Recent Posts tagged with venue sound
By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 12:23 pm
Sports stadiums and arenas have become considerably more flexible in recent years, as bondholders require a steadier ROI. That largely takes the form of large-scale music tours, which increasingly expect […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 10:40 am
Sports teams and leagues are increasingly focused on the quality of the sound in their stadiums and arenas. They have to be, because everyone else is. Consumer complaints about the […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - 7:00 am
As with everything else in sports, COVID-19 rearranged venue sound: entirely new sound systems were designed and installed specifically to propagate the sound of artificial crowds, both onto the courts […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Wednesday, April 20, 2022 - 7:00 am
The pandemic changed a lot of things about sports but didn’t slow the pace of new construction or refurbishment of stadiums and arenas. For example, just since COVID-19 brought sports […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, February 11, 2021 - 7:02 am
Over the years, venue sound systems in the U.S. and UK have been designed to meet different considerations. Today, though, the systems’ sophistication and quality in the two countries have […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Tuesday, June 25, 2019 - 8:00 am
Weather affects everything, and, as more-sophisticated audio and video systems are installed into ever larger sports stadiums, weather — and, more specifically, more of it — is playing a part […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, June 6, 2019 - 10:28 am
Oct. 20, 2018, was a pivotal date for Garth Brooks, the best-selling music artist in U.S. history. That day in South Bend, IN, he performed in front of 84,000 fans, […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 8:00 am
Louder, clearer, and bigger bottom. Those have become the key criteria for live sound systems in sports venues in recent years. Louder because venues have become larger and fans in […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Thursday, April 4, 2019 - 8:00 am
We are apparently nowhere near “peak stadium.” Recently completed and under-construction venues number in the dozens, and they are designed to help sports compete with the increasingly immersive experience of […]
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By Dan Daley, Audio Editor | Friday, July 13, 2018 - 8:00 am
The FIFA World Cup matches that culminate in the Final on Sunday at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium will be a test of man vs. magnet. The magnet in the rear of […]
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