Varekai Poses Lofty Challenge for Meyer System

Varekai –which means "wherever" in the ancient Romany language of the gypsies – is the newest touring production of Cirque du Soleil. And wherever the show has pitched its tent so far, sellout crowds have thrilled to the spectacle of breathtaking acrobatics, inspired choreography, stunning lighting and set designs, exotic costumery, and enthralling sounds coming down from on high via a Meyer Sound loudspeaker system. Read More »

Meyer Sound Overwhelming at Nobel Peace Prize Concert

Meyer Sound's M Series line array loudspeaker range received perhaps its highest praise ever during the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Concert, held in Oslo, Norway. Taking the stage after performances by Willie Nelson, Santana, Josh Groban, Angelique Kidjo and Michelle Branch, this year's laureate, former US president Jimmy Carter, declared himself to be "overwhelmed by the sound system." Read More »

Jesus Christ Superstar Shines Again in Prague

A concert production of one of the world's most enduring musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar: Five Years After was recently staged in the Czech Republic at Prague's largest indoor venue, the 14,000-seat T-mobile Arena. A tribute to the local production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical – which had enjoyed a long run in Prague until 1997 – the one-night-only performance featured many of the original cast members, and a Meyer Sound M3D Line Array loudspeaker system. Read More »

Fortune Smiles on M2D System in Vast D.C. Hall

It was the most prestigious corporate event of the year in Washington, D.C. – and, quite likely, in the world. In November, Fortune magazine's Global Forum 2002 conference kicked off with a gala opening reception staged in a setting that presented monumental logistical and acoustical challenges. All in all, it was the ideal proving ground for an M2D Compact Curvilinear Array supplied by AV Concepts of Tempe, Arizona. Read More »

M2D Adds Versatility to Irish Concert Hall

Autograph Sales of London has supplied a Meyer Sound M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker system for the Mahony Hall in The Helix, a brand new cultural center that is part of the Dublin City University campus. Read More »

Meyer Sound UPMs a Perfect Fit for Museum Auditorium

The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History recently installed a Meyer Sound 5.1 surround system in its showcase 170-seat Robert S. Kerr Auditorium. The system comprises three UPM-1P Ultra-Compact Wide Coverage loudspeakers for the front L-C-R speakers, a pair of UPM-2P Ultra-Compact Narrow Coverage loudspeakers for the rear surrounds, and a UMS-1P Ultra-Compact subwoofer. Read More »

Children's Pastors Hear It All with Meyer Sound

The Children's Pastors Conference is, in most respects, similar to any other convocation of adult professionals in a large hotel ballroom—though with perhaps with a bit more variety than usual in the presentation fare. In addition to the familiar keynote speakers and panel discussions, the main stage events include live music by bands and soloists, praise choirs, dramatic presentations, puppet shows, hands-on workshops, energetic worship services, and a variety of video screenings—such as this year's preview of a new feature-length movie by those Sunday School superstars, Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber. Read More »

Atlanta Warehouse-Turned-Church Now a Meyer Sound Showcase

A commercial warehouse is not the type of structure known for pleasing acoustics. Undoubtedly the sound quality inside the empty building acquired by Atlanta's Vineyard Christian Fellowship earlier this year was, well, unholy at best. Nevertheless, through careful acoustical design and a commitment to using only the best audio technology (including a full complement of Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers), Vineyard's "sow's ear" warehouse has since been transformed into a "silk purse" auditorium offering outstanding sound quality. Read More »

M3D Stars in Les Mis Concert Tour

Theatrical sound design and rental specialist Autograph Sound Recording is providing the sound reinforcement system and sound design for the groundbreaking multi-city tour of Les Misérables across Scandinavia – the first time that the concert version of the world-famous musical has toured multiple cities. Beginning in late October and running through November, Les Mis covers Sweden, Denmark and Norway with a total of nineteen performances. Read More »

S. African Musical Energized by M1D

Originally staged amid swirling controversy in the late 1980s, District Six has been hailed as a landmark event—politically, musically and culturally—in the history of South African theater. Now this celebrated musical has been revived for an extended Southern Hemisphere run at Capetown's Baxter Theater, where the vivid colors of the set complement the vibrant rhythms and rousing songs emanating from a new Meyer Sound M1D Compact Curvilinear Array system — the first in South Africa. Read More »

Meyer System a Gift to Florida Southern

Since it opened in 1963, Florida Southern College's Branscomb Auditorium has been a focal point of performing arts activity for both the campus and the surrounding community of Lakeland. The 1,800-seat hall is lauded for its excellent acoustics, but the insufficient and antiquated house sound reinforcement system had necessitated outside system rentals for any music-oriented events requiring amplification. That costly and inefficient situation was remedied in the summer of 2002, when a generous alumni donor enabled the purchase of a new self-powered audio system from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Meyer Unifies Church's Split Acoustics

Sometimes small structures can create big acoustical headaches. One case in point is the modestly sized Davis Islands Baptist Church in Tampa, Florida, where expansion of the sanctuary left the worship space split into three separate — and uniquely problematic — acoustical zones. Fortunately, the church's troublesome 'split personality' was overcome by judicious application of self-powered loudspeaker systems from Meyer Sound. Read More »

