Business
Community Launches New Branding
Community Professional Loudspeakers has unveiled its new corporate brand identity, along with the new I Series loudspeakers.
Loudspeakers — FOH
Business
Martin Audio Takes on Glastonbury
Martin Audio’s Multi-Cellular Loudspeaker Array (MLA) made its Glastonbury debut this year, with the system deployed on the Pyramid Stage at the festival.
Live Sound
Global Citizen Festival to Feature Jay Z, No Doubt
This year’s Global Citizen Festival, held on the Great Lawn in New York City’s Central Park, will feature performances by Jay Z, No Doubt,...
Business
Eighteen Sound Launches Loudspeaker Lyceum
Eighteen Sound has launched Loudspeaker Lyceum, an ongoing video and text resource that encourages users to further their education about essential topics surrounding loudspeaker...
Business
Lake, Belew Bring Bose
As the tour manager for guitarists Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and Adrian Belew (Frank Zappa, King Crimson), André Cholmondeley needed a system...
Business
Adamson Powers Toby Keith
For his recent Shut Up & Hold On tour, Toby Keith brought along an Adamson Energia system for his Canadian dates, provided by Halifax,...
Business
Onstage Tackles Strait’s Final Show
For the final show of country music icon George Strait’s career, nearly 105,000 fans filled the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, setting the national...
Business
Cross Pointe Goes Meyer Mica
The Cross Pointe Church in Duluth, GA recently replaced its audio system with new gear that included a Meyer Sound Mica line array system...
Business
Sound Image Adds VUE Audiotechnik
Sound Image, audio provider for acts such as Tom Petty, Jimmy Buffet, Taylor Swift, Brian Setzer and John Legend, has purchased a VUE Audiotechnik...
Business
Master Mix Live Moves
Master Mix Live has moved into a new, 2,000 square-foot soundstage/studio. A flexible, multi-use facility that will alternate use as a recording studio, rehearsal...
Business
Mackie Bouys Britannia Stadium
Home to the Premiership Football Club, the Britannia Stadium recently upgraded to a Mackie DL806 iPad Control Wireless Mixer to help stadium announcer Steve...
Business
Renkus-Heinz Reinforces Lecture Hall
The University of Oslo’s main Campus Medica building, home to the offices of many of the school’s scientists and doctors, recently installed a Renkus-Heinz...
Business
MOOGFEST 2014
I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Moogfest and found it was certainly a different kind of festival.
Business
ELECTRIC DAISY CARNIVAL
When it comes to supplying sound equipment for an Electric Dance Music (EDM) festival, careful consideration needs to go into the reinforcement of the...
Business
Vue Debuts al-4-sb Sub
Vue Audiotechnik debuted its latest addition to its al-Class line array family during InfoComm 2014: the al-4-sb Flyable Isobaric Subwoofer.
Business
Masque Sound Hollers on Broadway
"Holler If Ya Hear Me" opened last week on Broadway, featuring the rhymes of famed rapper Tupac Shakur. The production tapped the talents of...
news
View from the Top: Steve Johnson, Community Professional Loudspeakers
Reflecting on his 20-plus years in the audio industry, Steve Johnson, CEO of Chester, PA-based Community Professional Loudspeakers, turns to a quote from 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...
Business
“Hedwig Heads To Broadway”
Revived from its off-Broadway and cult classic film counterparts, Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch follows an East German transgender rockstar’s struggle to fame...
Business
Sound Image Fields EAW For Petty Tour
Following its purchase of an Eastern Acoustic Works Anya system, Sound Image will use the new PA on Tom Petty’s upcoming Hypnotic Eye arena...
Business
Cerwin-Vega Supports NMS
Cerwin-Vega's P-Series Professional PA system was recently used as the audio system for all the presentations and performances at the New Music Seminar in...
Business
Vue Supports Fiesta Hermosa
Southern California’s Fiesta Hermosa Arts & Crafts festival celebrated its 44th anniversary over Memorial Day Weekend with the help of Bell Event Services, which...
