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13 August 2025

Germany - The ambitious In Motion – Art & Football exhibition at Dortmund’s German Football Museum celebrates The Beautiful Game through the medium of art, featuring works from 20th-century artists from around the world. Deploying high-powered projectors, LED displays and an advanced audio system with 25 Genelec Smart IP networked loudspeakers, the exhibition provides a richly immersive visitor experience.

23 UHD Epson projectors animate dynamic surfaces, complemented by film, photography and sound. Visitors move through three distinct zones, encountering features including a 22m Painter’s Palette floor projection and a 5.1 x 4.2m projected sketchbook. German integrators SIGMA System Audio-Visual were tasked with the complex AV design and installation.

“We’ve worked with the German Football Museum for over 10 years,”

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13 August 2025

USA - LEA Professional has announced a partnership with Excellence Marketing, a manufacturer’s representative based in Minnesota. This collaboration strengthens LEA’s efforts to enhance its presence across the US and to provide LEA’s catalogue along with support to integrators in the Upper Midwest region.

Founded in 1988, Excellence Marketing has established a reputation as a trusted partner to both manufacturers and resellers. With more than three decades of experience, they offer expertise, deep industry relationships, and a customer-first approach that aligns with LEA’s mission of empowering integrators with innovative and scalable technology solutions.

"We are dedicated to delivering the best possible service to our customers," said Mark Mitchell, president of Excellence Marketing. "We are proud to introduce LEA Professional’s technolog

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13 August 2025

USA - Since forming in the late-1980s East Bay Area punk scene, Green Day have gone on to rack up over 70m in record sales, win multiple Grammy Awards and stage one of their most successful albums, American Idiot, as a Broadway production. The power trio - frontman Billy Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool - now routinely play to crowds of 80,000 or more at festivals, arenas and stadiums worldwide. Whatever the size of the venue, Schoeps microphones play a critical part in the band’s live sound in two key spots.

“Billy Joe wants to hear the crowd sing his songs back to him all night,” says Danny Badorine, Green Day’s monitor engineer for the past 18 months. He uses eight Schoeps MiniCMIT miniature shotgun microphones at every show to capture the energy of the audience for the lead singer and guitarist. “Those Schoeps mi

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13 August 2025

Europe - Dillinger Labs, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Eleven Engineering, has appointed Netherlands-based Tempesta Trading B.V. as distributor for the Benelux Region (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg), effective immediately.

“In a short period of time, Dillinger Labs and its wireless SKAA-enabled speakers, subwoofers, headphones, and standalone professional transmitters/receivers have taken off not just in North America, but worldwide,” said Rex Whitehead, Dillinger Labs president. “One quickly growing area is the Benelux Region, and so we needed a distribution partner that not only knows the area well, but has a well-established presence in the marketplace. Tempesta Trading B.V. is the ideal choice to distribute Dillinger Labs’ throughout Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.”

Since its founding in 2009, Tempesta Trading B.V. h

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12 August 2025

Canada - From sold-out arena shows to major festival stages, a wave of Canadian country music is sweeping the continent - and behind the sound of some of its biggest stars is FOH engineer Jordan Waller and his trusted Allen & Heath dLive C1500.

The 31-year-old FOH engineer from Langley, British Columbia is the sonic force behind Josh Ross, the 2025 JUNO Award winner for Country Album of the Year. With a resume that now includes the Reklaws, Johnny Orlando, Jess Moskaluke, Dallas Smith, and Tyler Joe Miller, Waller has become one of the most in-demand engineers in Canada’s booming country scene.

At the centre of Waller’s touring setup is Allen & Heath’s compact and powerful dLive C1500, a console that he says checks every box. “There’s no other console this small that does what it does,” said Waller. “I can run 128 input

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12 August 2025

Germany - Set against the scenic backdrop of the Ohmbachsee lake in western Germany, Iron Fest Open Air has quickly earned its reputation as one of Europe’s most exciting boutique metal festivals. With a focus on top-tier curation and high-quality production, this year’s edition once again pushed the bar, especially when it came to sound.

To meet the festival’s technical demands, Iron Fest’s longtime audio partner, SPV Neuschwander, selected the HK Audio Cosmo Line Array System to provide sound reinforcement across the weekend. Known for their close relationship, the SPV team recently attended an HK Audio Cosmo demo and were impressed by the system’s flexibility, reliability and sonic character.

