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View from the Top: Erik Tarkianen, Harman Professional
With 10 pro audio brands under its name, Harman Professional holds a unique position within the industry, as providing a high-quality line of products...
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Book Review: Glyn Johns’ ‘Sound Man’ a Breezy Read
One of the first studio engineers in England to break through into producing, Glyn Johns worked with the greatest acts of the Classic Rock...
Business
Ward Powers Usher’s Latest Tour
NEW YORK, NY—As a teaser for his upcoming album, UR, Usher has embarked on a 27-city tour, called The UR Experience Tour, with the...
Business
Cape Audio College Adds Harman
Cape Audio College has long taught students how to approach audio engineering, as it sports 52 multitrack recording studios, mixdown and editing suites and...
Live Sound
Festival Products: Meyer, d&b, SSL
Choosing the right gear is just one aspect of building the perfect festival, but with the right speaker system, console, amplifier, etcetera, sound companies...
Business
Live Music Production in Sports Venues
Popular music has been showcased in acoustically challenging environments for decades, pleasing audiences despite the fact that live sound engineers must often fight physics...
Live Sound
Story Sound Celebrates Year of Festivals
As the year comes to a close, Dutch audio rental company Story Sound has completed a variety of projects, including a string of events...
Business
FireHouse Fields Harman For NFL
The 2014 NFL Kickoff Event, featuring performances by Pharrell Williams and Soundgarden, was held this year outside Seattle’s iconic CenturyLink Field, with New York-based...
Business
Baptist Church Updates With EAW
Trinity Baptist Church’s Mulberry campus recently got an audio/video overhaul for its 1,300-seat sanctuary by Dallas-based design firm Idibri, and installer San Antonio Sound...
Live Sound
Firehouse Productions Supports Global Citizen
Firehouse Productions once again provided the sound reinforcement for the annual Global Citizen festival, held in New York City’s Central Park in early Fall.
Business
Return of the Radio-Friendly Rockers
Twenty-plus years since they first broke through with hits like “Name,” the Goo Goo Dolls have become a staple of AC radio.
Business
Updating Axis To Bring In Britney
LAS VEGAS, NV—When it was announced that dance diva Britney Spears would take up residence for three years at Las Vegas’ Planet Hollywood with...
Business
Maxing Out Mixes For Against Me
AMITYVILLE, NY—Known for a potent mix of punk and folk that sounds equally at home in intimate venues and stadium festivals, Against Me spent...
Business
Powersoft Powers Reno Hotspot
Reno’s new CARGO Nightclub, located as part of the Whitney Peak Hotel, recently opened its doors, powered by several Powersoft Audio M and K...
Business
Cheap Trick In The Mix
NEW YORK, NY—Since its inception in 1973, Cheap Trick has given more than 5,000 performances, sold 20 million records, contributed to 29 movie soundtracks...
Business
Bringing The PA to Pohoda
Boasting a line-up that might be found in a Brooklyn hipster’s LP collection, Slovakia’s Pohoda Music Festival this past summer featured performances by Kraftwerk,...
Business
40 Years On, Deep Purple And Crew Reunite
COSTA MESA, CA—Deep Purple, part of the triumvirate of U.K. bands— along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath—that kickstarted hard rock and heavy metal...
Business
Powersoft Settles Into Singapore Sports Hub
The new Singapore Sports Hub has now opened on the site of Singapore’s former National Stadium in Kallang, with a sound system powered by...
Business
Sound Image Marks 40 Years With Jimmy Buffett
Marking 40 years as Jimmy Buffett’s live sound provider, San Diego’s Sound Image has purchased a new touring system based around Harman’s JBL VTX...
Business
Harman Outfits Idaho Church
The Coeur d’Alene Church of the Nazarene recently upgraded its sound system with the help of Spokane, Washington’s Hoffman Pro Systems and Harman Professional,...
Live Sound
Ode to Blues Festival Hits Bangalore
A complete Harman Professional live sound system supported the fourth annual Ode to the Blues Festival in India, with a variety of JBL loudspeakers,...
