A Cinema After Dark

Residential Systems: Great horror films are rarely about what you see. They live in the dark corners of the frame, in the floorboard that creaks somewhere behind you, and in the low rumble that tightens your chest a beat before the scare arrives. For one horror-loving homeowner, 3-D Squared set out to build a private cinema that delivers all of it, with sound leading the way.

Martin Audio & TiMax Provide Immersive Sound For Vache Baroque Festival In The UK

ProSoundWeb: Vache Baroque’s 2026 Festival took place at The Vache, a historic estate in Buckinghamshire, UK, with performances built around a water theme supported by a main system headed Martin Audio loudspeakers working with TiMax spatial audio processing to support music, theater and immersive soundscapes.

Shure Helps Resolve Wireless Issues For Gorillaz On Tour

ProSoundWeb: “The Mountain” world tour by English virtual alternative rock band Gorillaz that began in March 2026 has sound engineer Colin Woodward overseeing the production’s wireless systems that include Shure Axient Digital for guitar transmission and Axient Digital PSM for in-ear monitoring.

Real World Gear: The Latest Subwoofers

ProSoundWeb: Initially developed to extend low-frequency response in the 1960s, subwoofers have grown to become the most ubiquitous specialty enclosure. For years, dedicated subs accompanied modular full-range loudspeakers with predictable tops-to-subs deployment ratios, depending on the type or style of music: two-to-one for pop music, one-to-one for rock and one-to-two for reggae and rap. This was as complicated as subwoofer math initially got.

Sparks Audio Launches New ClipMap For Pro Tools Workflows

ProSoundWeb: The macOS and Windows application reads .ptx files directly, allowing users to access session content without Pro Tools installed. ClipMap can open multiple sessions in browser-style tabs, enabling engineers, mixers and editors to compare mixes, locate alternate takes and retrieve sound effects or other material without repeatedly switching between projects.

Finding The Sweet Spot: Making The Best Of Mixing Console Placement Issues

ProSoundWeb: I’m sure that most sound engineers are familiar with the following scenario: you turn up to a venue and the mixing console isn’t where you expect it to be – it might be off to one side, underneath a balcony, in the very back of the room, up high in the stalls or stuck in a corner somewhere.

Backgrounds Creates Evolving Soundscapes From Your Keyword Prompts

Synthtopia: Backgrounds uses semantic audio retrieval to match words and concepts with a curated library of more than 22,000 audio cells and 11,000 local embeddings. Users can drag keywords onto a canvas and combine concepts such as strings, rain, bass or thunder to create evolving soundscapes.

Taming The Beast: Strategies For Working (And Succeeding) In Acoustically Difficult Spaces

ProSoundWeb: We’ve all been there. The room is highly reflective or the PA can’t be placed in a preferred location for whatever reason. Or both. Ideally, you’ve noted the challenges during a walk-through and can put some thought into an overall approach and a system design that will produce success despite the obstacles.

SSL Announces New Music Mixing Level 1 Certification

ProSoundWeb: Solid State Logic (SSL) has launched the SSL Music Mixing – Level 1 Certification through its Certified Training Partner Program. Developed by SSL’s Education team with industry professionals and academic partners, the program provides students with a structured foundation in music mixing and professional workflows.

L-Acoustics K and L Series at Washington Monument

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: Part of the nation's 250th anniversary, the 555'-tall Washington Monument was illuminated via a narrated projection display designed by artist and videographer Kyle Barrett. The show ran for six nights and displayed emblematic American symbols, including wooden ships crossing the Atlantic, covered wagons heading West, the Empire State Building, and the Apollo moon landing. LMG provided both audio, via an L-Acoustics K and L Series system, and advanced projection mapping technology.

Meyer Sound TIGRA Makes Canadian Debut At TCU Place

ProSoundWeb: TCU Place, a convention center and performing arts complex in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, is home to the first permanent deployment of Meyer Sound TIGRA line arrays in Canada, provided by Canadian distributor GerrAudio and installed by integrator Sapphire.

KV2 Audio improves intelligibility at University of Bradford

AV Magazine: An KV2 Audio sound system brought a new level of clarity to this summer’s graduation ceremonies at the University of Bradford’s Great Hall. The 900-capacity venue is also used for lectures and events by external organisations, but the previous system was failing to deliver intelligibility and even coverage from the front of the stage to the balcony.

Meyer Sound Names John McMahon As Chief Operating Officer

ProSoundWeb: Meyer Sound has named John McMahon chief operating officer, expanding a leadership role that has steadily grown over his 20 years with the company. “We push our products to perform at an extremely high level, and we’re pushing ourselves to perform at that same level from a business perspective,” says McMahon. “That means the way we operate has to scale with where we’re growing.”

Harman system reinforces sound at world's oldest mosque

AV Magazine: The mosque that is widely regarded by historians as the first one ever built has implemented a Harman Professional audio system designed to deliver consistent, highly intelligible sound across its expanded prayer spaces. As one of only four mosques mentioned in the Quran, Quba Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina stands among Islam’s most historic places of worship – making clarity, consistency and restraint in sound reinforcement especially critical.

Meyer Sound names McMahon as chief operating officer

AV Magazine: Meyer Sound has named John McMahon chief operating officer, expanding a leadership role that has steadily expanded over his 20 years with the company. He joined Meyer Sound in 2006 after the company acquired Level Control Systems, where he was chief executive, and has served on the executive team since 2008.

The Doobie Brothers Invite America To “Walk This Road” On Tour With Cohesion Audio In Support

Live Design Online: Following the release of their sixteenth studio album, Walk This Road, seminal American rockers The Doobie Brothers embarked on a North American amphitheater tour of the same name, bringing together members Tom Johnston, John McFee, Pat Simmons, and Michael McDonald for twenty-five memorable evenings.

L-Acoustics Fits The Bill At Houston’s Shell Energy Stadium

ProSoundWeb: Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, a 20,656-seat open-air venue that was the first soccer-specific stadium in Major League Soccer built in a city’s downtown district that’s the home of four sports teams, recently underwent an audio upgrade carried by new L-Acoustics A Series loudspeakers and supporting components in a design and installation by Houston-based LD Systems, a Clair Global brand.

Lowering The Boom: Keeping Bass Energy Under Control As Part Of A Semi-Silent Stage

ProSoundWeb: Bass players provide the foundation for nearly all contemporary music. Without them, our mixes sound thin and nobody wants to dance. Add the right amount of bass and all of the sudden it’s a show. But while we love bass, it often leads to trouble, particularly in small rooms.

Shakespeare's Globe hides 113 L-Acoustics fills with L-ISA

AV Magazine: Shakespeare’s Globe on London’s South Bank is a meticulous reconstruction of the open-air Elizabethan playhouse where the playwright premiered Hamlet, Julius Caesar and King Lear.

Clear-Com Releases New Arcadia & Eclipse HX Updates

ProSoundWeb: Clear-Com has announced updates to the Arcadia Central Station as well as enhancements to the Eclipse HX Digital Matrix System, which is now running the latest EHX v15 software that delivers expanded configuration capabilities, increased system capacity, and enhanced network resilience while also enabling the introduction of ARC (Access, Resource, Configuration). Both developments will be spotlighted at the upcoming 2026 NAB Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center at booth C5807.