“We had complete trust in the Cosmo system,” said Karsten Neuschwander, Iron Fest’s technical producer. “It prov

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12 August 2025

USA - Situated at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in Murfreesboro, The Murphy Centre - home to the university’s men's and women's basketball and track teams - recently commissioned a new Martin Audio WPS line array system, after a long gestation period, dating back several years.

The contract was won by the experienced Nashville-based Spectrum Sound, which has been providing audio production services to customers since 1979 and has lately been turning increasingly to Martin Audio for its installed sound solutions.

The arena’s outdated PA system had reached end-of-life after years of patchwork fixes. To deliver modern performance and reliability, Spectrum Sound was tasked with designing a new solution. Key goals included consistent coverage, high speech intelligibility and full-range musical reproduction across the 11,520-seat venue. With

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12 August 2025

USA - The City of Lakeland in Miami Beach, FL celebrated its inaugural Freedom Festival with a full-scale community event that brought together more than 2,000 residents for live music, food, and fireworks at the new Soccer Annex at Lakeland Preparatory School. To ensure the success of the city’s first large-scale Fourth of July celebration, Lakeland enlisted Memphis-based production company ProductionOne, led by CEO Kiley Butler, to manage full production - including critical sound reinforcement for the event’s headline band, regional favourite Landslide.

While the event site was not exceptionally wide, it extended deeply, with scattered food truck generators creating persistent ambient noise. On top of that, the logistical layout was being shaped in real time, with teams adapting to the space for the first time. The challenge was clear: delive

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12 August 2025

Spain - To mark Zara’s 50th anniversary, British artist and designer Es Devlin was invited to create a gift for the city where the brand was born: a 20-minute immersive experience housed in a newly reimagined dome at the top of Mount San Pedro in A Coruña, Spain. 50 Songs of the Sea, open to the public from July through October, invites guests into a custom-built environment that blends film, music, poetry, and kinetic architecture, all framed by a fully immersive sound experience designed by Auditoria.

Auditoria were brought on board by producers LarMac and Es Devlin Studio to design and deliver the spatial audio system and show control for the installation, working in close collaboration with Polyphonia (music and sound design content), VYV (video systems), WonderWorks (technical production), and others.

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12 August 2025

UK - Sound designer and car sound recording engineer Chris Jojo was tasked recently with capturing high-speed audio from a rare Ford RS 200 Group B rally car at BGM Motorsport, which followed a high-speed recording session at Millbrook Proving Ground’s Mile Straight circuit. To ensure the precise detail needed for such specialised applications, Jojo opts for his trusted collection from DPA Microphones.

“I’m obsessed with delivering a visceral, true-to-life racing experience. It’s not just about creating effects, it’s triggering memories and sensations,” says Jojo. “It’s sound design on the ragged edge of engineering, physics and raw emotion. That low-end rumble, the high-frequency scream, the way the exhaust echoes off a tree line - I want to put you there. Using DPA microphones allows me to isolate and reproduce the complex layers of automot

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12 August 2025

Europe - Audio-Technica’s ATUC-50 Digital Discussion System is now supported in MVI Audiovisual’s EasyConf software ecosystem, adding customisable control and flexibility to the popular conferencing solution. The Netherlands-based developer’s software suite includes EasyConf, EasyCam and EasyConf Connect, providing a comprehensive solution for preparing, managing, streaming and recording meetings with both in-person and remote attendees.

With recent installations at Radboud University, Nijmegen and Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the ATUC-50 and ATUC-IR are designed for straightforward plug-and-play functionality with the choice of wired or infrared wireless systems (or combination of the two). Both options provide 24-bit/48kHz uncompressed digital audio for natural-sounding voice reproduction – wired and wireless microphone discussion units can be

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11 August 2025

UK - Polygon Live, a 360-degree immersive audio company that produces listening solutions to live music experiences, held its first UK event this spring, calling on Britannia Row Productions in London before replicating the level of service in North America with LD Systems in the build-up to Bonnaroo Music & Art Festival.

Since 2017, Polygon Live has been working closely with L-Acoustics and a team of spatial audio engineers, and when a three-day event, Polygon Live LDN, was conceived for the Italian Terraces at London's Crystal Palace Park, Britannia Row Productions became the organisation's chosen audio rental partner.

"I've always been really interested in what high-quality audio is, and how it can be experienced," begins Polygon CEO, Nico Elliott. "One of the things that triggered my intrigue was listening to quadrophonic so

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11 August 2025

USA - James Butera has chosen Clair Global and multiple Clair brands for audio rental and support many times during his career as both a FOH engineer and production manager, and in his most recent outing with pop star Halsey, he's working with the group once again.

