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High-profile lighting designers, Rob Sinclair and Chris Reade have been nominated in the prestigious 2016 Parnelli Awards ‘Lighting Designer of the Year’ category, for their leading edge Peter Gabriel and Dierks Bentley concert tour designs utilizing show lighting and media control by Jands Vista. The Parnelli Awards recognize pioneering, influential professionals and their contributions, honoring…

Baptism of fire for the balsa wood P.A. By Duncan Fry The story so far: In order to stave off the rigours of imminent middle age (Yeah right, Dunk. Ed) our man has decided to put together the lightest, compactest and affordablest PA possible within his meagre budget. Now read on: As luck would have…

Pictured: LtoR- Alfonso Zarate Takano, Giulia Sabeva and Emmanuel Ziino Show Technology kicked off their Clay Paky launch tour at Melbourne’s Docklands October 11, hosting the cream of Victoria’s lighting community at Central Piers’ Alumbra. On hand were Clay Paky’s own Giulia Sabeva, Sales Support Engineer, Italy and Alfonso Zarate Takano, Regional Sales Manager, Asia-Pacific.…

ATO and Adelaide set to suffer. By Julius Grafton The magnificent new Adelaide Hospital has formed before our very eyes as we come and go through the lovely Adelaide Convention Centre. We were there last month with ICTECH, our third visit this year. From the loading dock at the center you look straight over to…

Melbourne-based Indie musical duo Big Scary are touring Australia in support of their new album Animal. Lighting design is by Mike MacDonald (below) of Twenty Twenty Creative Productions, a newly formed creative design team working in live performance and concert touring. Mike has recently picked up a handful of emerging local artists including Big Scary,…

Allen & Heath has launched two new installation mixers, the GR3 and GR4, designed to provide simple yet comprehensive control of programme audio and announcements for multiple zones in bars, restaurants, stores and other leisure and retail environments. Highly configurable, the GR3 and GR4 are ideally suited to applications requiring multiple input sources and specific…

Gearhouse Broadcasts’ powerhouse Event Communications division has covered comms requirements for some of Australia’s biggest live events in 2016, and they’re relying on Clear-Com products to get the job done quickly and reliably. Their FreeSpeak II wireless, HelixNet partyline and Eclipse digital matrix systems have formed the backbone of mega-events like Hillsong Conference and the…

CX Network are honoured to interview leading UK lighting designer Richard Pilbrow in the latest edition of Light Tonight, the world’s leading lighting show on YouTube. Also in Edition 11 of Light Tonight: Guy Pavelo’s design for Drake has to be one of the standout productions of the year! The wow factor comes from 788…

As of now (October 2016) SYNCHRONISED TECHNOLOGY PTY LTD (Syntec) is the authorised import and distribution partner for the full portfolio of beyerdynamic products; including, but not limited to headphones, headsets and microphones being for both wired and wireless systems for use in both mobile and installed applications. This opens a fascinating battle for market…

By Cat Strom When FOH engineer Chris Braun received an email from Aussie singer-songwriter Vera Blue’s management expressing interest in him mixing for her, he had no idea who she was.\ “I did my usual background check: iTunes, Spotify and YouTube,” he said. “The record was stunning and her voice is obviously next level however,…

LA MONDAY: By Simon Byrne In the world of networking it is clear that AVB is becoming mainstream. I noticed that many of the manufacturers such as Meyer Sound (including their new Galaxy processors), Avid and L’Acoustics are now producing products that support AVB. 4 years ago, I noticed that Dante was gaining adoption at…

LA SUNDAY. By Simon Byrne There is a lot to see and do at AES, least of which are the technical tours. One of the tours this year is the Microsoft Theatre (formerly Nokia Theatre) where the American Music Awards are staged and the Staples Arena which is home to the LA Lakers basketball team,…