Live
Inside a Six-Month Festival’s Pandemic Audio
OPAV has been providing sound for 350-plus concerts and events at Orlando's Frontyard Festival since December 2020.
Festival
The Wire
Point Source Audio Supports Safe Miking for Live Open-Air Opera
Palm Beach Opera brings live opera festival back to Florida with EMBRACE™ microphones to self-mic every principal performer
The Wire
Biamp Announces Title Sponsorship of 2021 PDX Jazz Festival
The Festival Kicks Off With a Livestream Performance Featuring Thomas Lauderdale and China Forbes of Pink Martini Live from Biamp World Headquarters BEAVERTON, Ore. — Feb. 16, 2021 — Biamp® is dedicated to connecting people through extraordinary audiovisual experiences...
The Wire
LVT Audio Deploys MLA Compact for Eight-Day Festival in Gaia
The best of Portuguese talent on show in socially-distanced stadium
Live
iHeartRadio Theater Digs DiGiCo Desks
The iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles finally got to put its new DiGiCo consoles to work with the recent iHeartRadio Music Festival.
Music Festival Business
Inside the Live Sound of Live Aid, Part 1: London
We look back at the live sound effort that went into the legendary charity concert Live Aid, held simultaneously in London and Philadelphia. With 60+ acts on the bill and 160,000 in attendance—not to mention 1.9 billion watching it...
Music Festival Business
Sound for a Socially Distanced Ravenna Festival
Cancelling this month’s annual Ravenna Festival in Italy was never an option, so audio provider BH Audio is using a revamped d&b system for the event.
The Wire
With Danley Loudspeakers, Subwoofers and Amplifiers on Every Stage, New Orleans’ Ahava Festival Lets NOLA Engineers Take Danley for a “Test Drive” and Raises Over $100,000 for Local Charities
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA: The Ahava Festival held its inaugural event at the Woldenberg Riverfront Park in New Orleans, Louisiana in early March. With no admission fee, attendees were encouraged to take in the sounds, sights, and tastes and, if...
Festival Profile
Ahava Festival Gets in Under the Wire
Held just before the pandemic took hold of the U.S., New Orleans’ new Ahava Festival charity event was assisted by Danley Sound Labs.
Festival Profile
N-Ray Rolls Out at Kassel Festival
SR provider Ambion fielded a beta system of Coda’s new N-Ray line array at the Kulturzelt music festival in Kassel, Germany.
The Wire
Clair Brother Adds Audio Clarity and Power to Summer Nostos Festival – The Biggest Cultural Celebration in Greece
ATHENS, GREECE: The week-long Summer Nostos Festival (SNFest) is an international multifaceted arts, sports and education festival held every June, that is free for all to attend and welcomes people of all ages. This, the fifth year of the...
Festival Profile
SonRise Music Festival’s Speedy Soundchecks
For the SonRise Music Festival, S&S Production Services fielded Allen & Heath desks.
Live
Technotrix Rolls into Riot Fest 2019
The Calumet City, IL-based audio provider tackled four stages of sound at this year’s Riot Fest in Chicago.
Festival Business
Audio Biz Steps into Irish Fest
The indie rep firm fielded a preshow/demo suite to ensure visiting engineers were up to speed on FOH and monitor consoles at the massive event.
Live
Yorkville Digs Into Oh Canada Ribfest
More than 54,000 people came out to the decade-old ribfest, getting their fill of food and music via a Yorkville Sound PA.
Live
Italy’s Medimex Festival Turns to International Sound
Italian conference/festival hosted Clock DVA, Adrian Sherwood, others.
Live
Raising the Roof—and Expectations—at Summerfest
By Steve Harvey. Many concerts have raised the roof at the 23,500-seat American Family Insurance Amphitheater, the flagship venue of Milwaukee’s Summerfest, but this year it really happened as architects and audio pros raised a 607,000 lbs., half-acre section...
Festival Business
Meyer Sound Rolls into Roskilde 2019
2019 marked the second year of the ongoing collaboration between Meyer Sound and Northern Europe’s biggest festival.
