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Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJYamaha Corporation to Acquire Disguise Yamaha Corporation has decided to acquire media-server specialist Disguise , which has been a standard brand used in concert touring, theatre, and other live events.

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJSingularity, UK Firm, Launches PENpal, Cybersecurity for Lighting Networks The UK firm Singularity has launched PENpal, a cybersecurity device for entertainment lighting networks.

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJJerry Harvey Audio Launches Universal Plus, Bringing Custom Personalization to Universal-Fit IEMs Jerry Harvey Audio (JH Audio) announces Universal Plus, a new personalization program bringing many customization options available for JH Audio custom IEMs to its universal-fit range.

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJA.C. Americas Appoints Andre Girard as Territory Manager for Eastern Canada and the National Capital Region A.C. Americas has appointed Andre Girard to the newly created role of territory manager for Eastern Canada and the National Capital Region.

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJFunktion-One Commended for AV Awards 2026 Installation At last week's AV Awards, Funktion-One was highly commended for its installation of an immersive audio system at Neushoorn, a 750-capacity live venue in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJCentral Christian Church Connects Remote Production Teams with Clear-Com's Gen-IC Virtual Intercom Clear-Com has announced that Central Christian Church has transformed communication across its live production operations by implementing Clear-Com's LQ Series IP interfaces, Gen-IC Virtual Intercom…

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJPierre E. Roy and Marc-Antoine Pelletier Set the Mood for Francis Degrandpre with CHAUVET Professional Canadian singer Francis Degrandpre's current tour features a design by Pierre E. Roy and Marc-Antoine Pelletier . "The show was built to be an "in your face" experience," Pelletier says.

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJShure Wireless Technology Delivers the Sound of the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards Shure wireless technology supported the MTV Video Music Awards, helping the production team deliver clear, reliable audio for hosts, presenters, and live performances.

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJRobe WTFs Not Alone on Mads Langer Summer Tour Fifteen Robe WTF! multipurpose LED strobe/wash/blinder effects fixtures were in action on the 2026 summer tour by Danish singer-songwriter Mads Langer, in a lighting design by Malte Hauge .

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJTheatre in Review: Wanted (James Earl Jones Theatre) Angelica Cheri reportedly based the libretto for Wanted on her family history, and maybe that's the problem with this loud, sometimes baffling new musical.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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