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From recording, broadcast, postproduction and A/V

Brussels’ Bozar takes immersive leap

Nearly a century after Victor Horta designed Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts (Bozar to by locals) the 2,150-seat Henry Le Bœuf Hall has furthered its history with the installation of a permanent sound system after decades of rented systems brought in for amplified performances. This never quite match the venue’s artistic ambitions – a situation now resolved with L-Acoustics’ L-ISA Hyperreal Sound and L Series line arrays.

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The Greatest Of All Tours

Volbeat on The Greatest Of All Tours Worldwide (Pic: Bryan Reesman)

Fifties-influenced Danish metal band Volbeat recently wrapped up a North American tour, supported by Halestorm and The Ghost Inside, and are now heading for Europe. Production manager/FOH engineer Denniel Miller is mixing the band on a DiGiCo Quantum852 console paired with Fourier Audio’s transform.engine in a control package tailored to give Volbeat the big sound they need onstage.

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Into the Millennium

Into the Millennium

The first pop act to perform at the Las Vegas Sphere, the Backstreet Boys took up a summer residency at the fully immersive venue to mark the 25th anniversary of the release of their Millennium album. Relaying the band’s performance through the Sphere’s 360° sound system, involved the use of an SSL Live console and five Digital Audio Denmark Core 256 interfaces for playback, to host plug-ins and for and recording.

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DiGiCo’s Lizard Wizardry

DiGiCo mixing brings Wizardry to King’s Phantom Island

Six-piece multi-genre Australian band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard recently toured the US with their Phantom Island show, featuring collaborations with local orchestras on eight nights of the 12-date run. For the first time, the band’s FOH engineer Sam Joseph and monitor engineer Joe Santarpia were behind new small-footprint Quantum326 mixing desks.

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Calema at the Estádio da Luz

Calema at the Estádio da Luz

The close to their 15 Years tour, Lisbon’s 68,100-capacity Estádio da Luz was the biggest stadium show yet for Portuguese-speaking band, Calema. The show ran show without a hitch, with two DiGiCo Quantum 338 consoles s at FOH and two DiGiCo SD5s at monitors from Auditiv Audiovisuals.

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Fast News

The Overview according to Britannia Row

Critics have described Steven Wilson’s The Overview Tour as a ‘multi-sensory experience’ and an ‘interstellar sound voyage’. With expectations high, Tour Manager Dave Salt chose Britannia Row Productions to provide sound reinforcement for the prog extravaganza.

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Notre-Dame revived

One memorable day in April 2019 flames engulfed in flames the Notre-Dame de Paris, destroying its spire and roof, and causing significant damage to the cathedral’s altar, pipe organs, C13 rose windows and many religious relics. Five years on, after what is described as ‘one of the most ambitious and extensive house of worship reconstruction projects in modern history’, it has reopened.

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Renkus-Heinz Crestron/Q-Sys third-party control modules

Renkus-Heinz has announced third-party control plug-in-modules for Crestron and Q-Sys, developed in partnership with A/V software development and API integration specialist, Control Concepts.

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Christ the King praises new Martin Audio install

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Christ the King Catholic Charismatic Renewal church relocated to its building in 2001 and, although fairly new by church standards, the church was still using its original sound system. And it was struggling to provide even coverage across three naves, fanning out from a central space – issues all now resolved by A/V integrator Annunciation Audio-Visual Services.

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Tonhalle Düsseldorf renews renowned concert acoustic

Built in 1926 as a planetarium and since converted into a concert hall, Tonhalle Düsseldorf has since earned worldwide recognition for its exceptional acoustics. When the hall’s aging sound system began experiencing critical failures, the opportunity was there to install an audio system worthy of a venue approaching its centennial without compromising its legendary acoustic integrity.

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ORF upgrades Vienna Musikverein control room

With the 2025/26 concert season underway, Austrian national broadcaster ORF put its newly upgraded sound control room at the Vienna Musikverein – now equipped with IP-based audio technology from Lawo – to work.

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Funktion-One appoints distributor for Japan and Taiwan

Loudspeaker manufacturer Funktion-One has appointed Audio Gears Co as its distributor for Japan and Taiwan, building on the company’s success in Thailand and Vietnam.

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