Mix Live Blog: What’s on Your List?
Mix blogger and longtime FOH engineer for Blue Öyster Cult Steve La Cerra considers how and why his input list has evolved over the...
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Mix blogger and longtime FOH engineer for Blue Öyster Cult Steve La Cerra considers how and why his input list has evolved over the...
In Part 2, Genesis FOH engineer Michel Colin reveals Phil Collins' inexpensive vocal mic and how to get that classic 1980s gated drum sound...
After announcing a farewell tour in March, 2020, Genesis finally hit the U.S. this past fall...and then Covid struck the audio team.
TAG provided audio for Pitbull throughout the 'I Feel Good' tour this past fall, using its d&b audiotechnik KSL system.
Long-running tribute act The Australian Pink Floyd Show hit the road in the UK this past fall with an Outline system from Capital Sound...
Trouble deciding what to get your favorite audio pro? Or more likely, your family has trouble figuring out what to get you for the...
Mixhalo, a startup founded that aims to provide wireless IEM-style immersive mixes to concert audiences, has raised $24 million in funding.
3 Doors Down hit the road this summer to mark the 20th anniversary of its debut album, with Special Event Services providing audio production.
Bangalore-based Parvaaz just wrapped up its multi-city Full Circle tour, the first tour of its kind in India since the pandemic began.
Metalcore band Beartooth has been tearing it up on stage recently with vocalist Cabel Shomo mixing monitors from center stage for all five...
Oaklawn Racing Casino in Hot Spring, AR has installed an EAW ADAPTive PA system.
What does the recently averted Hollywood labor strike say about the future of entertainment (including live sound)?
Death metal faves Avatar hit the U.S. this fall, tearing up theaters and festivals along the way—FOH man Erik Rogers tells all
Clair Global has acquired broadcast event sound reinforcement specialist ATK Audiotek.
FOH engineer and Mix blogger Steve La Cerra heads to New Hampshire and discovers the Tupelo Music Hall is a sweet-sounding space.
Styx’s monitor engineer Evan McElhinney has been using Audix gear during the band’s current tour for its Crash of the Crown album.
Green Day, Fall Out Boy and Weezer brought the rock—and the most surprising FOH console of the year—on the road this summer.
d&b audiotechnik has launched its new XSL System, the smallest offering in the range, with both installation (XSLi) and mobile touring (XSL) versions available.
FOH engineer/Mix blogger Steve La Cerra is on the road with Blue Öyster Cult, and has noticed that he's needed to ask questions that...
Rise Against was one of the first major acts to return to touring, heading out in July; engineers Nate Northway and Charlie Bybee talk...
Hans Ek uses his music to meld disparate genres together while his live audio team uses Allen & Heath dLive CTi1500 surfaces.
FOH mixer Garry Brown adds 112 channels, via Dante, to his Yamaha Rivage PM10–based console system.
Mix columnist Steve La Cerra writes in from Blue Oyster Cult's FOH console and reports he's not the only one a little rusty from...
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...
Elevation Studios, a new 26-acre multi-purpose creative campus on the outskirts of Nashville, aims to rethink tour and event production rehearsals.
Tour sound production teams haven’t been idle these past 15 months, and now they’re packed and ready to roll.
The Boss reopened on Broadway a few days ago and has announced plans for a 2022 tour, though the two types of performances are...
As U.S. tours cautiously start to hit the road in June, a whole new post-pandemic production world awaits.
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?
Veteran live sound pro Mario Leccese, director of Operations for Solotech US, has died.
Veteran live sound executive Paul Owen is joining full-service event production company DCR Nashville as its new president.
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...
Front Porch Productions has been supplying the control package for Christian artist Kim Walker-Smith's current series of four-date mini-tours.
Event production company Logic Systems has taken ownership of the first all-black PK Sound Trinity line array system.
Every wireless system is designed for some downtime—but not a full year offline. Here’s how to bring it back up to speed.
Even the pandemic could not stop tour and event sound provider Special Event Services from opening its new 52,000-square-foot company headquarters in Mocksville, NC.
Aiming to become a high-profile tour stop, San Pedro, CA’s 1,525-seat Warner Grand Theatre has installed a new sound system to take on all...
Clair Global has acquired Eighth Day Sound, bringing two of the largest tour sound companies in the U.S. under one roof.
L.A. pop-punk act The Wrecks rips it up live, but that's aided by an inspired high-tech, low-cost system the band carries on tour.
Lawsuits fly over last fall's deadly tour bus crash that killed a monitor engineer and injured seven others.
Stereophonics filled arenas on its most recent UK tour—not only with audiences but with creative sound engineering, too, ensuring the audio held up when...
Halsey is known for her genre-hopping, and FOH engineer Simon Thomas ensures her vocals play the part with an SSL Fusion.