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The Music Of The Night
Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour stages Opera Australia’s The Phantom of the Opera. CX interviews sound designer Shelly Lee about her unique design, and the challenges of ‘rainfall events’
Read MoreTech Talk: Elation Professional’s SpectraColor Explained
SpectraColour uses not three or four flags, but seven: cyan, magenta, yellow, red, green, blue, and a variable CTO filter. The most immediate advantage this sort of system confers is that it allows red, green, and blue primary colours to be vastly brighter
Read MoreCutting the cord for rigging
Wireless technology is common in most areas of entertainment, but the rigging world is one that has often lagged behind. Understandably we haven’t achieved wireless 3-phase to power the hoists yet, but there are wireless solutions for control and load measuring that are available to riggers now
Read MoreListen Here: Five For Twenty-Two
Here are five things to consider avoiding or improving upon before the year’s out, so you can get excited about your next music release
Read MoreTe Pae Christchurch: Officially open and ready to impress
With approximately 100 events confirmed for 2022, the centre is busy recruiting and in the midst of planning an open day for the public to experience this breathtaking facility
Read MoreThe Gaffa Tapes: Don’t shoot me, I’m only the sound engineer!
Witnessing a waitress fleeing in tears after two off-duty Manila cops dumped bullets as payment on her serving tray was a stark reminder that I was working in a country with a gun control problem
Read MoreOmegatech Deliver Stability and Reassurance to Remote Australian Productions
“The biggest thing we’ve noticed over the past five years of using our Omegatech gear is that everything manufactured by Omegatech is incredibly well made and the utmost care and perfectionism is applied from design to build.”
Read MoreETC Source Four LED Series 3 Launch – Melbourne
Jands’ Andrew Maher ran a tight and to-the-point demonstration of the new fixtures, highlighting how the new Deep Red chip in the eight-colour Lustr X8 array Series 3 renders more natural and accurate looks
Read MoreSIX To Tour With Chameleon Rig
Tim Deiling’s lighting design is looked after in Australia by Jason Fripp, with gear supplied by Chameleon Touring Systems
Read MoreInstallation: Bared Footwear Sydney
Part of the audio brief was to have the ability to host in-store events with DJs, plus the ability to have streamlined control of the overall store which has a high attention to detail and a keen focus on customer satisfaction
Read MoredearVR MIX: Spatial Headphone Compensation
If you’re wearing headphones virtually non-stop, the dearVR MIX plug-in is great at allowing you to regain the sensation that you’re working in a room
Read MoreSpeaker’s Corner at Sydney Festival
Speaker’s Corner was a seated outdoor concert venue for 500. Smack bang in the middle of Sydney, it was subject to strict noise restrictions. So how do you keep both the rockers and the residents happy?
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