Monitor Engineer Michael Mule, Dead at 57
By Clive Young. Monitor engineer Michael Mule worked with everyone from Iron Maiden to Anita Baker across a nearly 40-year career that began at CBGB's.
Tour Sound
Remarking on the Miking of Paramore
Currently rolling through Asia, Paramore has a slew of Telefunken mics in tow.
Robert Plant Rolls with SSL on the Road
FOH engineer Mark Kennedy has been mixing the legendary rocker.
Mixing Jack White at Jazz Fest
By Jim Beaugez. On his first tour in four years, Jack White is playing arenas, clubs and festivals. In keeping with his championing of retro audio, which includes his Third Man Records label and vinyl pressing plant, the tour is carrying all-analog FOH and monitor rigs.
Tackling Björk’s Effects On The Road
Touring Europe this summer, Björk’s vocal were handled—and heavily effected—with care.
Miking the Bacon Brothers Live
One of the rare celebrity-fronted acts that garner musical respect, the Bacon Brothers are back on the road.
VER Tour Sound Rolls with Post Malone
Hip-hop hero Post Malone wraps up U.S. leg of his world tour, supported by VER Tour Sound.
Creating Lorde's Live Vocal Chain
Lorde's 70-concert world tour continues through the Southern Hemisphere this month, bringing a considerable amount of technology along for the ride.
How Ya Gonna Keep 'em Down on the Farm After They’ve Mixed PVRIS?
FOH engineer / production manager Connor Hawkins focuses in on a favorite console.
Entrepreneurial Audio with the Randy Rogers Band
Backstage Sound and Lighting sets up hard-touring act with new FOH desk.
Live Sound Showcase: U2—Speaking from Experience
By Clive Young. After a massive stadium tour last summer, U2 returns to the arenas to close out its Innocence + Experience concept tours. Sound director Joe O’Herlihy discusses the tour and looks back at mixing U2 for 40 years.
Nathaniel Rateliff Covers the Earth with A&H
70-plus shows into their 2018 tour schedule, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats have had a dLive desk at stageside each night.
QSC Hits the Road with McCartney MD Wix Wickens
QSC gear plays its part in the onstage rig of musical director Paul "Wix" Wickens.
Green Day Greets Buenos Aires with d&b
A brand-new d&b audiotechnik GSL System covered 37,000 screaming punk fans at Argentina's Estadio Velex Stadium.
Woodcock Packs Yamaha for Summer Tours
Yamaha's new Rivage PM7 will be used to mix Poison and Rob Zombie tours this summer.
Live Sound Showcase: The Tedeschi Trucks Band
By Clive Young. The Tedeschi Trucks Band typically plays 200 gigs a year, which keeps its audio team busy taming the stage volume of 12 people musically flooring it without an IEM in sight.
Cool Tools Track T-Mobile’s 600 MHz Coverage
By Steve Harvey. Crowdsourced data tools can help determine if you can still use that 600 MHz wireless mic system in a given area.
dLive Rolls with Million Dollar Quartet
Engineer Chris Wilson tackled FOH and monitors on the Allen & Heath desk.
Curbishley to Lead Solotech’s U.S. Rental Division
Curbishley's hire comes in advance of Solotech opening a new Los Angeles office.
‘La La Land’ Live Show Hits the Road
FOH engineer Troy Choi mixes live music to La La Land screenings around the world.
Live Sound Showcase: deadmau5
By Steve Harvey. Joel Zimmerman, known to EDM fans as deadmau5, presented his music orchestrated for strings, brass and woodwinds—but no percussion—at the Wiltern theater in Los Angeles in March.
First Public Yamaha Rivage PM7 Demos Announced
T.C. Furlong will host the Rivage PM7's public debut April 24-25 in Chicago.
Miking Guitars on Lana Del Rey’s LA to the Moon Tour
FOH engineer Kevin Madigan (David Gilmour, CSN&Y) talks capturing live guitars
RCF Hits the Road with Festival of Praise Tour
A slew of top Gospel stars are making the rounds with RCF in tow.
