At the time of its construction in 1962, US ballparks were designed and built solely to host baseball games. Many of these venues have been replaced with new-build multi-use spaces for concerts, special events and other mass gatherings, making Dodger Stadium one of the few to retain its original architecture and feel. With the addition of an L-Acoustics K2 system, the ground retains its original look, while updating its feel with a modern, powerful sound system capable of handling any event.

It is also now one of the best-sounding sports venues in the United States.

The festival season is set to make a return in China with the EV EDM Festival expected to draw more than 2,000 visitors each day from 10 July to 30 August to the Shanghai Happy Valley Theme Park – one of the first big events celebrating electronic dance music held not only in China but worldwide for several months.

Every EDM event requires a high SPL sound system with a robust low end and – especially in China – a clean and nice looking stage. But with the party lasting more than 50 days and taking place during Shanghai’s rainy season in, SE Audiotechnik had its work cut out. The solution took the form of the company’s compact yet powerful M-Line, with more than 126 Speakers being used on the main stage.

The events that took place all over France were as every years, but the effects of the coronavirus pandemic ensured that this year’s 14 July Bastill Day National Holiday was quite different due to the pandemic felt everywhere in the world.

The traditional Concert de Paris went ahead on the Champs du Mars at the foot of the Eiffel Tower went ahead, however, and marked Lawo’s sixth successive year serving both the live and broadcast sound requirements.

Abbey Road Institute is opening its first music production and sound engineering school in the United States in partnership with multiple Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning producer, pianist, arranger and composer Julio Reyes Copello.

The school will be located at his Art House Studios near downtown Miami where production space has been expanded to accommodate the school’s programme, which begins in January 2021. The venture involves construction of a new control room equipped with a Solid State Logic Origin analogue in-line mixing console.

Birmingham’s new Roxy Ball Room mixes old and new, with a classic American-style ten-lane bowling alley, pool tables and shuffle boards, and a bar, and extensive modern audio system from integrator Audioserv, which has previously installed the audio in a number of other Roxy Ball Room locations around the UK. 

‘We’ve been working with Roxy Ball Room since the beginning of the brand in 2013,’ explains Audioserve Technical Director, Pete Rollinson. ‘For the Birmingham venue, we designed an audio system to give consistent coverage across the whole of the space, with an added impact in certain areas of the venue, as we’ve done with the other Roxy Ball Room locations.’