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21 February 2025

USA - Sennheiser was the choice for several winners and nominees at the Grammy Awards, while the Sennheiser Group pledged commitment to the music industry by supporting the Recording Academy to bolster MusiCares’ Los Angeles fire relief efforts.

The night featured performances by The Weeknd, Shakira, Lady Gaga, Janelle Monáe, Cynthia Erivo, and Shaboozey – whose teams all chose Sennheiser and Neumann to amplify their voices, including Sennheiser’s Digital 6000 wireless system.

The ceremony looked very different this year as it was reworked to shift the focus towards the devastating situation in Los Angeles and raise funds to support those impacted by the unprecedented fires across the city that so many artists and creatives call home.

Throughout the Grammy weekend broadcasts, the Recording Academy raised over $24m for fire relief effor

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21 February 2025

The Netherlands - Vorstin is a popular music and entertainment venue in Hilversum, a lively Netherlands ‘media city’ in the centre of the country. Vorstin’s striking gleaming steel exterior is visually interesting, and its two entertainment halls – with 850 and 275 capacities respectively – stage four or five shows plus one or two private or business events per week – a fast-moving environment with plenty of variety.

The venue has recently made a large investment in new Robe moving lights, with the purchase of 20 x Paintes, 20 x LEDBeam 350s, 24 x LEDBeam 150s, eight LEDBeam 350 FWs and 16 x Tetra1 LED moving battens for their big hall, together with eight Robe Spiiders that were part of a previous Robe investment eight years ago and some other new luminaires. The new fixtures are rigged in the Big Hall on four motorised trusses and an upstage fl

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21 February 2025

USA - When British electronic music composer and producer, Tipper, played his first theatre events since before the pandemic at the Orion Amphitheatre in Huntsville Alabama, Philadelphia’s One-Source Productions provided the audio for the shows. Owner and CEO Joe Adkins deployed a Funktion-One system comprising 20 x Funktion-One Vero for mains, 12 x F124 and 12 x F221 subwoofers, and Funktion-One Evo for in-fills and out-fills.

One-Source Productions has been delivering sound for Tipper for almost decade, having first worked together at a small show in Boston. A mutual commitment to precise and clear audio quality has driven the relationship ever since.

One-Source powered the Funktion-One Vero at the Orion shows with amplifiers by UK manufacturer XTA, pairing the company’s DPA and DNA series amplifiers with the Vero system for the first time. Joe

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20 February 2025

Poland - In a bold fusion of cultural heritage and cutting-edge technology, the renowned Mazowsze National Folk Song and Dance Ensemble has transformed its 600-seat concert hall into a fully immersive 360-degree performance space, Poland’s first to combine L-ISA technology with L-Acoustics’ newest L Series progressive ultra-dense line array loudspeakers.

The transformation, themed ‘New Sound of Tradition’, centres on the installation of an L-Acoustics L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound system - a sophisticated solution that surrounds audiences with sound from every direction, including overhead, creating an unprecedented three-dimensional acoustic experience that brings Poland's rich musical traditions to life with extraordinary clarity and depth.

Founded in 1949 and celebrated globally as an ambassador for Polish culture, Mazowsze has consisten

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20 February 2025

USA - The Snohomish people have inhabited the Port Gardner Peninsula for thousands of years, but the city of Everett, Wash., was not founded on it until 1893. While many of its 110,000 residents commute daily 25 miles south to Seattle, Everett itself is a burgeoning community that opened a small airport in 2019 and is home to a large Boeing manufacturing facility, as well as the 10,000-seat Angel of the Winds Arena.

Opened in 2003, Angel of the Winds Arena houses three venues that host sporting events (especially hockey games), trade shows, music concerts, school functions, and a variety of other programs. From its opening, the audio system in Angel of the Winds Arena has been built around JBL Professional loudspeakers, but after 20 years the original system was aging and dirty and no longer met the needs of the venue’s event schedule.

“We just d

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20 February 2025

Saudi Arabia - Riyadh is home to the biggest outdoor festival in the Middle East - SoundStorm.

Created by entertainment company MDLBeast, in December 2024, the event welcomed over 450,000 fans and 200 international artists - including Clair Global touring clients Eminem, Muse and Linkin Park as headliners, boasting an eclectic mix of genres.

Clair Global's contribution required coordination from multiple warehouses across four time zones, utilizing 150 worldwide crew from group partners Eighth Day Sound, ATK and AudioRent Clair. The audio team was led by Clair KSA regional manager Stuart Wright, and Eighth Day Sound's Owen Orzack, while Ethan Quint and Carlos Elizondo from the Clair Data Services team, led the IT, comms, and radio deployments for the entirety of the production site.

