Meyer Sound Marches in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

It's billed as the longest running show on Broadway. Begun in 1924, watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has become a tradition among children, parents and grandparents, with an estimated 2.5 million lining the streets and 44 million more tuning in on television. The parade even plays a key role in the plot of the film "Miracle on 34th Street," a holiday classic itself. It's an annual morning of rollicking excitement, and out on the street the noise level can't be turned down like on TV. After 18 years of providing sound for the parade, however, Yonkers-based Sound Associates understands how to manage the mayhem. Read More »

South African Church Singles Out Meyer Sound's M1D

When it came time to choose a new sound system for their church, worship leaders at Bryanston New Covenant Church in suburban Johannesburg, South Africa, recognized it was more appropriate to apply healthy skepticism than to proceed on faith. Rather than take marketing claims at face value, the church auditioned all three of their top contenders in their 1,200-seat worship center. When the last word was spoken, it was in favor of a system of Meyer Sound M1D ultra-compact curvilinear array loudspeakers. Read More »

Blondie Rocks Europe with MILO

The band Blondie has come a long way from their New Wave roots in 1970s New York, but listening to them today it's clear they remain true to their legacy. Despite a break of nearly two decades between albums, the band has re-emerged to sold-out world tours and renewed popularity with old and new fans alike. Read More »

Christmas Brings M1D Solution to Norwegian Church

In medieval times, pilgrims heading to Nidaros Cathedral passed through the town of Lommedalen, which sits nestled in a Norwegian valley only 15 kilometers from central Oslo. In many ways, the town appears unchanged by the passage of time until you step inside the Lommedalen Church, where the town's 3,000 residents worship. In contrast to the old-style charm of the town, the church resides decidedly in the 21st century as the result of the installation of a new Meyer Sound M1D ultra-compact curvilinear array loudspeaker system. Read More »

Meyer Sound Makes Musicals Sing at Founders Theatre

Founders Theatre is home to a broad array of performances and gatherings for the roughly 160,000 residents of Hamilton and their neighbors in the surrounding Waikato region of New Zealand. Recently, the theatre's management decided it was time to upgrade the 20-year old sound system to a contemporary design that would, as technical officer Kelvin Ballard describes, "deliver consistent level and quality to every seat in the house, with both a high level of musicality and uncompromised clarity of vocal reproduction." The theatre settled on a configuration of three arrays built around 34 Meyer Sound self-powered curvilinear array loudspeakers provided by Hamilton's Audio Video Solutions under the direction of Hanspeter Frick, in consultation with Harley Richardson of Meyer Sound Australia. Read More »

Abundant Life Turns to Meyer Sound for Abundant Audio

Pastor Perry Gaspard left the life of a rock 'n' roller behind and returned to his hometown of Lake Charles, La., to start the Abundant Life Fellowship church in his house in 1978. The congregation has since grown from its humble roots to encompass 80 acres, including a 14-acre park, ministries for all ages, a food distribution center that helps thousands of needy people every year, and an in-house recording studio, which produces inspirational music for sale on the church's web site. The service each Sunday is recorded for broadcast the following week throughout Louisiana as well as on stations in Indianapolis and Denver. Read More »

Tokyo's Nissei Theatre Celebrates Its 42nd Year with New Meyer Sound System

The Nissei Theatre, located in the Nippon Life Hibaya Building in the heart of central Tokyo, first opened its doors in October 1963 with a performance of Fidelio by Deutsche Oper Berlin. The theatre is still going strong 42 years later, having hosted countless performances of opera, plays, musicals and concerts by touring companies from around the world, as well as productions of its own Nissei Masterpiece Theatre, Nissei Opera and Family Festival. The Nissei Theatre is supported by the Nissei Culture Foundation, which was established in November 1973 through a contribution by the Nippon Life Insurance Company to bring high-quality domestic and international productions to Tokyo. Read More »

Having a Bloc Party with MILO and MICA

London art-rock quartet Bloc Party recently celebrated their meteoric rise from obscurity to Mercury Music Award nominees at the Carling Academy in Brixton, along with 5,000 of the band's "closest friends." The band hosted the gathering as a prelude to a series of larger shows in Europe, including dates in France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Read More »

Meyer Sound Keeps Tony Bennett Above the Surf in Mexico

It's difficult to imagine a more idyllic setting for an open-air concert by vocal master Tony Bennett than a starlit gold-sand beach on Mexico's Pacific Coast. Bennett recently entertained a private audience of about 175 at the Four Seasons Resort at Punta Mita near Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, performing against a backdrop of sand and sea. But along with the scenic surroundings came the sounds of the surf, creating a background noise level of up to 75 dB SPL. To make Bennett and his band heard without the sound being too loud, Bennett's long-time production manager and sound engineer Tom Young built his sound system for the event around self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Alberta Celebrates a Canadian Century with Meyer Sound

When the government of Alberta was deciding how to celebrate their 100th year as a Canadian province, they wanted to include as many of their citizens as possible. For a province of more than 255,000 square miles, this presented a huge challenge. Read More »

MICA and MILO Debut at Proms in the Park

In spite of a blustery series of drenching thunderstorms, nearly 45,000 music lovers descended en masse on the grassy fields of Hyde Park for the tenth anniversary of London's splendid end-of-summer celebration, Proms in the Park. The steadfast audience warmed quickly to dynamic performances by the BBC Concert Orchestra, along with tenor Andrea Bocelli, violinist Nicola Benedetti, pop vocal quartet G4, and special guests soul-rockers Simply Red. This year's event also marked the debut of a 96-cabinet, self-powered Meyer Sound system built around MILO and MICA high-power curvilinear arrays. Read More »

