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Gearbox: Spotlight CYC LED 300 RGBW DMX
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…
Read MoreGearbox: Electro-Voice Evolve 50
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…
Read MoreComment: If I Don’t Have This Product will I Die?
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…
Read MoreIntegrate 2017 – All the latest in Disruptive AV Tech on show in Melbourne
TRADESHOWS Integrate 2017 opened in Melbourne on 28 August with a queue at the door and a flood of visitors. After convergence has vanquished the large format matrix switcher, the next frontier in disruption is control – will we see a hardware-less future for our AV control systems? Jason Allen was on the show floor……
Read MoreLive audio GAME CHANGE! Really….
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…
Read MoreSuper Qu @ 96kHz
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,…
Read MoreRoland Unveils V-60HD Multi-Format Video Switcher
Roland Professional A/V is introducing the V-60HD, a compact, integrated video switcher and audio mixer, and the latest addition to Roland’s comprehensive line of video production solutions. Its sophisticated feature set is perfectly suited for live event production as well as broadcast, recording and streaming. The V-60HD supports SDI camera inputs plus scaled HDMI inputs…
Read MoreL-ACOUSTICS SYVA COLLINEAR SOURCE SYSTEM
GEARBOX L-ACOUSTICS SYVA COLLINEAR SOURCE SYSTEM 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…
Read MoreClearOne® COLLABORATE Pro Now Natively Integrates Skype For Business
Further extending the unique capabilities of its COLLABORATE Pro series, ClearOne (NASDAQ:CLRO), the leading global provider of audio and visual communication solutions, today announced a system upgrade that allows users, at an additional cost, to enable Skype for Business on any COLLABORATE Pro model. “The ability to natively integrate Skype for Business truly makes COLLABORATE…
Read MoreBose Professional Now Shipping EdgeMax™ In-Ceiling Premium Loudspeakers with PhaseGuide® Technology
Combining the superior coverage patterns typical of larger surface-mount loudspeakers with the visually appealing aesthetics of in-ceiling loudspeakers, EdgeMax™ represents an entirely new product category Bose Professional is now shipping its EdgeMax™ in-ceiling premium loudspeakers. EdgeMax loudspeakers feature proprietary Bose PhaseGuide® technology, which provides room-filling coverage while improving overall sound quality compared to the performance…
Read MoreReview: EAW RSX12M
By Jason Allen. EAW’s Radius Series is a total connected PA solution. It includes a line array with flyable subs, and point source mains, fills and a sub. The whole range is powered, comes with Dante built-in, and is made to be designed, predicted, controlled and monitored wirelessly via EAWmosaic, a comprehensive iOS app. The…
Read MoreM50x IRON RED
Audio-Technica released a metallic silver version of its M50 studio headphones to help celebrate the company’s 50th Anniversary in 2012. Proving hugely popular a limited-edition colour has become an annual event and a most sought-after headphone. Although a little late the striking 2017 limited edition is well worth the wait. Finished in metallic red with…
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