega Yeah! Behind the Audio of the Summer’s Biggest Tour
Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer brought the rock—and the most surprising FOH console of the year—on the road this summer.
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
Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof Preps for a New Home
In Heidelberg's Old Town, Kulturhaus Karlstorbahnhof concert hall/nightclub has a new audio system while it waits to move into a new venue.
New Products
d&b audiotechnik XSL System Debuts
d&b audiotechnik has launched its new XSL System, the smallest offering in the range, with both installation (XSLi) and mobile touring (XSL) versions available.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Five Silly Questions…
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...