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Bigger, brighter than ever: TDC shines at Vivid Sydney 2018
Australian entertainment technology company TDC – Technical Direction Company – is providing large scale projection mapping and technology for this year’s Vivid Sydney, which takes place over 23 nights from 25 May – 16 June. This year Vivid Sydney celebrates its tenth anniversary. Vivid Sydney is the world’s largest festival of light, music and ideas.…
Read MoreWarm Audio WA-47 & WA73 recording chain
ROAD TEST Warm Audio WA-47 & WA73 recording chain By Andy Stewart. Two of the most highly prized, awesome sounding and prominently featured pieces of gear found in professional recording studios over the last half-century have been the legendary Neumann U47 tube condenser microphone and the Neve 80-series mic preamplifier. Everything that’s ever been said…
Read MoreHow to: Mic speech on stage with headworn and miniature mics
How To Mic speech on stage with headworn and miniature mics Proudly presented by DPA University Head-Worn Mics for Speakers Auditoriums, churches, educational facilities, conference rooms, courtrooms and theatres are all places where one or more people speak to an audience. If that speaker is untrained, and/or doesn’t know to speak up in a clear…
Read MoreETC Ion Xe Lighting Console
Road Test ETC Ion Xe Lighting Console By Jim Kumorek. Recently, Electronic Theatre Controls (ETC) released the latest member of its Eos console line, the Ion Xe lighting console. There are two versions of the console: one with 20 hardware faders (the model we reviewed), and one without. The Ion series is in the middle…
Read MorePro Light & Sound 2018 Frankfurt still delivers
TRADESHOW REPORT Pro Light & Sound 2018 Frankfurt still delivers By Julius Grafton. While PL&S was once the eighth wonder of the trade-show world, it still packs a punch for hordes of tech-heads from everywhere. Including Australia and New Zealand, since I kept running into people I wanted to talk to, and some I did…
Read MoreSymetrix and Visionary Solutions Expand Strategic Alliance
Symetrix and Visionary Solutions are excited to announce native integration of Visionary Solutions’ PacketAV® Duet Dante™-enabled IP video encoder and decoder products into Symetrix’ Composer DSP programming and control software. The integration, co-developed by Symetrix and Visionary Solutions, enables PacketAV Duet and E/D4100 video encoders and decoders to appear as native units in Composer 7.1…
Read MoreHow To: Work with Timecode on an MA Lighting MA dot2
How To: Work with Timecode on an MA Lighting MA dot2 By Michael ‘Qincy’ Strathmann, MA Lighting “I need to do lighting to a very special song and I want to do it as precisely as possible” – anonymous Tips and Tricks Timecode is an external clock signal that cues lighting. You have to connect it…
Read MoreQSC introduces Software Licenses
QSC has introduced advanced software features under optional licences for the rapidly developing Q-SYS audio video control platform. The inevitable separation of software and hardware will allow customers to select the software facilities they need for each individual application and purchase selectively to make system economies. At this stage QSC is introducing two licences one…
Read MoreNew frequency check website from JTS enables optimal performance
Sound technicians installing wireless microphones and in-ear monitors in hospitality, conference halls and live entertainment venues, can now use the JTS frequency check website to select correct JTS products for minimal signal interference, in a specific geographical area. Wireless microphones and in-ear monitors share the radio frequency spectrum with TV transmitters, meaning interference can occur…
Read MoreROAD TEST – Adamson S10
ROAD TEST Adamson S10 By Scott Mullane. Scott Mullane is the owner of Brisbane’s Aisle 6 Productions. His current touring clients include The Screaming Jets, Marina Prior, Darren Middleton and 7bit hero, and he has countless record production and recording credits to his name. Aisle 6 Productions own 16 elements of Adamson S10 and eight…
Read MoreCMI Audio Open Day May 4, 2018 at CMI Music & Audio HQ
To celebrate the launch of CMI’s new training facilities, we will be hosting an Open Day on May 4th from 10am 4pm at our Head Office in Melbourne. We will be demonstrating the class-leading Adamson S Series Line Array, as well as offering the opportunity to get hands on with the Soundcraft VI7000, plus other…
Read MoreAyrton Mistral TC
Mistral™TC, is a fantastic new 14,000 lumen white LED spot fixture from Ayrton, and just one of the much-anticipated new developments in Ayrton’s Automated Luminaires range. Launched at Prolight+Sound 2018, Mistral-TC is the latest in Ayrton’s new range of fixtures, named both in honour of North African desert winds and some of the hottest performance…
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