Business
Christine McVie’s Audio Gear Heads to Auction
Ear monitors, Leslie cabinets, road cases and other pro-audio gear belonging to the late Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac will go to auction next...
Live Gear
Live Gear
Church Quadruples in Size, Adds Two SSL Live Consoles
Relocation of Rose Hill Church in Baton Rouge, La., included new large-scale sound reinforcement system.
Live Gear
Miking the Prog Metal Drumkit for Live Sound
Engineer Chris Edrich, who has manned the FOH desk for Devin Townsend, Leprous, TesseracT, The Ocean, Alcest, Klone and others, shares his drum miking...
Live Gear
Mixing the US Olympic Swim Team Trials—in an NFL Stadium
Providing live sound for the US Olympic swim team trials inside Lucas Oil Stadium was a splashy gig for Dodd Technologies.
Live Gear
Audio Team Sounds Off on ACM Awards Tech
The 59th Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards, broadcast live on Amazon, combined artists from the country and pop worlds in a series of...
Live Gear
Serving Up Sound for 1.6 Million Madonna Fans in Rio
Covering 1.6M people with more than 600 loudspeakers proved to be a new challenge for Madonna and her audio team.
Live Gear
Familiar Festival Connects via Comms
Riedel Communications and RMi Inc. recently teamed up to deploy intercom systems at a certain popular festival.
Live Gear
New Compact Console Fills Out Dutch Musician’s Mobile Pack
Colin Benders adds SSL BiG SiX analog console to bring more inputs for his modular synthesizer-based live rig.
Live Gear
Smooth Smooths Out Some Issues in His Workflow
Engineer adds DPA 2028 handheld vocal mic to his broadcast, live and studio work.
Live Gear
Miking for Metal Drum Sound Consistency
Bob Strakele, FOH engineer for both Avenged Sevenfold and Slipknot, discusses some of his methods for drum sound consistency.
Live Gear
Engineer Talks Trumpets and All That Jazz
Johnathan Smith, FOH engineer with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, discusses his miking for trumpets at the venue and on tour.
Business
Meyer Sound Talks Sustainability, Engineering
Meyer Sound's Director of Loudspeaker Development, Katharine “Katie” Murphy Khulusi, explains a variety of the company’s approaches to achieving ecological objectives.
Live Gear
22live Turns UK Football Club into UB40 Concert
UK audio provider 22live turned a football game at St. Andrews @ Knighthead Park stadium into a UB40 concert in under 15 minutes.
Live Gear
Checking Auditorium Acoustics with an Atlas
Acoustician Handy Widjaya in Indonesia has integrated a Prism Sound Atlas interface into his workflow.
Live Gear
With New System, Gearforce Joins PK Alliance
Vancouver-based live sound specialists Gearforce have purchased a PK Sound T10 robotic line source system.
Business
Get Mix/Pro Sound News’ “New Venues” Live Sound Ebook Free!
The Mix/Pro Sound News “New Venues” Live Sound eBook takes you inside some of the most remarkable new performance spaces in the world!
Live Gear
Have Atlas, Will Travel
Producer, engineer and musical director Leon Turner has been using his Prism Sound Atlas audio interface on the road with Gladys Knight.
Live Gear
Capturing the Careening Beat of Ozomatli
Renowned for its propulsive live shows, Ozomatli's ornate beats have been getting captured onstage by Audix mics.
Live Gear
1966 “Caesars Console” Heads Home to UA
Originally commissioned for Caesars Palace in 1966, the prodigal console that mixed everyone from Frank Sinatra to Tina Turner has returned home to Universal...
Business
d&b group Immersive Center to Open at London Science Museum
d&b group will open an Immersive Technology Experience Center in London this April.
Live Gear
Post Malone and Alicia Keys Deliver at Super Bowl LVIII
Neumann mic products were in the mix at Super Bowl LVIII, used by both Post Malone and Alicia Keys during their star turns.