Meyer Sound Rocks for Rent on Broadway with M2D and 600-HP

"When we hear a rock tune for the first time, live or on the radio, we're not worried about understanding every word because we know we can hear the song again or download the lyrics. In theatre, however, unintelligibility is not an option." With that, award-winning Broadway sound designer Brian Ronan sums up his attitude toward vocal reinforcement, and explains the chief hurdle he faced in designing an all-new sound system for the musical Rent, which he characterizes as a "rock opera." To ensure that the audience enjoys vocal intelligibility over a driving rock band, Ronan put self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound at the heart of the show's sound system. Read More »

Juanes Charms Spain with MILO

Within a mere three years, Colombian-born Juanes has emerged as an artist of almost mythic proportions – a brilliant and charismatic singer/songwriter who now reigns as the world's dominant Latin music superstar. His 2002 release, Un Dia Normal, dominated the Billboard Latin charts for nearly two years, and his latest CD, Mi Sangre, garnered universal critical acclaim while racking up equally impressive sales. The current world tour supporting Mi Sangre set attendance records in its earlier legs through North and South America, and all 17 of his concerts in Spain were sold out long before Juanes arrived at summer's end. Madrid-based rental company Fluge was tapped to support the tour in Spain with an appropriately scaled Meyer Sound system based on MILO high-power curvilinear arrays and 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers. Read More »

Slipknot Gets Even Heavier with MILO

Des Moines, Iowa may be best known in music history as the place where the plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper went down in 1959, the famed "day the music died." But this quiet Midwestern burg of around 200,000 is also the birthplace of one of metal's heaviest bands to date: Slipknot. Read More »

Meyer Sound Arrays Yield Clear Praise at Jubilee Fellowship Church

Founded in 1998, Jubilee Fellowship Church (JFC) operated first in a school and later in a rented storefront, but church leaders have always set their sights on establishing a permanent home. That goal was recently realized with the opening of a brand new sanctuary in Lone Tree, a suburb of Denver, Colorado. Read More »

Cast of Thousands Creates Latter Day Saints Celebration

This year marks dual milestones in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for the 175th anniversary of the church's founding and the 200th birthday of its founder, Joseph Smith. Two of the most ambitious celebratory events were hosted in Utah, home to the church's headquarters, at the 11,000-seat Dee Events Center basketball arena at Weber State University in Ogden. Read More »

MICA Leads the Charge as Meyer Sound and LCS Storm ET Live/LDI

They all look good in the magazine ads and on the trade show booths, but where can a sound professional go to actually hear large-format loudspeakers from different manufacturers? Only to ET Live (an adjunct to the ETS-LDI trade show), a unique event at which loudspeaker manufacturers set up stages with full production in an outdoor environment and take turns presenting demonstrations of their sound systems. Read More »

Rome Sounds Good With Meyer Sound

Rome's Renzo Piano-designed Auditorium Parco Della Musica is the site for many of the Eternal City's prestigious cultural events. To meet the needs of its indoor venues, the Auditorium complex contracted last year with Rome rental company Madema to install Meyer Sound M2D compact curvilinear array loudspeaker systems in two of its halls. Read More »

Yountville's Lincoln Theater Alive with Meyer Sound

Nestled on a hillside overlooking the heart of California's Napa Valley wine country, the Lincoln Theatre is home to the Napa Valley Symphony. But its original use as a recreational facility for California Veterans demanded major aesthetic, structural, acoustical and technical upgrades for it to become the first-class performance showcase it is today. Read More »

Tenors Charm Mexico with Meyer Sound

When famed operatic star Luciano Pavarotti came down with laryngitis before a recent Three Tenors performance in Monterrey, Mexico, virtuosos Placido Domingo and José Carreras carried on without him. The inauguration of Monterrey's new Jardines del Parque Fundidora, as well as the kick off of the city's "Foro Internacional de las culturas (Forum of the Cultures) 2007", was a huge success due in part to an impressive Meyer Sound system provided by Musica Moderna of Mexico City. Read More »

Meyer Sound Acquires LCS Audio

The union of these two companies results from successful collaboration on the development of Galileo loudspeaker management system, and underscores Meyer Sound's commitment to digital audio as part of its vision for the future of professional sound reinforcement. Read More »

Meyer Sound System Fills Home Depot Center Inside Not Out

The robust, 43-loudspeaker Meyer Sound system at the Home Depot Center stadium — the new home of the Los Angeles Galaxy pro soccer team — has ample power for keeping fans in all 27,000 seats informed and energized with crisp, high-impact sound. At the same time, the system was carefully designed to minimize potentially annoying audio spill into nearby residential neighborhoods. Read More »

Meyer Sound Makes Flexible Solution for Versatile Judith Wright Centre

The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts (JWC) in Brisbane is a partnership between the state government of Queensland, Australia, and a set of seven contemporary arts organizations whose interests span contemporary dance and music, visual arts, chamber circus, multimedia, indigenous theatre, youth arts, and film. To serve this eclectic mixture, JWC's main performance space is designed for easy configuration into alternate physical arrangements, and it requires a sound system that is no less versatile. Read More »

