Road Test: Allen & Heath CDM32 + C1500

ROAD TEST   Allen & Heath CDM32 and C1500 by Daniel Lee Munns.   Daniel Lee Munns is a Sydney-based freelance sound engineer, backline tech and tour manager. His career has included church production as a teenager, house and touring audio in his 20s, and venue production management in his 30s.   I took the…

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LSC Lighting Systems making a DIN about DMX

LSC’s significant growth into the global installation market has provided the opportunity to develop a new range of professional DMX DINrail devices to better serve and protect the installer from cheap and inferior data distribution products that can cause significant on-site problems. The new MDR-DIN data distribution range is a new 4-way DINrail-mount version of…

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Post Malone

ROADSKILLS   Post Malone by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable.   Post Malone is lauded as being the voice of a generation. Ask anyone over 40 years of age if they know him and you’d probably get a negative.   They wouldn’t know that last year’s album Beerbongs & Bentleys swiftly became one of…

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Bowie Does Brecht – Lighting ‘Lazarus’

THEATRE Bowie Does Brecht Lighting ‘Lazarus’   by Jason Allen. Photo Credit: Jeff Busby.   One of David Bowie’s final creative projects, the musical ‘Lazarus’ came to Melbourne’s Playhouse in May for its first Australian production. Multi-award winning lighting designer Paul Jackson worked with The Production Company and director Michael Kantor to bring the enigmatic…

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Scene Change Sydney invests in VuePix Infiled ER2

Scene Change – Australia’s most awarded AV hire and production company – has recently expanded on its AV rental inventory in Sydney, investing in yet more 160 ER Series panels. This is the third major investment into VuePix Infiled technology from Scene Change. The initial purchase of 90x ER3.9 panels was for their Melbourne branch, followed by an additional 90x…

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Power Over Ethernet

TECH TALK   Power Over Ethernet by Simon Byrne.   Show control systems are merging and moving onto data networks. Loosely speaking, audio, lighting and certainly video rely on TCP/IP networks of some sort. This means the devices on both ends of a link require power. This is delivered by an external power source, usually a…

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Crew ‘don’t ask for help’, says Support Act

Crew are a key focus for Support Act, a charity that supports artists, roadies and others working in the music industry, and their families.  Over the past few years, more and more crew have been reaching out to Support Act for help, but they are keen to ensure that they are reaching everyone in need.…

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Sydney’s DJW Projects Sold

David Coxon talks about his time in tech By Julius Grafton Marrickville firm Buzz AV Projects Pty Ltd have taken over DJW Projects, a successful mid-scale integrator that delivered large turn-key systems for hospitality venues across Sydney. A few days after stepping down, DJW principal David Coxon sat with Julius to talk about how it…

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The Weekly Julius (July 10)

Jason Allen is finishing his Apache Kafka accreditation this week, so again he threw open the chance to edit this news and again Julius jumped in. Must be all that relevance depravation, and the inherent dullness of Julius Partners Advisory which is, let’s face it, more about helping businesses with the mundane and the unexpected…

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Clair Brothers CAT115 System First Choice for Saint Stephens College

QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: JULY 2019 – Saint Stephen’s College is an independent childcare to year twelve campus on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, that strives to be the best at every level. Co-educational in curriculum, the school is developing self-directed, determined, courageous and skillful young men and women of substance who will make a positive…

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Cheap Insurance For Sale

CONTROL Cheap Insurance For Sale by LSC Lighting’s Jeff Morgan.   My wise old mother always used to say: “Never scrimp on paying for good insurance cover, if you go cheap, it will cost you!”   The money invested in today’s A/V systems is huge – the latest audio console, speaker array, LED wall, video…

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Human Nature

ROADSKILLS   Human Nature by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable.   Australia’s most popular vocal group, Human Nature, celebrated 30 years of making music with a national tour entitled Little More Love Tour: A 30-Year Celebration Tour 2019.   In their 30-year career, Human Nature have sold more than 2.5 million albums, earned 27…

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