Tech Talk
Communicating with our inverter
I’ve just come from 8 years professionally supporting and trouble-shooting much bigger kinds of mess for many other electronics manufacturers, agents, and installers. I’d talked to hundreds of devices via USB, Bluetooth, Ethernet, RS-232, RS-485, RS-422, 0-9V, low voltage relays and IOs. Surely this would qualify me as a power user….
Read MoreUniversal Serial Bus
Simon Byrne takes a long look at the history, specs, and pitfalls of USB
Read MoreWireless Communication
Mark Barry talks through successful strategies for deploying wireless technologies in live performance applications
Read MoreBuilding an effective system for projection mapping
What is the story you want to tell, the content you want to visualise? Is it storytelling using only audio/video content, or a complete lighting show combining projection and other conventional lighting systems?
Read MoreA projection of management
All parts of our personal and professional lives can be divided into projects. Running a gig, tour or install is a project. They have time, scope, and budget to contend with
Read MoreProjection Mapping Helps Boost Public Morale in a Covid World
Large-scale projection has proven to be an extremely successful way of boosting public engagement and morale during Covid. Many of our “canvases” are conducive to social distancing regulations, making them ideal activation sites
Read MoreTechnical Direction Company’s Greatest Hits
Challenging projects are what drive TDC; over the years they have been involved in projects for theatre, TV, corporate and large-scale public events
Read MoreListen Here: Reverb Projection
Artificially generated reverb is one of the most important tools at a mix engineer’s disposal. It’s also one of the most misused and misunderstood. All too often the complaint about reverb is that it tends to ‘swamp’ recordings, turning them into an inarticulate mess. But that’s a lazy description of what’s going on. Reverbs don’t…
Read MoreTech Talk: Uninterruptible Power Supplies on Gigs
To me, it seems they cause more problems on the days you don’t need them (which is 99.9999% of the time) than on that day you actually need them
Read MoreWhat is bonded internet and how can it help me at a live show?
With so many techs moving to offer live streaming as an add-on service, low-cost bonding is becoming a real need for a lot of people
Read MoreDream On: Shakespeare becomes virtual
Staged physically in the Studio at Portsmouth Guildhall and inspired by the classic A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the characters were played by six real actors utilising Vicon motion capture cameras, their avatars and effects appearing onscreen
Read MoreMixing the Old with the New
Why bother mixing with something so old as a tape echo? There is the aesthetic and satisfaction of something old and classic still achieving a very good result. There is also a big difference between mixing vocals with Delay or with Echo
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