Blogs
What’s It Like to Mix for 4,000 Fans in a Pandemic?
As the U.S. gets vaccinated, concerts are starting to come back—but what’s it like to mix for 4,000 fans during a pandemic?
Live Sound
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.
HOW Sound
Shelter Cove Church Updates with Avid
After its old console died, Shelter Cove Community Church purchased a new Avid VENUE | S6L system through local AV provider, Floodjay Productions.
Business
Live Nation, Veeps Outfit 60-Plus Venues for Livestreaming
Live Nation Entertainment and Veeps, the livestream platform run by co-founders Joel and Benji Madden of the band Good Charlotte, have started equipping over 60 concert venues across the U.S. to offer turnkey livestreaming.
Live
Creating Spellbinding Live Sound for Harry Potter
Sound designer Gareth Fry has been using d&b audiotechnik systems on live stage productions of 'Harry Potter and The Cursed Child.'
Live
Mario Leccese, Live Sound Veteran, Passes at 60
Veteran live sound pro Mario Leccese, director of Operations for Solotech US, has died.
Gear and Technology
Peavey Ships Aureus Live Digital Mixer
First announced last summer, Peavey Electronics’ Aureus digital mixer is now shipping, offering a 10’’ multi-touch display and 59 controls.
Gear and Technology
Innovations: Martin Audio’s TORUS and DISPLAY 3
Martin Audio head Dom Harter discusses the new TORUS constant curvature array and DISPLAY 3 3D system design software.
Gear and Technology
Professional Wireless Launches Omega-16
Professional Wireless Systems has launched its new Omega-16 multizone receiver antenna distribution system.
Business
DCR Nashville Nets Paul Owen
Veteran live sound executive Paul Owen is joining full-service event production company DCR Nashville as its new president.
Blogs
Editorial: Are We There Yet?
Usually it's kids in the backseat that ask 'Are we there yet?' Now it's being asked by audio professionals who want to get back to work after a long pandemic-induced break.
Live
Kim Walker-Smith Returns to the Road
Front Porch Productions has been supplying the control package for Christian artist Kim Walker-Smith's current series of four-date mini-tours.
Live
Cincinnati’s Fountain Square Opens New Stage
ClearSound Design installs an L-Acoustics rig at Cincinnati’s new Fifth Third Center Stage.
Live
Post-Pandemic Wireless System Care: The Show Must Go ‘On’
Every wireless system is designed for some downtime—but not a full year offline. Here’s how to bring it back up to speed.
Gear and Technology
PK Sound Launches Trinity Install Line Array
PK Sound has released Trinity Install line array elements—an installation-focused version of its flagship Trinity large-format line array.
Gear and Technology
Renkus-Heinz Debuts CA/CX121M Stage Monitor
Renkus-Heinz has unveiled its new C Series compact stage monitor, available in both passive (CX121M) and powered (CA121M) models.
Live
Spacemap Go Lands at AREA15
Las Vegas' Area15 includes “The Portal” where visitors are surrounded by 360-degree projection-mapped video and immersive audio enabled by Meyer Sound’s Spacemap Go.
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
Gear and Technology
Innovations: Audix TM2 Integrated Acoustic Coupler for In-Ear Monitors
Audix's Carl Sundberg explains how the new Audix TM2 can help engineers test IEM performance on the road without using lab gear.
Blogs
Sounding Board: Networking Without Audio Trade Shows
Real networking opportunities happen every day, all year, independent of time, space or location. Here's how you can make them happen for you.
International
Mixing X Factor Colombia
An Allen & Heath dLive mixing system handled live mixing duties for the X Factor Colombia 2020 TV series.
The Wire
Martin Audio Array for New Rosenthal Park Leisure Development
Martin Audio’s MLA Mini loudspeaker array has been specified at a new leisure development in Rosenthal Park, Lane Cove — a suburb of Sydney, Australia. The award-winning technology was specified by integration company Xcite Audio Visual, who tendered the...
