Live Sound
Bringing Back NYC’s Blue Note
New York City's Blue Note is one of the best-known jazz clubs in the world, but at the height of the pandemic, it was...
COVID-19
news
NAB Show Announces COVID Protocols
The National Association of Broadcasters has announced COVID protocols for attending this year's NAB Show, due to take place October 9-13 in Las Vegas.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Rental Gouge
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...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Ready, Set, Go
With Foo Fighters playing next week at a sold-out, full-capacity, vaccination-required Madison Square Garden, the concert touring industry is seeing its first signs of...
Live Sound
Live Sound Reawakens As U.S. Tours Return
As U.S. tours cautiously start to hit the road in June, a whole new post-pandemic production world awaits.
Music Production
Pandemic Folk-Prog Goes Platinum
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal recorded songs by French-Canadian prog band Harmonium during the pandemic; now the album’s gone platinum.
Music Production
Ghost-Engineering Meek Mill’s ‘Quarantine Pack’ EP
Platinum-selling rapper Meek Mill thrives recording in an in-person setting, but the pandemic made that impossible. His longtime engineer Anthony Cruz shares how they...
Blog
What’s It Like to Mix for 4,000 Fans in a Pandemic?
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?
Blog
Editorial: Are We There Yet?
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...
Business
Grammy Engineering and Production Winners Announced
The Recording Academy announced the winners of the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in an audience-free show that reflected some of the events of the...
Live Sound
Nu Deco Ensemble’s New Shows
Miami’s Nu Deco Ensemble returned to playing live shows in October, with precautions ranging from masks to Plexiglas to social distancing all in place.
Music Production
Phil Spector, Producer/Murderer, Dead at 81
Legendary producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector died January 16, 2021 of COVID 19-related complications.
Events
How to Network in an Industry in Turmoil
As part of an ongoing, free webinar series, KMD Productions dives into how to keep active with networking opportunities.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: It Ain’t The Gig, It’s the Commute
Steve La Cerra just had his second gig since the Covid outbreak, and while it went better in the house, the same could not...
Blog
Sounding Board: 5 Steps to Become A Skilled Networker
Pro-audio industry executive Mike Dias breaks down his five crucial steps to advancing your career through networking with peers.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Sending Out an SOS
Steve La Cerra reports in on the latest from Congress in Covid relief to help venue operators and those involved in live sound and...
Blog
Audio Op-Ed: Live Sound Has Answers for Other Markets
Half-formed hybrid plans due to COVID-19 are everywhere; Live Sound and AV can help make them whole, says Graham Hendry of Renkus-Heinz.
International
Tour Beats the Pandemic with an 80-Ton Boat
Violet Road bought an 80-ton boat, turned it into a tour bus on water, added an Alcons PA and kept touring this past summer.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: My First Indoor Gig, Front to Back
In his first indoor gig of the Covid era, Steve La Cerra finds that while the crew and backstage areas followed protocol, it was...
Business
Restart-19 COVID Concert Experiment Shares Results
According to the results of an experiment in Germany, indoor sports and cultural events including music concerts could return soon—under the right conditions.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Holding My Breath
With only a few weeks to go in the semester, Steve La Cerra is crossing his fingers that the classrooms at Mercy College stay...
Live Sound
How One College is Holding Real-Time Remote Rehearsals
Moody Bible Institute’s vocal and instrumental programs faced having to rehearse with players remotely separated. Professor David Gauger found a solution.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: The Weirdest AES Show Ever
Steve La Cerra went online instead of driving into Manhattan this year for the AES Show Fall 2020, and he found a wealth of...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Business as Unusual
Steve La Cerra jumped on a plane last week, headed for Pittsburgh on his first fly-date since the shutdown in March. The airports, he...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: A Steep Climb
With The Met canceling its entire Fall Season, along with others across the country, it's looking more and more like mid- to late-2021 for...
Live Sound
Marist’s Pandemic Reopening Aided by A-T
Marist College installed 150 Audio-Technica boundary mics and 50 SmartMixers in classrooms for remote learning during the pandemic.
Blog
COVID-19 and Pro Audio: An Industry Interrupted
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the pro-audio industry in ways both expected and surprising, but while manufacturing and recording are recovering from lockdown, live...
Events
Clear-Com Presents On-Set Solutions for Communication and Zoned Media Production
Clear-Com has long been a fixture in comms for live sound and broadcast, and the company's full-duplex wireless system has tremendous benefits for film...
Live Sound
Billy Strings’ Drive-In Tour Rolls On
Bluegrass sensation Billy Strings’ “Meet Me at the Drive-In” tour is on the move, playing socially distanced drive-in venues like Wilkes-Barre’s Mohegan Sun Arena...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Which Group Am I In?
Steve La Cerra returned to school last week, and everything you've been reading about education during the pandemic is true; but he's making it...
International
Providing Socially Distanced Concert Sound in Belgium
The Studio 100 Pop-Up Theatre in Belgium usually hosts 2,000 spectators, but is now holding concerts for 200 spread across the same space.
Blog
Mix Blog Live: Surviving Sturgis
To find out what concert one-offs are actually like these days, Steve La Cerra called a friend who mixed front of house in mid-August...
Live Sound
Scientists Hold Concerts to Determine How to Bring Shows Back
Researchers in Germany recently held three concerts in a single day to investigate how the coronavirus is likely transmitted in group settings. The team...
Recording
View from the Top: Glenn Burack, Bose
Glenn Burack, director of aviation, military and broadcast headsets at Bose, looks back at how the company’s military headset technology, first developed in 1986,...
Music, Etc
Music Etc. – Chuck Prophet, ‘The Land That Time Forgot’
Steve Harvey talks with guitarist, singer, producer and raconteur Chuck Prophet about the meandering path that led to the former Green on Red guitarist's...
Live Sound
Live Sound Turns to Congress for Help
The summer months are usually the busiest of the year for the live sound industry. While September typically sees the industry start to ease...
Recording
Building Lil Baby’s Hitmaking Home Studio
Breakout rap star Lil Baby spent three weeks this spring atop the Billboard album chart with “My Turn.” Now Platinum-selling engineer Thomas “Tillie” Mann...
Live Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Live Sound Livens Up the NBA Bubble
Faced with the threat of an idle summer during the pandemic, tour sound provider Firehouse Productions realized the NBA Bubble would need immersive crowd...
Blog
Mix Blog Live: We Need the Good Kind of PR
With uncertainty growing ever greater in the concert touring industry, Steve La Cerra finds that cluster parties and pop-up live events can be damaging...
The Wire
Sommer Introduces SYSPORT Clean Desktop Cable Organizer
Easy to Disinfect Modular Cable Channel Compartments In a Covid-19 threatened world, Sommer Cable has introduced an easy and efficient way to organize workstations...
Blog
The Gear of Damian Lillard’s Mini-Studio Inside the NBA Bubble; Hear His Tracks
NBA all-star Damian Lillard has been recording as rapper Dame D.O.L.L.A. while in the NBA Bubble, resulting in the appropriately titled mixtape, Live From...
Blog
Mix Blog Studio: Practice Safe Session
Recording sessions, with musicians, producers and engineers in a room, will happen again. The question is when, and how.