Concerns over sound spill from the Hyde Park festival were further quelled through the use of Martin Audio’s MLA technology at the recent Barclaycard presents British Summer Time Hyde Park festival.

Event promoters AEG Live adopted a similar set-up as the last event but with significant enhancements – Capital Sound used MLA and MLA Compact to guarantee coherent site coverage, but new optimisations gave an additional 3dB at front-of-house without increasing offsite pollution.

At age 13, Alex Santilli went from building with Lego to assembling computers. At 16 he began designing loudspeakers. By 19 he was mixing on Pro Tools and restoring analogue consoles. In 2009 a local studio owner hired him to ‘resurrect’ expired gear. He restored the studio’s mixing console and outboard, rewired the studio and began engineering sessions there.

After managing the studio for two years, he was ready to build a studio of his own...

Deposing the Rolling Stones’ 87,500 attendance record at the AT&T Stadium in 1981, George Strait counted almost 105,000 fans at the final show of this his national touring career.

Onstage Systems, which has been rigging sound reinforcement for Strait’s tours since the beginning of his performing days, pulled out all the stops for the final date on the tour with an L-AcousticsS K1/K2 loudspeaker system.

Named in honour of the its statue of the Faithful Dog Hachiko, Shibuya’s Hachiko Square and its pedestrian crossing– reputed to be the busiest in the world – have become one of Tokyo’s most iconic images

The square is bordered by a department store and two train stations, and provides an irresistible advertising space. Recently, professional sound company, Katoya Recording Service (KRS), was commissioned to provide a sound system to support the imposing 24.3m x 17.3m LED screen that overlooks the intersection.

Charting the 33 missions of Atlantis – including maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope and the building of the International Space Station – a new exhibit at the Kennedy Space Centre Visitor Centre features the shuttle itself.

Key to the US$100m is the ‘multimedia history’ of the craft, including immersive 3D audio spatialisation, which relies on a pair of TiMax SoundHub audio showcontrol matrix systems.