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description: Stay up-to-date with the GearSource blog, featuring the latest news, insights, and trends in the world of professional audio, lighting, staging, and video equipment.
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# Welcome to the GearSource Blog

 Your source for news, reviews, and the latest insights from your GearHeads team!

[![A used line array of large black loudspeaker cabinets flown low on a chain hoist in an empty warehouse test bay, a buyer and a technician with a laptop standing at a folding table listening, numbered inspection tags on stacked cabinets nearby](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/blog-images/post_22_used_line_array_touring_health_preview.webp)](https://gearsource.com/blog/used-line-array-market-touring-health-2026)

## [Is the Used Line Array Market the Best Read on Touring Health?](https://gearsource.com/blog/used-line-array-market-touring-health-2026)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 October 2, 2026

Yes, for most of the business it is. Headline box office measures the biggest tours, while the used...

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[![](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/post_18_freight_problem.png)](https://gearsource.com/blog/freight-problem-live-events-2026)

## [The Freight Problem Live Events Hasn't Solved](https://gearsource.com/blog/freight-problem-live-events-2026)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 September 3, 2026

Every summer the touring industry congratulates itself on another season that got through load-in,...

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[![](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/blog-images/post_16_stadium_vs_arena_spec_preview.webp)](https://gearsource.com/blog/stadium-vs-arena-gear-spec-2026)

## [How does the gear spec actually change once a tour crosses 20,000 seats?](https://gearsource.com/blog/stadium-vs-arena-gear-spec-2026)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 August 20, 2026

By Marcel Fairbairn, founder of GearSource, 24 years in pro-AV marketplaces.

[Read more](https://gearsource.com/blog/stadium-vs-arena-gear-spec-2026)

[![Empty arena an hour before doors, seen from mid-tier seating, with a distant lit stage showing solid magenta and teal LED walls flanked by hanging line arrays](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/blog-images/post_11_touring_economics_hero_preview.webp)](https://gearsource.com/blog/touring-economics-2026)

## [Touring economics in 2026: where the money is actually coming from, and where it's leaking](https://gearsource.com/blog/touring-economics-2026)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 July 16, 2026

The 2026 touring business is bigger than it has ever been and thinner than it looks. Mid-year data...

[Read more](https://gearsource.com/blog/touring-economics-2026)

[![A row of matte black LED moving-head fixtures clamped along an aluminum truss in an arena, seen from truss level with empty seats in soft blue and amber haze behind](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/blog-images/post_09_lighting_truss_hero_preview.webp)](https://gearsource.com/blog/lighting-design-after-fixture-revolution-2026)

## [What has actually changed on the truss since the LED-hybrid and IP-fixture wave?](https://gearsource.com/blog/lighting-design-after-fixture-revolution-2026)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 July 2, 2026

By Marcel Fairbairn, founder of GearSource, 24 years in pro-AV marketplaces.

[Read more](https://gearsource.com/blog/lighting-design-after-fixture-revolution-2026)

[![Looking straight up at an arena rigging grid, with steel truss, yellow chain motors, hanging line array, and moving lights silhouetted against work lights](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/blog-images/post_08_insurance_rigging_hero_preview.webp)](https://gearsource.com/blog/insurance-rigging-risk-2026)

## [Insurance, rigging, and risk are rewriting the cost stack of every show in 2026](https://gearsource.com/blog/insurance-rigging-risk-2026)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 June 26, 2026

By Marcel Fairbairn, founder of GearSource, 24 years in pro-AV marketplaces.

[Read more](https://gearsource.com/blog/insurance-rigging-risk-2026)

[![Empty arena backstage corridor before doors, a folding chair with a headset, coiled XLR cable on the concrete floor, dim utility lighting, no people in the frame.](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/blog-images/post_05_crew_shortage_hero_preview.webp)](https://gearsource.com/blog/crew-shortage-live-events-honest-2026)

## [The crew shortage is real](https://gearsource.com/blog/crew-shortage-live-events-honest-2026)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 June 4, 2026

The polite version of the crew shortage story is that the pandemic pushed people out, demand came...

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[![](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/gearsource_hero_me_q4_shortage.png)](https://gearsource.com/blog/middle-east-q4-2026-gear-shortage)

## [Will There Be a Live Event Gear Shortage in the Middle East in Q4 2026? What Production Teams Need to Know](https://gearsource.com/blog/middle-east-q4-2026-gear-shortage)

![ Marcel Fairbairn](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/IMG_1339.jpeg) 

[Marcel Fairbairn](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/marcel-fairbairn)

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 May 7, 2026

Yes, there will be a gear pinch in the Middle East in Q4 2026.

[Read more](https://gearsource.com/blog/middle-east-q4-2026-gear-shortage)

[![The Industry Is BACK TO WORK!](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/The%20Industry%20Is%20BACK%20TO%20WORK!.png)](https://gearsource.com/blog/the-industry-is-back-to-work)

## [The Industry Is BACK TO WORK!](https://gearsource.com/blog/the-industry-is-back-to-work)

![ GearSource](https://reverse-proxy.gearsource.com/hubfs/GS%20Logo/GS%20Logo%20Tagline%20Marketplace%20-%20Square.png) 

[GearSource](https://gearsource.com/blog/author/gearsource)

[Live Events](https://gearsource.com/blog/tag/live-events) [Production Manager](https://gearsource.com/blog/tag/production-manager) [Touring](https://gearsource.com/blog/tag/touring) [Back To Work](https://gearsource.com/blog/tag/back-to-work) [Covid Shutdowns](https://gearsource.com/blog/tag/covid-shutdowns) 

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I wanted to share a note I received from a production manager / friend, who had a rough year – like...

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