M2Ds Add Versatility to Swedish Hall

One of the largest permanent installations of Meyer Sound's M2D Compact Curvilinear Array system has gone into the Linköping Konsert & Kongress Center in Sweden. A total of eighteen M2Ds and four M2D-Sub Compact subwoofers have been installed into the center's 1,200-capacity concert hall, one of Sweden's most prestigious venues, which hosts a wide range of music, drama and dance productions in addition to doubling as a conference hall. Read More »

M1D Makes Broadway Bow with Prune Danish

Venerable comedian Jackie Mason returns to Broadway this fall for his sixth one-man show, Prune Danish. The show is also a return engagement for Christopher Cronin, sound designer for this current production as well as Mason's previous Broadway outing, Much Ado About Everything. But Prune Danish marks the first time that Mason's rapid-fire quips have been heard on Broadway through a Meyer Sound M1D Ultra-Compact Curvilinear Array system. Read More »

More Meyer Is Better for Platinum Disco

A popular Malaysian nighclub demanded the very best audio system, and was fitted out with Meyer Sound distributor Quebec Leisure's largest single installation of Meyer loudspeakers to date. Read More »

Viennese Theatre Wakes Up To Meyer Sound

Vienna's Raimundtheater, which for more than 15 years has staged performances and musicals including Les Miserables, Cats and Phantom of the Opera, has upgraded its Meyer Sound loudspeaker system for the September premiere of a new Austrian production, Wake Up. A "Sleeping Beauty Story" set in the contemporary music scene, Wake Up is the first musical written by Austrian singer and actor Rainhard Fendrich, who also stars in the musical, and Grammy Award-winning composer Harold Faltermeyer. Read More »

Spanish Music Festival Features Meyer Systems

Although the first four days of the festival were dedicated to live concerts and DJ performances, the last day encompassed a special awards ceremony to honor the festival's winning films. The festival's climax featured an extensive outdoor party on Benicàssim beach. Read More »

New Sound for New Life's New Building

Members of the fast-growing New Life Evangelical Free Church in Aurora, Colorado, recently celebrated the dedication of their spacious new 8,000 sq. ft. worship facility. Constructed adjacent to the existing church building, the new addition more than doubled maximum occupancy for worship (up to about 600 depending on seating configuration) and added numerous amenities, including new audio and video and lighting systems. To ensure the highest audio quality for both Sunday worship and music-oriented activities throughout the week, the church development committee called in some local expertise to review the initial sound system design proposals. Read More »

Meyer Sound's M1D Curvilinear Array Loudspeaker Makes UK Theatrical Debut

125th Street, the latest musical to open in London's West End, has transformed the Shaftesbury Theater into Harlem's legendary Apollo to host an interactive musical party set in 1969. Read More »

Meyer Sound Brings World-Class Musical Sound to Singapore

Singapore's newest international arts venue, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, features a world-class Meyer Sound reinforcement system. Read More »

"The M Series on Broadway" a Hit

The 611-seat John Jay Theater provided a realistic, small-house setting for the Meyer product demonstrations. Systems configured for the sessions were left/right M2D (ten plus one M2D-Sub flown per side), left/right M1D (ten plus two M1D-Sub flown per side), two M1D on the stage lip, and eight MM-4 across the stage front. Read More »

M3D Makes a Splash in Rio

If you want to introduce a new product to youthful consumers in Brazil, what better way to make a big splash than to stage free concerts featuring some of the country's music superstars? Read More »

Purdue University Kicks Off with New Meyer System

With seating for more than 65,000 Boilermaker fans, Ross-Ade Stadium at Purdue University is the second-largest football stadium in Indiana — following, not surprisingly, right behind the home field of Notre Dame's "Fighting Irish." Read More »

Air Force Investigates Meyer Technology

The Air Force Band ensembles tour constantly across the country and the world. Because they work on a tight schedule, sometimes in difficult circumstances, they need a system like the M2D line array that is reliable, works anywhere and rigs quickly. Read More »

Cafe Quijano Tours Spain with Meyer Sound M2D System

Spanish rental company Siluj debuted its new Meyer Sound M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker system on Café Quijano's 2002 Spanish tour. Siluj's co-owner Tino Freile, together with Café Quijano's front-of-house engineer Santi Chicharro, purchased the system after attending an M2D presentation held by Meyer Sound Spain. Their primary consideration was the portability and scalability of the system, as the sizes of the venues on the tour vary widely and shows are scheduled back-to-back. The M2D's compact size, QuickFly rigging, and self-powered advantage made it the perfect candidate. Read More »

Monks' Visit to California State University at Chico Inspires Move to M2D

The Romanesque-styled Laxon Auditorium has been a focal point for the performing arts in north central California since it first opened in 1931. In recent years, this 1,400-seat venue — a landmark on the California State University at Chico campus — has hosted a variety of events, including visits from the San Francisco and Pittsburgh symphony orchestras, the Joffrey Ballet, and frequent concerts by touring rock, blues, jazz and world music artists. Read More »

Queensland Performing Arts Centre Upgrades with Meyer

Situated on the South Bank in Brisbane, Australia, the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has flourished as the cultural hub of this northeastern province. Between the grand opening of the complex in 1985 and the year 1998, the Centre's venues had offered a mixed variety of sound systems from various manufacturers. Over the past four years, however, QPAC has installed more than one hundred and ten Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers across all four performance halls in a move to significantly upgrade performance, overcome acoustic problems, and satisfy the rider provisions of major touring productions. Read More »