Reflecting on the festival’s most ambitious event yet, Stu

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20 February 2025

France - Le Collectif La Bringue’s recent Kick-Start My Heart event was not only its biggest party of the year, but also its largest to date. Featuring a wealth of DJ talent, including Aykan, Cassie Raptor, Cera Khin, Øtta, Slam, and Somewhen, the French techno collective’s end-of-year celebration welcomed 6,000 guests to Parc des Expositions d'Angers in western France.

Kick-Start My Heart was produced by La Bringue, with support and supervision from 99dB. Combeuil Audio was chosen to handle the sound design, delivering its largest Funktion-One deployment to date and the biggest sound system La Bringue has ever had at one of its events.

“We have relied on Funktion-One systems since the beginning,” says 99dB’s Arnaud Bouillon. “The brand perfectly aligns with the style of music we play. Its reputation in electronic music

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20 February 2025

UK - Marquee AV has partnered with Davys to deliver a high-quality, multizone sound system for Vintners Lanes, a new boutique bowling alley in Greenwich.

Housed within a former Victorian brewery, now owned and utilised by Davy's of London as part of their wine merchants' operations, Vintners Lanes retains many original features, blending industrial chic décor with grand period furniture and vintage timber wine barrels. The venue features six bowling lanes and plans to offer a range of additional entertainment, including live music, cocktail-making classes, and private event hire.

Vintners Lanes approached Marquee AV to provide a high-performing sound system to enhance the vibrant atmosphere, support various events, and manage the noise from the bowling lanes.

Marquee AV's special projects team led the audio installation, selecting a range of

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20 February 2025

USA - For the fourth consecutive year, ProductionOne was selected as the AV provider for the ESPN-televised AutoZone Liberty Bowl Halftime Show in Miami Beach. Leveraging the power of the dBTechnologies VIO line array, featuring L1610 arrays and S218 subwoofers, the team sound quality and performance to thousands of fans in attendance.

ProductionOne is recognised for its ability to deliver seamless audio experiences in challenging environments. This year, the company introduced their newly acquired VIO system, which provided quality audio throughout the pre-game ceremonies and halftime entertainment.

To optimise sound coverage and efficiency, ProductionOne configured the VIO system on six custom carts, each featuring L1610 three-way tops stacked over S218 subwoofers. These mobile systems were rolled onto the field for the national anthem and

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20 February 2025

Canada - When Piere L. Roy was called upon to light the Governors Ball, a prestigious charity event that features Quebec City celebrities, he encountered a host of steep challenges at the function's venue.

For starters, the 200’ x 80’ ballroom at The Mount Blanc resort has very low ceilings, making it impossible to mount lights high enough to cover the spacious area. Making this challenge even more daunting, no rigging was allowed anywhere in the room.  To top it all off, given that this was a charity event, Roy had a tight budget, which limited the number of fixtures in his rig and the amount of time he had to set up.

"Mount Blanc is beautiful and elegant - the perfect setting for a glamorous event such as this one," said Roy. "However, there were challenges when you light something here, at least if you wanted to light it with the style an eve

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19 February 2025

Germany - A HK Audio Cosmo line array system was called into action to support performances on the main stage at the annual Winterleuchten Oelde. The solution for the event was provided by local rental partner MA Holtewert Eventconcept and designed to cover the large audience area in the town’s main square.

Located in the North Rhine-Westphalia region in the west of Germany, Oelde is a small town with a long history. It holds an annual winter lights festival designed to bring locals and tourists alike into the town centre to shop and be entertained. The focal point for this is the town square where the main stage hosts a variety of performances from choral singers to magicians.

The most recent event was headlined by Dutch rock band Enorm, meaning the stage PA needed to deliver high SPLs in a controlled manner.

The main stage for the festiva

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19 February 2025

Hungary - Vibe, a newly opened Budapest nightclub from the Costes Group, offers dining, cocktails and music.

Resident DJs from the Hungarian capital and South America combine with Colombian dancers, artists and even circus performers to create a carnival atmosphere, all powered by a Nexo sound system designed and installed by local lighting and sound specialists Lisys-Project Kft.

The most spectacular elements of a visually exciting venue include trees made of columns, in the branches of which the Lisys-Project team has built LED strips controlled via the DMX control network.

