Tech Talk
Phil Collins
ROADSKILLS Phil Collins by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Mhvogel.de Cheekily entitled I’m Not Dead Yet, Phil Collins’ current tour proves just that! With production and lighting design by Patrick Woodroffe, the show has been touring the world for almost two years with associate lighting designer Roland Greil at the helm of the MA2 console. “It’s…
Read MoreBose Showmatch
ROADTEST Bose Showmatch by Anatole Day. Anatole Day is a FOH and monitor engineer entering his 20th year in the game. He graduated Sydney’s Australian Institute of Music back in 1998 and went into studio recording. He soon discovered the rich vein of work in the world of live sound engineering, and never looked back.…
Read MoreHOW TO: Get the Best out of Your Zero 88 FLX S Lighting Console
HOW TO Get the Best out of Your Zero 88 FLX S Lighting Console. presented by Clearlight Shows. Recognising that programming time continues to become ever-tighter and more precious, Zero 88 has streamlined key elements of FLX S to assist with all the prep work, getting the user ready to operate even quicker. “RigSync”…
Read MoreThe Riverside Stables
NETWORKING The Riverside Stables William Inglis & Son embrace both heritage and high-tech with The P.A. People After 101 years at their Randwick premises, Australian bloodstock auctioneers and horse racing institution William Inglis & Son Ltd have moved to a vast new purpose-built premises, The Riverside Stables Complex at Warwick Farm 40km north-west of…
Read MoreEntech 2019 – Show News and Announcements
ENTECH ROADSHOW 2019! Here are some news and announcements for each capital city exhibition… Entech Roadshow – March 5 – 19 in most capital cities Website | Facebook Check-out some feature products on show at Entech here And you could win one of these prizes just by attending … ENTECH PERTH – Tuesday March…
Read MoreNetwork LAN Scanning: See What’s Going On
NETWORKING Network LAN Scanning: See What’s Going On by Simon Byrne. When diagnosing problems with your show local area network, a LAN scanner is an indispensable tool. LAN scanners are programmes that pings all the IP addresses on a LAN. A ping is a basic network command that allows a user to verify that…
Read MoreNew Zealand 2019 – Industry insiders view
NEW ZEALAND New Zealand 2019 – Industry insiders predict growth but are plagued by skills shortages by Jenny Barrett. Every sector of the industry is oozing with optimism when asked about 2019. It seems the only issue is where to find the men and women who are actually going to pull all these projects together. Staff…
Read MoreA French Touch for the Tour Down Under with L-Acoustics Syva
NEWS A French Touch for the Tour Down Under with L-Acoustics Syva PA for big track sporting events like horse, car, or bike racing hasn’t changed much in the past few decades – it’s still very much about 100s of 100V line horns covering the big runs you need on courses that can be…
Read MoreROADTEST: Powersoft T Series Amplifier Platform
ROADTEST Powersoft T Series Amplifier Platform by Jimmy Den-Ouden. I don’t know about you, but I certainly did my years of lugging about heavy amplifier racks. I know a bunch of workhorse amps such as the AM1600 and P3000 are still out in service, but I also know a lot of the people using…
Read MoreISE 2019: Choose Your Own Adventure
ISE 2019 ISE 2019: Choose Your Own Adventure by Jason Allen. Amsterdam’s ISE is a huge, unwieldy beast of a show. Cramming it into 15 halls in the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre is quite a feat, especially when you consider that it only has 11 halls to begin with. Jason Allen got lost in…
Read MoreThe Prodigy
ROADSKILLS The Prodigy by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable Loud, Powerful, Bright…it must be The Prodigy! Jonathan Burton has been mixing FOH for The Prodigy for 15 years and surprisingly he still has his hearing! Whilst not on the road with the band, he follows a more sedate life style lecturing at various…
Read MoreLED Mapping using the LED Blade CRE:ON controller
HOW TO LED Mapping using the LED Blade CRE:ON controller presented by TLC – The Lighting Collective. LED Blade’s new CRE:ON controllers are extremely easy to configure and can be used via direct RGB control from a lighting console, or be pixel mapped and processed through a media server. In this article, we will…
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