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Clockaudio TIM-1000 Tracking Intelligent Microphone
INSTALLATION Clockaudio Ltd, a global leader in pro-AV microphone technologies, have introduced their latest product innovation the TIM-1000 Tracking Intelligent Microphone. Streamlining huddle rooms, conference rooms and videoconferencing facilities, the TIM-1000 tracks the person in the space that is speaking, and follows that person anywhere in the room. The concept behind TIM-1000 is simplicity; ease…
Read MoreEasey As: TAG Opens in Melbourne
Pic: Max Twartz, Joe Pham, and Anthony Russo open TAG Collingwood Seizing an opportunity to welcome friends, customers and colleagues to the company’s new Melbourne office, Technical Audio Group commandeered the first day of the Integrate expo in late August for a Grand Opening. “With so many of the audio-visual industry already in town it…
Read MoreNSW Entertainment Industry Bottoms Out
Sydney Coliseum and Lockout Reversal rumours spread slight hope by Julius Grafton Rumours of a reversal of Sydney’s unique ‘Lockout Laws’ seem confirmed although the NSW Government has not confirmed the measure which apparently maintains the Lockout across any venue in Kings Cross. Since enacted five years ago, almost all venues in Kings Cross have…
Read MoreClear-Com Unveils Freespeak Edge: The Next Generation Of Digital Wireless Intercom
Clear-Com is proud to announce FreeSpeak Edge, the latest addition to the industry-leading FreeSpeak family of digital wireless intercom solutions. FreeSpeak Edge is the most advanced wireless intercom system, delivering the best audio quality and enhanced performance in some of the most complex live performance environments. The system also gives the user more control and…
Read MoreSafer Trucking – Driver Monitoring Proves Itself at ATS
by Julius Grafton Australia’s largest entertainment logistics firm ATS have introduced a fleet-wide driver monitoring system called Guardian Seeing Eye that has already saved one driver within weeks of implementation. The driver-facing camera feeds a control face-and-gaze-tracking algorithm that measures the driver’s head position and eye closure and, when safety parameters are exceeded, audio alarms and…
Read MoreLighting a Classic with Chameleon
Chicago is back in town, and it’s vulgar, brassy, loud, and totally irresistible! Kander and Ebb’s vaudeville valentine of murder and celebrity in Chicago of the 20’s still delivers with all the theatrical razzle dazzle anyone could ever need. Produced in Australia by John Frost and Suzanne Jones, Chicago is currently playing at Sydney’s Capitol…
Read MoreInaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference
NEWS Inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference Announces Second Round of Speakers The inaugural Australian Festival Industry Conference (AFIC) will be held across 24-25 October 2019 at Opal Cove Resort in Coffs Harbour, NSW. Founder and organiser, Carlina Ericson, has unveiled AFIC’s program of speakers, who represent some of Australia’s biggest names in festival management, consulting…
Read MoreClair Cohesion Series Debuts at Muriel’s Wedding
After a first sold-out season at the Roslyn Packer Theatre, Muriel’s Wedding has returned with a Melbourne run finished and Sydney currently packing in the audiences. Next stop is Brisbane for the highly rated production that has grown and changed a little since the 2017 premiere. Again JPJ Audio are supplying the audio equipment with…
Read MoreAvid S6L 32D and E6L-192
ROADTEST Avid S6L 32D and E6L-192 by Tony Bryan. Tony Bryan is a prominent Australian FOH audio engineer. Over 20 years of live touring, Tony has pushed faders for Grinspoon, Hoodoo Gurus, Jimmy Barnes, and Parkway Drive, among others. When not on tour, Tony can be found working for WA production company Audio Technik as…
Read MoreBose Professional – Daydream Island Resort
INSTALLATION First opened to guests back in 1939 and counted as one of 74 islands that make up The Whitsundays, Daydream Island Resort is a private hideaway that stretches about a mile long and is dotted with secluded coves for that total castaway feel. In April this year the iconic space officially reopened with a…
Read MoreThe Bille Brown Theatre
INSTALLATION The Bille Brown Theatre, where “great and amazing things are found.” The late Australian actor William Gerard ‘Bille’ Brown was a proud Queenslander, and like many from that vast Australian state, a larrikin. He once told a newspaper reporter that schoolteachers should teach their students that theatre is a bad influence. “They’d be lining…
Read MoreFCTN Nightclub
INSTALLATION FCTN is a multi-purpose entertainment venue in the heart of Canberra that can host anything from concerts to club nights, exhibitions, theatre, live art, and innovative performances. Housed in an old renovated movie cinema with charismatic industrial décor, FCTN is a two-tiered basement venue that can cater for up to 1000 people. The name…
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