“In addition to the Yamaha DM3 mixer, the Pioneer CD-3000 DJ multiplayers, the Pioneer DJM-A9 digital mixer and the Shure and Sennheiser microphones, the Vibe sound system is based on products from Nexo,” reports Péter Tatarek of Lisys-Project. “The seven P10 full

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19 February 2025

Europe - For engineers to choose a particular brand of console it requires multiple plus points. For audio engineer Daniela Seggewiss, DiGiCo ticks a host of boxes – workflow, customisable layout, support and, most importantly, sound performance that is compatible with many different styles of live performance.

As a child, Seggewiss knew she wanted to be involved in the live music industry. She loved music but was not keen on performing. “When I was 23, I moved to Leeds in the UK to go to university. It was a monitor engineer who lived in Leeds that I had first met when I was younger, who really helped me out,” Seggewiss recalls. “I’d asked him for work experience and he’d shown me a few things. He also took me to his local venue in Leeds, I got chatting to the team there and a week later, when they needed a monitor engineer, they called me! I ne

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18 February 2025

Poland - Once again, Gigant Sound was entrusted with delivering, installing, preparing, and operating the sound systems for Poland’s largest annual charity event, the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (WOŚP) Finale. The 2025 edition, held on 26 January, set a new fundraising record, surpassing 178m zloty (€42.2m) by the end of the evening.

Founded by Jerzy Owsiak, WOŚP is one of Poland’s most recognised non-governmental, non-profit organisations, dedicated to improving healthcare by providing medical equipment to public hospitals. Owsiak, also the creator of the renowned Pol’and’Rock Festival, has been instrumental in shaping the country’s most significant charitable and cultural events.

Gigant Sound deployed a powerful Outline audio setup, including their flagship GTO line-array systems. In the dedicated TV studio area, Out

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18 February 2025

UK/India - Diljit Dosanjh is a mega-star Punjabi singer and actor, with over 50m followers across all his social media channels. His Dil-Luminati world tour utilises DiGiCo Quantum 338s at the front of house and monitor positions, supplied by Solotech Group for the UK and European leg of the tour, complete with DMI-KLANG immersive in-ear monitoring.

Engineers Kenny Narayan and Ranjeet Singh have toured with Diljit Dosanjh for many years, choosing DiGiCo because of the console’s durability and the range of features that enable it to cope with the demands of a multimedia artist.

“The show is very heavy on snapshots and MIDI recalls. Diljit is very active on social media, so we use a lot of busses, too,” Narayan explains. “The console really meets our needs. There are often TV news cameras, or social media teams that need feeds, so havi

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18 February 2025

UK - The Royal Masonic School for Girls is an independent day and boarding school in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. The Great Hall, with its ornate plaster ceiling, is the heart of the school's daily activities, hosting assemblies and special events throughout the academic year. The Hall recently added an L-Acoustics sound system to improve the venue's acoustic capabilities, particularly addressing the challenges posed by the hall's highly reverberant environment.

Following the successful recent installation of an L-Acoustics A Series system in the school's performance venue known as The Space, the Royal Masonic School again selected L-Acoustics certified provider Adlib for this installation. Tim Robinson, senior applications engineer at Adlib explains: “The aim was to provide a future-proof system which could provide accurate coverage throughout the space

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18 February 2025

UK - Warwick Arts Centre has upgraded its audio infrastructure with two new mixing consoles, thanks to a long-standing partnership with provider, HD Pro Audio. This marks the latest collaboration between venue and supplier in a business relationship spanning four decades.

In response to Warwick Arts Centre’s request for new sound desks to enhance the venue’s versatility, HD Pro Audio supplied the Midas HD96, replacing the previously supplied Midas PRO6. This upgrade marks a significant step forward in the venue’s audio capabilities.

In addition to the Midas upgrade, HD Pro Audio has also equipped Warwick Arts Centre with a DiGiCo Quantum 225 system, complete with MADI and Dante connectivity. Both console packages were delivered with custom flight case and cable packages, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.

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18 February 2025

Germany - The Mediterranean flavours of Cologne’s Da’s Lupo restaurant – one of five owned by the restauranteur, Gabriel Zanchetti – were reflected in its requirements when a new audio system was sought out. The restaurant opted for the Optimal Audio ecosystem that AV specialists Starpoint recommended.

Spread across two floors, Da’s Lupo’s restaurant features a large dining room divided into two areas with a separate bar. A function room with dancefloor occupies the lower floor.

For Da’s Lupo, music is an integral part of the dining experience, and the restaurant needed an audio system that met three criteria. The first of these was that the system was customisable for each of the three distinct areas of the restaurant, so that the music fitted the flavour of the day and time. The second was that the system was simple and intuitive so t

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18 February 2025

Australia - Originally opened in 1930 as a movie theatre, the Plaza Hotel in Sydney has undergone many iterations over the years. Featuring a striking Spanish mission-style façade, under the ownership of the Winchester Hotel Group, with creative direction from Sarah and Ryan Maloney, the theatre has been revitalised.

