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For Ray Bull’s Please Stop Laughing tour, engineer John Michael Young built an in-ear monitoring setup around an Allen & Heath SQ-Rack. The goal was to give the Brooklyn indie duo a consistent monitor experience while keeping setup and teardown manageable with a limited crew.
New Administrative Capital Stadium in Cairo, Egypt has been equipped with a venue-wide Harman Professional sound reinforcement system using JBL Professional, Crown, and BSS components. The installation centers on 20 clusters of JBL VLA-C256 loudspeakers, with BSS BLU-806 processors and Crown DCi DriveCore Network Series amplifiers forming the networked backbone.
The Black Crowes' 41-city Southern Hospitality Tour is using a Meyer Sound PANTHER-based reinforcement system supplied by UltraSound. The touring package combines 18 PANTHER loudspeakers per side, LYON out fills, 1100-LFC low-frequency elements, and LEOPARD front fills for venues ranging from 3,000 to 30,000 seats.
Clair Global supplied an Adamson VGT line array system for D-Block Europe’s PTSD2 arena tour across Ireland and the UK. The itinerary included major venues such as 3Arena Dublin, Glasgow Hydro, M&S Bank Liverpool, Co-op Live in Manchester, and multiple nights at London’s O2 arena.
Savannah Bananas' Banana Ball TV has adopted Calrec Argo M consoles, Type R systems, and True Control 2.0 as it expands its broadcast operation. The setup links two main control rooms at BTV's Savannah remote facility with field flypacks for the 2026 World Tour season and the Banana Ball Championship League.