MILO Earns Its White Stripes

Vying for membership in the "Hardest Working Bands in Show Business" club, The White Stripes are midway through a tour that has seen the raw, driving minimalist rock duo delivering scorching performances to sold-out crowds on several continents. Six years and five albums into their careers, the duo of Jack and Meg White show no signs of slowing down. Read More »

Kasabian Rocks Nottingham Under Meyer Sound Power

Rising out of the gritty rock music smelter of Northern England, Kasabian has rapidly built a legion of fans throughout Europe and North America with a propulsive style that pays homage to the Manchester sound of the Eighties layered with 21st century techno-beats and entrancing space grooves. When the band returned to its native turf for a recent concert — the Nottingham Arena is a scant 30 miles from the band's home in Leicester — a packed house of 10,000 reveled in the full impact of their music through a system of Meyer Sound MILO high-power compact curvilinear array loudspeakers supplied by London-based rental company Capital Sound. Read More »

Meyer Sound Hits it Big at PLASA

Staged annually at London's Earl's Court Exhibition Centre by the Professional Lighting and Sound Association (PLASA) the recently completed PLASA show demonstrated once again why it has become a highlight of the European trade show calendar for the audio industry. Read More »

Meyer Sound Helps Minimundus Add Dimension to M.C. Escher

Bodensee (also known as Lake Constance) is a rather large stopover made by the Rhine River on its way from its source in the Alps to its terminus in the North Sea. Near this beautiful 40-mile-long by 8.5-mile-wide lake, which is bordered by three countries (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), Minimundus am Bodensee opened its doors this past June. Germany's newest miniature-world theme park offers visitors a variety of themed areas to visit, and models ranging from sailing ships to London's famed Tower Bridge. Read More »

Meyer Sound M Series Systems Keep Island Hopping at Sziget Festival

During one week in mid-August, more than 385,000 visitors poured onto wooded Óbudai Island in the Danube River near Budapest, Hungary, to enjoy Central Europe's largest music and arts event: the 13th annual Sziget Festival. This year's edition of the festival set new records at nearly every turn, with the highest overall and single-day attendances in the event's history. Read More »

Montreux Grooves on Meyer Sound

The Montreux Jazz Festival (MJF) is one of the world's most prestigious music events. Now well into its fourth decade, the MJF spans two weeks of Montreux's glamour-filled calendar every summer with performances by the world's finest international artists. Jazz, funk, rock and pop legends — from McCoy Tyner to Alice Cooper to Zap Mama — troop across the stages of the three main auditoriums, while a warren of smaller clubs and bars keeps the groove going well into the night. And everywhere one looks are found Meyer Sound loudspeakers handling the critical task of sound reinforcement. Read More »

Meyer Sound Aids Contemporary Praise in Historic Northern Ireland Churches

Northern Ireland's historic village churches are revered in their communities as monuments to tradition, yet they also host weekly worship services increasingly incorporating 21st century praise music. To avoid the cacophony that usually results when amplified sound is played in the reverberant acoustics of a purely acoustic era, two mid-sized churches — Dromore Cathedral and Portglenone Presbyterian Church — recently installed discreetly placed and precision-tuned Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeaker systems. Read More »

Meyer Sound Brings MICA to New York for AES

Fall in Manhattan means cooling weather, falling leaves…and the Audio Engineering Society convention. The latter is an event always eagerly anticipated at Meyer Sound for the opportunity it presents to show the company's products to, and interact with audio professionals at literally every level of technical knowledge, from cable jockey to chief engineer. Read More »

The Phil and the Met Treat New York to Another Classic Summer

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra ("the Phil") and the Metropolitan Opera ("the Met") joined forces in July to present a concert tour of major parks in all five boroughs, with the Met adding some dates in New Jersey as well. Read More »

Meyer Sound Appoints Susanna Corcoran as Manager of Media Relations

Meyer Sound announced that Susanna Corcoran has joined the company in the newly created position of Manager of Media Relations, taking over media responsibilities from Larry the O, who has become Senior Marketing Writer. Read More »

Meyer Sound Captures Contemporary Quality for Cross Pointe Congregation

"It's not good enough any more to just be the best-sounding church," says Matt Card, VP of Client Development at Clark ProMedia in Alpharetta, Georgia. "Churches realize that if they want to be culturally relevant to the community they're trying to reach, they can't allow the experience in church to be below-par compared to what people experience in the rest of their lives. So churches all over the country are now demanding sonic integrity and quality as good as what you would find in a secular, professional concert environment. If that's your standard for choosing loudspeakers, then Meyer Sound is without peer." Read More »

Meyer Sound Announces Richard Hulston as Middle East Sales Manager

Meyer Sound has announced that Richard Hulston has joined the company in the role of Sales Manager for the Middle East region. Hulston will work with Meyer Sound's director of international sales, Mike Cooper, to support the company's Middle Eastern clients, including consultants, installers and rental companies. The addition of Hulston positions Meyer Sound to respond to Middle Eastern customers' needs with an expertise that is unprecedented in the region. Read More »

Meyer Sound's MILO Off to the Races in the Netherlands

The 2005 Red Bull Air Race World Series is the latest version of the spectacular "slalom-in-the-sky" event that debuted in 2003. The Air Race was conceived in 2001 with the idea of creating a competitive air event involving not only speed, but also aerobatics. Read More »

Meyer Sound System Adapts to Changeable Church

A robust complement of 20 self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers anchors the extensive performance technology systems in a "do-it-all" worship and events center at the new Point of Grace Church in West Des Moines, Iowa. Read More »

