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Miking & Mixing Jazz in a Small Venue – Part One
HOW TO Miking & Mixing Jazz in a Small Venue – Part One by Greg Simmons. The following pragmatic advice is based on mixing live gigs in an inner-city jazz club in Sydney, five nights per week, every week, for two years. The venue, Foundry 616, is a dinner club with relatively low ceilings…
Read MoreSight 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 More37 million reasons Theatre Royal will stay dark
SYDNEY’S THEATRE CRISIS EXCLUSIVE, By Julius Grafton Australia’s oldest theatrical institution is the star of a political play with major international operators converging on Sydney’s Theatre Royal on April 11 for a briefing. Theatre Royal itself is up for grabs, but the long-term lease on offer may well be a Trojan Horse. The original 1827…
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 MoreIndustry Hits Half a Billion – Manufacturers Survey Update
ACETA Industry Hits Half a Billion – Manufacturers Survey Update In October 2017 we published a comprehensive survey revealing the size and nature of entertainment technology creation in Australia which offered many never-before known insights. We have taken the time to update this information and are please to advise, the manufacturing sector in Australia,…
Read MoreSix60 get NZ to come to them
NEW ZEALAND Six60 get NZ to come to them – Both Audience and Production by Jenny Barrett. Photo Credits: Dexter Cheng. Six60 opted out of the traditional Summer circuit of vineyards and iconic pub backyards and stunned a nation by getting 50,000 Kiwis to travel to Auckland to see a home grown band. They…
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…
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