Gear Reviews

The JBL PRX ONE is a high-quality powered column PA. The design boffins at JBL have taken what they typically don’t like about stick PAs and addressed those issues one-by-one. Firstly, it looks professional and expensive; perfect for corporate. Secondly, the mixer and DSP are extensive and powerful. Thirdly, it’s spec’d well; capable of 130dB…

This is a stick PA that runs on a rechargeable battery that is ingeniously built into the speaker column, offering a six-hour run time. Highly portable at just 19kg for the whole package, the battery operation alone offers huge advantages to anyone running anything outdoors including buskers and wedding celebrants. Not having to find power…

Kim Churchill is a singer-songwriter who has released six albums and is signed to Canadian label Indica Records. With a thriving international career, Kim has performed at Glastonbury, Splendour in the Grass, Falls Festival, Montreal Jazz, and Telluride Blues. He has supported Milky Chance, Billy Bragg, Michael Franti, and Nahko and Medicine for the People.…

Brent Riley is the Manager at QLD Sound and Lighting, and a FOH sound engineer with 20 years’ experience. Based on the Gold Coast, QLD Sound and Lighting provide full-service event production, along with an extensive retail sales arm. Our LD Systems MAUI 28 G2 is one of the mainstays of our dry hire business.…

Dave Lee Coughran is a gigging musician in Perth, WA. As part of the Diamond Road band and Diamond Road acoustic duo, Dave sings and plays guitar at major corporate events, pubs, clubs, and hotels around the metro area. My duo performs with the Bose L1 Pro32 tower and the Sub2, the larger of the…

Joel Grace is the owner and operator of Sydney’s Northern Beaches PA Hire, an audio-visual equipment hire and setup business servicing parties, DJs, weddings, bands, and conferences. We had the iP 1000s in our hire stock for some time, before I sold them to a colleague who was desperate to own them! We were hiring…

Gabriel Vargas is a Melbourne-based singer-songwriter. When I perform live, I’m playing acoustic guitar and singing. I also perform as part of a duo, which adds another guitar and voice, plus a footstomper. For both types of gigs, I’m generally working in clubs, pubs, and venues with 150 to 200 capacity. I first came across…

Steve McDonald is the CEO of Queensland’s Airlie Beach Music Centre, the largest supplier of pro audio and AV equipment in The Whitsundays. In addition to an extensive rental inventory for dry hire, Airlie Beach Music Centre also provide production and installation services, as well as sales. At Airlie Beach Music Centre, we hire, sell,…