Live Gear
FCC Enacts WMAS Rules, Allowing More ‘Spectrally Efficient’ Wireless Mics
The Federal Communications Commission enacted new rules today, allowing for the use of Wireless Multi-Channel Audio Systems (WMAS).
Live Gear
Shure Makes Most of Grammys
Last week’s Grammy Awards ceremony, broadcast live from Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena, featured countless hitmakers, performing or accepting honors for their work.
Live Gear
Electro-Voice’s ZLX Loudspeaker Hits 1m Mark
EV's one-millionth ZLX—which recently rolled off the production line—was brought to this year’s NAMM Show for a homecoming.
International
Ultra Events Updates with d&b
South Africa-based live production house Ultra Events recently upgraded its system rental offerings with the addition of a d&b audiotechnik AL90 system.
Business
L-Acoustics and d&b Team to Develop Software Platform
Though competitors in the marketplace, L-Acoustics and d&b audiotechnik are co-developing a new software platform, Milan Manager.
Live Gear
DAS Audio Gives Back to Miami-Dade Community
DAS Audio joined forces with Miami’s Young Musicians Unite organization to help benefit young musicians in 40 schools across South Florida.
Business
Rational Acoustics, Eclipse Audio Team To Develop
A new agreement between Rational Acoustics and Eclipse Audio finds both companies collaborating on Smaart product line.
Business
Sonic Destruction: L-Acoustics Demolishes Counterfeit P.A. Systems
L-Acoustics held a “destruction event” to dispose of counterfeit audio gear headed to recycling.
Business
Clair Global Spins Out Cohesion as Stand-Alone Installation Brand
Clair Global's proprietary Cohesion label has now been made its own stand-alone brand in the installation and integration space
Live Gear
Guns N’ Roses Roll with Austrian Audio
When FOH engineer Dave Natale joined Guns n' Roses' world tour, he brought along some favorite mics for the ride.
Business
Grateful Dead Live Gear, Wall of Sound Replica Head to Auction
Analogr will auction off Jerry Garcia’s last touring guitar rig, multiple Hard Truckers loudspeakers, and a 1:4 scale working replica of the legendary Wall...
Business
ACT Entertainment Takes On PK Sound for North America
Longtime entertainment tech supplier ACT Entertainment will distribute PK Sound’s robotic line arrays in North America.
Business
Harman Jumps into Immersive with Flux Acquisition
Harman Professional will acquire French immersive audio company Flux Software Engineering.
Live Gear
Building 140 Wireless Mic ‘Flight Pack Kits’
CTUS has assembled and deployed 140 custom wireless microphone kits for use staging corporate events for its high-profile clients.
Business
Billy Joel Exhibition to Honor Phil Ramone’s A&R Recording
A new Billy Joel museum exhibition will explore the entertainer’s career, including his studio work inside New York CIty's legendary A&R Recording studio.
Business
d&b Teams with EntertainmentLAB on Immersive Audience Experience Challenge
d&b group is collaborating on ways to increase audience interactions in mass-event experiences.
Live Gear
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival Marks 15th Anniversary
For 15 years, Outside Lands has been one of the Bay Area’s premiere music events, sporting Meyer Sound systems provided by Ultrasound and McCune...
Live Gear
Best-Tronics Packs Rockers’ Racks with RF Venue
Chicago-based Best-Tronics Manufacturing has been building racks for acts like Queensrÿche, Veil of Maya, Mt. Joy, Scarlett O’Hara and more.
Live Gear
Oregon Festival to Power Stages with Hydrogen
Taking place this week, Pickathon will use experimental Toyota Hydrogen Fuel Cell Generator to power stages.
Business
PRG Goes Big on L-Acoustics’ L Series
As a Pilot Phase Partner, PRG has made “a significant eight-figure investment” in L-Acoustics’ L Series Speakers.
Live Gear
To Hear The Sphere: First Peek at Landmark Vegas Venue’s Immersive Sound
With the opening of the 18,000-seat Sphere in Las Vegas only weeks away, we take a look at its unique immersive sound system.