Genesee Theatre Goes Thoroughly Modern with Meyer Sound

The centerpiece of Waukegan, Illinois' downtown revitalization, the Genesee Theatre is a multi-purpose facility offering a wide variety of shows including spoken word, Broadway-style productions, choral performances, live music, and movies. Recently restored, the 2,416-seat 1920s movie palace is true to a bygone era, not only in terms of its marble and chandeliers, but also in its reflective acoustics and fragile decorative plaster. Read More »

AVFX Leads the Corporate A/V Pack with Meyer Sound

Originally founded as Media One, Boston, Mass.'s AVFX is sneaking up on a quarter-century of supplying New England's corporate community with high-quality video and audio for their events. Strategically located in the city's Allston/Brighton district, AVFX is able to get to in- or out-of-town jobs easily. Read More »

MILO's Velvet Touch

Velvet Revolver's lead singer, Scott Weiland colorfully punctuates his emphatic declaration about the band's music to the crowd at Belfast's Odyssey Arena. Reiterating the words forming part of the band's stage set at the start of their performance, he screams "It's rock n' f****n' roll!! Read More »

CSS Conquers Tough Acoustics for Cheltenham Jazz Fest with Meyer Sound

The Cheltenham Jazz Festival, now in its 10th year, is renowned for its creative and ambitious program, this year featuring some of the biggest names on the international jazz scene alongside the very best of British talent. Providing sound reinforcement for acts as diverse as Georgie Fame And The Blue Flames, Mr. Scruff and the legendary Herbie Hancock is a substantial challenge, made even more daunting by the difficult acoustics at some of the festival's venues, including Cheltenham Town Hall, the primary performance site. Read More »

Meyer Sound Gives MICA a Workout at Shrine Auditorium

On August 10, 2005, the crème de la crème of audio designers and engineers from the western US joined Meyer Sound at the 6,300-seat Shrine Auditorium, home to countless televised award shows over the years, for an introduction to and demonstration of Meyer Sound's new MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker. Read More »

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Issues Patent for MAPP Online Method

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued to Meyer Sound a patent pertaining to the company's MAPP Online acoustical prediction software. Read More »

Meyer Sound Ships SIM 3 v1.6.42 Software Upgrade

Meyer Sound has announced the availability of version 1.6.42 software for the SIM 3 audio analyzer system. The upgrade, available free to SIM 3 owners, installs into the SIM-3022 analyzer unit and includes numerous features implemented as a result of user input, especially for display manipulation or export. The upgrade is the second to be released since the SIM 3 system started shipping. Users can upgrade directly to 1.6.42 from any previous software version. Read More »

Hungary Tunes In to M1D

Halfway between Budapest and Vienna the Rába, Rábca and Danube rivers flow together. At this confluence is found the "town of rivers," Gyõr, Hungary. The strategic importance of Gyõr as a gateway to Western Europe has been recognized since Roman times and is reflected in the fact a fortress was built there as early as the 13th century. Read More »

Canadian Arts Hub Meets Tricky Challenge with Meyer Sound

In the heart of downtown Calgary, Canada, sits the imposing EPCOR Centre for the Performing Arts, a six-story complex containing over 400,000 square feet of space devoted to virtually every form of public event, from symphonic, jazz and rock concerts to public forums. The center houses five theatres, as well as rehearsal studios, offices, theatre workshops, and the 2,021-seat Jack Singer Concert Hall. Read More »

News Flash: The White Stripes Tours with MILO

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Golden Nugget Polishes Shine with Meyer Sound

In a town with a reputation for venues springing up overnight, the Golden Nugget is an anomaly: a legendary piece of history. First opened in 1946 by Guy McAfee, an ex-vice detective from Los Angeles, "the largest casino in the world" was designed to replicate the original Golden Nugget built on San Francisco's Barbary Coast and built at a then-staggering cost of $1,000,000. In a city known for rewriting the rules, the Golden Nugget was home to a number of firsts: the first to introduce a center dealer (until 1950, poker players dealt their own cards in no-limit games), the first casino to award a large single cash prize ($10,000 in 1968), and the first Las Vegas venue to open a formal showroom. Read More »

Domingo and MILO Rendezvous in Iceland

In concerts around the globe spanning two decades, a renowned trio of operatic tenors — singly and jointly — have maintained a fruitful association with Meyer Sound loudspeakers. This relationship continues to flourish, as new developments help sound engineers overcome an inescapable challenge: how to give a splendid tenor voice — normally accompanied by orchestra and chorus — the intimate sound of a great opera house while performing at vast outdoor sites or in cavernous sports arenas. Read More »

Meyer Sound Boosts Church Satellite Launch

How does a church grow larger without building a larger church? Increasingly, AV technology holds the answer to this perplexing riddle. To cope with mushrooming growth, Fellowship Church of Grapevine, Texas, in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, has launched associated satellite campuses in nearby communities, currently totaling six buildings on four campuses. Read More »

Berklee Performance Center Hosts Meyer Sound Seminar

Berklee College of Music was founded in 1945 to provide high-quality education in the then-burgeoning genre of jazz music. Over the years Berklee grew into the world's best-known jazz education program, along the way broadening its horizons to teach other forms of music, film scoring, music business and, perhaps most prominently, audio recording and synthesis. Read More »

Lavigne Tour Carries MILO on European Sweep

Avril Lavigne's show at London's Carling Hammersmith Apollo had the packed audience screaming for more as crunchy guitars filled the air and the kick drum vibrated pants legs throughout the audience. Read More »

