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Sennheiser Has Never Been Better With Olly Murs
The stock of Olly Murs has never been higher, with the newly appointed X Factor co-presenter’s latest album Never Been Better debuting at No.1 and certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry. April and May saw the British singer-songwriter play a 26-date UK and Ireland arena tour, where a full Sennheiser package had microphone and…
Read MoreChristchurch Recovery : 30,000 builders swarm as Convention Centre inches closer
On that Tuesday lunchtime in 2011 when the quake struck, the control tower at Christchurch airport swung so violently, a controller has been off work on tranquilizers ever since. When the dust, smoke and exiting bird flocks had cleared, much of the surrounding land including the airport was relatively intact. The major damage and the loss…
Read MoreCurrent RMS Integrates With QB Online – Ultimate Cloud Partnership
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…
Read MoreVUE AUDIOTECHNIK Delivers Dynamic Sound At BottleRock Festival
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…
Read MoreHillsong Church Tune Their Radios To Shure
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…
Read MoreUlumbarra Theatre RISES – Bendigo Leads With 900 Seat Stunner
Brand new regional theatres are thin on the ground across Australia, and Bendigo has set a new benchmark with theirs. The city, located about 2 hours out of Melbourne in Central Victoria is growing. The current population of 110,000 will swell by 50% in the next few decades. The new Ulumbarra Theatre is built around…
Read MoreStaging Connections shock change as family takes over
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.…
Read MoreVale CX founding partner Caroline Fitzmaurice
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…
Read MoreRØDE Microphones Acquires Legendary Audio Innovator Aphex
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…
Read MoreSydney Theatre Company Take Their Cues From Clear-Com
Live theatre is a form of shared ritual magic, in which the audience willingly suspends their disbelief in the artificiality of the performance in order to experience the full range of emotion and learn more about what it is to be human. This magic is delicate; a poorly timed set move or misfired lighting cue…
Read MoreNorwest Oceania And Dancing With The Stars NZ
In the words of Simon Garret, General Manager of Lighting at Norwest Oceania in Auckland, “New Zealand’s local version of Dancing With The Stars is a ‘magpie’ show; everywhere you point a camera, there’s bling! We’re pixel mapping the judge’s desk, 60 LED ParCans, a series of arches with LED strips and a set of…
Read MoreAmazing Expenses: Car Guy Clocks Up Costs
Fiat Chrysler Australia’s former boss misused more than $30 million in company funds, the firm alleges. Now the car company (FCA) is taking action in the Federal Court against former CEO Clyde Campbell. Amazingly the guy lifted sales fairly significantly and presumably the 30 mill was all counted as cost of sales – until they…
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