CX 49 March 2010
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EDITORIAL
6 PA costs same 30 years on • Credit squeeze • Keep it simple • Albert family music 125 years in business
NEWS
8 Hot Tickets a Windfall for Lighting Nerds: Success stories inc V8 Supercars chairman Tony Cochrane and more
8 Behringer’s Midas a Yamaha concern
10 Ask CX
10 Police get techie with David Horn Communications interview recording equipment
10 Channel 7 Perth add Soundcraft VI6 mixing console
12 TC Electronics Impact Twin audio interface
12 Meyer Sound M’elodie line array for Adelaide Convention Centre
12 LDI award winners announced
12 Richard Belliveau receives Parnelli Visionary Innovator Award
14 A VSound Production fails
14 Bad day on the Green
14 AKG’s new conference system
16 CMI Music and Audio add Quested Monitors
16 AirTools arrives for broadcast audio 16 D&B AudioTechnik B4-sub
16 Australia’s own DSP audio platform
16 Sennheiser to integrate Klein+Hummel
18 CDA Professional Audio debut handy tools
18 World’s first music directory Apple iPhone & Touch app is from Australia
19 JBL provide missing link for Linq Restaurant
20 Tony Cochrane and the seeds of success
21 Solotech coming to Australia – no denials
FEATURES
22 Radiators: 30 Years on tour – ripoffs & road tales
26 Tour Bus Chronicles: Strange days indeed
38 Centre State: Orange NSW’s Centrestate Lighting + Sound company profiled
44 How to… Pianos & Microphones
PEOPLE
30 Ivan Ordenes – Profile of audio specialist from Dubology Studios
42 Power Pete: Pete McManus outlines delivering power for events and film
CX MEGA TEST
50 SSL C10 HD Compact broadcast console
54 Spotlight Theatre Lanterns
56 Panasonic HPX-172EN Camera
60 Coemar CycLite LED
62 K-Array RED LINE KR100S
64 NTi XL2 Audio Analyser
REGULARS
29 OH&S Agony Aunt with Julius Grafton: Duty of Care; Ladders; Two Points of Attachment
32 Duncan Fry: Christmas Eve in the Slammer
36 Dr Danger! Variously coiled power leads under load – what’s hottest?
48 Richard Cadena: Sheds light on networking
66 Classifieds
WAY BACK WHEN
34 History: Highlights from Connections Magazine February 1996