M3D Line Array System Helps Spread the Word

Meyer Sound's UK distributor, Autograph Sales, has supplied a twenty-four cabinet M3D Line Array loudspeaker system to Wigwam Acoustics for an unusual and demanding application — to spread the word of God across Africa. Read More »

Bergeron Designs Sound for Cirque Using Meyer Systems

Before joining Cirque du Soleil in 1989, Canadian-born Francois Bergeron worked in Québec theatres and for Solotech, the Montreal sound rental and production company. Between Cirque shows, Bergeron led the development of audio and technical designs for a variety of projects including the Hayden Planetarium in New York City; three Niketown flagship stores; EFX in Las Vegas; l Templo Del Fuego for Universal Studios' Port Aventura in Spain; and the live shows and nighttime spectacular at a new ocean-themed park in Tokyo. Bergeron's Cirque du Soleil sound designs include O at the Bellagio Hotel in Vegas, La Nouba at Downtown Disney in Orlando, and the Quidam and Saltimbanco world tours. Bergeron received Entertainment Design magazine's Sound Designer of the Year award in 1996. He is a founding partner of Thinkwell Design and Production, headquartered at California's historic Pasadena Playhouse. Read More »

Smooth Coverage at Swiss Festival

A total of twenty-four M3D cabinets were used for the Paléo Festival's main stage, and eight M3Ds and eight M3D-Subs with four MSL-4s for infill were used at a smaller stage. Meyer Sound's RMS Remote Monitoring System was used to provide continual information on the main M3D system during performances.
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"Impossible" Sound Art Achieved by SB-1 Sound Beam

It's not often that a work of art relies on a specific product for its very existence — but that's arguably the case with "Falling Echoes," a sound installation by renowned San Francisco-based artist Bill Fontana that premiered recently in Brooklyn, New York. Read More »

Meyer Sound Contributes to World Youth Day Mega-System

On July 28th, when Pope John Paul II celebrated mass at the culmination of World Youth Day (WYD) in Toronto, he spoke through a massive public address system that may well have been the largest ever assembled in North America. The result of a year-long planning and construction effort, the WYD system covered 640 acres and was capable of providing highly intelligible speech and full-range music to an audience of more than 800,000. Read More »

M3D Marks Change for Singapore's National Day Parade

Coda Audio Services has provided its new Meyer Sound M3D Line Array loudspeaker system for Singapore's prestigious National Day Parade (NDP), celebrating the 37th anniversary of Singapore's independence on August 9. The occasion marked the first time that a new loudspeaker brand had been used for the event in more than a decade. Read More »

Meyer Installed at Monterey Bay Aquarium

Constructed around a converted seafood cannery on Monterey's historic Cannery Row, the world-renowned Monterey Bay Aquarium gives about 1.8 million visitors each year an up-close-and-personal encounter with more than 550 species of marine life native to coastal California. Most visitors also attend at least one presentation in the aquarium's 280-seat auditorium, which is undergoing a phased upgrade to high definition digital systems. As part of the improvements, the aquarium recently replaced the main front sound reinforcement system with new, self-powered Meyer Sound UPA-1P Compact Wide Coverage loudspeakers. Read More »

Audio Electronics Mattijsen

Audio Electronics Mattijsen (AEM), exclusive distributor for Meyer Sound products in the Netherlands, was established in 1979 by husband and wife team Johan and Geeke Mattijsen, with the aim of providing a high level of expertise and service to professional audio end users.

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M Series Declared Winner in Ultimate Fighting Championship

After six months of high-profile UK and European tours and outdoor events, Capital Sound's Meyer Sound M Series Line Array system has faced a new challenge: the Ultimate Fighting Championship at London's Royal Albert Hall. UFC is a bare-fisted, no rules fighting championship, and contenders from all around the world turned up to compete in the Brawl at the Hall. Read More »

M2D Sound Envelops Keiko Matsui Fans

Japanese PA hire company Tokyo Onken has supplied a Meyer Sound M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker system for a concert tour by jazz pianist Keiko Matsui. The tour visited Japan's major cities — including Osaka, Yokohama and Tokyo — playing concert halls with seating capacities from 700 to 2,000. Read More »

Meyer Sound for Vinton's Blue Velvet

Bobby Vinton soared to stardom in the early sixties with bestsellers like "Blue Velvet" and "Roses Are Red," and for a time posted more chart-toppers than Elvis. Read More »

Meyer Sound Systems Tailored to Kimmel Center

The Kimmel Center, Philadelphia's new $265 million venue for the performing arts, is quickly gaining worldwide renown for its striking architecture, innovative acoustical design concepts, and the superb sound in its two performance spaces: Verizon Hall and the Perelman Theatre. Whenever amplified sound reinforcement is called for, both Kimmel Center venues rely on custom-tailored audio systems based on Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker systems. Read More »

Bass Performance Hall Achieves Clarity with Meyer Sound System

Home to the Fort Worth Symphony, Opera and Ballet, the Bass Performance Hall is a world-class symphonic venue that has also become the destination of choice for touring acts of all kinds, from Broadway and Bluegrass to Jazz and Rock. The key to the hall's versatility is the sound reinforcement system from Meyer Sound that accommodates music of all genres, delivering crystal clear reproduction to every seat in the house. Read More »