Business
Lightning in a Bottle Fest Captures Pure Groove
Pure Groove Systems loudspeakers provided the sound for the Woogie Stage at California's Lightning in a Bottle festival, held over Memorial Day Weekend, which...
Business
Audio Must-Haves: Festival Essentials
With multiple musical acts gracing each stage at every festival, a constantly changing lineup of microphones, DIs and backline are juggled. Many acts carry...
Business
At InfoComm: PreSonus Buys WorxAudio
PreSonus has acquired loudspeaker manufacturer WorxAudio Technologies, Inc., While PreSonus already manufactures loudspeakers for small to midsized venues, the WorxAudio purchase brings in-house products...
Business
K2s Visit The Capitol For Concert
Production Resource Group (PRG) recently provided audio services for the 25th annual National Memorial Day Concert, held on the West Lawn of the U.S....
Business
Intelligibility Foremost : Sports Venue Loudspeakers
In any sports venue, whether an open stadium or an enclosed arena, and regardless of the sporting event, there is one overriding goal for...
Business
BottleRock Fest: From Sour To Sweet
The Napa Valley rock festival BottleRock stepped out from the long shadow of its troubled debut last year for a successful sequel that righted...
Business
Meyer Sound Supports Shakespeare
A Meyer Sound M1D line array loudspeaker system supports performances at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (CST), meeting specific architectural challenges of the theater.
Business
Renkus-Heinz Moves Into Riviera In China
The new Riverside Cultural Square Cultural Arts Center within the Wuhu Shimao Riviera Garden includes the Riviera Garden Theatre, a 1200-seat auditorium and multi-purpose...
Business
Alford Media Chooses MLA
Alford Media, a company that specializes in staging high-end corporate events, recently invested in a Martin Audio MLA system.
Business
Sound Works Tapped for Philfest
Northwestern University’s annual Philfest, a collaboration between A&O Productions and Students for Ecological and Environmental Development (SEED), tapped Frankfort, IL-based Sound Works Productions to provide...
Gear and Technology
Bowers & Wilkins Bows Festival PA
Hi-Fi loudspeaker developer Bowers & Wilkins recently announced a new PA system called Sound System that it claims is specifically designed for a festival...
Business
Kraftwerk’s Catalogue of Concerts
Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider started their Kraftwerk multimedia project in 1970, setting up the innovative Kling Klang Studio in Düsseldorf, Germany, where they...
Business
The Sound of After Midnight
NEW YORK, NY—Conceived by Jack Viertel and directed by Warren Carlyle, one of the newest shows to grace the stage in New York City’s...
Business
Adamson Heads In One Direction
Teen pop stalwarts One Direction recently kicked off its world tour in Bogota, Columbia’s Estadio el Campin, reaching the 60,000-plus fans in attendance with...
Business
Meyer Sound Supports Skillet
For the recent tour with Christian hard-rock band Skillet, White House, TN-based Blackhawk Audio chose a Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system...
Business
SE Systems Returns To MerleFest
This year’s MerleFest in Wilkesboro, NC featured over 125 artists, and had audio support from SE Systems of Greensboro, NC, as it has for...
Business
QSC Stays In Vegas
The Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino recently updated its Moorea Beach Club with a slew of new loudspeakers from QSC.
Business
L-Acoustics WIFO Sets Up In Salina
After 35 years, the Bicentennial Center Arena in Salina, KS recently replaced its original sound system, bringing in Parkway Communications, which installed a new...
Business
Anoka Church Undergoes Audio Upgrade
Originally built in the 1950s, the Zion Lutheran Church in Anoka, MN recently went through a renovation that required a substantial upgrade of the...
Business
Theatrical Sound Design Meets Reality
With the 135th AES Convention held in New York City only blocks away from Broadway, the best-known theatrical district in the world, it only...