Meyer Sound Stories that include SB-1

Ohio State University Finishes Undefeated Season with World's First Installation of Meyer Sound LEO 

The Ohio State Buckeyes football team finished an incredible undefeated regular season with a boost from its new Meyer Sound LEO linear large-scale sound reinforcement system. In this first permanent LEO installation in the world, the sound system filled the vast 105,000-seat Ohio Stadium with crisp voice announcements and fan-pumping music over the loud, energetic crowd for all eight home games. Read More »

Sound Artist Bill Fontana Uses Meyer Sound MM-4XP to Create Sonic Shadows at SFMOMA 

At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), renowned sound artist Bill Fontana has added another dimension to the turret-skylight atrium atop the building by enveloping the space in a dynamic, interactive auditory experience. Entitled Sonic Shadows, Fontana's work employs eight Meyer Sound MM-4XP miniature self-powered loudspeakers—working in conjunction with four moving ultrasonic emitters—to reproduce sounds generated organically by vibrations inside the building. Read More »

Solotech Advances Multimedia Entertainment with New Las Vegas Facility and Meyer Sound  (Live Sound)

With the boundless possibilities of multimedia integration, Canadian production giant Solotech has inspired audiences through its work with Cirque du Soleil®, Leonard Cohen, Celine Dion, Britney Spears, Diana Krall, Michael Buble, Pacific Symphony, and Star Wars: In Concert, using high-performance Meyer Sound systems. To lay the groundwork for further growth in the AV installation and touring markets, the 35-year-old company opened a new facility in Las Vegas in 2009 to support and advance the use of multimedia directly from the international capital of live entertainment. Read More »

Mississippi State Stadium Chooses Meyer Sound MILO in AV Upgrade 

Davis Wade Stadium is the home of Mississippi State Bulldog football and the scene of blood-stirring clashes in the notoriously hard-hitting Southeastern Conference. The 55,000-capacity stadium in Starkville is now equipped with a high-impact AV system that delivers powerful and intelligible audio to the tiered bowl. A self-powered Meyer Sound system sits atop the venue's new scoreboard tower, while dazzling images flash across a 111-foot-by-47-foot HD video screen, the largest in the conference.
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André Rieu Stages a Classical Spectacle for Australia with Dramatic Visual and Crystalline Audio from Meyer Sound  (Live Sound)

Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu recently brought the world's largest transportable set to stadiums across Australia, staging an unparalleled classical spectacle for anticipating audiences. The stunning production included a 125-meter-wide stage with a 600-square-meter ice skating rink, a gold coach pulled by six white horses, and a full-size reproduction of Vienna's famed Schönbrunn Castle, replete with golden ballroom and gilded chandeliers. Montreal-based Solotech met Rieu's demand for sonic excellence with a state-of-the-art Meyer Sound system based around the MILO line array loudspeaker and the SB-1 parabolic long-throw sound beam for reaching the farthest seats in the vast space. Read More »

Bill Fontana's Panoramic Echoes Uses Meyer Sound SB-1 Sound Beam to Add Magic to Madison Square Park 

These days, the birds singing in New York City's Madison Square Park sound hyperreal. The air is filled with their exotic arias that seem to descend from the sky in waves, somehow loud enough to supplant the din of nearby traffic with the beauty of birdsong. Park visitors used to hearing a few chimes from the historic MetLife Tower every hour now hear bells every quarter hour that seem to move, float, echo, and fade with more presence than before. What exactly is going on in this small city park? Read More »

Texas A&M Kyle Field Installs Powerful MILO and SB-1 Sound System 

Behind a black mesh screen high atop the 11-story video scoreboard at Texas A&M's Kyle Field in College Station sit two tiers of eight parabolic dishes each. At first glance, this may look like a broadcast microwave array, but in reality, this "dishware" is a complement of Meyer Sound SB-1 parabolic long-throw sound beams, part of the largest and most powerful Meyer Sound system ever installed in a sports facility. When fired up on game day, the 54 loudspeakers in the system carry announcements and the music-punctuated soundtracks for the videos shown on "12th Man TV" (as the huge Mitsubishi video screen is known) to the far reaches of the stadium with astounding clarity. Read More »

Meyer Sound MILO Provides Texas-Sized Solution for Red Raiders Stadium 

It's been said that in a good season, college football fans in Texas quite possibly outnumber the rest of the country's NFL fans. Whether that's a bit of hyperbole or not, it's fair to say that Texas is home to some of the game's more rabid devotees, for whom college games are every bit as crucial as the major leagues. Read More »

Meyer Sound Outfits Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, Home of the Florida Gators 

Built in 1930, Gainesville, Fla.'s Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, affectionately referred to as "the Swamp" by local fans, is the home of the championship University of Florida Gators football team. Over the years, the stadium has benefited from a number of expansion projects, most recently a 2003 renovation that increased capacity to over 88,000 seats, making it the largest — and loudest — stadium in the state. 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 »