All items tagged with music festivals (10)

Amadeus Designs Custom Column Speaker Array for Festival d'Avignon

July 20, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Amadeus Designs Custom Column Speaker Array for Festival d'Avignon

The Festival d'Avignon, one of the world's most important international events for contemporary performing arts, has chosen Holophonix and Amadeus to re-equip the prestigious main presentation area at the Festival, the Courtyard of Honor at the Palace of the Popes. The two French companies have delivered new hardware and software technology supporting the live performances including the soon to be released "Colonnes d’Avignon" (Avignon Columns' speaker array).

February 22, 2022 by Joao Martins

PK Sound Launches Trinity Black Robotic Line Source Element

PK Sound, the innovative robotic line array company from Canada, has introduced Trinity Black, the latest generation of the industry’s first robotically controlled line source element. Distinguished by a new all-black aesthetic and already featuring the company's modern Polar Kinetic logo, the new Trinity Black systems are loaded with revamped v4 presets to offer significant acoustic enhancements over previous iterations. An important product to project PK Sound into the large scale sound reinforcement market.

Italian Sound Reinforcement Company Outline Awarded Patent for Audio Networking Processor

March 30, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Italian Sound Reinforcement Company Outline Awarded Patent for Audio Networking Processor

Outline s.r.l., the innovative Italian manufacturer of professional loudspeaker systems and a pioneer in line-source and adjustable line arrays systems for large scale applications, continues to invest in new loudspeaker-related technologies. The Brescia-based company now announced that its FPGA-based Newton audio system control and networking processor has been awarded an Italian patent. The company has also filed the appropriate application for an international patent.

L-Acoustics Reveals New Compact K3 Line Source System

October 2, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

L-Acoustics Reveals New Compact K3 Line Source System

The market leader in touring, music festivals and large scale live music events, French manufacturer L-Acoustics has unveiled the latest reference in its family of sound reinforcement systems. Positioned above the compact Kiva and Kara line arrays, and the massive K2 and K1 full-range enclosures, the new L-Acoustics K3 completes the K Series lineup, offering a versatile solution for a reshaped events industry.

Amazon Music and Twitch Combine Live Streaming With On-Demand Listening

September 2, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Amazon Music and Twitch Combine Live Streaming With On-Demand Listening

Amazon Music and live streaming service Twitch have partnered to integrate Twitch’s live streaming functionality into the Amazon Music app, enabling fans to engage with artists in brand-new ways and move seamlessly between live streams and recorded music. Launching first on iOS and Android, artists across the globe will be able to connect live with Amazon Music’s more than 55 million users across all streaming tiers.

Book Review: A Look Inside The Last Seat in the House — The Story of Hanley Sound

August 5, 2020 by Richard Honeycutt

Book Review: A Look Inside The Last Seat in the House — The Story of Hanley Sound

In this article, Richard Honeycutt reviews John Kane’s book, which examines how sound engineering pioneer Bill Hanley’s contributions in outdoor live sound helped create the entire music production industry. Through an extensive nine-year interview and archival process, Kane uncovered how Hanley and his company, Hanley Sound, impacted a developing festival and concert marketplace. This article was originally published in audioXpress, July 2020.

Recommended Book: The Last Seat in the House - The Story of Hanley Sound

March 16, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Recommended Book: The Last Seat in the House - The Story of Hanley Sound

University Press of Mississippi recently released a book which all audioXpress and Voice Coil readers will want to know about and own. The Last Seat in the House: The Story of Hanley Sound is a history of Bill Hanley, Woodstock, the live event industry and the first sound engineer to jam sprawling festivals and rock whole stadiums. The book not only pays tribute to Hanley's work but also reveals many irresistible backstage stories about the Newport Festivals, The Beatles’ final tour and much more.

XTA Introduces MX36 Console Switching System with Analog, AES3 and Dante Network Inputs

July 31, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

XTA Introduces MX36 Console Switching System with Analog, AES3 and Dante Network Inputs

Previewed at InfoComm 2019, then deployed on the world’s stages and Summer festivals like Summerfest and Glastonbury, British amplification and audio processing specialist XTA introduced its new MX36 Console Switching System, an ideal solution for live sound systems integrating multiple consoles. In the world of professional concert sound reinforcement, audio engineers are already quickly recognizing XTA’s new DSP-enabled Console Switching System as the next solid contender for the job.

Powersoft M-Force and Rat Sound Showcase New SuperSub Low Frequency Cabinets at Coachella 2018

May 10, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Powersoft M-Force and Rat Sound Showcase New SuperSub Low Frequency Cabinets at Coachella 2018

During Coachella 2018, a new subwoofer design, powered by Powersoft’s M-Force system, was put to the test and proved how promising the solution is for sound design in general and large music festivals in particular. The new SuperSub M-Force-powered cabinets by Rat Sound provided an unprecedented display of super-low frequency soundwave propagation for thousands of excited music fans, while also exciting the audio engineers with the excellent results.

Optocore Festival Box Allows All Protocols To Tunnel Over The Same Fiber

April 20, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Optocore Festival Box Allows All Protocols To Tunnel Over The Same Fiber

With the festival season fast approaching, Optocore chose the Prolight+Sound 2018 to launch its new Festival Box. Having already proven the versatile fiber based technology in the broadcast industry — marketed through its close technology partner BroaMan — Optocore has responded to the growing demand from the live sound community for a more elegant and efficient signal transport system, with a hot-swappable SFP solution that will radically streamline multiple-band festival bills. Hence the name Festival Box.