Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Tash Sultana is back out on tour for the first time in three years supporting their sophomore 2021 release, Terra Firma. Following an initial 15-date jaunt across Europe and the UK in March and April, Sultana has just now completed a 32-show North American trek, which kicked off on 10 June in Las Vegas and wrapped up on 24 July 2022 in southern California. For the run, Nashville-based Worley Sound supplied the tour with its FOH and monitor control packages, both of which were built upon DiGiCo Quantum338 consoles. Although Sultana is likely best…
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Astera has launched a vibrant new multi-lingual website optimised for all devices, action packed with product information, full of technical specifications, news, tips and tricks, invaluable troubleshooting advice, including a wealth of information about the company. Astera Sales Director, Sebastian Bückle commented: “Our objective was to empower our users by creating the smartest web page in the industry containing a mine of relevant information explaining products and answering all questions.” Each Astera Accessory now has its own page with text, specifications, videos, pictures, downloads etc. which helps showcase the accessory and its capabilities and applications. A new Support section has…
HARMAN Professional Solution introduced the newest members of JBL Professional’s flagship VTX line array series, the VTX A6 subcompact dual 6.5-inch passive line array element and the B15 compact, arrayable 15-inch subwoofer. The A6 and B15 bring JBL’s top acoustic technologies to compact form factors for small- to medium-size touring and fixed installations, providing versatile solutions for production companies, touring acts, rental houses, theatres, houses of worship and anyone who requires superior sonic performance in space-critical applications. “When you choose the JBL VTX A Series, you’re building a complete ecosystem, with common acoustic profiles and rigging systems, consistent voicing and…
Summer tours are back in full swing, and artists are looking to make a statement with accurate, reliable audio. From Lorde and Bon Iver, to Tindersticks, H.E.R. and Lewis Capaldi, DPA Microphones has long been trusted to provide the consistent, professional results that artists and engineers expect when performing live, and the clear, reliable audio fans look forward to hearing. Phillip J. Harvey, FOH mixing engineer for pop artist Lorde, is currently traveling through Europe in support of the artist’s Solar Power Tour. A longtime fan of DPA, Harvey started Lorde on a d:facto 4018VL Vocal Microphone in 2017. Since…
Together, the BikeFest team will raise funds for Backup – the technical entertainment charity, which helps industry peers during times of ill health and financial hardship, and other #WeMakeEvents-supported charities. Starting at SFL’s headquarters in Reading to a destination in London, BikeFest will also kick off the PLASA Show as it returns to Olympia London from 4 to 6 September 2022. Now in its sixth year, BikeFest began as a 100-mile cycle to PLASA Show to raise awareness and funds for mental health in the industry. With the pandemic, this need became ever more relevant. Since 2020, #WeMakeEvents campaign has…
Out Board has appointed Phoenix Audio Distribution as the new TiMax distributor for mainland China and Hong Kong including Macau and Taiwan. Phoenix Audio Distribution has strong links with the team at Out Board and the TiMax product range, already holding stock at its Guangzhou and Hong Kong offices, with plans to invest immediately into inventory for demonstration and support purposes at its offices in Beijing and Shanghai. The team at Phoenix Audio, headed up by Chris Zhang and Mac Lo, is well versed in the needs of the pro audio market in its territory, servicing a wide range of…
DiGiCo has appointed RMS Proaudio as its new distributor for Portugal. Experts in providing pro audio solutions to Southern Europe, RMS Proaudio have been working with DiGiCo as its Spanish distributor for almost two decades and have established DiGiCo as the go to mixing solution for the Spanish market. “RMS Proaudio have been consistently successful with the DiGiCo brand across Spain, so when the time came to appoint a new distributor for Portugal, they were an obvious choice,” said DiGiCo Sales Application Specialist, Fernando Delgardo. “We have been distributing DiGiCo to the Spanish market for more than 18 years and…
Royal Blood has called on Britannia Row Productions to provide audio support for their 2022 tour cycle, which started in Swansea in March, carried on through Europe, across the US, and straight into a packed festival season this summer. The band, consisting of bass player / vocalist Mike Kerr and drummer Ben Thatcher, needed a fearsome audio setup to transmit their unapologetically bombastic sound – a requirement that was now well-known by their regular supplier, Brit Row. “We moved to Brit Row at the beginning of 2015 when we needed to move into full production,” said FOH Engineer, Phil Jones.…
To ensure maximum impact and immersive stereo sound across Detroit’s Movement Festival, event producer Paxahau and Thunder Audio selected and deployed JBL VTX Series line array sound reinforcement systems. Held in the city considered to be the birthplace of techno, Movement Festival is an annual three-day electronic music festival that brings thousands of fervent audiences to Detroit every Memorial Day weekend. After being postponed in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 2022 marked Movement’s highly anticipated return to form and a chance for the close-knit electronic music community to finally gather in person once again. “Detroit techno was…
