Tech Talk
RMIT’s Building 106 – The Meeting Place
The University now boasts the most collaborative and flexible workplace its staff have ever enjoyed, standardising the Microsoft Teams platform through a Crestron backbone
Read MoreRightsizing Esports: Solutions from Schools To Stadia
eSports events can range in size from high school-level matches and university competitions to theatrical spectacles
Read MoreTech Talk: Sharing Video Files Online
In this article, I want to talk about some of the options you have to make the wrangling of your client’s video data easier on you and them!
Read MoreCommunicating with our inverter
I’ve just come from 8 years professionally supporting and trouble-shooting much bigger kinds of mess for many other electronics manufacturers, agents, and installers. I’d talked to hundreds of devices via USB, Bluetooth, Ethernet, RS-232, RS-485, RS-422, 0-9V, low voltage relays and IOs. Surely this would qualify me as a power user….
Read MoreUniversal Serial Bus
Simon Byrne takes a long look at the history, specs, and pitfalls of USB
Read MoreWireless Communication
Mark Barry talks through successful strategies for deploying wireless technologies in live performance applications
Read MoreBuilding an effective system for projection mapping
What is the story you want to tell, the content you want to visualise? Is it storytelling using only audio/video content, or a complete lighting show combining projection and other conventional lighting systems?
Read MoreA projection of management
All parts of our personal and professional lives can be divided into projects. Running a gig, tour or install is a project. They have time, scope, and budget to contend with
Read MoreProjection Mapping Helps Boost Public Morale in a Covid World
Large-scale projection has proven to be an extremely successful way of boosting public engagement and morale during Covid. Many of our “canvases” are conducive to social distancing regulations, making them ideal activation sites
Read MoreTechnical Direction Company’s Greatest Hits
Challenging projects are what drive TDC; over the years they have been involved in projects for theatre, TV, corporate and large-scale public events
Read MoreListen Here: Reverb Projection
Artificially generated reverb is one of the most important tools at a mix engineer’s disposal. It’s also one of the most misused and misunderstood. All too often the complaint about reverb is that it tends to ‘swamp’ recordings, turning them into an inarticulate mess. But that’s a lazy description of what’s going on. Reverbs don’t…
Read MoreTech Talk: Uninterruptible Power Supplies on Gigs
To me, it seems they cause more problems on the days you don’t need them (which is 99.9999% of the time) than on that day you actually need them
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