Live Sound
Behind the Audio of George Strait’s Record-Breaking Show
Providing sound for nearly 111,000 George Strait fans at a record-breaking show at Texas A&M was no simple task, as his audio team explains.
Rupert Neve Designs
Live Sound
Blink-182 Hits The Road ‘One More Time’
Reunited after a decade apart, Blink-182 is blasting its way across North America with Clair Global and a team of audio pros along for...
Live Sound
Noah Kahan: Singer, Songwriter, Stadium Filler
Noah Kahan is the kind of artist who sells out multiple nights at Fenway Park but still writes a new song, posts it to...
Live Sound
Mixing Mitski’s Ever-Expanding Tour
Multi-genre indie artist Mitski has a sold-out tour on her hands; now the run of residencies is a buzzed-about sensation.
The Wire
Shiny Eyes Debuts SF Bay Area Studio with Sommer Cable
Shiny Eyes Studio has opened its new Dolby Atmos-certified recording studio in the San Francisco East Bay with Sommer Cable installed throughout.
Blog
Seen on the Scene: NAMM 2024, Part 2
The annual NAMM Show, held January 25-28 in Anaheim, was a hit; here's just some of what we saw on the show floor.
Live Sound
On the Move With My Morning Jacket
My Morning Jacket spent most of 2023 on the move—which was fine with FOH engineer Ryan Pickett as he marked his 20th year mixing...
New Products
Rupert Neve Designs’ Master Bus Transformer Debuts
Rupert Neve Designs has launched the MBT—Master Bus Transformer, intended for sweetening and enlivening audio source material.
Live Sound
Luke Combs is Gettin’ Global on His World Tour, Part 1
Luke Combs' world tour will hit 16 countries this year, but it started with a sold-out stadium run here in the U.S., supported by...
Live Sound
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raise the Roof on the Road, Part 2
Discover how the audio team on Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' "Raise The Roof" tour brought the chemistry on stage to the crowds nightly.
New Products
Rupert Neve Designs Debuts Newton Channel Strip
The Newton Channel is a new channel strip from Rupert Neve Designs, intended for studio work and live sound applications.
Live Sound
Mixing Muse for the Masses on the ‘Will of the People’ World Tour
The latest Muse world tour overdelivers with cutting-edge concert theatrics—and the same goes for its live sound.
New Products
Rupert Neve Designs Debuts RNDI-8
Rupert Neve Designs has introduced the RNDI-8, an eight-channel, 1RU version of the company’s active transformer direct interface.
Live Sound
Capturing Chris Young’s Live Sound On Tour
Chris Young is hitting the road hard in advance of his next album, with Erik Rogers tackling FOH engineer duties for the country star.
Music Production
Inside Spotify At Mateo Studios
Spotify’s new campus in Los Angeles features a world-class studio, podcast bays, a performance hall and Dolby Atmos mixing.
Facilities
A.R. Rahman’s Latest Venture Offers a “Sonic Paradise”
Promoted as a “sonic paradise,” Firdaus Studio in Dubai was conceived by both Her Excellency Reem Al-Hashimy and musician A.R. Rahman.
Facilities
Sweetwater Studios Announces Upgrades
Sweetwater Studios recently completed upgrades to its flagship Studio A, including a custom Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console.
New Products
Rupert Neve Designs Limited Edition 5025 Dual Shelford Mic Pre Launches
Rupert Neve Designs has unveiled its new 5025 Dual Shelford Mic Pre, a limited edition 2-channel microphone preamplifier.
Live Sound
Hella Mega Yeah! Behind the Audio of the Summer’s Biggest Tour
Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer brought the rock—and the most surprising FOH console of the year—on the road this summer.
Facilities
Old Meets ‘News’ at Citizen Vinyl
Citizen Vinyl’s focus is on vinyl pressing, but the business includes a studio featuring a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console.
Live Sound
Phish Touring With Rupert Neve Designs RMP-D8 Preamps
FOH mixer Garry Brown adds 112 channels, via Dante, to his Yamaha Rivage PM10–based console system.
Blog
Mix Blog Studio: Hardware Shines at NAMM
Mike Levine ended up spending time with the revival in hardware products at the recent virtual NAMM show, reminding him a bit of a...
Music Production
Studio Showcase: Asheville’s Vinyl Answer
A former newspaper printing plant/radio station has gotten a new lease on life as Citizen Vinyl—home to a new recording studio, vinyl record pressing...
Live Sound
Louisiana Phil Streams Through Rupert Neve Preamps
Mischa Kachkachishvili used a remote setup of 32 channels of Rupert Neve Designs’ class-A RMP-D8 preamplifiers to record the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.
New Products
Rupert Neve Designs Intros MBC: Master Buss Converter
Rupert Neve Designs has released its first-ever analog-to-digital converter with the MBC Dual Path A-D Converter and Limiter.
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...
Music Production
WSDG Designs CUI Studio Space
Concordia University’s 37,500-square-foot Borland-Manske Center opens with a WSDG-designed recording, teaching and rehearsal space.
Music Production
Syracuse U Networks with Rupert Neve Designs
Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music is using modern networking to provide recording capabilities across the entire campus.
Music Production
NK Sound Tokyo Buys World’s Largest Rupert Neve Designs 5088 Console
Japanese studio NK Sound Tokyo recently purchased a 80-channel 5088 console, the largest-ever manufactured by Rupert Neve Designs.
Facilities
NK SOUND TOKYO Installs World’s Largest Rupert Neve Designs 5088 Console
Tokyo, Japan – Originally opened in 2015 by engineer Neeraj Khajanchi, NK SOUND TOKYO has recently made a large update to its main studio...
Music Production
Narwhal Studios Nets Rupert Neve Designs Desk
Narwhal Studios, a recently opened recording facility in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, sports a Rupert Neve Designs 5088 console.
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Kacey Musgraves
Album of the Year Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves began her world tour in October, 2018 as an opening act, and wrapped it up 13...
Music Production
Woody Tone Studios Opens in Austria
The rustic studio is in fact a penthouse facility in Vienna, Austria.
Live Sound
Shinedown Steps Up on Tour
By Steve Harvey. Shortly before a block of about two dozen U.S. shed dates in June and July, Shinedown called on Andy Meyer to...
Recording
Nashville’s Historic RCA Studio B Nets New Desk
The Nashville facility recorded the likes of Elvis, Dolly Parton, The Everly Brothers and countless other legends. Now it has a new console.
Music Production
Dream Theater Records Next Album in a Barn
Ready to record a month early, the eminent prog band brought the studio to itself.
Recording
Polosud Goes Back to Analog with Rupert Neve
By Steve Harvey. "It was love at first sight. I have used a lot of consoles, but the RND 5088 is the ‘true’ mixer...
Recording
Jordan Brooke Hamlin Builds Her Dream Studio in the Woods
By Steve Harvey. “Place affects what you create,” says Hamlin, who has been a touring and studio musician for the past 15 years.
Music Production
Studio Lands First Rupert Neve 5088 Desk in Colombia
Gaira Musica Local Studios now calls the desk its own.