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The highly successful third season of The Voice has found a significant improvement in the vocal delivery for the live broadcast. Senior Audio Director of The Voice, John Simpson speaks about his experience with the d:facto: Where did you first hear about DPA D:Facto? “JPJ’s Brad Adamson told me he had some on demo and…

Don McConnell’s Audio Brands Australia is very pleased to announce its appointment as the distributor for Rane. Rane is a quiet achiever, prominent in the audio contractor market and has had just two other distributors over the past thirty years. Most recently Hills were the distributor, and Rane is possibly the first rationalisation of their…

Top nightclub The Academy in Canberra, Australia is benefiting from a new Robe moving light installation which was supplied by locally based Elite Sound & Light and is designed to ensure that their popular EDM club nights and visiting live artists can enjoy the very best lighting and visual experiences. Elite’s Darren Russell was asked…

This is not a story we enjoyed reading. David Wright was working for Cairellie in Sydney as the production support unit manager when he had a call, several years ago. “My phone rang and it was my neighbor, a call I will never forget. ‘Dave, there has been an accident and you need to come…

After the success from 2012, Jands are looking forward to showcasing the latest in Audio, Lighting and Staging technology at ENTECH CONNECT this year. The Jands stand and Training Room will consist of the latest in Audio, Lighting and Staging products for the live sound markets; including the newest member of Shure’s digital family; Shure…

When Darlinghurst Theatre Company, The City of Sydney and architects Tonkin Zulaikha Greer set about to renovate and repurpose Darlinghurst’s Burton St Tabernacle as ‘The Eternity Playhouse’, there were always going to be a lot of technical and physical challenges. The building was originally constructed as a Baptist church in 1887, and now had to…

Meyer Sound Australia is pleased to bring Steve Bush from Meyer Sound USA out to Australia to run two exclusive MAPP Online Professional Seminars only in Melbourne. Join Steve Bush from Meyer Sound for this detailed session on MAPP Online.  The ability to predict the performance of a sound system is indispensable to system designers…

OK, heaps of comments on the Hills-buy-APG story at the Blog. Here’s another one, and we are keen to hear what YOU think! Please comment over at the Blog. Note the picture  here is Stuart Craig, head of Crestron Australia. The image on the Blog is the late Rod Craig.

One of the largest acoustic consulting firms in Australia, “Renzo Tonin & Associates” was engaged by the New South Wales Department of Planning & Industry to conduct wind farm noise assessments. The goal was to perform a specialist, independent acoustic compliance audit of three major wind farms located near Canberra, Australia’s capital city. The objective…