Smoke and Mirrors SVL, Inc. Picks VUE al-12 for Chella Latin Music Festival

Produced by Goldenvoice, the same brilliant minds behind the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Indio’s Chella Music Festival brings together prominent and emerging Latin talent into a more intimate setting for a loyal local fan base. Held at the Riverside County Fairgrounds, 2019’s lineup included Tucanes, Chilean actress and vocalist Mon Laferte, Cola Boyy and local folk heroes Giselle Woo & The Night Owls.

Full production services for this year’s Chella festival were provided by long-standing Goldenvoice collaborator, Smoke and Mirrors SVL, Inc., who deployed a VUE al-12 Acoustic Linearity line array system for this year’s event.

VUE Jazzes Things Up In Berlin

From May 8th-12th ES -Event Services provided world-class audio for the 5th year in conjunction with VUE. 13 performances took place through an al-Class line array system. For the first time in the event’s 5 year history, the sound system was entirely digital with all audio routed to the SSL console and stage racks back to the VUE Audiotechnik main system through AES/EBU.

VUE Headlines Rye Music Festival, Beijing

VUE China partnered with Beijing-based production company, S.A.G., to deliver audio services for the second-annual RYE Music Festival in Beijing on May 25th and 26th. The Capital’s first outdoor music event of the season, and one of just a handful of sanctioned events given the PRC’s 70th Anniversary security measures, the festival was held in Changyang Music Park and boasted Scottish headline act The Jesus & Mary Chain and Taiwanese pop stars Jolin Tsai and Jay Chou.

MSI Drives VUE Line Array Through a 27-show Victory at the San Diego Fair

When Meeting Services, Inc. (MSI) won the bid to provide Audio services for the San Diego County Fair Grandstand Stage, Production Account Manager, Birch Caffee, immediately spotted an opportunity to take the VUE al-12 Acoustic Linearity Line Array for a spin. Running for a full five weeks from late May into July 4th weekend, the fair’s 27 shows featured a broad mix of artists and genres, including Dionne Warwick, Jake Owen, Toby Keith, Pitbull, and Smokey Robinson, to name just a few.

BottleRock Festival 2019 Doubles down with VUE

Billed as the “first taste of summer,” the 7th annual BottleRock Festival once again sold out drawing some 120,000 attendees by mixing music with the best of Napa food, wine, and beer. And VUE Rental Network Partner, Delicate Productions, was there — for the 7th consecutive year — to provide audio and lighting services for all the performance venues at the 3-day event. In addition to the secondary Bai Stage, which has featured a VUE al-Class Line Array System for the past five years, Delicate expanded the use of VUE’s Acoustic Linearity system to include the larger Firefox stage. Aside from accommodating headline act Pharrell William’s rider, the expanded VUE presence enabled Delicate to improve coverage and the sonic experience across two premiere stages, while maximizing capacity and revenue for the event organizer, Latitude 32.