A recent Professor Green spring UK tour saw Adlib’s Audio division at the centre of a dance/dubstep frenzy. The sold-out tour was the popular UK rapper’s first with a full production, cementing the ‘live’ relationship between the artist and Adlib following 2011’s At Your Inconvenience tour.

Production Manager Trigger asked Adlib onboard, with front-of-house engineer Pat Tunbridge requesting an L-Acoustics V-Dosc rig and Midas Pro6 mixing desk – following his experience of it in Australia. Monitor engineer Ben Kingman chose to mix on a Yamaha PM5D.

The largest man-made water feature in any UK city, belongs to City Park, a six-acre public space in the heart of Bradford.

Complementing the intra-urban landscape of fountains, trees and green spaces, Pro Audio Systems recently provided a comprehensive technical infrastructure to support the gala opening of the new facilities.

The latest big-room recording studio to open its doors has done so in the heart of Montevideo, the ‘Switzerland of Latin America’ in Uruguay.

Designed to welcome a wide church of music, the studio is equally suited to Latin, jazz, pop, rock and world music production. Through its flexibilty and capability, Vivace aims to establish a new standard of high-quality audio production for South America – and add momentum to the revival of the high-end recording studio.

Esquire magazine reckons that it is ‘one of the best opera companies in the world’. Certainly, the Lyric Opera of Chicago operated to the highest of standards – including its use of sound.

Among its recent productions was a grand presentation of Show Boat. ‘As a company, we’re not just doing the great works of European culture but also the great works of American culture,’ says the theatre’s Production and Technical Director, Drew Landmesser. ‘This is a 3,600-plus-seat house, a huge hall to be doing a musical. To get everyone’s diction – their song and spoken words – and to be as crisp and clear as possible is quite a challenge.’

The Penang World Music Festival 2012 saw Kinakoworx Productions and Echo Sound in action behind the scenes, marking the return of the event from a three-year break.

In order to mic the vast range of traditional and acoustic instrument in play, Kinakowork and Echo Sound found themselves calling on Malaysian dealer AV United for mics – and using a good number of DPA Microphones’ 4099s. In particular, Aftican drum troupe Guinee Percussions were pleased to be free from the limitations of mics on stands and heavy instrument mounts.