Business
KM Deploys Wirelessly For CBGB Fest
NEW YORK CITY—Open-air events in inner city areas can present numerous challenges, not the least of which is keeping the sound contained in order...
Microphones – Wireless Converters
Business
Sound Summit Set For Chicago
DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics and Sound Devices will host the Sound Summit, Chicago on Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The event will present an informal mixing...
Business
DPA Takes the Road to Rio
Grammy-nominated engineer Gabriel Pinheiro recently employed his DPA d:screet 4061 miniature mics on a feature film about Chico Buarque, a popular Brazilian musician.
Business
Taking Care of Business with the TSO
Conceived by producer Paul O’Neill in the early Nineties as an album project, Trans- Siberian Orchestra (TSO) hit it big with an unlikely hybrid...
Business
CTS Helps Oprah Tour Inspire
Dubbed one of the world’s most influential women, media superstar Oprah Winfrey has built her career around empowering others.
Business
Lectrosonics Captures Jaguar’s Roar
UK-based sound recordist Bal Rayat recorded a prototype Jaguar XE S sports sedan at the carmaker’s assembly plant in England using Lectrosonics Digital Hybrid...
Business
Feeling Cavalier
ROSEMONT, IL—Drums and bugle corps competitions date back many decades, yet are in a constant state of evolution.
Business
Grammy Stars Grab Sennheiser Wireless
The 57th Annual Grammy Awards, held at Los Angeles’ Staples Center last week, found artists including Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, Beyoncé, Madonna, Tony Bennett,...
Business
Shure Wireless Gets Workout at Grammys
The annual Grammy Awards, held yearly the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles, are always a hotbed of RF activity, between the performers’ mics...
Business
Workaholics Prefer Lectrosonics
The production audio crew for Comedy Central’s Workaholics, now in its fifth season, uses wireless microphone technology from Lectrosonics.
Business
Reliant Stadium Makes A Clear Call
HOUSTON, TX—They say everything’s bigger in Texas, and Houston’s Reliant Stadium certainly fits the bill.
Business
Live Music Production in Sports Venues
Popular music has been showcased in acoustically challenging environments for decades, pleasing audiences despite the fact that live sound engineers must often fight physics...
Business
Audio Elements of the Sports Experience
The audio elements of the sports experience—PA announcements, music playback, synchronization and distribution of audio and video, broadcast interface —require a sophisticated infrastructure.
Business
Lectrosonics Gets Busy in Dubai
British cameraman/soundman Tom Savage, a location sound engineer on National Geographic Channel’s Ultimate Airport Dubai, has been using Lectrosonics wireless products on the show.
Business
Kylie Minogue Moves With Sennheiser
Pop artist Kylie Minogue spent her autumn touring Europe, accompanied by sound company Eighth Day Sound, who supplied a microphone package featuring Sennheiser SKM...
Business
Masque Rings Up Disney Musical
For the U.S. premiere of Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame at the La Jolla Playhouse, five time Tony-award winning sound designer Gareth Owen worked...
Business
GC Pro Outfits Global Harvest Church
For years, Global Harvest Church shared worship spaces with the New Song Church, also in Carrollton, but more recently members of the existing congregation...
Business
Sennheiser Captures Inspiring Doc
“Skid Row Marathon,” a documentary film about the Midnight Mission’s running club, was captured by Sennheiser microphones from start to finish.
Business
Idols SA Turns to Shure
The “Idol” singing competition franchise is popular around the world, and South Africa’s edition, Idols SA, held its season finale on November 23, when...
Business
McCain, AKG Hit the Road
Over his two decade career, singer/songwriter Edwin McCain has released a number of hits and plays more than 300 gigs a year. For each...
Business
DPA Rolls Up to ‘Counting Cars’
Rado Stefanov, sound mixer for History Channel's "Counting Cars," has been using DPA Microphones’ d:screet 4063 micas for both talent and ambient sound recording.
Business
FCC Wireless Changes on Horizon
WASHINGTON, DC—On September 30, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) putting forward amendments to Part 15 of its...
Business
Sennheiser Encourages FCC Petition
Sennheiser is encouraging microphone owners and customers to write to the FCC in support of the company’s Petition for Reconsideration, filed in light of...
Live Sound
Controlling Frequencies at Lollapalooza
Chicago’s Lollapalooza, one of the year’s top music festivals organized by C3 Presents, hired Frequency Coordination Group (FCG) to coordinate wireless throughout the iconic...
Business
Live Sound Showcase: Katy Perry – Pragmatically Prismatic
NEW YORK, NY-Since the release of her fourth studio album, Prism, back in late 2013, pop diva Katy Perry has hit some significant landmarks...
International
Back To The Retro Futura
The Retro Futura Tour was out to revive that ’80s vibe with co-headliners Howard Jones and Tom Bailey of Thompson Twins, joined by Katrina...
Business
Location Sound Summit Announced
DPA Microphones, Lectrosonics and Sound Devices will host The Sound Summit LA, an event focusing on location sound, just prior to the start of...
Business
Lectro RF Captures Unforgettable Action
Production sound mixer Larry Hoff, CAS uses his arsenal of Lectrosonics wireless microphone equipment to capture the action on the CBS TV show Unforgettable.
Business
Rutherford Dives Into DPA
International artist Ivan Rutherford recently gave a one-off show in Hong Kong with the help of DPA Microphone’s d:facto Vocal Mic.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Cher—Dressed To Kill, Rigged to Wrap
Her job these days may be to “come out in silly outfits, sing and be fabulous,” as Cher commented onstage at the Staples Center...
Business
If/Then Sounds Off On Broadway
NEW YORK CITY, NY—People the world over may know Idina Menzel as the voice behind the omnipresent “Let It Go” in the recent animated...
Business
Holland’s Straathof Nabs Lectrosonics
The Netherlands’ Barbara Straathof, who gained fame from her exposure in season 3 of the reality series, ‘The Voice of Holland,’ decided to take...
Business
InfoComm 2014 The Largest To Date
LAS VEGAS, NV—InfoComm International called its 2014 conclave the largest ever, with some 37,000 AV professionals passing through the Las Vegas Convention Center in...
Business
Lectrosonics Powers The Color Purple
For San Francisco’s Hillbarn Theater’s performance of The Color Purple, sound designer Alan Chang of Coral Canopy chose a range of Lectrosonics products to...
Business
AUDIO MUST-HAVES: ESSENTIAL TOOLS FOR KEEPING THE FESTIVAL ON TRACK
With multiple musical acts gracing each stage, a constantly changing lineup of microphones, DIs and backline are juggled.
Business
PWS Manages Night of Hope RF
Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), a Masque Sound Company, provided wireless services for the outdoor broadcast of Joel and Victoria Osteen’s Night of Hope from...
Business
Sennheiser Moves Miley to Digital
For her current tour promoting the album, Bangerz, Miley Cyrus is performing with Sennheiser’s Digital 9000 microphone system.
Business
Lectro Captures Footkhana FX
Video production specialist La Fabrica de Carbon recently completed "Footkhana," a film for Castrol and Ken Block, using Lectrosonics equipment.
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...
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...