Austrian Audio microphones could be seen and heard in Athens, Greece, in June 2022 during Desmond Child Rocks the Parthenon concert. Thousands of people enjoyed a magical evening in the 2,000 year-old Odeon of Herodes Atticus theatre to see the Grammy winning and Emmy nominated songwriter-producer. Child was joined on stage by Alice Cooper, Bonnie Tyler, Rita Wilson, The Rasmus and many others to voice their support for the reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece from the British Museum in London. The songwriter-producer used the Austrian Audio OD505WL for his own vocal performance, enjoying the mobility on stage this…
Ed Sheeran returned to stadiums in 2022 with the Mathematics (+–=÷x) Tour; an all-new, in-the-round live experience featuring a Mark Cunniffe production design that included a colossal halo screen and six huge LED guitar picks flown around a revolving central stage. This bold production design, which was initially dreamt up towards the end of the preceding Divide tour, was only ever going to be realised by a handpicked team of industry experts. Evoke Studios was brought in by the tour’s Creative Director, Mark Cunniffe of Twotrucks Productions. “I asked Evoke Studios on board alongside a few others as this project…
Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania is known for presenting a diverse, multi-genre array of artists most known for their free-flowing improvisation and danceable rhythms. Headliners for 2022 included Billy Strings, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Trey Anastasio Band, and The Black Crowes, with more than 70 bands total on the bill. From an audio standpoint, the 2022 Peach Music Festival was notable as the North American major festival debut of Meyer Sound’s new PANTHER large-format linear line array loudspeaker. This year’s Peach Music Festival was also the first for Coatesville, Pennsylvania-based DBS Audio Systems as the principal…
Zenso has partnered with Audinate to develop the first third-party software product that is reportedly designed exclusively for Dante users. DMeter from Zenso is a flexible level metering application for Dante networks that runs on macOS and Windows computers, providing instant views of up to 32 channels from anywhere on your system. Presets allow you to see vital groups of channels with a single click, so you can ensure that every participant in your Dante network is heard the way they should be. DMeter is built using the Dante Application Library, which means that Dante connectivity is built directly into…
Alan Walker returned to India for a four-city Sunburn Arena Tour in April 2021, inviting legions of fans in Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Gurgaon to see the British-Norwegian DJ, YouTuber and record producer on stage. His Bengaluru show featured 28 Claypaky Mythos 2 hybrid lights provided by Reynold’s Sound & Lighting Service. Walker’s EDM concert in Bengaluru was one of the biggest post-lockdown shows in India attracting an audience of some 10,000 people. “Alan Walker is super energetic so to match key lighting with the artist Claypaky Mythos 2 fixtures were chosen for their powerful beam and amazing mid-air effects,”…
Blackmagic Design has released a new range of portable ATEM SDI live production switchers with 3G-SDI connections. The new ATEM SDI family is designed to be fast to set up and easy to use. Despite their small size, ATEM SDI switchers are surprisingly powerful with standards converters on all inputs, a built in Fairlight audio mixer with six band parametric EQ, compressor and limiter on all inputs, internal DVEs, chroma keyers, professional transitions and more. Customers get 4 SDI inputs on the ATEM SDI and ATEM SDI Pro ISO models and 8 SDI inputs on the ATEM SDI Extreme ISO…
With performing artists ranging from Adele to the Rolling Stones, Elton John and the Eagles gracing the new supercharged stage and fascia at this year’s American Express presents American Express presents BST Hyde Park the quality of sound literally needed to raise the bar at AEG Live’s flagship event. Martin Audio rental partners Capital Sound, part of the Solotech UK group, have been the exclusive suppliers of the manufacturer’s ground-breaking MLA since the event’s inception in 2013, and were able to respond by providing enhanced site coverage. This year, with its expansion across three weekends, the event broke all records,…
CODA Audio’s Chinese distributor, production specialist, Tongbo, regularly provides systems for events at The National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, and having last year supplied a CODA N-RAY system for the Chinese Peking Opera Arts Festival, returned this summer to meet another interesting challenge. Feng Mantian a prominent virtuoso on the four-stringed Chinese instrument the zhongruan, delivered an ambitious performance based on the theme of ‘Up and Down the Mountain’, drawing inspiration from China’s rich cultural heritage. First conceived in 2018, the show, which featured The Mantian Orchestra, was honed on an extensive world tour before returning to…
Gary Numan has returned to the road to promote his latest studio album, Intruder, with a show-stopping performance at London’s OVO Wembley Arena which saw Lighting Designer, Dustin Snyder tap into 30 Robe MegaPointes and 88 LEDBeam 150s as well as other fixtures courtesy of a Siyan-supplied lighting rig – which was scaled to 20 and 60 fixtures, respectively, for the rest of the UK tour. Gary Numan takes an active interest in the look of all his stage shows whilst also giving Dustin the space to develop his own ideas and directions. “He’s great to work with,” commented Synder,…
