Business
Top Pro Audio Exhibitors Discuss NAMM 2020, Part 1
Leading pro audio brands give insight into their return to the NAMM show this year
DiGiCo
New Products
DiGiCo Quantum338 Console Debuts at NAMM
Drawing a crowd of hundreds, the DiGiCo Quantum338 console was revealed on Thursday at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA.
Business
Seen on the Scene: NAMM Show 2020, Day One
Dive into our huge photo gallery of NAMM Show 2020 for all the new products, sights and hoopla of Day One.
Business
Audiotonix Acquired by Ardian
Investment group Ardian is acquiring Audiotonix, parent company of SSL, Calrec, DiGiCo and Allen & Heath.
Tour Sound
George Strait Rides Again with DiGiCo
Though he retired from touring in 2014, country superstar George Strait has been playing one-offs around the country with a DiGiCo SD12 in tow.
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.
Tour Sound
Jackman Rolls with Solotech, L-Acoustics
Solotech recently provided L-Acoustics, DiGiCo gear for multi-hyphenate Hugh Jackman’s 90-date global tour.
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...
New Products
DiGiCo Digs into Chilli 6
The new compressor/expander joins DiGiCo Spice Rack processor collection.
Tour Sound
Anderson .Paak Packs System for Tour
An audio system provided by Eighth Day Sound has been making the rounds with the Grammy-winning rapper this year.
Tour Sound
Vampire Weekend Goes 360° at MSG
By Larry Jaffee. The New York indie rockers are on the road this fall, and a stop at their hometown arena, Madison Square Garden, was made even more special when they performed in-the-round for the show, providing a set...
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...
Live
Getting Immersive with Lady Gaga in Vegas
The entertainer continues her pop culture reign with a pair of well-reviewed Las Vegas residencies that make use of immersive live sound technologies.
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...
Regional and Local
Audience Eavesdrops on Cold War Thriller
By Mel Lambert. How do you get a theater audience to experience the paranoia and suspicion of East Berlin in 1968? For the sold-out London run of Anna, it meant putting headphones on every spectator and using a binaural...
Regional and Local
Inside the Colorado Symphony’s Immersive Star Wars Show
Hyperspace got “hyperreal” when Clearwing Productions deployed L-Acoustics’ L-ISA for a live orchestral accompaniment to The Empire Strikes Back.
New Products
DiGiCo Set for InfoComm 2019
DiGiCo’s new Mustard and Spice Rack will make North American debut next week.
Post and Broadcast
Eurovision Broadcast Dives into Waves
Much of the annual three-day event was mixed on eMotion LV1 live mixers.
Tour Sound
Mixing Nicki Minaj Around the World
Engineers Kevin Brown and Marlon John have been overseeing gear from Eighth Day Sound on the international production, which hits North America this summer.
Tour Sound
Russell Dickerson Hits the Road with Morris
Rising country artist Russell Dickerson recently updated his tour’s live console.
Regional and Local
Masque Sound Takes On Lehmann Trilogy
Epic play gets the immersive audio treatment for New York premiere.
Regional and Local
New Console Rocks Caves
The venue Caves du Manoir in Switzerland has upgraded its old analog console and aging PA.
New Products
DiGiCo Serves Up Mustard, Spice Rack for SD7
Frankfurt, Germany (April 5, 2019)—Building on its recent addition of the Quantum 7 processing engine for the SD7 console, DiGiCo has now served up Mustard, a new set of algorithms and options for channel strip processing for Quantum 7....
Tour Sound
Cash and Carry—Campbell Tour Brings New Desk Along
Engineer Jordan Bledsoe takes on a DiGiCo console for the first time.
Tour Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Inside Panic! at the Disco’s Calm Tour
By Clive Young. Fueled by a hit album and the omnipresent single “High Hopes,” Panic! At the Disco takes a victory lap around North America’s arenas with an Eighth Day Sound-supplied system combining the best of digital and analog...
Live
Behind the Scenes of the Grammys’ Live Sound
Providing live sound for an audience comprised of the top music artists and executives is no easy task.
Business
60 Seconds: Bryan Bradley, Group One Ltd.
Get to know Bryan Bradley, president of Group One Ltd.
Tour Sound
Bringing Analog Gear into the Live Digital Realm
A live engineer for acts like Camila Cabello, Brandon Blackwell has been integrating analog gear into his live sound setup.
Business
DiGiCo Acquires KLANG:technologies
By Clive Young. DiGiCo nets Germany 3D IEM system manufacturer KLANG after collaborative efforts between the companies.
New Products
BroaMan Updates AutoRouter for Yamaha, Avid
Auto-patchbay solution for theatre sound designers adds compatibilities.
Live
Firehouse Productions Supports Latin Grammy Awards
Audio provider fielded a quartet of DiGiCo desks.
Tour Sound
Live Sound Showcase: Rolling with Thomas Rhett’s Road Show
By Clive Young. Talking with the audio team behind the scenes on this fall's Thomas Rhett arena tour.
Regional and Local
New Console Builds on Midland Theatre’s Revitalization
By Clive Young. After getting rescued from the brink in the early 2000s, Ohio’s Midland Theatre has now further updated its audio system.
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
All Hands on Desk for Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s On the Run II
Stadium tour carries more than half a dozen mixing consoles for the power couple's production.
Tour Sound
Stone Temple Pilots Rock with DiGiCo
Grunge pioneers hit the road co-headlining with The Cult and Bush.
Music Festival Business
DiGiCo Digs World’s Largest Festival
DiGiCo SD consoles were stationed at all 12 stages during Summerfest.
Tour Sound
Entrepreneurial Audio with the Randy Rogers Band
Backstage Sound and Lighting sets up hard-touring act with new FOH desk.
Live
DiGiCo Dives Into Coachella
Rat Sound deployed more than 20 SD12 and SD10 consoles for this year’s festival.
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: 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.
Music Festival Business
‘La La Land’ Live Show Hits the Road
FOH engineer Troy Choi mixes live music to La La Land screenings around the world.
New Products
Waves MultiRack Adds DiGiCo SD Desk Compatibility
MultiRack will now allow users to mix with Waves and third-party SoundGrid-compatible plug-ins on DiGiCo SD-series consoles.
Tour Sound
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.
Gear and Technology
At PL+S: DiGiCo, Avid, Lawo to Integrate d&b Soundscape
The three console manufacturers will integrate live desks with d&b's DS100 engine, allowing engineers to use the immersive object-based mixing technology, Soundscape.