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HK Audio Linear 3 112FA Loudspeakers
HK Audio Linear 3 112FA – Simply Sonically Solid By Jason Allen. HK Audio’s new Linear 3 range of loudspeakers is designed to sit between their premium Linear 5 range and their Premium Pro range. Keeping the styling of the Linear 5, the Linear 3 range includes the L3112FA powered 12” with a 1” horn…
Read MorePreSonus StudioLive 3 – From Stage to Studio
PreSonus StudioLive 3 – From Stage to Studio By Jason Allen. PreSonus have updated their StudioLive digital mixer series to generation three with three new consoles and three new stageboxes, which, surprisingly, are also digital mixers. In doing so they’ve created a digital ecosystem that can be used to create quite complex setups, all on an…
Read MoreThe Ultimate Headphones For Robin Schulz Fans – Sennheiser Unveils A Limited-Edition White HD 25 With The Star DJ’s Signature
Sennheiser has launched the HD 25 Robin Schulz Edition, a white version of the legendary HD 25 monitoring headphones adorned with the signature of Germany’s star DJ. The professional headphones are limited to just a few hundred units and are exclusively available through Sennheiser’s online shops and at the Sennheiser flagship stores in Berlin, Singapore…
Read MoreGearbox: Sennheiser HandMic Digital
Gearbox Sennheiser HandMic Digital – Dependable Dynamic for iOS By Jason Allen. Latest in a string of Sennheiser products for recording-on-the-go, the HandMic Digital offers a hand-held dynamic cardioid for those who want to record directly to their iOS devices. It joins the lavalier versions ClipMic Digital and MKE 2 Digital, and all models leverage…
Read MoreBarco Technology Day
Technology Barco Technology Day: Going Live The fine people at Barco bought their newest products for live production and three international product experts to Sydney and Melbourne this October for Barco Technology Day. Jason Allen dropped in to get their perspectives on the current directions in display and control for events. By Jason Allen. Barco…
Read MoreGearbox: 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…
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