Now They Know How Many Line Arrays It Takes to Fill the Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall (RAH) is one of the world's best-known venues, having seen countless historic performances and live recordings, as well as being immortalized by the Beatles in their epic piece, "A Day in the Life." The task of providing sound reinforcement in such a prestigious hall is a sobering responsibility amply shouldered in recent years by Woking, UK's Sound By Design Limited (SBD). Read More »

MILO TEC Award Caps Strong Meyer Sound Showing at AES

Meyer Sound celebrated its 25th anniversary in style at the117th Audio Engineering Society (AES) convention held in San Francisco in October. After a banner year of increased sales and well-received new products, the company rolled into the convention with a powerful presence for the AES's first San Francisco convention in six years and walked out of it with its fifth TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) award, awarded to the MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker for being best in Sound Reinforcement Loudspeaker Technology at the 20th annual awards show. Read More »

Meyer Sound Shows Versatility at Atlanta's Music Midtown Festival

With six stages hosting over 100 major and emerging musical acts, the Music Midtown Festival boasts one of the most diverse lineups of any festival in the world. This June, for the 12th year in a row, the Atlanta, Georgia, event rolled out the best in southern comfort and hospitality, in addition to a lot of music, to entertain more than 300,000 guests on the 40-plus-acre festival site. Read More »

Meyer Sound Gears Up for European Festivals

Europe's music festival season is in full swing, with the continent's leading sound hire companies working overtime to keep up with an increasing demand for Meyer Sound systems at festival sites from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. Read More »

Meyer Sound Brings Clarity to World Games at Wedau Stadium

The 2005 World Games mark the seventh occurrence of this huge sporting event, first held in 1980 and repeated every fourth year thereafter. Organized by the International World Games Association under the patronage of the International Olympic Committee, this year's games are being hosted by the city of Duisburg, Germany and will see the participation of more than 4,000 athletes and officials from 100 nations in 40 sports, with an expected attendance of 500,000. Read More »

News Flash: The Steve Miller Band Rocks with MILO

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News Flash: Finn Brothers Debut with MICA

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Europe Hails MICA at Seville Debut

At the tail end of May, Meyer Sound distributors and about 120 invited guests from around Europe gathered in the sun-soaked Andalusian city of Seville, Spain for the continental debut of the MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker. Heard in a fully arrayed concert system for the first time in Europe, MICA was showcased over two days of hands-on demonstrations at the modernistic, 9,000-seat Auditorio de Sevilla amphitheater. Read More »

Meyer Sound Sends MICA to Montreux Jazz to Celebrate 19 Years of Sponsorship

The 39th Montreux Jazz Festival marks the 19th year that Meyer Sound has been a sponsor of one of the world's best-known international music festivals. Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems in use at the festival's venues this year will feature 20 different models, including the new MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker. Read More »

George Relles Sound: Regional Sound Grows Up

As an accomplished banjo player with a love for classical music, George Relles learned long ago to trust his ears. As one consequence, shortly after launching his sound company in the mid-1970s, he decided to go against conventional wisdom. Read More »

Meyer Sound Helps Mythbusters Attain Smashing Success

By now, the legion of fans of the Discovery Channel's intrepid "Mythbusters" TV show are well acquainted with Meyer Sound. First, the show's two hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, called on Meyer Sound Staff Scientist Dr. Roger Schwenke to test the urban myth that a duck's quack does not echo (it does). The two returned several months later and fetched Schwenke once more to assist in determining whether or not there is a "brown note:" a low frequency which, when played at sufficient volume, causes "involuntary intestinal motility" in humans. That investigation ended up entailing a dozen modified Meyer Sound 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofers and the efforts of John Meyer and several other Meyer Sound staffers. (In case you were wondering, things did not come out in the end.) While the myth was debunked, this experience stimulated John Meyer's interest in exploring extreme low frequency response, which directly influenced construction of Meyer Sound's own recently-completed 57-seat theatre, located at the company's Berkeley headquarters. Read More »

Meyer Sound Arrays Add to Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Down Under

To those of us in the more densely populated northern hemisphere, Australia often represents a sort of "Through the Looking Glass" paradigm. Their winter is our summer, their night is our day, and their flora and fauna are the stuff of another world. In keeping with that same inverted reality, the majority of Oz's urban environs are located in the country's cooler southern climes, while the sunny, tropical north is characterized by a slow moving, relaxed atmosphere on a par with our Caribbean or Mediterranean regions. Read More »

Meyer Sound Connects Congregation in Willow Creek's New Church

A church's aural environment can either support or detract from the worship experience, so it's vital that a service's words and music reach every seat clearly and fully. That can be particularly challenging in the case of a large facility such as Willow Creek Community Church in the Chicago suburb of South Barrington, Illinois, which recently opened a brand new $73 million church seating 7,200 congregants. Services at Willow Creek cover a wide variety of program material, ranging from preaching, live drama, or acoustic guitar on up to a rock band, pop band with a horn section, or full 60- to 70-piece orchestra. The church was determined that each individual worshiper feel connected to the service, a goal that was brought to life via an integrated acoustic and sound reinforcement design featuring a 129-loudspeaker system from Meyer Sound. Read More »

Meyer Sound Keeps Austrian Empire Dancing

The Empire chain is one of Austria's best-known discotheque groups with premises at Imst, Wörgl, Linz, St. Martin/Mühlkreis, Oepping, Vienna and Horn. At the end of 2004, owner Joachim Natschläger opened the doors to a new addition to his group: the Empire Club at Sattledt in Upper Austria. Read More »

