Live Sound
PNTA Fills Seattle Center with Sound
Pacific Northwest Theatre Associates recently tackled providing audio for eight high school graduation ceremonies for Seattle Public Schools, all held at Memorial Stadium at...
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Live Sound
Martin Audio Covers Chicago Fests
Based in nearby Calumet City, Technotrix Inc. knows Chicago like the back of its hand—and the city’s festivals even more so, as it recently...
Live Sound
Adamson Rolls with Li Ronghao
Chinese pop star/producer Li Ronghao is on the road throughout Asia, hitting arenas in Hong Kong, Taipei, Seoul, Tokyo, Malaysia and Singapore after kicking...
HOW Sound
Sound Alights on East Sunshine Church
East Sunshine Christian Church's 1,500-seat sanctuary recently updated its audio system to aide its vocalists’ trademark four-part harmonies. Key to that effort were Renkus-Heinz...
Festival Profile
FBT Grows Festival Presence
FBT may be an Italian company but its loudspeakers are used around the world—as shown by its growing presence in the UK festival market,...
Festival Profile
Satisfying Jazz Audiences
"Jazz audiences are totally unforgiving," says Mike Sinclair. He should know—as the president of Roselle Park, New Jersey-based Audio Incorporated, he’s spent a decade...
HOW Sound
Old North Church Gets New PA
The Old North Church in Canfield, OH is actually pretty new—while the congregation is marking its 80th anniversary, its actual church is a modern...
Live Sound
Outcry Heard Via L-Acoustics
Bringing together some of the brightest stars in the current CCM world, including Hillsong Worship, Kari Jobe, Jesus Culture with Martin Smith, Passion, Elevation...
Festival Profile
Axiom Adds to Exmouth Festival
The annual Exmouth Festival in the southwest of England is a provincial event, celebrating the music, crafts and traditions of the region, but for...
Live Sound
Bright Star Heard Via Masque Sound
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new Broadway musical, Bright Star, hit the Great White Way in March only to close this past weekend. Along...
Live Sound
Meyer Sound Answers Boston Calling
The recent outdoor Boston Calling festival in Boston’s City Hall Plaza brought the likes of Sia, Disclosure, Robyn, Sufjan Stevens, Janelle Monae, and Haim...
Live Sound
Nexo Digs Dillo Day
Illinois is a long way from Texas. Maybe that’s why in the early 1970s, some homesick Texans attending Northwestern University founded Armadillo Day, honoring...
HOW Sound
EAW Anya Heads To Church
Traditional gothic-style churches are a design that goes back hundreds of years, but not all such worship facilities are old. Take the newly constructed...
Live Sound
RMB Reinforces Duke University
Springtime for live sound providers is all about graduation ceremonies, and that’s the case, too, for the audio team at RMB Audio in Selma,...
Live Sound
FBT Lands in Lee’s Liquor Lounge
Honky tonks that have old-school authenticity are great. Honky tonks that have old-school sound systems? Not so much. Case in point: Lee’s Liquor Lounge,...
Live Sound
Brand-New Ballpark A Home Run for ISP
Yesterday was opening day for the brand-new Jimmy Johns Minor League Baseball Field in Utica, Michigan. Two years in the making, the $15-million ballpark...
Live Sound
Inside RCF’s Big Vegas Win
More than 17 million people visit the Fremont Street Experience in Las Vegas every year, and the big draw is the famed, four-block-long Viva...
Live Sound
Iron Maiden Rolls with Meyer
Iron Maiden is in the midsts of a six-month, 35-country world tour. Along for the ride is FOH engineer Martin Walker, who’s been mixing...
Live Sound
Allen & Heath Rocks China
PA company Shanghai Jiexin Entertainment Equipment Co. Ltd. recently provided stage, lighting and sound systems for a large concert held at 30,000-seat Jinhua stadium,...
Live Sound
Peavey Behind 2016 DMC Battles
When you think portable PA uses, houses of worship, small bands, coffee houses and the like come to mind first, but in truth, they’ve...
