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Sommer Cable Introduces SC-Elephant Robust Speaker Cable
Sommer Cable Introduces SC-Elephant Robust Speaker Cable Sommer Cable is now shipping its new multicore speaker cable for large scale line arrays. Sommer has...
Loudspeakers — Stage Monitors
Live Sound
Mixing Mariah at the Colosseum: Live Sound Showcase
Veteran engineer Phil Strong mixed Mariah Carey’s The Butterfly Returns, a series of residencies at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas that...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Guster
Alternative folk-pop mainstay Guster spent the start of the year on the road with a U.S. acoustic tour that not only showed off the...
Live Sound
Grammy Awards Show Begins Transition to AoIP
The Grammy Awards show has long employed a large splitter system to distribute microphone and instrument signals from the multiple stages to the house...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: The Who Brings Symphony Along on Moving On! Tour
The Who have 50 years of touring under their belts. For their current production, Moving On!, the band is playing with a symphony orchestra...
Live Sound
Tool Tours with Intricate, Immersive Sound
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...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Barbra Streisand Returns to Her NYC Roots
By Linda Romanello. While never one to tour extensively, Barbra Streisand played a trio of dates this summer that included a stop in her...
Live Sound
Ed Sheeran Sets Epic Touring Record Backed by Major Tom Ltd.
The two-year Divide tour is now the highest-grossing and most-attended tour of all-time.
Live Sound
Yorkville Digs Into Oh Canada Ribfest
More than 54,000 people came out to the decade-old ribfest, getting their fill of food and music via a Yorkville Sound PA.
Festival Profile
Brown Note Takes on Chicago Open Air Festival
Tool, SOAD, Ghost and others annihilate crowd at Chicago festival.
Product Reviews
Mackie FreePlay Series – A Real-World Review
By Clive Young. Mackie’s idea to offer an expanded line of largely specialized units—FreePlay LIVE, FreePlay HOME and FreePlay GO—allows the company to provide...
Live Sound
Mike Shinoda’s Monitors
Longtime monitor engineer Kevin McCarthy brings a passel of DAS on world tour.
Recording
View from the Top: Jeremy Bridge, CEO/Chief Engineer, PK Sound
By Clive Young. Jeremy Bridge recounts how his passion for both engineering and entrepreneurship paved the way his founding loudspeaker manufacturer PK Sound.
Business
Adamson Hosts Global Network Conference
More than 120 members gathered at Adamson HQ to discover what’s next from the loudspeaker manufacturer.
Live Sound
Backing Lindsey Buckingham on the Road
Touring keyboardist Brett Tuggle talks touring and loudspeakers.
Live Sound
Sam Smith Tours with ‘The Thrill of It All’
By Steve Harvey. British crooner Sam Smith is circling the globe behind his hit album "The Thrill of It All," with audio provided by...
Live Sound
Bringing Boutique Festivals to the Beach
Successfully executing six back-to-back weeklong festivals in a Mediterranean climate requires stamina and technical expertise.
Business
Yorkville Reps Ready to Roll with HK Audio
Yorkville's North American rep team got the scoop on HK Audio's Lucas, Elements, and Linear 3 lines.
HOW Sound
Revival Center’s Audio Revived
A new audio system is bringing added intelligibility to services.
Live Sound
PA for National Spelling Bee Starts with an “L”
Providing audio for the annual event meant creating a system for the house, but also a monitor arrangement to put young competitors at ease.
Live Sound
Sound Image Covers San Francisco Pride Celebration
More than half of the event's 20 stages were covered by Sound Image, and seven of those were outfitted with Vue Audiotechnik systems.
Live Sound
Adamson E-Series Makes Waves in South Korea
Adamson makes inroads into South Korean live sound scene.
Live Sound
New Orleans Jazz Fest Covers Kids with FBT
Varied entertainment complicated covering kids.
Live Sound
Martin Audio Demo Tour Hits Middle America
Martin Audio brings its roadshow to Milwaukee in July.
Live Sound
QSC Hits the Road with McCartney MD Wix Wickens
QSC gear plays its part in the onstage rig of musical director Paul "Wix" Wickens.
Festival Profile
Serving Up EDM in China for 60,000
Adamson PA and monitor rigs keep things moving at ISY.
Live Sound
QSC Invades Southwest Invasion in Austin
QSC gear ensured that more than 12,000 attendees heard every note at Southwest Invasion
Live Sound
Gamung Embraces Harman for Growth
Indonesian live production services company Gamung Productions upgrades its inventory with JBL Professional speakers, Crown amplifiers and Soundcraft consoles.
Live Sound
VUE Keeps the Beat at Palermo Festival
Beat Full Music Festival turns to Sinergie Group, VUE Audiotechnik
Live Sound
Blondie Calls Up New Stage Monitors
The classic pop-punk band toured with the latest wedges from Clair Brothers.
Live Sound
d&b Brings It for Barrowland Ballroom
FE Live Audio fields a new d&b audiotechnik PA at the venerable venue in Glasgow, Scotland.
Live Sound
Martin Audio Comes to Party at Cabo Wabo
Sammy Hagar’s Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas recently updated its original circa-1990 PA with a new Martin Audio System.
Festival Profile
Mengo Music Festival Makes Most of VUE
Sinergie Group supplied a VUE Audiotechnik PA system for the 13th annual Mengo Music Festival.
Live Sound
Martin Garrix Gets Amsterdam on its Feet with Adamson
EDM mainstay Martin Garrix played two shows at RAI Amsterdam through an Adamson Systems Engineering E-Series loudspeaker system.
Live Sound
Galaxy Rolls with Scovill on Petty Tour
Galaxy Hot Spot speakers were a key part of FOH engineer Robert Scovill's rig on the final Tom Petty tour.
Live
Eight Plays, A Streak: Paul McCartney Tours NYC
By Clive Young. Go inside Paul McCartney’s 2017 mini-tour of New York City, where the rock legend and crew tackled eight sold-out shows, playing...
Gear and Technology
Clair Brothers Debuts 1.5AM+ Stage Monitor
Clair Brothers has added to its One Series 12- and 15-inch coaxial stage monitor with a self-powered version of the 1.5AM monitor called the...
Live Sound
DAS Dials in Ulysses’ Folk House NYC
Canal Sound & Light updated the house audio system at Ulysses Folk House with Vantec Series loudspeakers from DAS Audio.
Live Sound
Alcons Arrive in Austin
Based in Austin, Texas USA, StageTech recently purchased a new Alcons Audio system to use in its varied business covering everything from live music...
HOW Sound
L-Acoustics Opens NYC Office
Aiming to underline its presence on the East Coast and also the Broadway theatrical market, L-Acoustics has opened a new office in midtown Manhattan,...
HOW Sound
Wirebox Updates Salvation Army’s Audio
The Salvation Army Temple in Atlanta recently upgraded its audio system, ditching a 20-year-old PA in the process. In its place is a new...