MILO 120 Nominated for 2005 TEC Award

The Mix Foundation has announced that Meyer Sound's MILO 120 high-power expanded coverage curvilinear array loudspeaker has been nominated to receive a 2005 Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) award in the category of Outstanding Technical Achievement, Sound Reinforcement Technology. The nomination is Meyer Sound's 20th in the 21 years of the TEC award's existence, and the company has won five times, most recently last year for the MILO high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker. Meyer Sound was also honored last year by the choice of the UPA-1 loudspeaker as one of the 25 initial inductees into the new TECnology Hall of Fame. Read More »

The Orange Revolution Relies on Meyer Sound

Only historians looking back from the future will be able to make a judgment about the events that transpired in the Ukraine, now known as "the Orange Revolution." As with any historical turning point, each person has his or her own opinions and evaluation of what happened, while the media presents their own point of view. In all of these perspectives, though, there is one fact no one can deny: the Ukraine will never be the same. Read More »

Eventech Makes Meyer Sound Sing at Estonian Festival

The Estonian National Song Festival is more than simply a cultural event. With an audience of 100,000 — huge in a country with a population of just under 1.5 million — the Festival is a very high-profile celebration of national identity and pride. It's also a technical challenge for sound reinforcement, requiring a system that can provide present, even coverage over a large area while maintaining a smooth, natural sound complimentary to the character of the largely choral-centered performances. To make it all work, local Estonian company Eventech, a leading source for professional sound and lighting services in the Baltic region, chose a sound system design built around Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers. Read More »

Meyer Sound Makes the Play the Thing at Little Theatre On the Prairie

On the eastern Montana prairie sits a small wooden theatre with a rich cultural past. Built as a silent movie house in 1934 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Fort Peck Theatre was long a vital part of the community. During the construction of the Fort Peck Dam (still the nation's largest embankment dam), movies were shown around the clock to accommodate the work schedules of the nearly 40,000 area residents. Read More »

Meyer Sound Ships MICA Loudspeaker

The recent launch of the self-powered MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker was enthusiastically received in the market and orders began flowing in as soon as the product was announced. Those orders are now being filled, as Meyer Sound has announced that MICA cabinets are flowing out of the company's Berkeley factory and being shipped to customers. Read More »

Meyer Sound Announces 600-HP Subwoofer

Closely following the release of the MICA compact high-power curvilinear array loudspeaker, Meyer Sound has announced the 600-HP compact high-power subwoofer. Bringing the extraordinary power of the acclaimed 700-HP ultrahigh-power subwoofer to a package ideal for rigging with MICA, the self-powered 600-HP excels in flown applications using its optional QuickFly rigging and those situations where the extra low-frequency extension of the 700-HP is not required, or where space is a consideration. Read More »

News Flash: Robert Plant Tours with MILO

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MILO Plays to the Balconies at Bob Hope Theatre

One result of the San Francisco Bay Area's continual growth has been that Stockton, 63 miles East of San Francisco, now ranks as California's 12th largest city, with a multi-cultural population of over 260,000 and an aggressive economic and cultural expansion program that has been revitalizing the downtown waterfront area. Read More »

Balkanika Shows MILO to Best Advantage in Belgrade

Predrag Adamovic was simply not satisfied. Leading Serbian installation company and Meyer Sound distributor Svetlost Teatar wanted to demonstrate the MILO high-power curvilinear array and a collection of other Meyer Sound products, but Adamovic, the head of Svetlost's AV team, was not content with the traditional method of playing a CD to interested parties. It would take live source material to really show what the systems could do. The problem was that organizing a live event involves a lot more logistics than hooking up a CD player. Just trying to find a European band for local rental companies to sponsor proved to be a difficult task, the limited size of the Serbian market providing few options. After much head scratching, Adamovic decided to directly approach an artist and contacted internationally-recognized "modern ethno" ensemble, Balkanika. Read More »

News Flash: MICA Debuts at Schlossgrabenfest

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News Flash: Rock 'n' Road Provides Sound for Music Midtown Festival

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News Flash: Thunder Audio Adds MILO to Inventory

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Sleek Milan Club Earns Points With Meyer Sound System

Milan, Italy, has long been one of the world's capitals for fashion. When a new nightclub opens in the city, points are definitely won or lost based on style. Luminal, a new high-profile club recently opened in the striking Liberty building in downtown Milan is definitely winning points. Designed by Pierfrancesco Cravel, whose past projects include the "world's most luxurious multistore" for Sheik Majed al Sabah, the upmarket venue features several huge crystal chandeliers, alongside which installation firm Light Video Sound, headed by Eliano Girola, put in an impressive array of cutting-edge lighting and AV hardware, including a Meyer Sound loudspeaker system. Read More »

Meyer Sound's New Dimension at Theater Castellum

On the banks of the river Rijn in the west of the Netherlands between Leiden and Utrecht sits the town of Alphen aan den Rijn. With a population well over 70,000, the town is much different than it was in the days of its Roman origins, though Medieval houses and Roman-themed attractions still commemorate that period. In this ironic spirit, Alphen's new cultural palace is named the Theater Castellum, a "castellum" being a Roman palace. But the Theater Castellum complex, which has been hailed as "a new dimension in going out," is decidedly of the 21st century and set to provide the town with an experience born out of an immense amount of thought, skill and attention to detail, not the least of which went towards the Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems installed there. Read More »