Live Sound
M&L Sound Named L-Acoustics CPr
Knoxville’s M&L Sound recently joined L-Acoustics’ Rental Network as the manufacturer’s latest Certified Provider (CPr).
Live Sound
From Rainman to Superman On Tour
There are only a handful of film soundtrack composers working today who have household-name recognition—say, John Williams, Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer. While the...
Live Sound
Mixing Leona Lewis Live
Songstress Leona Lewis recently finished a 14-date UK tour of the UK; along for the ride was FOH engineer Dave Wooster, who oversaw a...
Live Sound
Hamilton Heard Via Alcons
Hamilton has been the only theater ticket anyone talks about in New York for months now, and with a Pulitzer and Grammy already under...
Live Sound
Bringing Live EDM to Cuba
EDM knows no borders, so in the wake of relations between the U.S. and Cuba thawing, the EDM acts Diplo and Major Lazer recently...
Live Sound
VUE Audiotechnik Heads Down Under
When the Orange Ex-Services’ Club (OESC) refurbished its Coral Sea Room, the facility brought in Colton Computer Technologies (CCT), consultants that design and deploy...
Live Sound
Mixing Mariah Live in Europe
Mariah Carey recently toured Europe for the first time in 13 years, packing arenas along the 22-city route. Ensuring that audiences could hear every...
Live Sound
Republic New Orleans Rocks New System
Raven Production Management Group installed a DAS Audio sound system in New Orleans club Republic NOLA.
Live Sound
Gand Upgrades Hemmens Theatre Audio
he Hemmens Theatre in Elgin, IL, part of the town’s Riverwalk and a key player in the region’s growing arts community, recently got an...
Live Sound
New Vegas Arena Opens With Martin Audio
The new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas recently opened, the fruition of $375 million and two years of construction. The 20,000-seat facility will host...
HOW Sound
A Church with a VUE
The First Baptist Church in Hendersonville, TN recently replaced its aged audio system after a solid 25 years of service. In its place is...
Festival Profile
The Blues Get Festive in Vegas
There are numerous constants in the live sound business, and two of the most prominent are festivals and the blues. Put them together and...
HOW Sound
Renkus-Heinz Heads To Redlands
The First Baptist Church of Redlands has been around for nearly 130 years, and has been in its current 480-seat sanctuary for almost 65...
Live Sound
DBS Fields DAS at EDC
DBS Sound and Lighting used a considerable D.A.S. Audio P.A. system for the Electric Daisy Carnival at Orlando's Tinker Field.
Live Sound
RMB Gets MLA Mini for UNC
University of North Carolina’s Memorial Hall may have been built in 1885, but it has a brand-new audio system in the form of a...
HOW Sound
RCF Fills Massive Mosque with Sound
The massive new Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan Mosque in the United Arab Emirates, is an impressive 39,000-square-meter HOW that holds up to...
Live Sound
Choctaw Casino Bets On Meyer Sound
Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Okla. recently opened the Grand Theater, a multi-purpose venue featuring one of the largest Meyer Sound Leo Family line...
Live Sound
Motown Brings Hylenski To London
Motown: The Musical closed on Broadway last year after a nearly two-year run and 738 performances, but that doesn’t mean the soulful show has...
Live Sound
Recording Katy Perry, Patti Smith Live
They might come from different sides of the musical spectrum, but Katy Perry and Pattti Smith have at least one thing in common: They’ve...
Live Sound
JBL Heats Up BET Hip Hop Awards
Firehouse Productions fielded JBL loudspeakers and Crown amplifiers for the annual BET Hip Hop Awards at the Atlanta Civic Center.
Live Sound
ATK Audiotek, JBL Score at Super Bowl
Every team has players it counts on in the clutch, and the audio team at ATK Audiotek is no different. The company once again...
Business
Designing Hockey Arena Audio
Hockey arenas tend to treat audio the same way hockey players treat each other—with extreme disregard. The new Complexe JC Perreault in Saint-Roch-de-l’Achigan, Quebec,...