Audio System

The problem had plagued touring lighting departments for decades: how do you get light exactly where a designer wants it when the structure, set piece, or location makes cabling physically…

The European touring circuit has historically been the hardest market to crack for new lighting technology. The continent’s professional production community—clustered in London, Hamburg, Amsterdam, and Paris—operates on a conservatism…

Bass is the body of a sound system. It is felt before it is heard, and when it fails — when the left floor section rumbles at 115 dB while…

In the summer of 2003, a sound engineer at Roskilde Festival noticed something that had been nagging at outdoor festival audio for a decade: subwoofers arranged in a conventional stacked…

There is a moment at every major outdoor festival when the bass hits differently. Not louder, not harsher — just everywhere, simultaneously, with a chest-compressing authority that makes two acres…

Bass is not heard — it is felt. This fundamental truth has driven audio engineers for decades to push the physical limits of subwoofer cluster design and deployment, particularly in…

Pushing LED walls to maximum nit output and hoping for the best is not a strategy — it is a recipe for blown power budgets, overheated tiles, and washed-out content…

There is a moment every senior lighting programmer can identify—a specific production, a specific console desk—when the grandMA stopped being equipment they operated and became a language they thought in….

The Living Contradiction: Historic Spaces and Contemporary Sound The professional audio engineer arriving at a commission to install or temporarily deploy a line array system in a historic theater inherits…

If there is a single piece of hardware that has achieved omnipresence at the upper tier of international festival production, it is the MA Lighting grandMA3. Walk behind the lighting…