MILO Augments the Sound of Thunder

Looking to broaden its appeal to national touring acts and corporate clients, Michigan-based Thunder Audio has bolstered its loudspeaker inventory with the addition of a Meyer Sound MILO high-power compact curvilinear array system. Read More »

Chromatica Provides Sensitive Meyer Sound Solution For Hungarian Church

Votive Church in Szeged, southern Hungary, was constructed between 1913 and 1930. With towers measuring 81 meters high, the inside dimensions of the nave are 66 meters long by 15.5 meters wide inside and 20.7 meters high. The cavernous dimensions made the church a challenging space in which to install a loudspeaker system when it was decided one was needed. But with careful design and the choice of a Meyer Sound loudspeaker system, Chromatica Ltd., of Budapest, Hungary, was able to overcome the size and other hurdles. Read More »

AVAB CAC Gives Prize Performance at Norwegian Music Awards with Meyer Sound

The 33rd annual, Spellemannprisen, Norway's equivalent to the Grammy Awards was recently held in the Oslo Spektrum with an audience of 3,000 in attendance and thousands more watching it broadcast live on Norwegian television. But only the audience in the famed hall was treated to hearing the presentations to and performances by Norway's finest musical talent through a large Meyer Sound loudspeaker system. Read More »

Oksa Production and Meyer Sound Meet Severe Challenges for Slovakia Bush Visit

The final stop on U.S. President George W. Bush's recent European tour was the Slovak Republic. This was the first visit by an American president since the country gained its independence following the split from the former Czechoslovakia in 1993. Read More »

Tachikawa Cinema Expands with Meyer Sound

The busy Tokyo suburb of Tachikawa has been undergoing something of an urban renaissance over the past decade. Once an all-but-forgotten industrial enclave located some 25 miles west of central Tokyo, this city of some 180,000 has benefited from a number of redevelopment projects around Tachikawa's central train station, beginning with the opening of the "Cinema City" complex in 1994. Read More »

Steve Cochran Joins Staff of Meyer Sound

Meyer Sound has announced that veteran FOH engineer Steve Cochran has joined the company in the role of Touring and Sales Support. Cochran will join Tour Liaison Buford Jones in staffing the company's Nashville office, located in the famed Sound Check rehearsal complex. Cochran's duties will focus on applications, such as assisting artists and engineers working with Meyer Sound equipment in the Sound Check facility, and participating in educational seminars and training in the Nashville area.
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MILO Makes the Difference in Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts

A short drive away from the famed white sand beaches of Fort Lauderdale and Miami, on Florida's "other" coast, lies the fast growing winter haven of Naples. Like most of the state's western beach communities, the city has, until recently, been a relatively well-kept secret. While Naples boasts a diverse cross-section of arts and cultural events, its urbane nexus is unarguably the Philharmonic Center for the Arts. Read More »

17th Gulf Games Ceremony Inspires with Meyer Sound Power

The spectacular opening ceremonies of the 17th Gulf Cup games, presented in Doha, Qatar, dramatically symbolized the new, positive vision that is taking hold across this region. With help from a dazzling display of technology, the inspiring event highlighted mutual cooperation, celebration of common cultural roots, and peaceful competition through sport among the eight nations of the Arabian Peninsula. Read More »

Community Lutheran Church Chooses a Sound System Worthy of Las Vegas

It should come as little surprise that a Lutheran church in the heart of Sin City might lean a bit towards the non-traditional. Las Vegas' Community Lutheran Church recently completed rebuilding their sanctuary, including installation of a sound system that is exceptional not just amongst other houses of worship, but even many secular venues. The system is based around a line array featuring Meyer Sound's M1D ultra-compact curvilinear array loudspeakers and an InovaSON SY48 mixing console. Read More »

Iceland Theatre Warms to Meyer Sound System

Hardy theatergoers venturing into a mid-winter night in Iceland's capital city of Reykjavik, situated just below the Arctic Circle, expect to be rewarded for their bravado with a delightful evening's entertainment — including the best in technical production quality. It's no surprise, then, that at Reykjavik's City Theatre audiences and production staff alike are shaking off the cold by giving a warm reception to the new, 37-cabinet Meyer Sound system installed there. Read More »

"Thinking Small" Prompts Meyer Sound M1D Solution for New Jersey Theatre

A sound system upgrade for the 1,200 seat Community Theatre of New Jersey in Morristown presented a puzzle to newly hired staff audio engineer and technical director Jonathan "JP" Peirce. Faced with a number of challenges—problematic acoustics, a limited budget, and strict aesthetic requirements—all proposed loudspeaker systems fell short in one way or another. Finally, when Peirce decided to "think small," the pieces of the puzzle fell together around an elegant solution based on Meyer Sound M1D ultra-compact curvilinear arrays. Read More »

News Flash: MKM Moves to Meyer Sound Loudspeakers

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News Flash: Gerhofer Adds M1D to Stock

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News Flash: Antonello Venditti Tours Italy with MILO

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News Flash: Masque Sound Adds 16 MILO to Inventory

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News Flash: Andrea Bocelli Performs with MILO

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News Flash: Big River Fills Theatres with Meyer Sound

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News Flash: Balance Audio-Media Purchases New M1D System

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Chumash Casino Makes Things Easy with MILO