HOW Sound
Hope Church Outfits New Sanctuary’s Sound System
Las Vegas’ Hope Church opened a new 1,750-seat sanctuary in December, complete with an Alcons Audio system.
HOW Sound
Christ Fellowship Miami Gets Triple the Systems
Christ Fellowship Miami in Florida updated half its locations with new L-Acoustics Kara systems.
Gear and Technology
Professional Wireless Systems Debuts TS Series Helical Antenna
PWS’s new Tour Series helical antenna is intended to provide the same service as the company’s standard versions, but with a lower profile.
Gear and Technology
KLANG:kontroller Immersive Personal IEM Mixer Debuts
The new KLANG:kontroller is a hardware controller compatible with all KLANG immersive in-ear mixing processors.
Business
Solotech Acquires Morris Light & Sound
Solotech expands its Nashville footprint with the acquisition of event production and system integration company Morris Light & Sound.
HOW Sound
Worshiping Together While Apart
House of Worship has changed radically in the last year to include many new technologies; how did COVID change things, and what happens after the pandemic?
Gear and Technology
Avid Unveils Venue 7 Update
The latest update to Avid’s Venue line includes three system I/O sharing and Milan network connectivity.
Business
Sennheiser CEOs Talk Consumer Partner Search
Co-CEOs Andreas and Daniel Sennheiser sit down with PSN to explain their search for a consumer electronics business partner, and what's ahead, post-pandemic.
Business
VUE Audiotechnik on the Move
VUE Audiotechnik has made a number of major organizational changes under owner Michael von Keitz with the turn of the year.
Live
The Stillery Is Stuck on EAW
The Stillery is a new restaurant/venue in Chandler, Arizona, sporting an EAW RSX PA system paired with a Midas M32 digital console.
Music Festival Business
Festival Returns for Summer Down Under
Reinvented to meet pandemic protocols, South Australia’s Summer Sounds Festival was a four-week outdoor concert series of 18 shows
International
Meyer Rolls into Warsaw’s Teatr Muzyczny ROMA
A mainstay of Warsaw’s live music and theater scene, Teatr Muzyczny ROMA has netted a new Meyer Sound LINA system.
HOW Sound
Good Shepherd Church Rounds Up New Gear
Good Shepherd Church in Bokjeong-dong, South Korea, recently added an Allen & Heath Avantis console and ME-1 mixers to its audio setup.
The Wire
EAW® RSX Series PA Delivers Complete Coverage and Pristine Sound for Arizona’s, The Stillery
Signature Acoustical Design, Performance and Game Changing Processing Optimizes Audio Quality for Chandler Live Music Venue/Restaurant CHANDLER, AZ, FEBRUARY 9, 2021 – The Stillery, a Nashville-based restaurant and live music venue, recently expanded its concept with a new location...
HOW Sound
Cornerstone Church Reaches Out
Cornerstone Church recently upgraded its sound reinforcement system with a new audio system based around loudspeakers from DAS Audio.
Gear and Technology
Radial Updates Guitar/Amp Signal Switching Stations
Radial Engineering has updated two professional guitar/amp signal managing switching stations with the introduction of new models — the JX44 V2 and JX42 V2.
The Wire
Budget-Friendly Danley Weatherized SH46 and OS80 Loudspeakers Deliver High-Quality, High-Impact Sound for Sterlington High School Football Stadium
MONROE, LOUISIANA: The Sterlington High School Panthers football team was runner up in Class 3A football in the state of Louisiana in 2018, and high school football plays a huge role in the rural community of Sterlington and Ouachita...
Business
Pro Audio & Radio Tech Summit Announced
Pro Sound News, Mix and Radio World have joined forces to hold the first Pro Audio & Radio Tech Summit, an all-day virtual event to be held April 1.
HOW Sound
House of Worship ‘The House Modesto’ Adds Adamson PA
To retain the sense of aural intimacy brought on by livestreaming services, The House is ready for congregants to return, having added a new Adamson PA.
Business
NAMM Believe in Music Week Wraps Up
NAMM's Believe in Music week in mid-January attracted 93,226 attendees from 187 countries.