Business
InfoComm 2014 The Largest To Date
LAS VEGAS, NV—InfoComm International called its 2014 conclave the largest ever, with some 37,000 AV professionals passing through the Las Vegas Convention Center in...
Business
Terrific Tele Tone
Rich Tozzoli journeys through his Continuing Adventures In Audio with an axe on his back.
Business
MOOGFEST 2014
I was lucky enough to attend this year’s Moogfest and found it was certainly a different kind of festival.
Business
PAR On Audio Production Touch Screens
I think one of the big changes on the horizon is touch screen technology utilizing touch screen panels (TSPs). It’s time to re-imagine the...
Business
Ashly Added to Funeral Home
Long-standing funeral home, the Craig K. Kepf Funeral Home, recently expanded its facility, hiring local A/V firm Crookston Audio to design and install the...
Business
Masque Sound Hollers on Broadway
"Holler If Ya Hear Me" opened last week on Broadway, featuring the rhymes of famed rapper Tupac Shakur. The production tapped the talents of...
New Products
Studio Review: Rich Tozzoli’s St. John Recording Retreat
This year's recording session in the U.S. Virgin Islands features AEA, DPA, Fender Passport Studio, Grace Design and Universal Audio products.
Business
Sound Works Tapped for Philfest
Northwestern University’s annual Philfest, a collaboration between A&O Productions and Students for Ecological and Environmental Development (SEED), tapped Frankfort, IL-based Sound Works Productions to provide...
Recording
View from the Top: Joe Roberts, Core Brands
While still new to the pro audio world, Core Brands vice president of products Joe Roberts has helped establish the company as a leader...
Business
QSC Aquarium Install Goes Swimmingly
Toronto’s new Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada, recently opened at the base of the CN Tower, featuring a sound reinforcement system with QSC loudspeakers and...
Business
Bose Brings Bounce To Dayspring
The Dayspring Community Church in Auburn, IN recently created a new 600-seat worship space in Auburn, Indiana, bringing in Andrew Van Veld, President and...
Business
Bose Brings Bounce To Dayspring
The Dayspring Community Church in Auburn, IN recently created a new 600-seat worship space in Auburn, Indiana, bringing in Andrew Van Veld, President and...
Business
Jones Tribute Show Gets Creative
Rockford, IL-based Creative Audio chose a JBL audio system, consisting of more than 100 VTX and VerTec line array loudspeakers, for the recent “Playin’...
Business
Pepsi Center Pops For New PA
Home to the NBA Denver Nuggets, NHL Colorado Avalanche and the National Lacrosse League Colorado Mammoth, Denver’s 20,000-seat Pepsi Center, also known as The...
Business
Rolling With Sigur Rós
Icelandic band Sigur Rós finished a two-year tour recently, with UK audio provider Skan PA using its new d&b audiotechnik D80 amplifiers to power...
Business
Renkus-Heinz Supports Swan Lake
The 4,500-seat Hala Tivoli, located in Park Tivoli in the heart of Slovenia’s capital, recently hosted a performance of Labodje Jezero (Swan Lake) by...
Business
Harman Settles Into Swedish Arena
The 4,480-seat Himmelstalundshallen arena in Norrköping, Sweden recently upgraded its audio system; sound contractor Micab upgraded the system under the direction of installation specialist...
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Harman Settles Into Swedish Arena
The 4,480-seat Himmelstalundshallen arena in Norrköping, Sweden recently upgraded its audio system; sound contractor Micab upgraded the system under the direction of installation specialist...
Business
Powersoft Supports Argentina’s BALS
Argentina-based audio supplier Equaphon has been providing 70 companies with Powersoft equipment, most recently providing a stock of Powersoft K10 amplifiers to the Buenos...
Business
Powersoft Supports Argentina’s BALS
Argentina-based audio supplier Equaphon has been providing 70 companies with Powersoft equipment, most recently providing a stock of Powersoft K10 amplifiers to the Buenos...
Business
Montarbo Arrives In North America
Italian pro audio/MI manufacturer Montarbo has set its sights on the U.S., setting up North American distribution in a joint venture with Audio Innovation...