Leifull Enterprises

Since Meyer Sound's Guangzhou, P.R. China-based distributor Leifull Enterprises was established in the early 90s as a supplier of sound and lighting equipment, it has prided itself on having progressed through the closely held principles of exploration, practice and dedication. Read More »

Meyer Sound M Series a Hit with Popular Spanish Duo

The largest system on the Estopa tour was assembled for a crowd of 20,000 people at the Plaza las Ventas in Madrid. A total of twenty M3Ds with ten M3D-Subs, twenty-eight M2Ds and two UPA-1Ps were used for this event.
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Interview with Sound Designer Mick Potter

What's your normal process for approaching a system design?

The first thing I'll do is talk to the producer, the director and the creative team and get a detailed feel for the show. This will include the overall dynamic of the show, what the music's going to entail, sound effects, surround sound, monitoring and how the imaging of the show's going to work — for example, whether it's going to be a natural-sounding show or a cinematic-sounding show. Having done that, I'll look at the venue in detail and, most importantly, the production and set design concept. Then, I'll start piecing it together from there. Read More »

Interview with Sound Designer Tony Meola

Tony Meola is one of New York's most in-demand sound designers, with credits on more than twenty-six Broadway productions including Sweet Smell of Success, Kiss Me Kate, Footloose, The King and I and Smokey Joe's Café. He received the 1998 Drama Desk Award for his sound design on the Broadway production of The Lion King, and his design for the revival production of The Sound of Music was nominated for an American Theatre Wing Design Award. He also has designed the sound for off-Broadway shows (A New Brain and Love, Janis among others) as well as productions in London and elsewhere in Europe. Read More »

Gabrielle Tours UK with M Series

London rental company Canegreen has taken its M3D Line Array loudspeaker system — recently supplemented with a quantity of M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeakers — on the road with UK R&B singer Gabrielle. The twelve-date tour took in all the major UK arenas, ranging from the 4,000-seat Bournemouth to the 16,000-capacity Manchester Evening News Arena. Read More »

M2D at the Britt Festivals: Power to the People

Southern Oregon's Britt Festivals are known for offering an eclectic mix of music by top-notch touring acts set amid sweeping views of the Rogue Valley from the verdant hillside site. Front-of-house engineers also know Britt for a rather strict noise ordinance: 92 dB maximum A-weighted at the mix position, averaged over an hour. Read More »

M3D/M2D Serve New Birth Missionary

When Atlanta's fast-growing New Birth Missionary Baptist Church decided to gather the entire congregation under one roof at one time (and with ample room for guests), the only local venue able to accommodate their special service was the city's 20,000-seat Philips Arena. The occasion was a special church service, a four-hour event split between music (from the on-stage gospel-rock band and off-stage mass choir) and spoken word, most notably a sermon from pastor Bishop Eddie Long and comments from visiting VIP Roy Barnes, governor of Georgia. Read More »

Meyer Sound M3Ds Shine at Sing In

Hof Audio, one of the largest Meyer Sound rental companies in the Netherlands, recently supplied an M3D Line Array loudspeaker system for the annual religious family conference of the St. Opwekking revival foundation. Read More »

German Broadcast Bets on Meyer Sound M2D

"Wetten Dass...?" (Want To Bet...?) is one of the most popular and long-running TV shows in Germany. For 21 years, the show has been entertaining audiences with its unique brand of celebrity interviews and crazy antics, including such feats as shaving while skydiving at a height of 4,000 meters or finding thirty people from ten different countries in a park and dancing the Cancan with them. Read More »

M2D Anchors System for Tharp/Joel Broadway Collaboration

Movin' Out promises a bit of a twist to jaded theatergoers for the coming fall season on Broadway. Neither musical nor "rock opera," this extraordinary production, conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp, presents a troupe of world-class dancers who (without dialog) physically dramatize a story line as told through twenty-six Billy Joel songs performed by an on-stage band. The high-energy sound propelling the show relies on a dual-purpose sound system — anchored by Meyer Sound M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeakers — to deliver the impact of a rock concert while at the same time affording the flexibility of a premier theatrical system. Read More »

M2Ds Praised at Blues Fest

When he brought his brand new M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeakers to the Pittsburgh Blues Festival, Steve Raselevich of Northern Sound and Light (McKees Rocks, PA) placed considerable faith in Meyer Sound's reputation for flawless out-of-the-box performance. Read More »

Meyer Sound Germany

Carving out market segment in the saturated German loudspeaker market presents a formidable task. "The market is very mature, to say the least," says Thomas Züellich, managing director of Meyer Sound Germany. "We must have 30 manufacturers in Germany, plus aggressive marketing here by the overseas companies. For example, when you go to the ProLight + Sound show, you see entire halls filled with only loudspeakers!" Read More »

Orbital Sound Buys M3D Line Array for West End Debut

Meyer's M3D Line Array loudspeaker system has been sold by Autograph Sales to Orbital Sound for the worldwide theatrical debut of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay Dreams, a collaboration with Indian film composer AR Rahman and scriptwriter Meera Syal. Bombay Dreams opened at London's Apollo Victoria on June 19. Read More »

