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Show Technology announces new AV partnership with AV Stumpfl
LEFT to RIGHT: Fabian Stumpfl, AV Stumpfl CEO; Harry Gladow, AV Stumpfl Global Business Development Manager; Emmanuel Ziino, Show Technology CEO; Tobias Stumpfl, AV Stumpfl CEO and Vince Haddad, Show Technology Technical Director. Show Technology Australia is proud to announce its new partnership with AV Stumpfl, the Austrian AV technology manufacturer, as their exclusive distributor…
Read MoreListen Here – Back On Track
REGULARS Whether you’re an engineer or producer, 2018 should be the year you get back to recording your own music or playing live again. Isn’t it the reason you found yourself in this crazy industry in the first place? Listen Here – Back on Track By Andy Stewart. By far the most common story I…
Read MoreSydney sold a pup – ICC design derision
By Julius Grafton. As Sydney’s International Convention Centre spends a million dollars on AV equipment that should have been installed when it opened, the events industry are giving the new venue a thumbs down following our story. We revealed some of the shortcomings of the new facility, including the 2,000 square metre exhibition space known as…
Read MoreACETA Confirmed Convention Program
REGULARS Inaugural ACETA Industry Convention – Friday 4th – Sunday 6th May 2018 It’s a sign of abundant activity and progress that we struggled to find the most relevant content for the first ACETA editorial in 2018. An overview of 2017 was planned; however, it was clear that the confirmed inaugural convention program, needed to…
Read MoreKV2 Audio Debuts New VHD5.0 at Adelaide Fringe Festival
KV2 Audio partnered with local Adelaide production company Novatech to deploy their new VHD5.0 Constant Power Point Source Array at popular Fringe Festival venue the Royal Croquet Club. Andy Austin Brown, Technical Projects Director, flew in from the UK to join North America/APAC Technical Support Director Angus Davidson for a week of testing prior to…
Read MoreHoney I Shrunk It- I really Did
REGULARS Honey I Shrunk It – I really Did We reprise a piece from CX Magazine, February 2013 where Duncan Fry ponders a smaller PA system… Since it’s the start of a new year, I’ve made a new year’s resolution to shrink the size of my current system to still keep the same output level…
Read MoreQu Price Drop
Paying it forward, Allen & Heath is passing on the benefits of volume production efficiencies for its hugely popular Qu Series digital mixers. The results are serious cost savings on all model in the Qu range highlighted by a huge 25% reduction on the benchmark Qu-16C – now listed at $2999RRP. With digital mixers increasingly…
Read MoreBiz Talk: Contractor or Employee? It Makes a Difference
REGULARS Biz Talk: Contractor or Employee? It Makes a Difference By guest columnist Simon Byrne. As alluded to by CX Magazine in July last year, the government is getting serious about cracking down on compulsory superannuation avoidance and has provided money to the ATO to monitor and enforce non-compliance. A lot of our industry is…
Read MoreCMG Audio Visual launch new Meyer Sound Rental Division
L to R – John Mc Mahon (Meyer), Don Mc Connell (Audio Brands Aust), Tobi Pinazza (CMG AV), Steve Biermann (CMG AV), Helen and John Meyer, Ben Wright (CMG AV), Antonio Zacarias (Meyer), Aaron Taylor (CMG AV), Chris D’bais (Meyer). Australia’s first Meyer Sound LYON and 1100-LFC System has been confirmed for local arrival in…
Read MoreICC Sydney gets $1m AV top-up – after design falls short
By Julius Grafton. Sydney’s International Convention Centre (ICC) has just spent over $1 million on additional AV equipment, barely 18 months after opening as a fully equipped venue. The centre comprises trade show halls, a convention centre, and a theatre venue to replace the Sydney Entertainment Centre. The NSW Government shocked the events industry in…
Read MoreKiwi Performing Arts worth $2.058B
ETNZ drew our attention to the Skills Active Workforce Scan earlier this year, showing the overall contribution to the NZ economy of the broader performing arts industry at almost 1% of GDP. The report is structured different to anything available in Australia, where Live Performance Australia most recently reported Creative and Performing Arts added A$3.818B…
Read MoreACETA: Sustainability, Stability and Reality in 2018
REGULARS Sustainability, Stability and Reality in 2018: A Year of Development and Opportunity for the Committed If you aren’t across the relationship re-alignments currently taking place in our industry you must have just woken from a long coma, and there is every indication the landscape is far from settled. Maybe the current experience is a…
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