Located in Santa Barbara County between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Chumash Casino Resort is a hotel and casino complex set on the tribal reservation of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in the lush, green hills of the central California wine country, the region featured in the Oscar-nominated motion picture "Sideways." After a fitful series of attempts at establishing gambling as a revenue source for the tribe, a casino was first opened on the site in 1994, but a recent major expansion turned the existing casino into a parking structure for the new resort. Offering Las Vegas-style gaming 24/7, the 94,000 square feet of casino floor and 106-room hotel, which was completed mid-2004, the casino also presents an array of top-notch musical entertainment, with Rose Royce, BB King, Chicago, Michael McDonald, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Cheap Trick, and Willie Nelson all scheduled to appear at the resort's Samala Room through early May. Read More »

Apeldoorn Orpheus Picks Meyer Sound for Concert-quality Coverage

Lying at the geographical heart of the Netherlands, Apeldoorn is best known as the site of the former royal summer palace, as well as for the beauty of its flowers and natural surroundings. But the city of 150,000 is also a place with an active cultural life centered on its municipal theatre and conference center, the Schouwburg en Congress Centrum Orpheus. The facility's two theatres, seating 700 and 200 respectively, were recently joined by a 1,300-seat hall with variable acoustics that allow it to be optimized for classical music concerts, lectures and meetings, or theatrical presentations including musicals, cabaret, and dance. Installed by Audio Electronics Mattijsen (AEM) of Duivendrecht, the sound reinforcement system chosen to handle this varied fare was designed around self-powered loudspeakers from Meyer Sound. Read More »

MILO Lends Intimacy to Arena Christmas Service

When Northland, a Church Distributed, decided to gather the entire church family – along with a few thousand guests – for a cozy Christmas Eve service, the only nearby venue able to accommodate everybody was the 17,000-seat TD Waterhouse Centre. Best known as home court of the NBA's Orlando Magic, the vast arena was visually "shrunk" into a workably intimate worship space by presenting the program in the round and employing video screens for image magnification. For a sense of closeness in music and spoken word presentations, audio reinforcement was entrusted to a Meyer Sound system based on 88 MILO family high-power curvilinear array loudspeakers. Read More »

Skopje Jazzed by the MILO Sound

For jazz fans outside southern Europe, any mention of the Skopje Jazz Festival will likely prompt the question, " Where exactly is Skopje, anyway?" Many jazz musicians, however, are well aware that Skopje is the capital city of Macedonia, a Balkan state just to the north of Greece, as Skopje's annual event regularly attracts jazz luminaries from around the world to play for the loyal audience the festival has built over its 23-year history. The 2004 edition of the festival featured headliners from the USA (McCoy Tyner), Brazil (Rosalia de Sousa), and Nigeria (Femi Kuti & Positive Force), and also marked the event's first use of a Meyer Sound MILO high-power curvilinear array system. Read More »

M Series Does It All at State Theatre

Like so many other "road house" venues, the State Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey, tolerated years of the "sound system shuffle." The old house system worked fine for some shows, but it had to be beefed up with additional speakers for others. For many pop/rock shows, the house system was completely replaced by a rental rig, with all the attendant logistical problems and labor costs. Read More »

Kraftwerk Receives Golden Ears Award for World of Nightlife

The inaugural "Golden Ears Award" for excellence in installation has recently been awarded to installation firm Kraftwerk Licht- und Tontechnik of Wels, Austria, for its work on the World Of Nightlife (WON) entertainment complex in Graz, Austria, which features a large complement of Meyer Sound loudspeakers. The judging panel decided that, of the ten short-listed projects, WON showed the best combination of sound system design and technological innovation. The completion of the project in a very short space of time was also an important factor in the judges' decision. The award was presented to Christian Hofer, technical manager and a managing director of Kraftwerk, on the first day of the Integrated Systems Europe 2005 conference and exhibition in Amsterdam. Read More »

French Artist "-M-" Brings M3D and MILO to Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy

French artist "-M-" brought a substantial surround sound system of Meyer Sound loudspeakers to Paris' Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy. -M- has been touring with a Meyer Sound system provided by DISPATCH since February 2004, but the system was considerably enlarged for the Bercy show. Read More »

AVAB CAC Brings Meyer Sound Dynamite to Nobel Peace Prize Concert

Each December, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Consideration is given to a wide variety of work including 'advocacy of human rights, peace movements, mediation of international conflicts and arms control and disarmament'. This year's recipient is Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai for her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace. Read More »

MILO Delivers for Louisville's National FFA Convention

For the past five years Bartha Audio Visual has provided AV support for general sessions of the National FFA Convention, during which time the Columbus, Ohio-based firm has shown a commitment to continually incorporating new technology to enhance presentation quality in the conventions main venue. For this year's event, held in late October at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville, Bartha again showcased the sound reinforcement capabilities of its Meyer Sound MILO high-power curvilinear array system. Read More »

Meyer Sound M1Ds Swarm - Discreetly - Across Europe

From the frozen fjords of Iceland to the balmy beaches of the Mediterranean, it's getting easier by the day to find Meyer Sound M1D ultra-compact curvilinear arrays in top-tier performance venues across Europe. Acclaimed for its pristine "studio monitor" sound and discreet low profile, the briskly selling M1D has proven one of the most successful Meyer Sound products introduced to the continent since the original UPA-1 swiftly populated London's West End theatres nearly a quarter century ago. Read More »

Meyer Sound Line Array Weekend in Norway

The first weekend of December was one of the busiest of 2004 for Norway's leading audio company, AVAB CAC. Over 160 boxes of their Meyer Sound line array inventory were employed at different locations for the first dates of two major tours and various one-off events. Read More »