The year-long tour of the North America and Europe, Green Day’s is a celebration of the band’s classic punk rock that began in Spain in spring 2024. Along for the ride is a ‘punchy and articulate’ d&b audiotechnik GSL PA provided by Eighth Day Sound.

FOH engineer Kevin Lemoine has been working with Green Day since 2000, noting how the band’s concerts have grown while managing to remain intimate in spirit for thie die-hard fans. ‘Our first couple of runs were, compared to today, very scaled down. Clubs, theatres, small arenas and festivals were the norm, but the spirit was the same – a few guys giving it their all and really living and breathing this.

Packing eight recorders, eight microphone rigs tailored to various recording needs and session lengths, DIY hydrophones, cameras, SD cards, several Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones – and plenty of batteries – adventure field recordist Thomas Rex Beverly recently departed his home in San Antonio, Texas, for Patagonia, to spend three weeks making field recordings.

Having already made around 100 libraries of sounds from the natural world, he was out to expand his offering to major film, TV and video game projects. As Tim Farrell, Emmy winning Sound Designer and Sound Effects Editor Editor (Star Trek: Picard, Antman: Quantumania, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Walking Dead) notes: ‘Thomas’ unique and well recorded sounds helped me create the sonic universe of Star Trek.’

In 2020, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s newly appointed Director, Carlos Acosta, embarked on a ‘discovery mission’ to learn about the company’s home city. Amazed by the stories, culture, and diversity from within in Birmingham, he commissioned a series of three new productions including a look at the unique sounds and history of Ozzy Osbourne and metal icons, Black Sabbath.

Comprising the work of three composers led by Christopher Austin and three choreographers, led by Pontus Lidberg, the ballet’s story was written by the award-winning Richard Thomas, lit by Lighting Designer KJ, and heard of over three acts through a Britannia Row Productions PA delivery.

Feeling that its facility in Nuremberg, Germany, was no longer offering the environment or technical capabilities to handle applications such as automotive testing, Dolby has added a mixing lab and a critical listening lab to its new development and testing facility with Genelec the loudspeakers of choice.

The new Nuremberg facility has been built with software development and testing in an Agile scrum environment as its priority. This will see the space used for device testing for head units and loudspeaker set-ups in cars, as well as TVs, soundbars, set-top boxes, AVRs and wireless smart speakers. Additionally, the space will host scrum teams working on prototypes in dedicated project rooms as the company continues to grow its product offering.

Portuguese broadcaster Televisão Independente has installed a Solid State Logic System T broadcast platform at its multi-studio facility in Lisbon, comprising an S500 console with redundant TE2 Tempest Engines and various network I/O interfaces.

System T has been integrated into the TVI production facility’s IP architecture, enabling it to operate with any of the plant’s existing studios. Multiple instances of SSL’s Tempest Control App (TCA) provide additional control options for audio operators or TVI’s engineering team.