M3D and The Three Tenors Team Up at World Cup Concert

The Three Tenors played their fourth World Cup concert at the Yokohama Arena on June 27, three days before the 2002 World Cup Korea/Japan final at the nearby International Stadium Yokohama. Meyer Sound is the sound reinforcement brand of choice for the trio, and an M3D Line Array loudspeaker system was specified for the event. Read More »

M Series at "Proms At The Bowl"

UK sound reinforcement company Capital Sound recently provided a Meyer Sound M Series system for "The Proms at the Bowl", a classical summer extravaganza featuring the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra conducted by Michael Reed. Last year's inaugural event at the Milton Keynes Bowl marked the first time that Capital deployed its M3D Line Array loudspeaker system outdoors, and in the latest outing the system was supplemented with the company's recently-purchased M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeakers. Read More »

Sides Named Western Regional Sales Manager

Meyer Sound has announced the appointment of Jim Sides as the company's new Western Regional Sales Manager. In his new position, Sides assumes primary responsibility for all Meyer Sound sales in the sprawling region of the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. Read More »

M Series Featured at Spanish Music Awards

Now in its 6th year, Spain's Los Premios de Música awards, sponsored and supported by the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias de la Música (Arts and Science of Music Academy), has grown to become one of the country's biggest annual music industry events. Read More »

Vienna Festival Opening 2002

Sound Art Service Vienna (SAS), an Austrian rental company working exclusively with Meyer Sound products, recently supplied a line array system from Meyer Sound's M Series for the Vienna Festival Opening 2002 on May 10. SAS, which put the system together in collaboration with the Wiener Festwochen (WFW) audio department, has provided Meyer Sound loudspeakers for the festival for the last five years. Read More »

Meyer at St. Mary's - Sound From the Shadows

Acoustics and visual aesthetics frequently collide in churches with older buildings and traditional architecture, where liturgical worship styles are often the norm. Here, clergy and worshippers prefer their loudspeakers to be highly intelligible yet essentially invisible—unlike the situation in newer worship centers where loudspeakers in open view rarely raise objections. Fortunately, at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in El Dorado, Arkansas, potential conflicts between acoustics and aesthetics were resolved by the installation of a discreet, self-powered loudspeaker system from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Channel V Beijing Weighs In with Meyer Sound M3D

Meyer Sound's M3D Line Array loudspeaker system was used for the Channel V Chinese Global Music Awards 2002 at the Shou Ti Capital Gymnasium in Beijing. Read More »

Exhilarating OV7 Show Debuts M3D/M2D in Mexico

The high-energy Latin pop of OV7 is selling CDs from the slopes of the Andes to the shores of the Mediterranean, not to mention among the growing Hispanic population of the USA. In their homeland of Mexico, the young septet commands a passionate following that surpasses that of long-established international superstars. In May, when devout fans filled Mexico City's 10,000-seat Auditorio Nacional for four shows, OV7 presented a dazzling show with music of exceptional power and clarity—thanks primarily to the deployment in Mexico of a self-powered Meyer Sound system using M3D Line Arrays along with M2D Compact Curvilinear Arrays as downfill. Read More »

Meyer Sound Continues Its Long Association with the Montreux Jazz Festival

Meyer Sound continues its long relationship with the Montreux Jazz Festival, returning to Montreux, Switzerland again this year as the "Official Sound Provider" of the 36th edition of the Festival. This is the sixteenth year that Meyer Sound has sponsored the Festival. Read More »

Art Deco Treasure Shines with New Meyer Sound System

The citizens of Landau take justifiable pride in their recent restoration of the Festhalle, an elegant structure (completed 1907) heralded as the finest example of art deco architecture in southern Germany. The Festhalle's painstakingly refurbished interior, rich with the detailed textures of the era, is perfectly complemented by new audio systems featuring self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Starlight's M Series System Gets To Work Right Away

Starlight, one of Scandinavia's largest PA, staging and lighting companies, has purchased a substantial quantity of Meyer Sound M Series Line Array products from Meyer Sound Germany (MSG), whose territory also includes Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Read More »

M3DLine Array Loudspeaker Nominated for TEC Award

The M3DLine Array Loudspeaker, flagship of Meyer Sound's new M Series, has been nominated for a 2002 TEC Award in the category of Sound Reinforcement Loudspeaker Technology. Read More »

Meyer Sound M2D System in Conference at Arena Berlin

BBS Berlin has taken delivery of the first Meyer Sound M2D Curvilinear loudspeaker system in Germany. The system consists of 16 M2Ds and eight M2D Compact subwoofers. Read More »

World Cup Eve Ceremony

J-Sound, which specializes in renting Meyer systems for large outdoor events, provided a system of 12 M3D Line Array loudspeakers - six flown each side of the stage. Read More »

Meyer Sound Overcomes Monumental Challenge for Mexican Singer

On Saturday May 18th, 2002, popular Mexican singer/songwriter Marco Antonio Solís was scheduled to perform live at the Monumental Plaza de Toros Mexico of Mexico City. Since Solís is a longtime Meyer Sound user, it wasn't surprising when his management approached Meyer Sound Mexico a few days before the concert to ask for design and technical assistance. According to Marco Antonio Solís' personal manager Miguel Angel Solís, they faced a particularly challenging venue – one not only famous for being the world's largest bullfight plaza (45,000-seat capacity), but also one where good sound is a vexing problem. Many who had worked there previously would claim that no sound system had ever been able to successfully achieve even coverage of all audience areas. Read More »

