Posts by Jason Allen
Australian World-First Film and Virtual Production Course
AIE has built Hollywood-grade LED volume virtual production studios across it’s Australian campuses, which include Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, and Adelaide
Read MoreThe P.A. People acquires TheatreQuip
The P.A. People is pleased to announce that it has acquired Sydney-based business TheatreQuip, which can trace its origins in the Australian theatre industry back over thirty years
Read MoreParticularly peculiar potential power problems, part 2
Switch mode power supplies (SMPS) create earth leakage current (up to a maximum of 3.5mA per device), making them the nemesis of the RCD (Residual Current Device)
Read MoreTHE LUME Melbourne
Grande have built an enviable international reputation for exhibition tech, but THE LUME Melbourne takes their immersive projection model and ramps up the scale from ‘impressive’ to ‘breathtaking.’
Read MoreVale Colin Stevenson
Col was irrefutably a TV audio pioneer, a guy who came from radio and was right there when television actually started
Read MoreCape Jaffa Lighthouse Celebrates its 150th Birthday with LSC Control Systems
January 2022 saw the Lighthouse celebrate its 150th birthday and it was decided to light it up in all its glory to mark the occasion
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Fifty Ways To Lose Your Agent
My first band gig was with a 17-year-old bass player who refused to wear shoes, and a stand-in drummer who’d drank half a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and took a loaded weapon into the venue.
Read MoreNew Gear February 2022
Allen & Heath AHM-32 and AHM-16 Harnessing technology from the AHM-64 Audio Matrix Processor, the AHM-32 is built on a 32×32 matrix with 12 local analogue inputs and outputs. The AHM-16 features a 16×16 matrix with 8 local analogue inputs and outputs. Both models feature processing tools including Automatic Microphone Mixing, Ambient Noise Compensation, Priority…
Read MoreListen Here: Omicron Versus The Omnichord
With the name of the recent Covid variant being so close in name to one of the instruments I’m playing at gigs, I may be banned from the stage regardless! “I’m playing Omnichord, you idiots; I don’t have Omicron!”
Read MoreRed setting decimates NZ events industry
With no wage subsidy or resurgence payments, hundreds of entertainment technology employees and freelancers were left wondering how they would pay the bills as the lucrative Summer season was left decimated
Read MoreGolden Run: new festival series launched
Tom Anderson, freelance Production Manager, talks to us about the new Golden Run series, keeping it simple whilst out to impress, and how good it feels to be back in the saddle.
Read MoreFACE-TO-FACE Q-SYS TRAINING IS BACK!
FREE Q-SYS sessions now available on the week of the 21st of March 2022
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