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Gearbox: Electro-Voice Evolve 50
Gearbox Electro-Voice Evolve 50: The portable column Evolves By Jason Allen. There’s a lot to choose from in the powered portable column system market these days. Corporate love them for their subtlety, musical duo love them for their portability, and dry-hire get to offer a simple package that fits a lot of bills. Sadly, most…
Read MoreComment: If I Don’t Have This Product will I Die?
Tech Tools If I Don’t Have This Product will I Die? The live production industry is capital intensive and significant ongoing investment is required to stay current. It is complicated by the fact that most people in the business are there because they love it. That means the decision to buy the latest gear is…
Read MoreIntegrate 2017 – All the latest in Disruptive AV Tech on show in Melbourne
TRADESHOWS Integrate 2017 opened in Melbourne on 28 August with a queue at the door and a flood of visitors. After convergence has vanquished the large format matrix switcher, the next frontier in disruption is control – will we see a hardware-less future for our AV control systems? Jason Allen was on the show floor……
Read MoreDPA’s 25th Anniversary GET CLOSER World Tour
After resounding success in the USA, DPA Microphones’ 25th anniversary GET CLOSER World Tour continues on. The first stop is Canada and then it moves on to Europe and Asia. The tour focuses on educating participants; combining theoretical learning, with panel discussions and miking technique demos from the best Masters of Audio in the business.…
Read MoreLive audio GAME CHANGE! Really….
Last Wednesday I was driven an hour out of Paris to visit L-Acoustics, where I saw their L-ISA demo in a purpose built demo venue (Main picture). It’s fair to say it was a defining moment, they day that I could see and hear how immersive audio would next change concert and theatre sound. That…
Read MoreForge Audio chooses Soundcraft Vi3000
Forge Audio, an event production company based in Auckland, New Zealand has increased their Soundcraft mixer inventory by investing in the Soundcraft Vi3000 digital mixing console. Event Production has always been Forge Audio’s passion, with their objective to deliver clean sound, crisp images and purposeful lighting. Their aim is to provide exceptional technical service for…
Read MoreSuper Qu @ 96kHz
Allen & Heath has unveiled a pair of 96kHz compact digital mixers designed for live sound, AV and installation. The two mixers, SQ-5 and SQ-6, are driven by hugely powerful XCVI 96kHz FPGA engines and deliver class-leading high-resolution audio with latency of under 0.7ms. The rack mountable SQ-5 has 16 onboard preamps and 17 faders,…
Read MoreBiz Talk: Sliced or Dazzled? Get slowly baked in a dud franchise
REGULARS Sliced or Dazzled? Get slowly baked in a dud franchise By Julius Grafton. Dominos Pizza is in trouble with its investors who loved that the stock hit $80 a share and now cry as the stock is falling under $40. Led by a charismatic CEO, Dominos painted a pretty picture of rising profits and…
Read MoreStudio: Listen Here – The Parallel Universe
REGULARS Parallel compression is neither complicated nor scary, and it’s one of the most important tools in a mix engineer’s arsenal. With the world seemingly obsessed with heavily slammed digital mixes it’s crucial for mix engineers – whether they like it or not – to compress audio signals to unprecedented levels. Here’s how. By Andy…
Read MoreAustralian Commercial & Entertainment Technologies Association Convention
REGULARS A Vital New Resource is set to Indelibly Impact the Industry Calendar – And We Won’t Look Back By Frank Hinton. For some time, ACETA has been reporting the development of the inaugural industry convention initiative. The point has now been reached where core aspects are finalised and in the weeks ahead comprehensive details,…
Read MoreFist Full of Rock Tour
ROADSKILLS A number of Australian rock & roll royalty gathered together to play nationally as part of the 2017 edition of A Fist Full of Rock tour. The Hoodoo Gurus, You Am I, Jebediah and Adalita (of Magic Dirt) made their way across the country with stops in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast and Brisbane.…
Read MoreMoulin Rouge – Timeless Venue Surprises
By Julius Grafton. We’re always impressed by acrobats, and contortionists. 60 beautiful men and bare breasted women wearing exquisite costumes and makeup, dancing just in front of our table was most excellent. But when the stage rolled away to reveal a glass swimming pool I thought ‘Good! Here goes some synchronized water nymph routine. Until…
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