AFL 2017 Grand Final with JPJ Audio

By admin | 7 Nov 2017

JPJ Audio took over designing and operating the audio system for the AFL Grand Final entertainment six years ago and it’s been smooth sailing ever since. This year The Killers absolutely nailed it with an incredible performance that won them universal praise. For sound designer James ‘Oysters’ Kilpatrick the biggest hurdle is the sheer size…

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Tech Tools: It’s not about you – Attitude

By juliusg | 7 Nov 2017

Tech Tools It’s not about you – Attitude By Simon Byrne. Recently one of my regular clients made the observation that I seem to place great importance on the attitude of my crew. I asked “What do you mean?” She responded with “you seem to hire staff with a can do, polite and friendly approach…

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Gearbox: Spotlight CYC LED 300 RGBW DMX

By juliusg | 4 Nov 2017

Gearbox   Spotlight CYC LED 300 RGBW DMX Upstaged by LED By Jason Allen. High-end Milanese lighting company Spotlight work closely with many of Europe’s finest opera houses and theatres, often testing new products in-situ as part of their development process. As such, they’re closely attuned to the needs of the theatre lighting tech, and…

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Gearbox: Electro-Voice Evolve 50

By juliusg | 3 Nov 2017

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…

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Comment: If I Don’t Have This Product will I Die?

By juliusg | 3 Nov 2017

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…

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DPA’s 25th Anniversary GET CLOSER World Tour

By juliusg | 1 Nov 2017

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.…

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Live audio GAME CHANGE! Really….

By juliusg | 1 Nov 2017

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…

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Forge Audio chooses Soundcraft Vi3000

By admin | 1 Nov 2017

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…

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Super Qu @ 96kHz

By admin | 30 Oct 2017

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,…

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Studio: Listen Here – The Parallel Universe

By juliusg | 27 Oct 2017

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…

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