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When alternative-rock band Michael Franti & Spearhead closed their summer run at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, touring engineer Lucas Pinzón was in monitor world building an individually spatialized in-ear mix for every musician on a Waves LV1 Classic with Waves eMo IEM, the SoundGrid-based immersive IEM mixing engine that lives inside the same LV1 environment the console already runs on. “In real life, we don’t listen in 2D. We listen in 3D,” Pinzón says.

As OneRepublic continues its non-stop run of international touring in significantly different RF environments, monitor engineer Chris Marinaccio is working with Wisycom wireless in-ear monitoring systems built around MTK952 dual transmitters, MPR50 IEM receivers and ADB3 omnidirectional antennas. After wrapping the initial European leg (dubbed “Escape to Europe”), the band made a quick stop in California before heading to Australia and Asia.

BAR DANRO in Tokyo, a venue combining elements of a speakeasy with an upscale hotel lounge, is outfitted with a visually discrete, multi-zone audio system incorporating a range of K-array loudspeakers and subwoofers. The brief set by interior design firm cafe.co focused on delivering high-resolution sound without compromising the aesthetics of the interior. Loudspeakers would need to disappear, either wall-mounted or entirely hidden.

After encountering intermittent wireless dropouts in increasingly congested RF environments, in no small part due to 5G interference that accompanied the audience into venues, Salt Lake City, Utah-based Performance Audio is incorporating RF Venue Band-pass Filters into its wireless designs to improve system stability by rejecting unwanted RF energy before it reaches receivers.

dBTechnologies Deutschland GmbH has announced the appointment of Tim Timmermans as senior sales manager Benelux, bringing years-long experience in loudspeaker manufacturing and distribution, event services and business development to the new role. Working alongside Christian van de Pas and Klaus Vennemann, Timmermans is focusing on deepening relationships with existing partners while building new contacts throughout the market.

Popular convention says that bigger is better, but for many gigs, compact line arrays are actually a more suitable fit. A smaller system offers many advantages, including reduced effect on sightlines, reduced weight on rigging points, and a reduced impact on budgets, all while still delivering quality sound reinforcement. In addition, lesser-scaled systems take up less room in the shop and less room on the truck.

Cohesion has announced the launch of Canvas, its proprietary simulation software designed to provide users with an array of features beneficial to Cohesion system design. “With Canvas, we wanted to create a way for system engineers and all users of Cohesion systems to continually refine their craft of designing and working with Cohesion systems. This was something they did not have until today,” says Rob Kosman, lead product manager.

February 2, 10 am, the morning following yesterday’s activities detailed in the previous article. I’m in the meeting room with enough time to check connections and equalization, and to connect my laptop computer for walk-in/walk-out music. I also notice that I forgot to complete some of the connections from the antenna distributor to the wireless microphone receivers, so after a trip to the storage area to secure some BNC cables, that’s done. Mic checks complete.

English singer James Morrison has embarked on his “20 Years of Undiscovered” UK and Ireland tour, supported by 22Live deploying a main sound reinforcement system headed by Martin Audio WPC Wavefront Precision arrays. The 22-date run celebrates the 20th anniversary of Morrison’s debut album, Undiscovered, and features performances of the number 1 album in full, alongside hits spanning his career.

The 15th season of French reality singing competition “The Voice – La plus belle voix,” broadcast on commercial television network TF1, utilized four Solid State Logic Live L550 Plus mixing consoles — two for broadcast, one at FOH and another for monitors — all linked over SSL’s Blacklight II MADI system, all supplied by Algam Enterprise. The entire broadcast was made possible by touring events and integration specialist S Group, based in Alès, France.