M2D Goes Corporate at Opryland

Nashville, TN (June 2002) Once a year, H.D. Vest hits the road for "Vest Fest," a three-day conference and training session for this Dallas-based financial services company's independent representatives. The destination for 2002 was the Nashville's Opryland Hotel, where striking on-stage visuals (giant guitar replicas and a podium disguised as a vintage Shure microphone) were complemented by pristine audio from a brand-new Meyer Sound M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker system. Read More »

Meyer's M2D Danish Debut at the Dance Awards in Copenhagen

Meyer's newest addition to its M Series, the M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker, has made its Scandinavian debut on the Danish Dance Awards in Copenhagen. Meyer Sound Germany (MSG), whose territory includes Denmark, Sweden and Finland, was called in to assist Danish dealer Hercules Productions Denmark. Due to the newness of the M2D system, Jens Couriol from Hercules felt that MSG's help in staging the awards ceremony for his client Conpro would be invaluable. Read More »

Cargo Club Hosts First Swiss M2D Installation

The first permanent Swiss installation of Meyer Sound's new M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker system has been carried out by local distributor Niveau 2 at brand-new venue, Cargo Club, in Neuchatel. Read More »

Meyer Sound's M3D Line Array Embarks On Greek Odyssey

An entire PA system based around Meyer Sound's M3D Line Array loudspeakers was dispatched from Greece to London recently for a concert at Wembley Arena by popular Greek artist, Notis Sfakianakis. The one-off event was coordinated by Renos Papapaschos from Meyer Sound's Greek distributor Omikron Control, who took on the role of production manager. Read More »

Oklahoma Musicals Prompt Move to Meyer Sound

What better place to establish a new program in musical theatre than at the University of Oklahoma? Rodgers and Hammerstein would applaud the idea! Sure enough, this popular course of study is earning rave reviews from students while residents of the surrounding town of Norman are flocking to the productions. Read More »

Eddy Vermeersch Appointed Director of Meyer Sound Asia-Pacific Technical Support

Meyer Sound announces the appointment of Eddy Vermeersch as Meyer Sound's Director of Asia-Pacific Technical Support. His primary responsibilities are providing design and commissioning support for new installations and rental rigs sold in these territories, and reinforcing Meyer Sound's marketing activities in the region. Based in Thailand, Vermeersch can be in close communication with Meyer Sound's distributors and clients in Asia, and is well positioned for travel around the Asia-Pacific region. Read More »

Meyer Sound CIS

Meyer Sound's regional sales manager for the CIS countries is Maxim V Shevchenko, who coordinates a network of local dealers throughout the former USSR, working directly with larger clients. Read More »

Meyer Sound Follows PALA to Hong Kong

Recognizing the explosive growth of the entertainment industry inside China, this year's PALA exhibition moves north from Singapore to inaugurate an auspicious new venue: the spacious Hong Kong Exhibition and Convention Centre. The show takes place July 10-12, and Meyer Sound will be on hand with a wide-ranging product display at booth G-01. Read More »

Meyer Sound Adds Life to Ancient Mayan Game

Xcaret is a thriving ecotourist park and archeological site located an hour's drive south of Cancún on Mexico's Caribbean coast. Tucked between the jungle and beaches of the "Mayan Riviera," Xcaret allows visitors a unique opportunity to step back in time and explore civilizations that ruled the Yucatan Peninsula for centuries. To heighten the visitor's experience of ancient Mayan culture and rituals, Xcaret takes full advantage of modern technologies-including several self-powered systems from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Kylie Minogue Tours with New Meyer Sound M2D

Meyer Sound's newly launched M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker hit the road in April as part of an all-Meyer Sound line array system on Kylie Minogue's 'Fever' tour of the UK and Europe. UK rental company Capital Sound, which provided its M3D Line Array loudspeaker system for a month-long arena tour by Scottish rock band Travis earlier this year, is supplying the system. Capital recently purchased the M2Ds from Meyer Sound's UK distributor, Autograph Sales. Read More »

Meyer Hits Broadway for One Mo' Time

After a rousing and critically praised run at the Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts last summer, a revival of One Mo' Time returned to New York– this time for a run on Broadway. To help reproduce the sound of 1920's New Orleans jazz, a full complement of Meyer Sound speakers came along for the ride. Read More »

Firehouse Heats Up with X-10 Monitors

On the outside, Firehouse Studios preserve the rustic charm of the original structure, a circa 1889 fire station near downtown Pasadena, California. On the inside, however, the facility takes a quantum leap into 21st century audio technology. After gutting the old building's outer shell and rebuilding from the ground up, this cutting-edge recording complex installed the first surround monitoring system in Southern California to incorporate Meyer Sound's revolutionary X-10 Linear Control Room Monitors. Read More »

Meyer Sound at InfoComm 2002: New Products, Presentations and a $4000 Giveaway

Reflecting a vigorous commitment to the dynamic A/V market, Meyer Sound comes to InfoComm 2002 with an expanded booth, groundbreaking new products, informative presentations and – for the lucky winner – a $4000 product giveaway. Read More »

