Review: L-Acoustics Syva

By Julius Grafton. So it’s another column system?” I say. The guys at Hills look at me like I’ve mentioned some one or some thing they don’t like. “It’s a collinear source system”, says Gerry Gavros. “A collinear source array, all in one line. This gives coherency in high frequency with better summation. Here, come…

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Chicken Bosses Legs Found to be Tender

By Simon Byrne Years ago, we were hired to provide production for the NSW Sales Development Conference for a major chicken fast food franchise group at Salamandar Bay, north of Newcastle. The last morning of the 3 day conference was outsourced to a “professional motivational team”. On meeting the “team”, we immediately concluded that they…

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit

By Duncan Fry I subscribe to a number of online newsletters, full of articles on live music production, studio music production, future trends, technical advice, music distribution, streaming and more. Fascinating stuff if you’re ‘in the biz’, with a wide variety of opinions and thoughts on where things are going. However, just in recent times…

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Robert Juliat Dalis 862 LED footlight

Many stages need footlights to up-fill the actors and gently wash shadows. Traditional tungsten footlights struggle with profile and heat. This is where the Robert Juliat Dalis 862 LED footlight comes in. It has a lot of tricks, especially in the asymmetric department. This is where you can vary the wash up close and high,…

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Jands to distribute Gibson Pro Audio

Jands Pty Ltd is proud to announce its appointment as the Australian distributor of Gibson Pro Audio brands KRK, Stanton, Cerwin-Vega, Cakewalk and Neat. Of the appointment, Jands’ Managing Director Paul Mulholland, said “It is great to be back representing Stanton, having first represented Stanton in the early 2000’s. Jands are excited to have the opportunity to work with Gibson Pro Audio under…

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Soundcraft by HARMAN Debuts the Vi1000 Digital Mixing Console

Soundcraft by HARMAN is pleased to introduce the Vi1000 Digital Mixing Console. Representing the culmination of the groundbreaking achievements and rich feature sets offered by Soundcraft’s acclaimed Vi Series, the new VI1000 is the most compact member of the Vi-000 family—at just 86cm x 81cm (34” x 32”) in size—yet it retains all the mixing…

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SLEEK SOUNDS STUNNING

Highly user-friendly new EVOLVE 50 portable powered column system from Electro-Voice with remote system control and streaming Lightweight loudspeaker and subwoofer system brings superior Electro-Voice sound quality to the column format: acoustically powerful, aesthetically discreet Clean, compact design – low-profile speaker array with quick cable-free connection securing pole to sub for extremely easy setup and…

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Clair Cohesion for Ariana Grande

The world’s biggest pop sensation, Ariana Grande, bought her Dangerous Woman Tour to Australia this September and JPJ Audio joined her on the road! Ariana Grande may be tiny, but her voice is big enough to drown out a stadium packed with thousands of screaming fans …. with a little help from a Clair Cohesion PA and her…

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Chicago’s Venues. This part of America remains VERY great!

Chicago is an architecturally significant city, with stunning examples built along its historical canals and lake shoreline. The architecture cruise on the canals is a highlight. I checked in to the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel on a warm fall Monday night last month. The Chicago Tribune describes it better than I can: “The building dates…

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Permanent dLive

Allen & Heath has signalled an increased focus on installed sound by deepening the integration of its dLive digital mixing systems into multi-purpose venues. A raft of new releases, control options and expanders adds to the dLive ecosystem to create a distributed, integrated, scalable and accessible solution, handling every aspect of a venue’s audio world…

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Shure Introduces Bluetooth Earphones

Shure has announced the addition of new Wireless Earphone solutions to its popular SE Sound Isolating™ Earphone line, including Wireless SE112 and SE215 Models, and a discrete Bluetooth Accessory Cable developed for owners of current Shure SE Earphones who want to convert to wireless. Designed for music and audio enthusiasts of all kinds, the new…

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