Live Sound
William Morris Nabs Nexo in Nashville
Talent and creative services company William Morris Entertainment has opened a performance space at its Nashville office, to be used for artist showcases and...
Amplifiers
Music Production
Saint Motel Hits Road with Roland M-5000
Saint Motel is a band of dichotomies—it’s considered an indie act but it’s on Elektra Records; the band has been described as everything from...
Music Production
Vintage King to Sell Historic Console
The Ramones. A Tribe Called Quest. Blondie. There are consoles that have been used to create landmark music, but few have a discography comparable...
Live Sound
Sound Works Pro Supports Women’s March
Held the day after the inauguration, the Womens March in Washington, D.C. was mirrored with hundreds of sister marches in cities around the world;...
Live Sound
Meyer Aids London’s ‘School of Rock’
London-based Autograph Sound has been providing Meyer Sound LEO Family reinforcement systems for numerous West End musicals, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock:...
Live Sound
Kellogg Arena Serves Tasty Sound with ISP
Kellogg Arena has been a top venue for the Battle Creek area for decades, and recently the 6,500-seat facility upgraded its audio offerings with...
Music Production
Mastering Rock’s Past for the Future
For mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum, good communication is the key to any successful project.
HOW Sound
Hosanna Lutheran Church
Increased musical diversity is opening up houses-of-worship to the influence of songs and hymns of other denominations and genres.
Live Sound
L-Acoustics Spreads Cool Jazz in Cairo
If love is the proverbial international language, jazz probably runs a close second—which is why Cairo Jazz Club remains a hotspot in the Egyptian...
Live Sound
Renkus-Heinz Booked at Atlas Theater
A Renkus-Heinz Iconyx IC Live system has been installed at the new Atlas Theater in Emmen, The Netherlands, which opened in October. The system...
Live Sound
Roland’s Radical Streaming Event
24 hours, 8 cities, 30-plus products and a slew of performances; Roland’s “The Future. Redefined” online festival had it all. The day-long streaming event...
Music Production
UCLA Rocks with SSL
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music has opened a new high-end recording studio featuring a new 72-channel SSL Duality ?elta hybrid console.
Music Production
Appelbaum Masters with Manley
Mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum has been using two Manley Stereo Variable Mu limiter-compressors (Vari Mu), two Mini Massive EQs and a Massive Passive EQ...
Live Sound
Powersoft X4 Amps Power Peppers
Rat Sound has worked with the Red Hot Chili Peppers for decades, handing the band’s sound requirements. For the band’s current itinerary of European...
Live Sound
Nexo Digs Dillo Day
Illinois is a long way from Texas. Maybe that’s why in the early 1970s, some homesick Texans attending Northwestern University founded Armadillo Day, honoring...
Music Production
EFG Go Big with BAE
Producer Tom Biller has recently added BAE Audio preamplifiers to his set-up in order to define the sound of sessions for his own psych-rock...
Live Sound
Powersoft X4 Amps Hit The Gym
The St. Francis High School domed gym hosts everything from regular PE classes to town meetings, music events and more, so when it came...
Music Production
Stalfors Takes BAE to Paradise
In order to achieve a contemporary sound for high-energy indie-punk rockers White Lung, producer Lars Stalfors turned to a modern take on a classic—BAE...
Live Sound
Powering Super Bowl Sunday
An annual mix of pageantry, promotion and performances, the Super Bowl reaches global audiences like nothing else, and this year’s 50th Anniversary edition delivered...
Live Sound
JBL Heats Up BET Hip Hop Awards
Firehouse Productions fielded JBL loudspeakers and Crown amplifiers for the annual BET Hip Hop Awards at the Atlanta Civic Center.
Music Production
ChannelStrip Brings Wilbur Grammy Nods
Josh Wilbur’s latest Grammy nomination with Lamb of God is in the category of Best Metal Performance for a project that he produced, recorded...
news
View from the Top: Blake Augsburger, Harman Professional Solutions
Blake Augsburger joined the pro audio industry in 2000, when HARMAN acquired Crown Audio, “and recruited me to lead the business and turn it...
Business
Community Rolls Into New Velodrome
Cycling is an old sport, but current-day velodromes are just as modern as any other kind of arena. Take the new Kolodruma Velodrome in...
Business
QSC Bows AV-IT White Paper
QSC has released a new white paper, analyzing what AV professionals can do to build relationships with IT pros. Built on industry surveys and...
Business
Buying The Last Sound System
There is an axiom in the sound contracting industry that the goal is to sell a house of worship its last sound system.
Business
Tower Records Returns For One Night
By Steve Harvey. Gibson Brands and Colin Hanks set the clock back on Sunset Boulevard recently, restoring the exterior of the iconic Tower Records...
Business
Expo Gets Positive Buzz With Meyer
Ending a six-month run at the end of October, Expo Milano 2015—essentially this year’s World’s Fair—features 145 countries, each hosting its own self-built pavilion....
Business
VUE Attends CNN GOP Debate
The recent second GOP debate, broadcast on CNN, had Production Resource Group on-site, providing audio for all present. Clearly there were a lot more...
Product Reviews
Review: beyerdynamic MCE 86 II Electret Condenser Shotgun Microphone
A shotgun microphone is simply a tool worth having in any “workhorse” microphone collection, and the MCE 86 II is an ideal specimen.
Business
Hardpop Builds New System, Reputation
Ricardo Tejada founded his EDM club, Hardpop, with the aim of making it a dance music mecca, but found resistance from high-end DJs he...
Business
Studio Showcase: Historic RCA Studio B: Mixing Out of the Box
MUSIC ROW NASHVILLE, TN—Now operated (again) solely by the Country Music Hall of Fame, the Historic RCA Studio B serves the public as a...
Business
InfoComm 2015 Showcases Connectivity and Performance
The 2015 InfoComm conference and exhibition for professional audiovisual integrators saw record-breaking attendance numbers for the east coast show.
Business
Fortifying An FOH Demo Room
Furman is protecting Dallas-based Sound Productions’ new sound, lighting and video products demo room against the vagaries of the Texas weather.
Product Reviews
Review: Blue Hummingbird Small-Diaphragm Condenser Microphone
Blue's 180-degree pivoting capsule SDC "sounds fantastic, feels expensive."
Business
Mixing The Billboard Latin Music Awards
Packed with music performances by artists like Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Daddy Yankee and others, the annual Billboard Latin Music Awards, held at the...
Business
Firehouse Fires Up iHeartRadio Fest
Firehouse Productions recently provided sound reinforcement for the iHeartRadio Country Festival, where more than 16,700 people came to see the likes of Tim McGraw,...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Cruise Control – Florida/Georgia Line
Florida Georgia Line named its first album Here’s To The Good Times, and good times are what fans get when they come out to...
Business
The Iconic Troubadour Modernizes Loudspeaker System
W. HOLLYWOOD, CA—To call The Troubadour legendary is almost an understatement.
Business
Harman Pro Debuts Global Alliance
Harman Professional has created a new Global Alliance Program—a worldwide network of dealers and users. The aim is to to provide tour sound customers...
Business
Taking Care of Business with the TSO
Conceived by producer Paul O’Neill in the early Nineties as an album project, Trans- Siberian Orchestra (TSO) hit it big with an unlikely hybrid...
Business
Firehouse Slam Dunks All-Star Weekend
Excited to see basketball played properly, New York City recently hosted the NBA All-Star Weekend, as top players hit the court at both the...
Business
Engineers Think Global, Master Local
The internet has opened up an international marketplace for mastering services, according to Maor Appelbaum of Maor Appelbaum Mastering. LOS ANGELES, CA—The digital revolution...