CX 54 October 2010
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EDITORIAL
6 Supporting better production skills in South Africa • International audio engineers might confer with local house engineers for better sound
NEWS
8 Borrowing to buy equipment very hard: Bankers stifle production business
8 Gerry Georgettis was ripped off: Former Cold Chisel sound man’s final days in Miami
10 Award pay? Employers say yes, crew say sometimes – new award pay for some but clients pay more
12 Musiclink braces as retailers reject Allans merger
12 Behringer restructure saves $1m
14 Apartheid lives on in production – white owned firms in SA refusing to assist in training of blacks
14 Loudsoft loudspeaker design and analysis software
14 CMI takes on Phonic in Australia
14 Events Merger: Aztech Events and Great Southern Events merge to create Fourth Wall Events
16 Sennheiser rounds off its system
16 Allen & Heath launches first iPhone app for iLive
18 Syntec expands to address the installed sound market
18 TOA releases new D-2000 series digital mixing system
19 Shure adds to SM microphone line
19 Mike Cuthbertson for NAS
19 Soundwarp, next gen
19 FTSI: Amendment to September issue article
20 JBL Launches new PRX600 series portable powered loudspeakers
20 School lighting grid shock horror
20 Another dumb stage collapse
FEATURES
22 Aussies Light Singapore: Colin Baldwin and team design grand opening of Marina Bay Sands
26 Staging What If… Flying a performer or object from a point hoist or hauling line
30 Brisbane Festival: Overview of Launch Production
32 TV Tech Training: the TV production facility at Charles Sturt University Wagga Wagga profiled
38 Beaudy Trouble – Michael Orland inside the “Worst Musical” ever staged
44 Monitors in the New Era
50 Basement Birds: In the studio with Josh Pyke and others on an Americana project
CX MEGA TEST
54 HHB FlashMic DRM85-L1
56 Pathway Pathport: Lighting control distribution solution
58 Grass Valley T2 IDDR intelligent disk recorder
60 ProCo Momentum digital multicore system
62 Audio-Technica 3000 series wireless microphones
64 Edirol V 1600HD video switcher
REGULARS
21 OH&S Agony Aunt with Julius Grafton: stage collapse alert; hose clamps in rigging!; wind rated stages
36 Wisdom of the Ancients: Richard Cadena discusses lightning strikes and lightning protection systems
42 History: Highlights from Connections Magazine September 1995 and 2000
48 Dr Danger! Tests if shining bright lights into cameras really does cause camera damage
66 Classifieds
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