One of the world’s most famous and popular electronic music festivals, Creamfields provided the setting for Adlib to prove its technical credentials one again, supplying sound, lighting and rigging for two of the event’s main arenas – CF03 (Armada/Mega) and CF05 The Curve – and the all-important VIP and hospitality area, CF10.

The four-day festival was staged at its regular site on the Daresbury Estate near Warrington. Adlib worked directly for creative production specialist LarMac Live. On site, the Adlib crews were led by Hassane Es Siahi (Hass), who designed the audio in CF03, and Adlib’s Kevin Byatt who was project manager for all systems.

The 2018 Roskilde Festival will see Meyer Sound exclusively used on all stages in a partnership that will also see the PA company assist in training festival technical staff in audio system design, configuration and optimisation.

The Roskilde Festival emerged from the counterculture of the late sixties and early seventies, a time of astonishing creativity and innovation,’ says Roskilde Festival Group CEO, Signe Lopdrup. ‘As a non-profit foundation, we have maintained that same spirit and in Meyer Sound we have a partner with the same cultural heritage and a leadership willing to push festival sound to higher levels of quality and innovation.’

The boutique What The Festival (WTF) returned to the Wolf Run Ranch in Oregon with Funktion-One sound reinforcement systems – including a Vero system for the main stage – deployed across the festival by Sound Investment and Fusebox Productions.

WTF first played in 2012, the same year that the festival’s co-founder, Glen Boyd, had Sound Investment install a Funktion-One sound system in his house. This year’s event welcomed 7,500 people, who came for what Boyd describes as ‘a totally immersive’ festival.

Zurich’s famed Moods jazz club has a new streaming platform for its concerts – called moods.digital, it will carry both live streaming and video on demand, with 20 concerts in Sennheiser’s Ambeo 3D. It is the world’s first streaming platform to offer concerts in Ambeo 3D audio.

The new Digital Concert Club has already gained a good level of popularity and, with Ambeo, Moods co-director Claudio Cappellari promises listeners ‘an immersive listening experience beyond compare’ with the support of Sennheiser co-CEOs Daniel and Andreas Sennheiser.

Performing arenas and amphitheatres across North America, country music star Dierks Bentley is using the first digitally linked Meyer Sound Leo Family sound system with a Galileo Galaxy platform and AVB/TSN Ethernet networking.

‘I wanted to have more flexibility and distribution options to the stage,’ says James ‘Pugsley’ McDermott, who doubles as FOH mixer and systems engineer. ‘With our old set-up we didn’t have a one-box, one protocol solution. With Galaxy and AVB, I have all my digital signals on a single fibre-optic line and four channels of analogue backup. But the real selling point for Galaxy was the move up to the 96kHz sampling and high bit-depth processing. The difference in sonic quality and dynamic range is huge.’