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Expansion to keep MCEC at the forefront of event tech
In advance of opening its new $200 million expansion space next month, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC) has invested in cutting-edge technologies offering the flexibility customers need. MCEC’s new expansion space has been purpose built to leverage the venue’s original innovative approach to integrated audio visual and ICT technologies. The new expansion will feature…
Read MoreThe Dirty Dozen – Novatech’s Elation Proteus deal with everything the elements throw at them
Novatech Creative Event Technology have given their 12 IP65-rated Elation Proteus Hybrid fixtures some serious punishment over the last few months. First, they left them outside for five weeks in February in Adelaide, copping the full heat of a SA summer. They then migrated north for four weeks on the beach at The Gold Coast,…
Read MoreHarman’s Suparman delivers JBL A12 for Sebastian
Harman Professional’s APAC wizards, Herman Suparman, Application Engineer, and Roger Lim, Application Engineer and System Design & Training, brought three days of product training to CMI’s Melbourne Headquarters in early June. JBL’s flagship VTX A12 line array was also flown in to the party, ahead of its 24-date Guy Sebastian national tour with Danny Olesh…
Read MoreAllen & Heath SQ Series
Road Test Allen & Heath SQ Series By Adam Biggs. Adam is the proprietor of Biggsounds Productions. Servicing New South Wales and southeast Queensland for 15 years, Biggsounds have a dedicated team of live engineers and also provide quality audio, visual, and lighting equipment to the pro audio, education, community, and worship markets. …
Read MoreInfocomm: IC18 AVIXA steps up
By Analog Julius June is InfoComm time, where what was once just the AV industry shows new stuff and huddles in conference rooms. These days it’s a whole lot more, so the organising association have rebranded themselves. Now they are The Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. To make a point they made the entry hall…
Read MoreEpson shoots around corner at University of Adelaide
A recent routine catch up between The University of Adelaide’s Information Technology and Digital Services team and Epson sales and technical staff led to a unique solution for a difficult projection installation in the University’s main ceremonial hall. The University required a permanent projection solution installed discreetly into the heritage building using an existing, centrally…
Read MoreAutomixing – your extra hand
REGULARS Automixing – your extra hand Simon Byrne. I can see you’re frowning already. I’m the mix engineer! No computer algorithm can possibly do a better job than me! You are right… and wrong. In mixing high profile conferences and unscripted events, the challenge is that you don’t always know who is going to talk…
Read MoreL-Acoustics Partners with Avid on L-ISA
L-Acoustics have announced the development of an AAX DSP version of its L-ISA Source Control plug-in for the popular Avid VENUE | S6L console’s control surface, allowing sound engineers an expanded range of consoles in which they will be able to use a familiar workflow to manage immersive environments easily and intuitively. L-Acoustics’ L-ISA ecosystem…
Read MoreBrisbane Concert Lighting gear up with ChainMaster
Brisbane Concert Lighting have added twelve new ChainMaster half ton chain hoists to their hire inventory . Owner Tim Missenden signed off on the new ChainMaster BGV-D8 500kg motors with double brake, expanding BCL’s already extensive number of rigging chain hoists. Brisbane Concert Lighting have over 20 years’ experience in AV production and have emerged as one of the major entertainment lighting rental companies in Brisbane, offering…
Read MoreMDR Sound and Lighting Transforms Te Auaha Student Theatre With CHAUVET Professional Ovation
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Right in the heart of this nation’s capital stands Te Auaha – a new state of the art university campus that provides a home to students of creative disciplines such as photography, film production, performing arts, visual arts and music. Supporting the wide variety of productions at the school’s 200-seat theatre…
Read MoreJason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening As Bonham
Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening As Bonham garnered rave reviews as it toured through the country in May. The concert celebrates the life and music of his father, the legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, and it was clear that this was a gig FOH engineer Tim Millikan was enjoying immensely. “I’m like a dog…
Read MoreThe Killers Wonderful, Wonderful Tour
ROADSKILLS The Killers Wonderful, Wonderful Tour By Cat Strom. Photos: Rob Loud Almost 15 years on from their debut, The Killers are as big now as they’ve ever been and along with pristine production values, they are one of the most exciting live acts on the planet. Thirteen years ago Steven Douglas was asked to…
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