Recording
Zylia to Capture Bluegrass Festival
Old-school bluegrass to be captured with immersive recording technology.
Post and Broadcast
How Sky Broadcast a Music Festival Live in Dolby Atmos
By Becky Roberts. For the second year in a row, Sky broadcast the UK’s Isle of Wight music festival in Atmos—here's how they did it.
Live
Morris Light & Sound Takes on CMA Fest
Morris tackles audio for Russell Dickerson, Maren Morris, Hunter Hayes and others as it fields d&b on five stages.
Festival Profile
Eilish Rolls into Coachella with A&H
The young songstress wasn’t the only major artist at the festival using the desk either.
Post and Broadcast
Telos Infinity Ties Together Festival Comms
New York Digital kept Lollapalooza Brazil in São Paolo connected.
Festival Profile
Jumping at Jazz Fest’s Jazz & Heritage Stage
By Jim Beaugez. Propaganda Group tackled a variety of genres and groups with a new audio system.
Live
SR Provider B4 Media Production Looks Ahead
Training the next generation of live sound pros is just one aspect of B4 Media Production’s efforts.
Live
TiMax StageSpace creates world-first immersive festival experience
Neumann & Müller sound designer and engineer, Omar Samhoun, applied TiMax SpageSpace to the Waldbühne amphitheater, enabling object-based immersive spatialisation like never before
Live
Grassroots music venues join forces to create festival Fightback Bristol
Established by Music Venue Trust, Fightback Bristol is a two week celebration of Bristol’s grassroots music venues, taking place February 4-18 2019
Live
Festivals Turn to Bose
International festivals in four different countries opted for Bose PAs this year.
Broadcast
First ever Edinburgh Festival Of Sound to be held at Teviot Row House
From November 16-17, Teviot Row House will host the first Edinburgh Festival Of Sound, which will explore the latest tech shaping pro audio. Festival producer Russell McMahon tells PSNEurope what visitors can expect from the event’s inaugural outing...
Festival Business
Grooving at Debut Garden Grove Festival
New PA used for first time at first-time festival
Live
Event Safety Summit Ready to Roll
“It’s about finding pathways to help the creative spirit continue, but for it to be able to do so with safety at the forefront.”
Live
d&b GSL fit for royalty at Holland’s King’s Day festival
The d&b GSL system was deployed by the Netherland's Oranjebloesem electronic dance music festival in Amsterdam
Festival Profile
New Festival Rocks Trondheim with Alcons
Iron Maiden, Volbeat and others roared through sets at new festival.
Broadcast
AES to explore the ‘future of music’ at London’s music tech festival We Are Robots 2018
The London event will feature many guest speakers and discuss ideas surrounding the advancement of audio
Blogs
Facing Festival Fatigue?
By Clive Young. The U.S. festival market has hit some speed bumps in recent times, but our festival history pales against that of Europe and the UK, where such annual blowouts have been a summertime staple since the 1970s....
Live
RG Jones Joins In at Henley Festival
The Henley Festival’s trademark Floating Stage used Martin Audio MLA Compact speakers to cover a shallow but unusually wide audience area on the side of the Thames River.
Festival Profile
High Altitude Festival Draws Crowds—And Its PA By Cart
Delivering the PA via horse-drawn cart is just one challenge when it comes to providing sound for Bulgaria’s Meadows in the Mountains festival.
Live
DiGiCo Digs World’s Largest Festival
DiGiCo SD consoles were stationed at all 12 stages during Summerfest.
Festival Business
Eighth Day Sound Rolls at Governors Ball Music Festival
Cleveland-based SR provider fields Adamson for main stage at NYC festival.
Festival Profile
DiGiCo Dives Into Coachella
Rat Sound deployed more than 20 SD12 and SD10 consoles for this year’s festival.
Live
Rat Sound, Focusrite Get Festive at Coachella and Stagecoach
Focusrite RedNet gear was used to connect 15 delay towers and more at the main stage.
Festival Profile
DiGiCo Goes 4 for 4 at Savannah Music Festival
DiGiCo is in residence at the Savannah Music Festival, running through April 14.