"One of the vendors I grew up working with in Dallas was Onstage Systems which was purchased by LD Systems, and then LD Systems was purchased by Clair Global, so it's kind of come full circle now," he states.

"Large-scale audio and touring are something I've always wanted to do, but I had to pick up other skill sets along the way to get where I am now. The audio vendor I got in with worked with Mary J. Blige, so I bypassed the sprinter van and went straight to bigger shows on my first tour, but my next tour was in a sprinter van. I was tour manager, production manager, mixing monitors and

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11 August 2025

India - Bhopal-based Phoenix Networks has officially transitioned to Phoenix Networks Global Pvt. Ltd in a move that reflects its ambitions in both domestic and international live production markets.

The new identity marks ‘a forward-facing evolution catalysed by the company’s highly acclaimed production support for the Kathmandu Music Festival in Nepal in late 2024’.

"The transformation to Phoenix Networks Global Pvt. Ltd. reflects more than a name change - it reflects our growing global footprint, fuelled by the overwhelming success of our services for the Kathmandu Music Festival," explains Animesh Mishra, founder director of the company. "We’ve always believed in setting new benchmarks, and this rebranding aligns with our vision of offering our signature service excellence on a global platform."

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08 August 2025

UK - As part of LSi's 40th anniversary celebrations, we'll be taking a tour through the archives at our coverage of various shows and productions over the decades. First up, a musical that launched at around the same time as LSi, and is still going strong! When Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera debuted at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End in October 1986, reviewers raved about its spectacular stage effects. These included “a thousand candles arising from a subterranean lake and a ‘gas lit’ recreation of the Paris Opera House of the 1870s”.

Having itself launched just a year earlier – in November 1985 – LSi ventured backstage to meet the creatives responsible for that fascinating flicker effect; something we might not think twice about today, but which was as magic as Paul Daniels back in the ‘80s!

In the

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08 August 2025

Switzerland - Between 4 and 19 July, the 59th Montreux Jazz Festival brought 250,000 music fans together for two weeks of live music along the shores of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva. More than 700 performances from legends to rising stars filled its stages with genres spanning jazz, Latin music, R&B, pop, rock, EDM, and hip hop. Kicking off with a tribute to Quincy Jones by Chaka Khan, the lineup spanned icons and fresh voices alike, including Samara Joy, Max Richter, RAYE, Benson Boone, Shaboozey, and Brandi Carlile.

Now in its 39th year as the festival’s global official sound partner, Meyer Sound powered 15 venues and spaces throughout Montreux with more than 400 loudspeakers, delivering extraordinary experiences for artists and audience members alike. All audio, lighting, and video equipment was supplied once again by Swiss rental company an

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08 August 2025

Singapore - The Adam Hall Group is continuing its international growth and expanding its sales network in Southeast Asia. Loud Technologies Asia is now the exclusive distributor of the LD Systems brand in Singapore. With this new partnership, the global event technology manufacturer headquartered in Neu-Anspach aims to further expand the presence of its pro audio brand in the dynamic city state and tap into new market potential.

Loud Technologies Asia, based in Singapore, is an established distribution partner specialising in high-quality audio, lighting, video and control solutions for professional applications. The company has extensive regional market experience and – in addition to the exclusive distribution of LD Systems – will also offer the other brands of the Adam Hall Group in Singapore on request. The regional clientele includes AV integrators

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08 August 2025

UK - Having won the 2025 Olivier Award for Best Sound Design for Fiddler on the Roof at Regents Park Open Air Theatre, sound designer Nick Lidster revised his solution to meet the requirements of a new, indoor home, the Barbican Theatre. Unlike many conventional proscenium houses, the Barbican relies on chain hoists to fly a PA, making a line array the preferred solution. Happily, sound supplier Autograph offered Lidster the latest technology, in the form of d&b’s CCL (Compact Cardioid Line Array) system.

The new CCL system – bringing d&b’s renowned directivity control to its most compact line array yet – proved the ideal solution for sound designer Nick Lidster at the Barbican Theatre . . .

