{"id":745535,"date":"2025-05-29T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/?post_type=press-release&p=745535"},"modified":"2025-05-29T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:59:07","slug":"live-nations-two-historic-riverside-venues-standardize-on-one-concert-sound-system-l-acoustics-l-series","status":"publish","type":"press-release","link":"https:\/\/www.l-acoustics.com\/fr\/press-releases\/live-nations-two-historic-riverside-venues-standardize-on-one-concert-sound-system-l-acoustics-l-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Nation\u2019s Two Historic Riverside Venues Standardize On One Concert Sound System: L-Acoustics L Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Eighth Day Sound flies new L2\/L2D concert sound system at both Riverside Municipal Auditorium and Fox Performing Arts Center, creating a spectacular and uniform experience for crews, artists, and audiences<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RIVERSIDE, California \u2013 May 2025 \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Two historic Southern California venues, Riverside Municipal Auditorium and Fox Performing Arts Center, simultaneously upgraded their respective in-house sconcert sound system at the end of 2024, installing almost identical L-Acoustics L Series loudspeaker rigs. The L2\/L2D systems, supplied by Eighth Day Sound, a Clair Global brand, were installed by team members from Clair Global, L-Acoustics, and Live Nation, which manages and operates both venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two facilities located three blocks from each other in the City of Riverside, 55 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, originally opened two months apart. Riverside Municipal Auditorium (RMA), a Mission Revival-style building that also memorializes Riverside County\u2019s World War I servicemembers, opened its doors in November 1928. Fox Performing Arts Center (the Fox), built in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, opened just two months later in January 1929. The theaters last underwent building improvements and sound system upgrades about 15 years ago, a few years before Live Nation assumed responsibility for the operation of the two venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a sound engineer by trade, but I\u2019ve always loved the sound of L-Acoustics equipment,\u201d explains Brendon Davis, Director of Venue Production for Riverside Municipal Auditorium and Fox Performing Arts Center. \u201cThe club where I originally started my career had an L-Acoustics rig installed by Rat Sound, and it\u2019s always done us right.\u201d Davis continues, \u201cWhen I came to Riverside about three years ago and began researching options for our sound systems, I knew immediately that I wanted matching setups in both venues. We share the same crew across locations, so having identical systems significantly streamlines operations for our audio engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Eighth Day Sound, a Clair Global brand, recently installed L-Acoustics L Series systems at both Riverside Municipal Auditorium (pictured) and Fox Performing Arts Center in Riverside, California (photo credit: Heather Koepp)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Grentperez performing on RMA\u2019s L Series rig (photo credit: Heather Koepp)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jason Vrobel, Global Sales, Clair Global, reports that the request for L Series came from Davis. \u201cAt that point, Vic Wagner, L-Acoustics Touring Systems Applications Engineer, and C.W. Alkire, the Design Engineer from our team, did site walk-throughs and came up with the design and what was needed in each of the venues.\u201d Vrobel also notes that these are the first L Series systems that Clair Global has installed in a Live Nation venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both venues feature L-Acoustics L2\/L2D systems customized for their unique architectural requirements. The Fox, a traditional theater seating 1,600 patrons, employs two L2<\/a> and one L2D<\/a> per side in its main hang, with an L2D center hang and three installed KS21i<\/a> subwoofers per side. The 1,400-capacity RMA uses a more compact configuration of one L2 and one L2D per side with an L2D center hang, complemented by four floor-standing KS28<\/a> subwoofers per side. Each venue\u2019s concert sound system includes strategically placed fill speakers (X8<\/a>, X8i<\/a>, and A10 Focus<\/a> models) to ensure complete coverage throughout all seating areas. The Fox is powered by eight LA7.16i<\/a> and one LA12X<\/a> amplified controller, while RMA employs five LA7.16i, two LA12X, and three LA4X<\/a> units. Both rooms are now equipped to host their diverse upcoming performances, with the Fox presenting Shen Yun, \u201cWeird Al\u201d Yankovic, and Engelbert Humperdinck, while RMA welcomes The Mars Volta, Less Than Jake, and Dance Gavin Dance in the coming months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve done probably 35 Live Nation venues in the last two and a half years, keeping them as uniform as possible so that whenever a guest engineer or system tech comes into the building, the systems are the same as they saw in the last Live Nation building they were in,\u201d Vrobel explains. In the case of the Fox and RMA, equipment uniformity extends to the front-of-house and monitor consoles at the venues, which added three DiGiCo SD12, each with an SD-Rack, to the RMA\u2019s existing SD12, replacing three older mixing desks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Destroy Lonely wows the crowd at RMA on the venue\u2019s L Series loudspeaker system and KS28 subs (photo credit: Heather Koepp)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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RMA\u2019s new DiGiCo SD12 FOH mixing console with the L-Acoustics L2\/L2D arrays silhouetted in the background (photo credit: Heather Koepp)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vrobel also notes, \u201cFor some of the venues, we set them up as close to our touring packages as possible. If one of those venues has a failure \u2013 say, they have an amp rack go down \u2013 then we can send them a replacement from our touring inventory and have them back up and running the next day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause our crew managed this project, they know the rooms and how the equipment is installed,\u201d Davis confirms. \u201cSo if they ever have to tech anything, they could do it themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis reports that not only did the new L-Acoustics systems deliver an immediate sonic improvement to audience members at the two theaters, but the rider-friendly package has also reinvigorated interest among artists to put the venues on their touring schedules. \u201cSocial Distortion last played RMA in 2014, I believe, and that was a band that we thought we were never going to see again,\u201d he says. \u201cI talked to the talent team and said, \u2018What if we got this new system installed before New Year\u2019s Eve? Will they do the show?\u2019 And they said, \u2018Send over what you\u2019re going to install,\u2019 and Social Distortion immediately confirmed. They played on New Year\u2019s Eve and it was great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RMA\u2019s center L2D hang seen above the stage during Lovecrimes\u2019 set at RMA (photo credit: Oscar Rodriguez)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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RMA\u2019s disco ball eclipses the center L2D hang during Social Distortion\u2019s RMA set on New Year\u2019s Eve (photo credit: Oscar Rodriguez)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Social Distortion performing at RMA, with L-Acoustics A15\/KS21 side-fills and X8 front-fills in view (photo credit: Oscar Rodriguez)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For more details on Riverside Municipal Auditorium and Fox Performing Arts Center, visit www.ri<\/a>versiderma.com<\/a> and www.foxriverside<\/a>.com<\/a>. Eighth Day Sound and Clair Global can be found online at www<\/a>.8thdaysound.com<\/a> and www.clairgloba<\/a>l.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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