VER to Merge with Production Resource Group
VER enters Chapter 11 to facilitate merger with PRG
Live Sound Showcase: Gimmie A Beat—Inside Janet Jackson's Tour Sound
By Clive Young. Janet Jackson is still selling out arenas and making them dance, three decades into her career. Helping make that happen every night is FOH engineer Kyle Hamilton and his razor-sharp attention to detail.
Saving the Show: Live Audio Capture
By Clive Young. Live show recordings are a necessity for every artist. While most national touring artists playing theaters and arenas have recorded shows every night for years, the ability to do so has finally filtered down to more budget-aware house mix systems over time, putting the ability to record multitracks of an evening’s set within the reasonable economic reach of small venues and everyday performers.
DPA Captures Celine at Caesars
Celine Dion's shows have used a growing contingent of DPA Microphones since 2010.
Versteegt on Mixing Live Reggae and More
By Keith Young. Touring the world with Grammy-nominated reggae band SOJA, FOH engineer Michael Versteegt has discovered how to make the most of the mix and connect with crews overseas.
Snoop Dogg Prowls with Allen & Heath
Snoop Dogg has been touring with an Allen & Heath dLive system handling his monitors.
Live Sound Showcase: Touring with Tori Amos
By Steve Harvey. In December, Amos wrapped up the North American leg of her tour with three sold-out nights at The Theatre at Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, the latest dates on a world tour that began in Europe in September 2017, coincident with the release of her 15th studio album, "Native Invader." But as front-of-house engineer Mark Hawley observes, to call this the “latest” tour is something of a misnomer. “We really started 23 years ago,” he says. “She enjoys touring.”
Blondie Calls Up New Stage Monitors
The classic pop-punk band toured with the latest wedges from Clair Brothers.
Brown Note, d&b Avert Disaster for Gorillaz
Pre-tour gamble paid off for Gorillaz’s live audio team
Picking Charlie Puth’s PA
The young singing sensation finished a North American arena tour supported by Adamson systems.
Frahm Takes Stage Tec Desk on Tour
The composer/performer has kicked off a two-year tour with an Aurus platinum FOH console in tow.
Amplifiers Per Annum
By Al Fernald. Here are just a few of the amplifiers and related updates that have been introduced over the last 12 months.
Fun, Fun, Fun on Pet Sounds’ 50th Anniversary Tour
By Paroo Streich. Brian Wilson, the visionary behind The Beach Boys, is rolling his "Pet Sounds" 50th Anniversary Tour forward into 2018 with its final performances, and along for every stop of the journey is longtime production manager/FOH engineer Clint Boire.
Francis Takes On New Desk for Katy Perry
The FOH engineer behind GnR and Kanye West switched things up for his current jaunt supporting Katy Perry.
Winter Quiet No More for SR Providers
This time of year used to mean that things slowed down in the live sound sector—but the operative words there are “used to.”
Halsey's 'Fountain' Tour Flows with DPA
Halsey is using a DPA d:facto vocal microphone at every stop on her current world tour
Inside the Audio of The Killers World Tour
Capital Sound fielded a Martin Audio MLA system for the recent UK leg of the band's world tour.
MyMix Takes On Pete Tong at the Hollywood Bowl
By Steve Harvey. Musicians heard themselves on the complicated Pete Tong's Ibiza Classics tour via MyMix systems.
Monitoring Queens of the Stone Age at MSG
By Ian MacDonald. Engineer Spencer Jones handled monitors on QOTSA's fall tour, a run that found the band headlining New York City's Madison Square Garden arena for the first time.
Live Sound Showcase: Depeche Mode On Tour
By Clive Young. Depeche Mode's longtime audio team uses new and old technology to help convey the warmth and humanity in the band’s famously synthy sounds.
Run the Jewels Roll with Waves eMotion LV1 Mixer
FOH engineer Tomas Wolfe has been using a Waves eMotion LV1 Live Mixer to mix Run The Jewels’ tour.
Mixing the Holiday A Cappella Sounds of Pentatonix
Mark Woodcock uses a Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 console to handle the house mix for a acappella act Pentatonix.