Blog
Mix Live Blog: Financial Fallout
The height of the COVID pandemic may have passed, but its financial impact on live sound pros continues to reverberate.
Pandemic
Business
With Console Production Back on Track, Yamaha Pro Audio Launches DM3 Series
Yamaha's new DM3 Series desks signal the pro-audio giant's return to pre-pandemic console production levels.
Business
PLASA Report: Live Sound Bounces Back, But Challenges Remain
PLASA has released its “The Live Sector in 2022” Report, based on a survey of more than 1,300 live sound pros in 40-plus countries.
Blogs
Mix Live Blog: Higher Road Expense
FOH engineer/Mix blogger Steve La Cerra discovers another surprise side-effect of the pandemic: More concert security.
Business
New Report Highlights Live Sound Recovery Concerns
The report breaks down how Covid-19 has affected pros, providers and pro-audio manufacturers in more than 40 countries.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: A Sigh of Relief After Mixing on the High Seas
FOH engineer/Mix blogger Steve La Cerra just returned from mixing Blue öyster Cult on Rock Legends Cruise IX, and it was an eye-opening experience.
Live Sound
Genesis Live: Turn It On Again…One Last Time, Part 1
After announcing a farewell tour in March, 2020, Genesis finally hit the U.S. this past fall...and then Covid struck the audio team.
news
Focusrite’s Big 2021
Focusrite plc announced the final results for its financial year that ended August 31, 2021, highlighting the success of its various brands.
Live Sound
Rise Against Returns to the Road
Rise Against was one of the first major acts to return to touring, heading out in July; engineers Nate Northway and Charlie Bybee talk...
Live Sound
Bringing Back NYC’s Blue Note
New York City's Blue Note is one of the best-known jazz clubs in the world, but at the height of the pandemic, it was...
Blog
Mix Live Blog: Protecting the Investment on Broadway
With the Delta Variant spiking around the country, tours and venues are quickly changing their pandemic-related entrance requirements, and that includes Broadway, as Mix...
news
InfoComm 2021 COVID Requirements Announced
AVIXA has announced its COVID requirements for InfoComm 2021, subject to change and expected to be adhered to by all exhibitors and attendees.
Live Sound
Inside Live Sound’s Staffing Squeeze
As concert sound bounces back after the pandemic, there's fewer live sound pros coming back with it.
news
NAB Show Announces COVID Protocols
The National Association of Broadcasters has announced COVID protocols for attending this year's NAB Show, due to take place October 9-13 in Las Vegas.
Live Sound
The Hollywood Bowl Rolls Out Its Return
On May 15, the Hollywood Bowl hosted its first show in 18 months with a free concert for 4,000 frontline workers and first responders.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Rental Gouge
Ever on the road, live sound pro Steve La Cerra recounts a wretched rental counter encounter—and considers how other touring acts will be affected...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: At Home, On Tour
The Boss reopened on Broadway a few days ago and has announced plans for a 2022 tour, though the two types of performances are...
Live Sound
Brooklyn Bowl Nashville is Ready to Roll
The pandemic brought live music to a halt on March 12, 2020—the night before Brooklyn Bowl Nashville's grand opening. Here's how Music City's newest...
Business
AVIXA Talks COVID Safety for InfoComm 2021
Rochelle Richardson, senior vice president of exhibition and event services at AVIXA, discusses health and safety precautions for the upcoming InfoComm 2021.
Live Sound
Live Sound Reawakens As U.S. Tours Return
As U.S. tours cautiously start to hit the road in June, a whole new post-pandemic production world awaits.
Music Production
Pandemic Folk-Prog Goes Platinum
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal recorded songs by French-Canadian prog band Harmonium during the pandemic; now the album’s gone platinum.
Music Production
Ghost-Engineering Meek Mill’s ‘Quarantine Pack’ EP
Platinum-selling rapper Meek Mill thrives recording in an in-person setting, but the pandemic made that impossible. His longtime engineer Anthony Cruz shares how they...
