LAS VEGAS – Voting continues through Dec. 13 for all the Parnelli Award categories at parnelliawards.com/vote. Six top regional sound companies, selected from an earlier round of voting, are vying for one of the most coveted awards categories, the Parnelli for Hometown Hero Sound Company of the Year.
Okay, we’re past daylight savings time, Halloween and the election season, and can look forward to Thanksgiving, the December holidays and New Year’s Eve — all which spell good times (steady work) for the live event industry. There’s over-commercialization of these festivities, but at least on turkey day, we can offer thanks for what we have, including employment that brings meaning into our lives.
Last month, FRONT of HOUSE readers nominated six finalists for the Indispensable Technology Award in each of four categories: Lighting, Video, Staging/Special Effects and Audio. Here are the six nominees in the Audio category, all of which made their debut in 2024 or 2023.
For its 20th year, the iconic Tomorrowland festival celebrating all genres of electronic music returned to the aptly named town of Boom in Belgium over two summer weekends. This year, Holoplot’s X1 system was chosen to provide the sound for The Atmosphere stage, a custom-made circus-top tent.
Celestion CF1230BMB 12” Driver, Cohesion Expands CF Fill Speaker Line, Lawo Shipping VSC for macOS Sonoma, LD Systems ANNY Series, Sennheiser Spectera, Shure Axient Digital PSM Wireless IEM System, Telefunken Capsules for Sennheiser Wireless, TiMax panLab, Ultimate Support Venue Series Boom Stand and Waves eMotion LV1 Classic
Master composer Han Zimmer brings his spellbinding symphonic magic back on the road. We chat with FOH engineer Colin Pink about the 247-input experience.
Kevin M. Mitchell catches up with the audio crew on the band’s “Only God Was Above Us” world tour at the end of its North American leg, before kicking off for European dates later this month.
Photojournalist Steve Jennings drops by the long-awaited “Best of All Worlds” tour that featured Hagar with a few notable friends — Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Jason Bonham.
Danny Abelson travels to Rome’s ancient Circus Maximus to catch up with this 21-stop trek that also played the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Forum and Intuit Dome in the L.A. area and Madison Square Garden in NYC.
We visit some new arena and stadium installs, which are all trending toward musicality, vocal intelligibility and sonic impact to heighten the fan experience.
An inside look at the recent expansion of the Flex platform, which now offers seamless payment integration designed for the event industry.
We delve into the history of this Italian loudspeaker innovator, which is now celebrating three-quarters of a century of technological innovations.
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