Kicking off in San José, Costa Rica in 2022 and taking a hiatus following a ten-date residency at London’s Wembley Stadium to concluded in September 2025, Coldplay’s 225-show Music of the Spheres World Tour has visited in 80 cities across 43 countries to date. The tour took advantage of its Australian leg to bring DiGiCo’s Quantum852 onboard.
Veteran engineer, mixer, producer and musician Jim Roberts and his wife and business partner, Marie, have launched their new music…
Less than an hour from London, the Winchester Audio Barn has designed by a world-renowned acoustician, a master technician and a dreamer…
Returning to the world’s stages after a seven-year break from both recording and touring, with a new line-up and an eighth studio album…
A collection of 463 items belonging to Florian Schneider are up for auction – in line with his expressed wish that his instruments…
Neat Audio has established itself as an industry leader in through its exceptional customer service and to providing the suitable tools for any applications. With DirectOut at the heart of their playback redundancy engines, the company is looking forward to build on its present place in high-profile stadium and arena tours with artists such as Twenty One Pilots, Ariana Grande, Cardi B and Post Malone.
With his signature blend of dry wit, pop culture acuity and storytelling savvy, Colby Elliott serves up something original in Geekery and Wine: The First Case, an immersive audiobook, where memoir meets fandom and every bottle tells a story. ‘The audiobook as a whole ended up being this tapestry of stories,’ he says. ‘Mostly, I think we all belong in each other’s stories, collaborating and trying to make the world a little better.’
When Olivier Cussac received word that Studio Condorcet – a recording facility near the centre of Toulouse founded in the 1970s, and that he had owned since 2007 – was scheduled for demolition as part of an urban renewal project, he stepped in to save it. This year has seen it reborn in with a Harrison 32Classic 32-channel analogue console as the first of several planned spaces at a new location just outside Toulouse.
Composer/producers Starr Parodi and Jeff Fair have found renewed momentum after losing their home and studio in the recent LA wildfire, after Focusrite and Adam Audio stepped in to help them re-establish a base to continue their work on major music projects. ‘Through their help,’ says Starr Parodi, ‘we were able to set up a proper writing and production room and get back to making music.’
Over the past 50 years, Britannia Row Productions has won globally recognition as a provider of audio systems, working with some of the biggest names in music, sports and event production.
The story began in 1975, when Pink Floyd purchased 35 Britannia Row, Islington, to house their growing touring inventory.
As Denmark’s new national centre for contemporary dance and choreography, the scope of flexibility required by the Copenhagen Dansehallerne’s performance spaces reflects the needs of its designers, choreographers and performers.
Matching the freedom of the spaces, there are no permanent loudspeaker placements.
Engineer, producer and educator Bob Bullock began his career in Los Angeles working alongside Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac and Art Garfunkel during the 1970s – as a number of LA studios were installing Harrison Audio’s first mixing console.
Having relocated to Nashville in the early 1980s, he has been reacquainting himself with its sound through the addition of Harrison’s new 500 Series analogue modules to his Cool Springs Mix studio.
When professional digital audio made its entrance, the limitations of early technology combined with the excitement of some advocates made it a soft target for purists and sceptics. Then, as the tech found its feet and its potential became tangible, there was no going back.
Digital audio’s eventual coming of age, however, brings new desire for the nuances of analogue.
Opened in the early 1960s as Moonglow Records, The Sound Factory’s name was coined by David Hassinger, who purchased the LA facility in 1969. A decade later, the facilty was sold to Sunset Sound Recorders owners Paul and Tutti Camarata, who ran it until 2017.
To reflect changing technology and musical styles, the current owners contacted George Augspurger to create new main monitors.
Equipping its 900-capacity main room with L-Acoustics L-ISA immersive audio technology has made The Other Side the first club in the world to fully embrace spatial audio. This move not only honours Amsterdam’s legacy of innovation, but offers a new standard for clubbing experiences worldwide.
‘It was our mission to make spatial audio available to the public,’ says Jasper Löwik, one of the venue’s two founders.
Setting up in the Hollywood Studio Symphony at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California, producer and score mixer Christian Amonson recently recorded ‘Across the Stars (Love Theme from Star Wars: Episode II)’ by John Williams.
‘There’s a lot of pressure that comes when producing a piece that’s been recorded – and loved – before, especially Star Wars,’ Amonson says. ‘But that’s the kind of pressure I want...
With the ambition of the first Leslie emulation pedals finally fulfilled, the story of the Shin-ei Uni-Vibe has come full circle. In its wake we have phasers, flangers and digital modelling pedals, each having taken their shot at replacing the Leslie loudspeaker cabinet.
Common sense would have cast the Uni-Vibe aside along the way. But the final twist in the story is its own heritage.
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