Muse Productions

To better serve current clients—and also become a prime contender for top entertainment tours—Muse recently sold its entire stock of (non-Meyer) loudspeakers and converted to an all-Meyer inventory based around the new M3D line array. Read More »

Meyer Bid Comes Up a Winner for Louisiana Theater

Hammond, Louisiana, the home of Southeastern Louisiana University, is just far enough from New Orleans to make an evening away at the theater or concert hall a tiresomely long affair. It's not surprising, then, that area residents and SLU students rejoiced at proposals for turning the city's vacant, circa 1928 Columbia Theater into a performing arts center. In January of 2002, after a two-year, $4.9 million restoration funded by local and state sources, the Columbia Theater for the Performing Arts opened for a full slate of shows. The venue quickly drew rave reviews for its architectural integrity, excellent acoustics and first-rate sound system. Read More »

Meyer M2D Debuts In Inaugural Awards Ceremony In Athens

The inaugural Arion Music Awards, staged in Athens, Greece, in April, marked the Greek debut for Meyer Sound's new M2D Curvilinear Array loudspeaker system. Read More »

Arkansas Theater Celebrates 10th Year with New Meyer Sound System

Northwest Arkansas can fool you. Surrounded by the bucolic Ozark hills, you might forget that Fayetteville is home to the University of Arkansas, and that nearby Bentonville is headquarters for the company sitting atop Fortune's 500 list: Wal-Mart. Read More »

Meyer Sound Partcipates In InfoComm China Debut

InfoComm comes to China for the first time May 9 — 11, and Meyer Sound will be there in booth I-24 on the exhibit floor. Read More »

Ryan Adams Rocks with Meyer Sound M2Ds

Lost Highway Records (Island/Def Jam) recording artist Ryan Adams provided the entertainment, performing in a large tent in the parking lot of Moomba, a restaurant in Hollywood. The Meyer Sound M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeakers provided just the right support for his hard rocking show. The event was the Oscars after party charity fund-raiser for the AIDS Foundation, hosted by Instyle and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Jeff Welton of Goodman Audio recalls, "The tent was about 100 feet long with a 20 foot deep stage. There were two M2Ds per side hung off the truss just below the ceiling and they literally threw all the way to the back of the tent. I thought it was fantastic. The sound level was very high but it never seemed like it was killing you." Goodman Audio provided all of the control equipment for this event, which was one of the two biggest after parties following the Oscars ceremony. Read More »

Meyer Sound Spain

Although it's only three years since Rafael Jimenez and his sales company Rental Multimedia Systems (RMS) became a regional Meyer Sound dealer in Andalusia in southern Spain, he's already broken records for Meyer Sound. Read More »

M2D System Makes German Debut at Tribute to Jeff Porcaro

Meyer Sound's new M2D Compact Curvilinear Array Loudspeaker made a debut appearance in Germany at two tribute concerts for the late drummer Jeff Porcaro. Read More »

Meyer Wins the Heart of Ukraine Musical

A Meyer Sound loudspeaker system was provided for the musical "The Station Of Love", performed in the National Palace Ukraine in Kiev. The sound company, Sendi, based in Kiev, supplied a system of MSL-4 Horn-Loaded Long Throw and DS-4P Horn-Loaded Mid-Bass loudspeakers. Low frequencies were handled by 650-P High-Power Subwoofers. MSL-2A Wide Coverage loudspeakers were used for front-fill. Onstage monitoring was provided by USM-1P Extended Range Narrow Coverage Stage Monitors and UMS-1P Compact Subwoofers. LD-1A and LD-2 Line Drivers were also utilized. Read More »

Travis Tours with Meyer Sound M3D Line Array Loudspeaker System

Rental company Capital Sound has supplied its Meyer M3D Line Array loudspeaker system for a month-long UK arena tour by Scottish rock band Travis. The dates come at the end of the band's year-long world tour. Read More »

Gyuto Monks Tour with M2D Loudspeaker System

In 1959, the Gyuto Buddhist monks carried their centuries-old spiritual tradition from their native Tibet into India, eventually establishing Gyuto Tantric University near Dharmsala. Here, they maintain a rigorous practice of meditation and chanting rituals--including astonishing intonations in which a single voice produces three notes simultaneously. A choir of thirteen Gyuto monks is now on a 19-city tour of the United States to raise funds for their new campus near Dharmsala – a tour which also marks the debut of Meyer Sound's new M Series M2D Compact Curvilinear Array loudspeaker and M2D-Sub Compact Subwoofer systems. Read More »

Sioux City's Orpheum Theater Delights with New Meyer System

From cascading crystal chandeliers to hand-carved detailing, from vast tiered balconies to purple granite flooring, the magnificently restored Orpheum theater in Sioux City, Iowa recreates the extravagant opulence of a vaudeville palace in its roaring twenties heyday. Read More »

Guy Lejune Joins Meyer Sound Benelux

Meyer Sound announces the appointment of Guy Lejeune as Managing Director of Meyer Sound Benelux. Lejeune will coordinate sales and marketing efforts for Meyer products in the geographical area of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The office was established in January of 1999 to serve expanding technical and sales needs of the European Market. Lejeune replaces Raymond Defossez, who left to pursue other interests. Read More »

