Mix Live Blog: Tour de France
Veteran FOH engineer/blogger Steve La Cerra is in France with Blue Öyster Cult, and is now very impressed with a new venue, Le Radiant.
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Veteran FOH engineer/blogger Steve La Cerra is in France with Blue Öyster Cult, and is now very impressed with a new venue, Le Radiant.
A consummate live sound engineer who mixed everyone from U2 to Led Zeppelin to Barbra Streisand, Dave Skaff died last week at the age...
“One vocal mic, and one guitar mic or mic on the guitar amp. How can you screw this up?”
Blue Öyster Cult just marked its 50th anniversary. La Cerra, live sound engineer for three of the band's five decades, looks back.
Blondie and their longtime live sound crew had a tumultuous post-pandemic world tour, but got through it, one way or another.
FOH engineer Brian Hardaswick has been mixing In This Moment on an Allen & Heath dLive system throughout the group’s 2022 tour, including a...
After a pandemic pause and years of one-offs and short runs, OneRepublic returned to the road this summer with a full-fledged tour supported by...
Capturing Bon Jovi's drum sound on the band’s recent U.S. tour was a passel of mics from Austrian Audio.
Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard co-headlined The Stadium Tour this summer, playing to 1.1 million fans with the help of Clair Global and an...
UK-based sound provider Skan is the latest addition to the Clair Global family of companies.
Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard co-headlined The Stadium Tour this summer, playing to 1.1 million fans with the help of Clair Global and an...
FOH engineer Travis Wade has been on the road this year with post-hardcore act Dance Gavin Dance and an A&H dLive S5000 desk.
Rage Against The Machine tore across the U.S. this summer, relishing its return to the road with the live sound help of Eighth Day.
The team behind MSG's Sphere Immersive Sound installation at New York City's Beacon Theatre discusses the system, its live sound applications and more.
The Tedeschi Trucks Band has returned to the road once again, this year with an L-Acoustics system provided by PRG in tow.
Tour travel can be a drag, but occasionally there's more -- much more -- to see of this big, gorgeous world beyond the alley...
The Rolling Stones made their way through Europe’s stadiums on the group’s Sixty tour this summer with a batch of Austrian Audio microphones.
Dead & Company FOH engineer/tour director Derek Featherstone discusses the band's summer tour, its new Meyer Sound Panther P.A. and his methods for mixing...
Ed Sheeran's Mathematics stadium tour has been circling the globe with long-time production company, Major Tom, in tow.
The unemployment rate has been 3.5 percent for months, causing job vacancies everywhere—and that in turn is affecting every part of touring.
Nothing More has been on tour this year with a pair of Allen & Heath dLive S5000 surfaces at FOH and monitorworld.
After two years of setbacks, live sound is rebounding with a robust summer touring season and strong industry trade shows.
The FOH position for Grammy-winning CCM artists Bryan and Katie Torwalt is based around an Allen & Heath dLive CTi1500 surface.
There are more tours than ever this summer, but in the live sound world, gear shortages and staffing challenges remain.
In Part 2, the Billie Eilish tour's audio team preps for its 2022 run, rethinking everything from the ground up.
After a two-year pandemic pause—not to mention an Oscar win and a hit album—Billie Eilish and her sound team are back on the road,...
Stadium/Shed System from UltraSound Anchored by 72 PANTHER Loudspeakers
DAS Audio’s Lara self-powered cardioid line array made its world debut at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne, Germany.
Veteran jamband Umphrey's McGee headed to Iceland earlier this year for “Röckjavik,” a special three-night run at the 1,800-seat Eldborg Concert Hall in Reykjavik.
Simple Minds just wrapped up the first leg of its long-awaited 40 Years of Hits Tour with audio support from Britannia Row.
Tonderick “TW” Watkins is manning Jazmine Sullivan’s FOH mix on one of her tour’s two DiGiCo SD12 96 consoles supplied by Clair Global.
FOH engineer Jim Roese brought along Midas Heritage HD96 desks supplied by Sound Image on the current Melissa Etheridge tour.
The 2,000-seat Lynn Veteran's Memorial Auditorium recently had a d&b audiotechnik V-Series loudspeaker system installed.
Years in the making, Solotech has officially opened its new, 120,000-square-foot facility in Nashville, Tennessee.
Merlin PA supplied an Electro-Voice and Dynacord sound system to support Level 42's first UK tour since the height of the pandemic.
Evanescence just wrapped up its first US tour in two years, supporting its latest album, The Bitter Truth, and along for the ride were...
RAT Sound tackled audio duties for the recent solo tour of Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder, supporting his new album, 'Earthling.'
Blues master Joe Bonamassa just wrapped up a six-week return to the road with Special Event Services providing audio gear for each stop.
FOH engineer/Mix blogger Steve La Cerra discovers another surprise side-effect of the pandemic: More concert security.
Building community is what it’s all about, and Michael Lawrence is a master at it. Signal-to-Noise co-host, Smaart guru, Live Sound engineer, mentor, and...
PRG provided audio, video, and lighting systems for the latest tour by country stars Dan + Shay, backing their 'Good Things' album.
The Event Safety Alliance has set the agenda for its 2022 Event Safety Summit, taking place March 22-24, 2022 at Rock Lititz in Lititz,...