Rick ‘Ricco’ Massei CATHEDRAL CITY, CA – FRONT of HOUSE recently learned of the passing of veteran touring audio engineer Rick “Ricco” Massei earlier this year. He “spent his entire 45 year career as an engineer, primarily in the monitor hot seat,” noted his widow, Annie Massei. “For 25 years he spent over 220 days […]
Following on from its range of LED bars introduced last year, Claypaky has now expanded the Tambora family further and introduces Tambora Flash. It is a hybrid fixture that can act simultaneously as a strobe, wash, and blinder, specifically designed with a modular approach for use in a linear array, that offers new creative opportunities […]
David Hagar NASHVILLE – Dave Hagar passed away in June 2022 after a battle with cancer. For 23 years, he worked for Spectrum Sound in Nashville, TN as a Front of House Engineer, Monitor Engineer and System Tech. Some of the many clients he toured with over the years include Mercy Me, Dustin Lynch, ELO, […]
Organizers of the World Procurement Awards, which celebrates the achievements of companies and individuals involved in the procurement supply chain, wanted to endow their show with a “rock vibe” to reflect the bold convention-challenging attitude that drives that industry. Helping to convey this mood was a dynamic production and lighting design by Pytch that emulated […]
Photo by Matt Honnies JACKSONVILLE, OR – George Relles of George Relles Sound has been providing the Britt Music & Arts Festival with Meyer Sound systems for 36 years, starting with MSL-3 loudspeakers for the Britt Pavilion in 1986, and continuing this year with Meyer Sound’s new Panther large-format linear line array systems. More details […]
When Canadian Creative Director Matt Larivée, of Lüz Studio, sat down to design the stage set for Jack White’s Supply Chain Issues tour, GLP’s trusty JDC1 hybrid strobe and X4 Bar 20 batten were prominent in his tool kit. And so were an 144 additional ‘virtual’ X4 Bar 20s. “The JDC1 is one of my […]
The in-the-round stadium shows feature an innovative mast-supported production design to suspend the speaker system. Photo by Chris Matthews COPENHAGEN, Denmark – For Ed Sheeran’s in-the-round +–=÷x (Mathematics) concert tour, now visiting stadiums in Europe, production company Major Tom and audio crew members Chris Marsh and Dave White are supporting the artist with a Sennheiser […]
Randy Mayer at the Parnelli Awards in 2016 Randy Mayer, longtime Director of Concert Touring for Screenworks/NEP, died Aug. 2. He was 48. Based in the Los Angeles area, Mayer joined Screenworks in Jan. 2010 after previously serving as West Coast Regional Sales Manager for Barco and West Coast Regional Manager for High End Systems. […]
The warehouse-style music venue’s new K2 PA succeeds a longstanding V-DOSC system installed when the venue was known as Electric Factory. Photo: Nicole DiBenedetto PHILADELPHIA, PA – Franklin Music Hall on Philadelphia’s North 7th Street first opened its doors in 1995 as Electric Factory, the second incarnation of a bygone local ’60s/’70s venue. The new […]
Instructor Jim Bender (left) with CRAS students TEMPE, AZ — The Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences (CRAS) is a private, postsecondary trade and technical school specializing in audio recording, audio engineering and production education with its main location in Tempe and a satellite campus in Gilbert, Arizona. Founded in 1980, the school provides education and […]
