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Equitana – Bringing The Great Outdoors Indoors
THE GREAT OUTDOORS Equitana – Bringing The Great Outdoors Indoors by Harry the Hirer’s Marcus Pugh. Equitana Australia is Australia’s premier equine event, and it celebrated its 20th Anniversary this year in the 8000sqm Grand Pavilion at the Melbourne Showgrounds. Equitana delivers Australia’s premier equine gathering culminating in ‘The Mane Event’ with trick riding, entertainment…
Read MoreTake It Outside – PA in The Great Outdoors
THE GREAT OUTDOORS Take It Outside – PA in The Great Outdoors by Benjamin Page, Brand Ambassador – Harman Pro Audio, avt. avt’s Benjamin Page shares his top seven tips on designing and installing PAs in sports grounds and other outdoor spaces. 1 – Understand the space, and calculate the dispersion and SPL required to…
Read MoreROAD TEST: ACME XA-1000 BSWF
ROAD TEST ACME XA-1000 BSWF by Dan Evans, Lighting Director, NW Group. Dan Evans is a renowned Lighting Designer based in Melbourne Australia. For over 20 years, he has designed a wide variety of shows and events in Australia and around the world. He specialises in high impact technical production and creative portrayal of emotion…
Read MoreOutput 001
ROADSKILLS Output 001 by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Output Tours & Events Stunning lighting and visuals co-designed by Matt Downs of SWS, IKONIX, and Colourblind’s David Fairless for dance event Output Tours & Events are an Australia-wide touring and event company that are simply lovers of all dance music, aiming to provide a show…
Read MoreTech Sisters International. More important than you think.
By Julius Grafton. Girls backstage do get discriminated against and do occasionally get sexually harassed. They get fatigued like everyone else, may get heat exhaustion, and can in times of desperation consider suicide. They sometimes also are paid less than guys. Worst of all they often don’t have a network of like minded girls since…
Read MoreHistory – 47 Years of Jands Lighting Control 1971-2018
HISTORY 47 Years of Jands Lighting Control – A history of products from 1971 until 2018 by Julius Grafton. Since 1971, there’s been non-stop research and development of new lighting consoles by JANDS in Sydney. “In the early seventies, most concerts were in the daytime”, says JANDS director David Mulholland. “We were doing sound, but…
Read MoreTech Tips
Tech Tips with Simon Byrne. Here is this month’s collection of random tech tips to make your life just a bit easier from us, and you, our fine readers! Professional Approach Julius spotted a recent post from Matthew Cutlass in the Live Sound Engineers group on Facebook on how he deals with punters at…
Read MorePSAV’s outrageous USA pricing
By Julius Grafton. Our story about PSAV acquiring Australian AV supplier Encore Event Technologies from The Freeman Company here, led to an amazing example of price gouging in the uncompetitive and protected USA hotel AV market – by PSAV. Kate Gallant from leading Australian creative production firm Damn Good picks up the story. “We recently…
Read MorePSAV gobble up Encore Event Technologies
By Julius Grafton. DALLAS: The Freeman Company and PSAV just announced that Encore Event Technologies, the in-house AV Goliath owned by Freeman, is now part of PSAV. In other words, the United States in-house AV business is now utterly dominated by one firm. This will cause much pain in the USA. It means Australia’s Encore…
Read MoreThe Living End
ROADSKILLS The Living End by Cat Strom. Photo Credits: Troy Constable On the back of releasing their eighth studio album, Wunderbar, Australian rock legends The Living End have begun a string of tour dates throughout the summer. Echoing the Wunderbar album cover, the stage design is littered with old TVs, half of which actually…
Read MoreRisky Business
Risky Business by Simon Byrne. The live production industry carries significant risk. Large amounts of equipment, temporary engineering, big power in use, time pressures and audiences combine to make an environment primed for an incident. Whether an injury, an event cancellation, equipment damage or theft, they all represent risk. The riskiest of events are the outdoor…
Read MoreACETA Solves the Compliance Issue & $100K Other Reasons to Join
COMPLIANCE ACETA Solves the Compliance Issue & $100K Other Reasons to Join by Jason Allen. If you’ve been keeping up with the issue of electrical and product compliance for Australian technology importers [Pts 1, 2, 3], you’ll know that the most complimentary way to describe it is ‘complicated’. Our peak body, ACETA, have found a…
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