Tour Sound
Lizzo Hits The Road with DiGiCo
“Truth Hurts” but touring didn’t this year for the chart-topping rapper as she played 90 shows in six months, supporting her massive hit.
Clair Global
Tour Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Kacey Musgraves
Album of the Year Grammy winner Kacey Musgraves began her world tour in October, 2018 as an opening act, and wrapped it up 13 months later as an arena headliner. Engineers Travis Bing (FOH) and Dalton VanVolkenburgh (monitors) recount...
Tour Sound
Khalid Runs Free on the Road
The R&B singer-songwriter, currently on the road with the Free Spirit World Tour, is using a DPA wireless mic.
Tour Sound
Rhapsodizing On The Road with Queen + Adam Lambert
By Clive Young with Katie Makal. Riding on the success of the Bohemian Rhapsody biopic, Queen has returned to the road with Adam Lambert filling Freddie Mercury’s ample shoes. We talk with the tour's audio team about how they’re...
Tour Sound
Shinedown Steps Up on Tour
By Steve Harvey. Shortly before a block of about two dozen U.S. shed dates in June and July, Shinedown called on Andy Meyer to take over the front-of-house spot.
Tour Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Barbra Streisand Returns to Her NYC Roots
By Linda Romanello. While never one to tour extensively, Barbra Streisand played a trio of dates this summer that included a stop in her old hometown of New York City to play Madison Square Garden. Along for the ride...
Live
Jazz Fest Marks 50 Years
By Jim Beaugez. A musical institution for 50 years, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival takes over the city’s fairgrounds for two consecutive four-day weekends every spring to present dozens of acts on 17 stages and tents simultaneously,...
Tour Sound
Clair Global Nets First SSL L550 Live Desks in US
Solid State Logic’s new live-sound consoles have found a home in Lititz, PA.
Live
Live Sound Pro Andy Sottile, Dead at 67
Systems engineer worked at Clair Global for more than three decades.
Tour Sound
Mixing Justin Timberlake On Tour
Justin Timberlake has been on the road with his sixth world tour, Man Of The Woods, and along for every step of the journey have been FOH engineer Andy Meyer and monitor engineer Paul Klimson, using pro-audio gear provided...
Tour Sound
The Evil That Men Mix: On The Road with Rob Zombie
By Billy Davis. Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson teamed up this summer for the Twins of Evil tour; now Zombie’s tight-knit crew share how they made bad sound so good.
Live
FOH Engineer Embraces Yamaha on Paul Simon Tour
Supporting Paul Simon on Homeward Bound—The Farewell Tour, Clair Global is providing production that includes a Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 for front of house.
Tour Sound
Live Sound Showcase: 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...
Tour Sound
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...
Tour Sound
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.
Business
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.”
Tour Sound
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.