Live Sound
Hotel ME Brings On 70 d&b Loudspeakers
Hotel ME, Cabo San Lucas is a notable resort in Mexico, not merely for the views and luxurious appointments, but also for the fact...
Loudspeakers — Stage Monitors
Live Sound
Capital Sound Capitalizes on Meyer
Capital Sound Hire has bolstered its inventory of Meyer Sound’s Leopard compact linear line array with the purchase of 24 Leopard loudspeakers, eight companion...
Live Sound
Celine Dion Takes Meyer on the Road
Canadian Celine Dion is quite fluent in her country’s native tongue…which is to say both of them. While many of her biggest hits have...
Live Sound
BassBoss to Hit Global Spin DJ Expo
When the second annual Global Spin DJ Expo gets underway in New York City tomorrow, September 17th, it will do so with a BassBoss...
Live Sound
Martin Audio Floats For Henley Festival
Sound production company RG Jones Audio Engineering once again provided audio for the annual five-day Henley Festival in the town of Henley-on-Thames, including on...
Live Sound
DAS Gets Festival Rolling Loud
LPS Production Services fielded a sizeable DAS Audio system for the Rolling Loud hip-hop festival in Miami.
Live Sound
VER Fields Meyer PA for Twenty One Pilots
Twenty One Pilots’s current Emotional Roadshow World Tour will have been on the road for 11 months by the time it’s completed. As the...
Live Sound
ISP Serves Steakhouse Sound
First built in 1984 and dramatically expanded a decade later, the Crossgates Mall outside Albany, NY has always been an upscale shopping facility, and...
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
SoundGirls Go To Camp
SoundGirls was founded a few years ago with the aim of encouraging young women to explore their interests in live sound. This summer, the...
Live Sound
Martin Audio Powers Overtown Music Festival
The recent Overtown Music Festival in downtown Miami was a big hit, offering a lineup of pop and R&B artists that included Eric Benet,...
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,...
Live Sound
Powersoft X4 Amps Power Peppers
Rat Sound has worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers for decades, handing the band’s sound requirements. For the band’s current itinerary of European...
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
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...
Music Production
Messina, PreSonus Get In The Groove
Folk rock mainstay Jim Messina has been part of Loggins and Messina, Poco and Buffalo Springfield, but his latest project is a new live...
Music Production
Otium Adds Powersoft Amps
Otium, a new restaurant in Los Angeles' cultural corridor directly beside The Broad museum, features a variety of dining environments, tied together by audio...
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
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
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
Republic New Orleans Rocks New System
Raven Production Management Group installed a DAS Audio sound system in New Orleans club Republic NOLA.
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...
Live Sound
Firehouse Gets RAD At Fashion Show
The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show in New York may be all about the visuals, but for the annual broadcast event, audio in the venue—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
Mark Knopfler Tour Makes Tracks
Dating back to his days with Dire Straits, guitarist extraordinaire Mark Knopfler has always been a stickler for sound, perhaps culminating with his 1985...
Business
Church Completes Nexo/Yamaha Install
The 1,000-seat main sanctuary at Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, MN recently upgraded its sound system with the help of Reach Communications (Champlin, MN),...
Business
Eighteen Sound Purchases CIARE Brand
In a move that broadens the range of offerings by Italian pro loudspeaker company Eighteen Sound, the company has purchased the CIARE hi-fi/automotive audio...
Business
Metallica, Meyer Kick Off Quebec Arena
Metallica recently played Quebec’s 20,000-seat Videotron Centre, becoming the first musical act to play the new arena, which had only opened a week earlier....
Business
Indiana Tech Enrolls WorxAudio
Indiana Tech’s new Academic Center has an equally new PA that was designed and installed by Advanced Systems Group (ASG) of Ft. Wayne, IN....
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Not Just Good; Thorogood
George Thorogood is many things—a guitar slinger, band leader and the man who wrote “Bad To The Bone,” the go-to track for every Eighties...
Business
Community Rolls Into New Velodrome
Cycling is an old sport, but current-day velodromes are just as modern as any other kind of arena. Take the new Kolodruma Velodrome in...
Business
QSC Bows AV-IT White Paper
QSC has released a new white paper, analyzing what AV professionals can do to build relationships with IT pros. Built on industry surveys and...
Business
Buying The Last Sound System
There is an axiom in the sound contracting industry that the goal is to sell a house of worship its last sound system.
Business
Bose Has Good Day in Sacramento
Morning shows seem to come and go, but Sacramento’s local CBS affiliate KOVR recently marked the 20th anniversary of Good Day Sacramento, broadcasting live...
Business
Vaught Hits The Road with FBT
Country music is all about working hard and playing hard—and artist Phil Vaught does a lot of both, playing a minimum of 200 nights...
Business
Tower Records Returns For One Night
By Steve Harvey. Gibson Brands and Colin Hanks set the clock back on Sunset Boulevard recently, restoring the exterior of the iconic Tower Records...
Business
Club Update Inspires New EAW Line
Avalon Hollywood recently renovated some areas, including the entrance and lobby, restored to their original 1927 grandeur, more VIP seating and a balcony extension....
Business
Community Sells Off Majority Stake
by Clive Young. Belgium-based Audioprof Group has purchased a majority stake in Community Professional Loudspeakers. Summing up reactions inside the company, Community CEO Steve...
Business
In-The-Round Sound Outdoors in Mexico
Mexico marked its 205th Independence Day on September 15, and nowhere was the celebration bigger than Zócalo public square in Mexico City, where five...
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...