Meyer MM-4 Fills In for The Graduate

The Graduate is back, this time as a hit Broadway play. Although writer/director Terry Johnson's stage adaptation differs in many respects from the famed 1967 film version, the music of the era not surprisingly plays once again a strong supporting role. Accordingly, sound designer Chris Cronin felt strongly that everybody should enjoy the full impact of the speech and music – including patrons in the front rows. Read More »

Meyer Sound Vibes With The Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

Meyer Sound is pleased to announce its support of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. Music education, and specifically jazz education, is the focus of the Festival, which is held each year at the University of Idaho. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Festival, which was named after jazz vibraphone legend Lionel Hampton in 1985. Read More »

Olavshallen Updates with Meyer

Built eleven years ago as Trondheim, Norway's most modern structure, Olavshallen completed installation of an all Self-Powered Meyer Sound Loudspeaker system in early October of this year. Trondheim Lyd, the largest Meyer Sound dealer and rental company in Norway, supplied the system. Olavshallen was designed as a combined theatre and concert hall for the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and is situated in the middle of a redeveloped block in the city center. Read More »

New M Series Unveiled at MusikMesse Pro Light & Sound Exhibition in Frankfurt

The M Series is headlining the Meyer Sound booth [C-14 located in Hall 5.1], with John Meyer on hand to introduce the M1D Ultra-Compact Curvilinear Array, which brings line array technology to small-scale musical and theatrical applications; the M2D Compact Curvilinear Array, built for mid-sized venues that require broad vertical coverage; the M3D Line Array, the first and only line array system to feature state-of-the-art BroadbandQ technology; and the M3D-Sub Directional Subwoofer and M2D-Sub Compact Subwoofer, which are optimized to complement the M3D and M2D, respectively, in performance and size. Meyer Sound is unveiling other breakthroughs in sound technology at its booth, including the MM-4 Ultra-Compact Wide Range Loudspeaker, MM-4CEU Control Electronics Unit, SB-2 Parabolic Wide-Range Sound Beam and the LD-3 Air Attenuation Compensating Line Driver. Pro Light & Sound runs through March 17. Read More »

Asha Bhosle at Calcutta's Salt Lake Stadium

A Meyer Sound system was used recently for Indian superstar Asha Bhosle, one of the country's premiere female playback singers. Bhosle's honeyed vocals have been overdubbed onto the soundtrack of many hit Bollywood movies, as well as keeping alive the Indian classical music heritage in the form of traditional songs such as ghazals and ragas. Read More »

Meyer Sound Is in the picture at Kodak Theater

The Kodak Theatre, part of TrizecHahn Development Corporation's $567 million Hollywood & Highland retail and entertainment complex, opened in late 2001 with a month of performances that included Russell Watson, Melissa Etheridge, the American Ballet Theatre's The Nutcracker and Barry Manilow. The 180,000 square foot live broadcast theater incorporates an extensive infrastructure to accommodate the needs of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' annual awards ceremony and telecast, providing Oscar with his first Hollywood home since 1960. Read More »

Meyer Sound M2Ds Are "Stella" in Japan

Befitting the "smooth jazz" character of the music performed by pianist Bob James and guitarist Larry Carlton, Meyer Sound's M2D Compact Curvilinear loudspeakers provided smooth coverage of the audience of 3,000 people at a fall concert in Japan. The venue was the Lake Kawaguchi Stella Theater, an outdoor amphitheater in the Yamanashi Prefecture. Read More »

First Meyer M3D System in Mexico Goes to Los Temerarios

Meyer Sound Mexico's M3D demonstration event at Mexico City's Metropolitan Theatre immediately resulted in one of the first sales of the M3D Line Array Loudspeaker system in Mexico. The pop band "Los Temerarios" from the city of Fresnillo, Zacatecas, purchased the new system for the final dates of their 2001 tour. Read More »

GreyCo Hire Inc. Fields Canada's First M3D Rig

greyCo Hire Inc., a new venture founded by Don Barber (formerly of Westsun Jason Sound) and Ted MacDonald (of Audio Video Methods), recently took possession of Canada's first M3D Line Array Loudspeaker system. The rig, which consists of twenty M3D loudspeakers and twelve M3D-Sub Directional Subwoofers, is fully equipped with RMS (Remote Monitoring System, a Meyer Sound software/hardware package that allows system engineers to monitor loudspeaker operating parameters on a Windows computer over a network). Read More »

Transcript of ProSound Web Live Chat with John Meyer

John Meyer: That's an interesting question. Digital audio remains in its infancy as far as reinforcement is concerned. Our market is very demanding, needs very robust equipment, and compatibility is also an issue. Analog is very well proven, easy to interconnect and capable of very high quality. Until the advent of 24 bit/ 96 k systems, the audio quality and dynamic range weren't sufficient. That said, we continue to explore the prospects for DSP applications. Read More »

TC Furlong

T.C. Furlong, Inc. started out in 1973 as a small sound system manufacturer in Highland Park, Illinois, with a product line named Steamer Speakers. At the time, few places would rent professional sound equipment, so T.C. Furlong would rent not only the products they manufactured, but other equipment essential to a modern sound system. Read More »