Blog
What’s It Like to Mix for 4,000 Fans in a Pandemic?
As the U.S. gets vaccinated, concerts are starting to come back—but what’s it like to mix for 4,000 fans during a pandemic?
Blog
Editorial: Are We There Yet?
Usually it's kids in the backseat that ask 'Are we there yet?' Now it's being asked by audio professionals who want to get back...
Business
Grammy Engineering and Production Winners Announced
The Recording Academy announced the winners of the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in an audience-free show that reflected some of the events of the...
Music Festival Business
Festival Returns for Summer Down Under
Reinvented to meet pandemic protocols, South Australia’s Summer Sounds Festival was a four-week outdoor concert series of 18 shows
Live Sound
Nu Deco Ensemble’s New Shows
Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble returned to playing live shows in October, with precautions ranging from masks to Plexiglas to social distancing all in place.
Music Production
Phil Spector, Producer/Murderer, Dead at 81
Legendary producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector died January 16, 2021 of COVID 19-related complications.
Music Production
Goldfinger Gets Nostalgic with Never Look Back
John “Feldy” Feldmann, leader of ska-punk heroes Goldfinger, shares how the pandemic brought the band back together again (remotely) to record its latest album,...
Blog
Audio Op-Ed: Live Sound Has Answers for Other Markets
Half-formed hybrid plans due to COVID-19 are everywhere; Live Sound and AV can help make them whole, says Graham Hendry of Renkus-Heinz.
International
Tour Beats the Pandemic with an 80-Ton Boat
Violet Road bought an 80-ton boat, turned it into a tour bus on water, added an Alcons PA and kept touring this past summer.
Live Sound
How One College is Holding Real-Time Remote Rehearsals
Moody Bible Institute’s vocal and instrumental programs faced having to rehearse with players remotely separated. Professor David Gauger found a solution.
Live Sound
Marist’s Pandemic Reopening Aided by A-T
Marist College installed 150 Audio-Technica boundary mics and 50 SmartMixers in classrooms for remote learning during the pandemic.
Blog
COVID-19 and Pro Audio: An Industry Interrupted
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the pro-audio industry in ways both expected and surprising, but while manufacturing and recording are recovering from lockdown, live...
Live Sound
Billy Strings’ Drive-In Tour Rolls On
Bluegrass sensation Billy Strings’ “Meet Me at the Drive-In” tour is on the move, playing socially distanced drive-in venues like Wilkes-Barre’s Mohegan Sun Arena...
International
Providing Socially Distanced Concert Sound in Belgium
The Studio 100 Pop-Up Theatre in Belgium usually hosts 2,000 spectators, but is now holding concerts for 200 spread across the same space.
Live Sound
Scientists Hold Concerts to Determine How to Bring Shows Back
Researchers in Germany recently held three concerts in a single day to investigate how the coronavirus is likely transmitted in group settings. The team...
Recording
View from the Top: Glenn Burack, Bose
Glenn Burack, director of aviation, military and broadcast headsets at Bose, looks back at how the company’s military headset technology, first developed in 1986,...
Music, Etc
Music Etc. – Chuck Prophet, ‘The Land That Time Forgot’
Steve Harvey talks with guitarist, singer, producer and raconteur Chuck Prophet about the meandering path that led to the former Green on Red guitarist's...
Live Sound
Live Sound Turns to Congress for Help
The summer months are usually the busiest of the year for the live sound industry. While September typically sees the industry start to ease...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Live Sound Livens Up the NBA Bubble
Faced with the threat of an idle summer during the pandemic, tour sound provider Firehouse Productions realized the NBA Bubble would need immersive crowd...
Blog
The Gear of Damian Lillard’s Mini-Studio Inside the NBA Bubble; Hear His Tracks
NBA all-star Damian Lillard has been recording as rapper Dame D.O.L.L.A. while in the NBA Bubble, resulting in the appropriately titled mixtape, Live From...