Tech Talk
Sight and Sound – Keep It Out Of Sync
TECH TALK Sight and Sound – Keep It Out Of Sync by Simon Byrne. That’s right, out of sync. At least from an audience perspective. There has been a lot of research done by the hearing aid industry to improve intelligibility for hearing aids. Some of that research can be applied to live events…
Read MoreThe Grand Piano (and the sound engineer)
Resource Series The Grand Piano (and the sound engineer) by Alan Mourant. Originally published in CX13 – March/April 2005. The Grand Piano is an amazing instrument to see and hear. No other instrument is capable of producing its frequencies, tone or dynamics. With strings spread wide across 5 to 6 feet of iron frame, when…
Read MoreBryan Ferry
ROADSKILLS Bryan Ferry story and photos by Cat Strom. Bryan Ferry has a reputation as an artistic performer who cares deeply about his music, constantly changing arrangements and songs. Audio With an outstanding ear for the songs’ arrangement, both Bryan’s FOH and monitor mix require constant, active mixing throughout each song at a very…
Read MoreWhat is a Pixel, Anyway?
PIXELS What is a Pixel, Anyway? by John O’Brien. Most of us now live our lives in front of screens. Each of those screens (phones, tablets, monitors, projectors) comprise an array of picture elements, or pixels, that combine to make a full image (whether static or moving). There are: • Pixels printed on a…
Read MoreVideo Playback and Projection at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games
PIXELS Video Playback and Projection Systems Delivery at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games welcomed more than 6,600 athletes and officials from 71 Commonwealth nations and territories to the Gold Coast. The largest sporting event to be staged in Australia this decade, GC2018 also featured the biggest integrated sports program in…
Read MoreAn Introduction to Pixels
PIXELS An Introduction to Pixels VJ Suriya from Australian lighting control experts ENTTEC takes us through what you need to know in order to get started with LED pixels. What does pixel mean? We get asked a lot about pixel strips (sometimes known as ‘smart strips’, ‘intelligent strips’, addressable strips, media strips/flex and a multitude of…
Read MoreROAD TEST: Chainmaster BGV-D8
ROAD TEST Chainmaster BGV-D8 by James Pavey and Tim Missenden. James Pavey is National Manager – Exhibitions at Clifton Productions, a family owned, nationally operating production company specialising in staging, rigging, and exhibitions with offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. I manage sales and operations of Clifton’s exhibitions business, which includes rigging and lighting…
Read MoreMaroon 5
ROADSKILLS Maroon 5 by Cat Strom. Maroon 5’s audio engineer Vince Casamatta learnt his trade mixing bands in small Chicago dives, eventually expanding to going on the road. At the same time he had his own studio and truthfully, he always wanted to be a studio mixer. “But this is just what ended…
Read MoreAVD Give it a Big Bash with EAW’S Radius
NEWS AVD Give it a Big Bash with EAW’S Radius by Fraser Walker. EAW created a stir in the live audio market in 2013 with the release of its flagship adaptive Anya system. Picking up where Martin’s MLA left off, Anya was completely electronically steered thanks to its 22 individual transducers fed from 22 channels…
Read MoreVuePix Infiled for wine exhibit space & Audio Plus rental inventory
News VuePix Infiled Adds Spark for the Finest Australian Bubbles… Domaine Chandon – flying the flag as the only Australian sparkling specialist with genuine French heritage – has recently undergone a major upgrade of their facilities, which included a brand new VuePix Infiled LED wall installed in their wine exhibit space. In June of…
Read MoreNetworking – the Cables
NETWORKING Networking – the Cables by Simon Byrne. In this piece we’ll discuss the cabling for a robust IP network in a show environment. If you want to get geeky with IP addresses, subnets, DHCP servers and the like, check out my previous article “Mission Critical Show Networks” in CX118 (Sept 2016). It is…
Read MoreMission Critical Show Networking
TECH TOOLS Mission Critical Show Networking by Simon Byrne. The live production and presentation industry relies on extremely reliable data networks to deliver our sound, lighting and vision content. The days of large analogue (and heavy) multicores are gone. This can be scary for those of us who have been around for a while. The concept…
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