Lidster was happy with the prospect, having had positive experience of the XSL – the smallest member of d&b’s SL-Series. “I ha

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07 August 2025

Europe - The World of Hans Zimmer - An immersive Symphony: The Theatre Experience is an orchestrated concert series, that opened in the Oberhausen Metronom Theatre and touring Europe in Spring 2026. Featuring many soloists from Hans Zimmer’s team, the requirement for individual monitor mixes was high, so monitor engineer Thorben Stroehlein turned to DMI-KLANG to deliver all the immersive mixes required.

“We started planning in December and going straight into rehearsals was intense,” Stroehlein explains. “Creating a show from scratch meant we had a lot to cover. We knew the orchestra would be large, with many soloists, and KLANG was our only option. Choosing DMI-KLANG reduced the channel count, but the effortlessly customisable console integration made it worthwhile.”

The show connects audiences with Hans Zimmer’s music in an int

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07 August 2025

Canada - Canada’s first Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has officially opened its doors - and from the moment guests step out of their cars, the sound system is already setting the stage.

On the exterior of the building, guests are welcomed by a full setup of 1 Sound’s Cannon C6 marine speakers that are colour-matched to the exterior. With custom-painted C-Clamps for mounting and outdoor-rated hardware (including SS316 marine-grade materials and sealed cable glands), these speakers are built to perform in the elements. 25 of them are installed to create a consistent, high-energy introduction before visitors even reach the doors.

Inside, the Council Oak Stage was designed to host small bands, duelling pianos, and other live acts. To give the venue flexibility and preserve the upscale restaurant feel on quieter nights, the team installed 1 Sound’s L

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07 August 2025

Europe - Sennheiser has announced its new, free online tool for simple configuration of its wireless microphone solutions. Named Wireless Planner, the tool offers customers switching to a new SpeechLine Digital Wireless or EW-DX microphone system a quick and easy way to decide on the right Sennheiser solution, and how best to configure it when designing for education, corporate or live environments.

Wireless Planner is designed to help customers facing tight timelines quickly complete a Sennheiser wireless microphone setup, making it ideal for time-sensitive projects. The intuitive step-by-step, web-based interface allows users to select channel count, receivers, transmitters, batteries, chargers, antennas and more to meet their specific project requirements.

“Building off the success of our Sennheiser Room Planner, our new Wireless Planner aims to

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06 August 2025

USA - Clearwing, a recognised provider of production services and systems integration in the United States, has joined Clair Global.

Founded in 1976, Clearwing has earned its reputation by delivering high-impact audio, lighting, video, and rigging solutions for live events and permanent installations. With locations in Milwaukee, WI and Phoenix, AZ, the company takes a solutions-driven approach and is backed by a team known for its professionalism, creativity, and consistent results.

Clearwing is currently providing lighting for Gracie Abrams' The Secret of Us tour and recently delivered audio for the electronic music duo, ODESZA. In addition to touring support, music festivals like Boston Calling, Summerfest, and Innings have relied on Clearwing for audio and lighting services. The team also contributed to high-pr

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06 August 2025

Saudi Arabia - Anchored on the new Jeddah Waterfront along the shores of the Red Sea, Shangri-La Jeddah ‘sets a new standard for luxury in the city’. Floor-to-ceiling windows throughout the hotel invite the outdoors in, and the stylish interiors reflect the endless blue of the sea and sandy beaches right outside. To support the guest experience with the latest technology, the hotel turned to HAV to bring their vision to life. HAV was approached directly by the hotel owner to meet the required standards.

Shangri-La Jeddah worked closely with HAV, the exclusive distributor of Harman Professional Solutions in Saudi Arabia, to outfit the hotel with a comprehensive audio solution consisting of JBL Professional speakers, Crown amplifiers, Soundcraft mixing consoles, and BSS signal processors and network devices. The project involved fitting the audio solution

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06 August 2025

UK - WaveCo Productions once again relied on Dynacord TGX series amplifiers to drive the TW AUDiO sound system for Glastonbury’s Avalon Stage. This was backed up by Sonicue Sound System Software which provided a flexible and user-friendly solution to design, monitor and control the sound system as required.

WaveCo has been supplying the sound and lighting systems to the Avalon Stage for the last four years, using the combination of Dynacord amplifiers and TW AUDiO loudspeakers for the last two editions. For the 2025 setup, WaveCo selected VERA36 vertical array speakers for the main hangs and delays with low-frequency support from VERA S33 subwoofers. The production company relied on T24N cabinets with BSX subs to serve as fills. Power for the system saw around 20 Dynacord amplifiers called into action with TGX20 amplifiers used to cover the bass, with TGX1