The operation now boasts six distinct areas (including a revived, classic 1930s theatre). Ryan Maloney conceived Level One as a nightclub inspired by Ibiza – recognised around the world for a top-tier sound, lighting and videowall infrastructure that would attract international DJs and performers.

The installation project was awarded to Brendon Fava from Xcite Audio Visual, and the sound – chosen to fulfil the brief of a premium product line that would meet international rider specifications – came from Martin Audio.

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17 February 2025

India - A wide array of Claypaky fixtures illuminated the Kolkata and Bangalore (Bengaluru) concerts on Sunidhi Chauhan’s ongoing I Am Home tour. Lighting designer Jasangat Sonpal selected 72 Claypaky Sharpy X Frames for both venues and added 32 HY B-EYE K25, 24 Tambora Batten Square, 48 Tambora Flash, 14 Sinfonya Profiles and two ReflectXion fixtures for the Kolkata show.

Sunidhi Chauhan is one of India’s most loved playback singers, or ghost singers, whose pre-recorded songs are dubbed into motion picture soundtracks replacing the actors’ voices. She is a celebrated performer in her own right, known for her vocal range and versatility and recording in multiple languages.

Her I Am Home tour celebrates the idea of home through music, nostalgia and Chauhan’s dynamic stage presence. The Bangalore show last October was the firs

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17 February 2025

USA - The 19,000-seat Enterprise Center, home of the St. Louis Blues hockey team, has consistently ranked as one of the top drawing concert arenas in the USA. Last month it "transformed into a honky-tonk" for Cody Johnson’s Leather Deluxe Tour which is playing arenas throughout North America, Australia and the UK, between now and the end of the summer.

Moving right along with Johnson's lively music and charismatic stage persona, while enhancing the good-time atmosphere, is a high-energy Richard ‘Wookie’ Whitley lighting design, complete with bold fast-moving aerial effects, a compelling video wall backdrop, and a generous helping of immersive audience lighting that makes it easy for the crowd to join the party.

Helping Wookie with the latter are 34 Strike Array fixtures from Chauvet Professional, which, like the rest of the rig, are su

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17 February 2025

UK - "We didn't know what to expect," Those Damn Crows frontman Shane Greenhall told an interviewer about the band's first ever UK headline show on 14 December. The answer for Greenhall and everyone else who packed Cardiff's Utilita Arena was obvious.

From the moment Those Damn Crows took the stage and ripped into a full throttle rendition of Who Did It, the hometown crowd screamed with delight at the top of their lungs. The crescendo got even more intense as the concert progressed, reaching new heights on the third song Man On Fire when pyro effects glowed throughout the stage.

Fresh off their wildly successful EU tour, the Welsh rockers from Bridgend were back home, and the celebratory atmosphere couldn't have been more electric. Underscoring the energy on stage and reflecting the music was a production and lighting design by Gary

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17 February 2025

Dominican Republic - The Hilton Garden Inn La Romana in the Dominican Republic epitomises a romantic destination. Located steps away from sun-kissed beaches and the renowned crystal-clear water of the Caribbean, it’s a slice of paradise for locals and visitors alike.

The 5,000sq.m property has 130 rooms and features a swimming pool, two outdoor bars, a restaurant, a gym, and event and meeting spaces for social and corporate celebrations. The hotel wanted to implement an audio system that matched the splendour of its natural surroundings and chose Connect Series amplifiers from LEA Professional.

Hotel staff contacted local integration firm Symantel to design a robust audio distribution system for the hotel’s common areas and meeting rooms. The hotel wanted background music with local zone control for specific areas like the bars and restaurant. Sy

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14 February 2025

USA - The 67th Grammy Awards staged at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles wasn’t just about celebrating the biggest names in music, it was also an opportunity to show solidarity and support for the Los Angeles community, which is still recovering from the devastating fires in January.

The audio production teams worked diligently to provide an extraordinary, transparent audio experience with the support of Shure wireless systems, including 46 channels of Shure Axient Digital microphones, 24 channels of PSM 1000 in-ear monitoring systems with 150 receiver packs, and a channel of Axient Digital PSM Digital In-Ear Monitor System used for host Trevor Noah’s IFB (interruptible foldback).

“Shure has been supporting the Grammy Awards for over 40 years, ensuring the audio quality is clear and reliable, and helping artists sound their best for the broad