Meyer Sound Stories that include MICA

SHOWTEC and Meyer Sound Bring Controlled Audio Coverage to Museumsplatz Concerts  (Live Sound)

For Germany's Museumsplatz Bonn music festival this year, SHOWTEC of Cologne has provided a custom configuration of Meyer Sound loudspeaker systems featuring subwoofers in a cardioid formation. The application serves as a convincing showcase for how a loudspeaker system can achieve even, transparent audio coverage at an open-air event, while keeping the sound to designated audience areas and within the city's SPL limit. Read More »

Meyer Sound Brings Consistent Sound Image to France's International Festival of University Music 2010 (Live Sound)

For three days this summer, the International Festival of University Music (FIMU) transformed the historic city of Belfort, France into a vibrant hub of live music. The occasion brought together 2,700 acts from 30 countries and 80,000 visitors in the picturesque town, with French rental company Arpège providing a full range of Meyer Sound signal processing tools and loudspeaker systems to ensure the best possible sound experience for the audience and musicians alike. Read More »

Blauer See Techno Festival Powered by Contour and Meyer Sound JM-1P (Live Sound)

Every summer, dance music fans from the Rhein- Ruhr region and as far as Belgium and the Netherlands pay pilgrimage to Germany's Blauer See open-air festival to meet their DJ heroes. This year, headliners Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano were joined by other renowned electronic and techno artists to stage a party like no other, through the precision power of a Meyer Sound JM-1P arrayable loudspeaker system. Read More »

Meyer Sound Named the Official Sound Supplier for 2010 Montreal International Jazz Festival (Live Sound)

Meyer Sound is proud to announce that it has been named the official Sound Supplier of the Montreal International Jazz Festival (June 25-July 6, 2010).
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Meyer Sound Brings "The King" Back to Vegas in Viva ELVIS™ by Cirque du Soleil® (Live Sound)

Viva ELVIS, the seventh resident production by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas, revitalizes the mythic rock 'n' roll icon by infusing the raw energy of his best concert performances into lavish Broadway-style production numbers and—of course—exhilarating acrobatic spectacles. The show demands artful blending of disparate audio elements: an eight-piece on-stage band, four female singers, the voice of Elvis, and dynamic sound effects. To support the mix with full impact, sound designer Jonathan Deans engaged a total of 279 self-powered Meyer Sound loudspeakers and the largest all-digital Matrix3 audio show control and CueConsole modular control surface system ever assembled.
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Meyer Sound Expands Carmen to Epic Scale at London's O2 Arena (Live Sound)

Over the weekend of May 21 - 23, The O2 in London hosted its first fully staged opera—a larger-than-life rendition of Bizet's vibrant and passionate Carmen. To convey both the power and subtlety of Bizet's music throughout the 18,000-capacity arena, Autograph Sound Recording Ltd. provided a massive Meyer Sound reinforcement system. Read More »

Dubai's Palladium Widens Event Diversity with Meyer Sound MICA  (Live Performance Venues)

The vision for The Palladium was clear from the project's onset: to create a flexible venue that would put Dubai on the world map of entertainment. Indeed, in its first year of operation, The Palladium has played host to Akon, Backstreet Boys, The Merchants of Bollywood, and The Twelve Tenors, in addition to the Middle East Waste Summit, the Gulf Malayalam Music Awards, and comedy shows from the Laughter Factory. Adaptable technical features, including a Meyer Sound MICA line array loudspeaker system, are credited with bringing the impressive programming potential to the venue. Read More »

Major Tom Recreates Salisbury Cathedral's Beloved Organ with Meyer Sound (Worship)

When the world-renowned 133-year-old Father Willis Organ at England's Salisbury Cathedral was sent for repair during February and March of this year, the church's liturgical music program continued uninterrupted with powerful, richly textured pipe organ sounds. The sounds were instead produced—with uncanny accuracy—by a digital "virtual organ" and transparently reinforced by 12 Meyer Sound self-powered loudspeakers. Read More »

Julie Andrews to Dazzle London's O2 on May 8 with Meyer Sound (Live Sound)

On May 8, 2010, musical icon Julie Andrews, DBE will make a triumphant return to stage at London's O2 Arena in "The Gift of Music—an Evening with Julie Andrews." With a Meyer Sound system provided by Capital Sound, Andrews, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Ian Fraser will take the audience on an incredible musical journey through Andrews's illustrious career that has brought the world Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, and The King and I. Read More »

The Cranberries Rock Their Greatest Hits with Meyer Sound MILO (Live Sound)

Following a seven-year hiatus, The Cranberries returned for a European tour showcasing their greatest hits. To reinforce the band at venues from 4,000 to 20,000 people, Dublin, Ireland-based live sound provider Litton Lane deployed a Meyer Sound system based on the MILO line array loudspeaker. Read More »