The latest addition to Full Sail University’s flagship studio is a Rupert Neve Designs 48-channel Shelford Edition 5088 console, loaded with 48 Shelford 5052 micpreamp/EQ modules and 9x Portico 5043 dual compressor/limiter modules. The studio serves a wide variety of purposes ranging from student projects to professional releases with notable artists.

‘We have had Rupert Neve Designs products in our studios from the time they came out on the market,’ says Full Sail University Director of Advanced Recording, Darren Schneider, a multi-award-winning recording engineer and mixer. After years of using the rack line of RND products, it was a natural progression for us to move into the 5088.’

Having successfully  Edinburgh’s first open-air dance festival for the Fly Club in the city centre’s Princes Street Gardens, alongside sister company Creation Live, Martin Audio partner VME moved to the 6,500-acre Hopetoun House Estate the outskirts of the Scottish capital for the second Fly Open Air Festival.

Unlike the fixed Princes Street bandstand, a festival infrastructure needed to be created in the grounds of the 17th century mansion and sound levels observed – a challenge that Martin Audio’s MLA loudspeaker system was equal to. ‘The scaffolding structure didn’t help us – we couldn’t get the height we wanted, which created a number of physical challenges,’ admits VME Head of Sound, Mark Cleator. ‘This required some late changes to the loudspeaker array.’

FOH engineer Sean ‘Sully’ Sullivan chose an Avid Venue S6L, to mix front of house for the Red Hot Chili Peppers The Getaway World Tour – the first time the band have not relied on an analogue console.

Sound provider Rat Sound assisted Sully in the move to the Avid digital live sound system. A second S6L system is used backstage by recording engineer Jason Gossman, who mixes the recordings the next day before uploading them to the band’s website to be sold as MP3s.

Singapore’s MediaCorp has relocated to a major new production centre, where its technical operation is served by a completely revised hardware and infrastructure, including audio mixing, routing and control systems from Lawo.

The MediaCorp Campus is now the company’s main production facility, housing TV and radio studios, and their control rooms. There are TV Production Studios, three TV News Studios and a Radio MCR served by five Lawo mc²56 mixing consoles and an mc²36 console, one Nova73 HD router, two Nova73 Compact routers, a large VSM Control System and other hardware. Additionally, Lawo’s VSM (Virtual Studio Manager) provides the overall control layer across the new facility.

Fifty years on from San Francisco’s fabled Summer of Love, Dead & Company are filling large outdoor venues with throngs of the enduring Deadhead faithful.

With the Grateful Dead name retired after the Fare Thee Well concerts of 2015, three founding band members have been joined three new recruits as Dead & Company, and are performing live again. A recent show at California’s Mountain View amphitheatre attracted 20,000 fans, who were served by a Meyer Sound Leo Family large-scale linear reinforcement system.