Planning the band’s last live performance for Birmingham’s Villa Park Stadium, Black Sabbath: Back to the Beginning Production Director Jake Berry asked Clair Global if singer Ozzy Osbourne’s vision to play a final show – where it all began in Aston, Birmingham, in 1968 – would be possible as a mutli-band live stream, the answer was always going to be ‘yes’.
English musician Steven Wilson is currently circling the globe with The Overview tour, an ambitious live multimedia and concert…
Taking its title from a 1930s French artistic movement in which painters translated sounds into visual art to evoke specific emotional…
At the heart of Stuttgart’s historic Bad Cannstatt district, Tonstudio Gress is celebrating a newly completed 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos control…
His work on the vibrant and fast-paced Buena Vista Social Club musical on Broadway recently won sound designer Jonathan Deans his first…
Céline Dion recently brought the curtain down on her Las Vegas residency after more than 1,100 sold-out performances at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, and embarked on a 12-month tour in support of her Courage album.
Global entertainment technology services provider Solotech is providing sound, lighting, video and rigging for the Courage World Tour, including three Solid State Logic Live L550 digital mixing consoles at FOH and monitors.
Music manager Christine Hufenbecher came up with the Mobile Sessions Studio concept that she and mix/recording engineer Kenny Moran realised in early 2018. The vision emerged from observing the daily creative writing process.
‘We were thinking about ways to give artists, producers and songwriters inspiration by bringing them outside of their usual environment,’ she says. ‘What better way to achieve that than with a studio that can literally take you wherever you want to go?’
A member of the Orlando-based Ty Fy Studios team since 2007, audio engineer and sound designer Dan Scott counts LucasFilm, Cartoon Network, Fox, Walt Disney Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering among his clients and films, rides, and Broadway-calibre theatre shows on his resumé.
Since 2016, he has relied on Flux:: Immersive’s Spat Revolution real-time 3D audio mixing software to create realistic immersive virtual audio environments.
When it appeared in 1983, Midi changed my life – as it did for countless other keyboard players around the world. Like any revolution worthy of the name, its arrival wasn’t universally welcomed but it was unstoppable.
In the years since, Midi has melted into music making’s mainstream. Now it is in the spotlight again, with Midi’s Second Wave – welcome, Midi 2.0.
Having been a pioneer of audio in theatre since 1973, Autograph Sound is not only an enduring Sennheiser user but has also played a role in product development.
‘Our first purchase of Sennheiser radio systems was for Martin Levan’s design of Aspects Of Love in 1989, with 21 channels of SK 2012 transmitters with EM 1036 receivers – a groundbreaking set-up for the time and a forerunner of the large multichannel systems in common use today,’ recalls Autograph’s Duncan Bell.
The steady convergence of advances in technology, technical expertise, business experience and market opportunity have conspired to drive Finnish loudspeaker pioneer Genelec to bring a new, market-defining loudspeaker to market.
Cherry-picking from the company’s existing work and adding in new Smart IP technology, the 4430 has a declared mission to ‘empower the installer’ by simplifying installation and connectivity, and offering unprecedented applications.
Behind the scenes, they called it Project Leapfrog. Its aim was to eclipse the capabilities of comparable sports stadia in terms of both facilities and technology.
It is Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, home to Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, and the UK’s largest Premier League football ground. Among many other accolades, it was also the platform for the full development cycle of a new line array. It is the Crème de la Prem.
When L-Acoustics introduced the audio world to line array loudspeaker technology, it brought a quantum leap forward in sound quality and fundamentally changed prevailing attitudes to the deployment of loudspeakers – particularly in live sound.
Now, more than 25 years on, another company aspires to repeat the revolution with a re-imagination of the point-source technology that the line array largely displaced. Cue KV2…
A public, research-orientated university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) has deployed Sennheiser wireless systems in its lecture halls.
Installed over a period of two years, the university has 53 wireless channels from the Sennheiser SpeechLine Digital Wireless series operating in the DECT range spread around different locations.
The recent Plasa Show in London provided the platform for mic manufacturer Shure and theatre professionals’ association Curtain Call to assemble an industry panel to discuss the future of audio for theatre, and its role in theatre performance.
Hosted by John Schwab, the panel comprised actress Siubhan Harrison, sound designer Richard Brooker, engineer Zoe Milton, Autograph MD Scott Arnold, Wicked Deputy Head of Sound Janee Roninson, and Shure UK’s Stuart Moots.
With courses covering music business, songwriting, audio engineering, motion pictures and media studies, the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business is the largest college on the expansive campus of Nashville’s Belmont University, and counts an average of 400 student majors each year from its audio engineering programme.
Key to its operation is the use of Focusrite’s RedNet and a Dante A/V network.
Staged around every 20 years, the spectacular ‘once-in-a-generation’ Fête des Vignerons event takes over the Swiss town of Vevey for a month at the end of July and beginning of August.
Featuring nearly 6,400 performers, musicians and singers supported by 612 loudspeakers, upwards of 300 channels of wireless microphones, 11 networked Yamaha digital mixing systems for the 2019 event.
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