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OpenLIVE has officially launched Australia’s first Hi-Res Music download store offering a vast collection of music at minimum CD quality. The store will launch with over 1.5m tracks and will be updated regularly over the coming months, reaching over 2.5m Hi-Res Audio tracks and giving consumers the opportunity to listen to their favourite Artists in…

Sydney’s famous Tank Stream provided quite a challenge when two companies joined forces to create a staging solution for one of the city’s major hotels. The fresh water supply for the colony of Sydney in its earliest days is contained in a bulkhead, which runs directly over the ballroom of the Westin Hotel in the…

Neutrik AG, was pleased to announce its 40th Anniversary yesterday. What began 40 years ago as a two-man endeavor in the backyard of an old farm house in Schaan, Liechtenstein is today one of the leading providers of innovative electrical and electronic interconnection products and systems for the professional entertainment industry. Now, 40 years later,…

Rockhampton’s Pilbeam Theatre is a thriving 1000 seat lyric that sees a huge variety of productions on its stage. Concerts, musicals and corporate events are regular fixtures, and with a thriving community arts scene, often quickly produced and tightly turned around. Ashley Salta, the theatre’s Technical Supervisor, often employs projected media effects on their in-house…

At the start of 2015, Current RMS became an Add-On Partner for cloud accounting software Xero. Now the system has just released a seamless, real-time integration with QB Online, another popular cloud accounting software in the AV, Production and Events industry. Post invoices and credit notes from Current directly to QB Online and effortlessly keep…

For the third straight year, BottleRock Festival in Napa Valley welcomed more than 100,000 music, food and wine enthusiasts to a unique gathering of top musical acts, celebrity chefs and master sommeliers. The 2015 lineup of more than 70 acts featured Robert Plant, Snoop Dogg, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Public Enemy, No Doubt and Imagine Dragons performing…

The recent TV frequency re-stack and associated sell-off of bandwidth by the Australian Federal Government had radio microphone and in-ear-monitor users around the country checking their inventory for compliance, and replacing equipment that would no longer reliably function or be legally operable after the changes. For some, this was a simple exercise of a few…

Main picture: Freeman Chairman Don Freeman, Vice chair Carrie Freeman Parsons, and CEO Joe Popolo. A family company that values its employees. American events Goliath PSAV were gazumped by giant family owned firm Freeman last week. Suddenly Australia’s largest event services company has just one family owner, something the A$50 million firm has never had.…

6 June 1956 – 27 July 2015 CX and ENTECH co-founder Caroline Fitzmaurice died very quietly at sunset on July 27th aged 59 from brain cancer. Her family were there, pained yet knowing as her life ebbed. To me Caroline was the chick on the dance floor at a gig. Her first husband Colin Ford…

Australian pro-audio company RØDE Microphones recently announced its acquisition of legendary audio technology manufacturer, Aphex. RØDE founder and Managing Director, Peter Freedman, announced the purchase of the US based company, well known for its range of audio signal processing equipment that features various proprietary technologies including the iconic “Aural Exciter”. Founded in the mid-1970s, Aphex…