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Legendary German film score composer and record producer Hans Zimmer brought his Revealed Tour to Australia with JPJ Audio tasked with supplying gear and crew for this complex production. Since the 1980s, Hans Zimmer has composed music for over 150 films including The Lion King, for which he won Academy Award for Best Original Score…

Audio Visual Engineering (AVE) is one of Australia’s leading professional sound and lighting import and distribution companies. AVE supplies some of the world’s most popular brands including Chauvet DJ, LD Systems and Reloop. Additionally, AVE manufactures a wide range of affordable products to cater for amateur and professional environments. All of these brands and more…

Adamson’s S10 line array has won a shoot-out against three of the world’s leading brands, and will now enter the stock of leading Australian AV firm Scene Change. The multi-award winning, high-end event company were won over by the S10’s superior tonality, clarity, rigging, and ease of configuration. They join audio company Eighth Day Sound,…

By Duncan Fry, age 11 and three quarters “…First, I got up…Then I went downtown …To look for a job …Then I hung out in front of the Drugstore… etc etc” (‘Sister Mary Elephant’ from Cheech and Chong’s eponymous first album )*** “Let’s get away from work and the audio biz and head off to…

Looking for something new and exciting? Interested in the music of other cultures? Want to improve your recording skills? Greg Simmons has announced three educational and affordable recording expeditions in Burma (aka Myanmar) for this coming August and September. Aimed at audio students, industry pros, musicians and composers, each 11-day expedition focuses on recording the…

It’s ENORMOUS, at 200 feet long by 45 feet high. and it’s fed by a new 4k camera system with just one person doing the switching. Welcome to U2’s mega-tour 2017 style. On the Joshua Tree tour, PRG rolled out a new LED screen framer called SPACEFRAME. This carbon fiber touring frame is ultra-lightweight, collapsible…

20 Questions: Martin Kinnane By Cat Strom Martin Kinnane is busy. As is his way, he’s designing all over the place from independent theatre to national tours to state theatre companies. His work has been on show in every state of Australia for every major company. His event work has included Sydney’s New Year’s Eve,…

MELBOURNE 10 MAY 2017: Without warning the Melbourne and Olympic Parks venues have commenced a strict inspection and enforcement regime that will heavily impact concerts and also may exceed AS/NZS 3112, the harmonised Australian and New Zealand Standards for AC Plugs and Socket-Outlets. A roadshow at Melbourne Park Function Centre yesterday narrowly avoided shutdown after venue staff deemed…