Posts by Jason Allen
Moulin Rouge – More Is More
Being a tale of debauchery and excess, the scenic, lighting, and sound design have all taken their cues from the subject matter. Every department has been given the brief to go OTT
Read MoreRoady4Roadies 2022
This year, Roady4Roadies events will take place in Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart on Sunday, 1 May 2022, and Brisbane, Sydney, Darwin and Newcastle on Saturday, 7 May 2022
Read MorePeter Grisard heads The P.A. People’s new Venue Engineering team
Peter has been joined at The P.A. People by Andrew Mathieson in the role of Chief Engineer, Michael Rafferty, Dallas Winspear, and Simon Steinfurth
Read MoreBoy Swallows Universe With Spacemap Go
The show’s composer and sound designer Steve Francis embraced the fantastical nature of the material, with local sound designer Matthew Erskine of CrossPoint Sound working with Steve to choose Meyer Sound’s immersive mixing platform Spacemap Go
Read MoreAustralian 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…
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