Live Sound
ATK Versacom Scales Up eSports Comms
ATK Versacom, a Clair Global brand, used a variety of Riedel solutions during a recent annual worldwide esports championship.
Live Sound
Live Sound
Sean Paul Makes Waves with LV1 Mixers on Tour
Grammy Award-winning singer and rapper Sean Paul is out on tour with Waves eMotion LV1 live mixers at FOH and monitors.
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.
Business
Solotech Opens New UK Facility
Solotech has added to its UK sites with the opening of a new operations facility in Manchester.
Live Sound
Capturing Sam Smith’s Drum Sound Live
FOH engineer Jim Ebdon has been capturing drummer Jonathan “Ginger” Hamilton at every show using multiple condenser mics from Austrian Audio.
Live Sound
Mixing Red Hot Chili Peppers: Analog Amor on the Unlimited Love Tour
Veteran FOH engineer Toby Francis proves tubes travel on Red Hot Chili Peppers’ two-year tour.
Business
Get Mix/Pro Sound News’ “Festival Sound” Ebook Free!
The Mix/Pro Sound News “Festival Sound” eBook takes you inside festivals around the world!
Live Sound
Nub Sound Rolls Up for Tunes in the Dunes Festival
Nub Sound provided audio for the recent Tunes in the Dunes festival in Cornwall, supporting McFly, Craig David and Ocean Colour Scene.
Live Sound
Nothing But Thieves Swap Out Desks On Tour
Sometimes everything can change in one gig. That’s what monitor engineer David Ruffle discovered when he had to miss a one-off show in South...
Live Sound
Hungária Rocks 50,000 Fans in Budapest
Hungária, first formed in 1967, recently played a reunion gig for 50,000 fans at Puskas Arena in Budapest.
Live Sound
Terre Haute Casino Resort Goes All In on 1 Sound
The gaming floor bar at the Terre Haute Casino Resort sports 1 Sound loudspeakers.
Live Sound
Inside The Knight Center for Music Innovation
University of Miami’s world-renowned Frost School of Music opens a gateway to the future of music creation and performance.
Live Sound
Birmingham Venue Makes Midas Move
The Crossing, a 600-capacity live venue and teaching space in Birmingham, UK, has acquired a Midas HD96 desk for its FOH position.
Blog
Mix Live Blog: You Can’t Make This Up, Ep. #1
A pre-show load-in wherein Steve required some consoling—or actually just consoles.
Live Sound
Keane World Tour Thinks Big with Macros
Marking two decades since the release of its first album, Keane has hit the road this year for its Keane20, Hope and Fears tour.
Live Sound
Pinnacle Audio Gets Theatrical with dLive
Over time, Wisconsin-based Pinnacle Audio has come to specialize in regional theatrical audio.
Live Sound
Bad Weather Productions Rolls with Rocking the Daisies
One of the highlights of the South African festival season, Rocking the Daisies bloomed with the help of audio provider Bad Weather Productions.
Live Sound
Tony Awards’ ‘Best Sound’ Winners Announced
Winners for this year’s Tony Awards, including those in the two Best Sound categories, were announced Sunday night during the annual Tony Awards Telecast....
Blog
Mix Blog Live: A (Long) Day in the Life
It started out like a normal day on tour, with a call time of 11 a.m., but then one thing led to another and...
Business
Labuskes: InfoComm Is On Track … and Growing
David Labuskes, CEO of AVIXA, expounds on the industry's health, AVIXA's expanding international presence, and expectations for InfoComm 2024.
Live Sound
Vegas’ Area15 Adds Holoplot X1 Immersive System
Las Vegas immersive entertainment venue Area15 has added a Holoplot sound system to its 360-degree, projection-mapped Portal.
Business
View From the Top: Tarik Solangi, RCF USA
Tarik Solangi, vice president of sales and marketing, RCF USA, shares how the company has grown and what it has instore at InfoComm with...
Live Sound
Coachella’s Yuma Stage Corrals Sound with PK
At this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, dance fans at the Yuma Stage heard house and techno via a PK Sound system.
Live Sound
Immersive System Takes Audiences Inside The Outsiders
The classic YA novel The Outsiders has been reimagined as a Broadway musical, delivered via L-ISA technology.
Live Sound
Cogeco Amphitheatre Future-Proofs Outdoor Auditorium
The Cogeco Amphitheatre has installed a pair of SSL Live consoles at its award-winning outdoor auditorium in Canada.
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 Sound
The Simmering Sounds of Alicia Keys’ “Hell’s Kitchen”
Alicia Keys' Broadway musical, Hell's Kitchen, is up for 13 Tony Awards. Nominated sound designer Gareth Owen recounts cooking up the show's sound.
Live Sound
The Art Carnival Audio of Luna Luna
The team behind the revived Luna Luna art amusement park, including members of Drake’s DreamCrew, turned to Adamson to power the installation’s audio experience.
Live Sound
Festival Mines the Daze Between
The third annual Daze Between festival—held between the two stretches of Jazzfest—attracted top artists, crowds and two sizable Meyer Sound systems.
Live Sound
The Sound of The Smile
Brit Row has been on the road, running Radiohead spin-off The Smile through an audio system that looks to the past and the future.
Live Sound
Gondek Sound Enters Dreamstate at Festival
Gondek Sound recently provided an Outline audio system for Poland’s annual Dreamstate Festival, devoted to trance music.
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 Sound
Jeep Beach Festival Hits Daytona Speedway
Daytona Speedway recently hosted the second annual Jeep Beach music festival, featuring Lee Brice and a new TT+ Audio P.A.
Live Sound
OMG It’s OMD
New Wave stalwarts OMD recently toured South Africa with a d&b rig provided by Ultra Events.
Live Sound
Engineer Gives Arm’s Length A Hand
Florida-based FOH engineer Michael Urbizu recently headed to the Great White North to give Arm’s Length a hand on tour.
Live Sound
A Proper Mix for Peso Pluma
FOH engineer Fernando Guzman has a pair of SSL Live mixing consoles out on the Peso Pluma tour.
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 Sound
Tracking The Tour Sound of Sam Hunt
Sam Hunt has been hitting the road hard with the help of his crew and longtime audio provider Spectrum Sound.
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.
Business
Sphere Entertainment Completes Holoplot Acquisition
Following an initial investment in 2018, Sphere Entertainment has purchased the remaining shares of Berlin-based immersive audio manufacturer Holoplot.