UltraSound, the longtime live sound provider for the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band and others, passes into familiar hands.

The Dave Matthews Band didn’t tour in 2017, so this year the legions of loyal fans packed into amphitheaters and festival grounds as the DMB zig-zagged from coast to coast in support of its number-one charting studio album, Come Tomorrow. From Texas in May through the final September shows in California, the tour’s audio production again relied on a Meyer Sound LEO Family system supplied by Martinez, California-based UltraSound.

The second day of this past summer’s Dead & Company tour also represented a first for the band’s front of house audio engineer Derek Featherstone. While he was in the midst of a line check at the venue before the show, his lawyers were closing a deal that would enable him to become CEO of UltraSound, the California-based sound provider where he had been employed for the previous 30 years.