These Liquor licencing laws have to change, not only to protect musicians, but the people who work alongside them.
Keep Victoria the cultural capital of Australia, and let the government know how annoyed you are and show your support!
Taken from facebook:
On the 23rd of Feb, coinciding with the 34th anniversary of ACDC's famous film clip shoot down Swanston St, S.L.A.M (Save Live Australian Music) is organising a protest in support and celebration of the music scene in Victoria where current liquor licensing laws threaten to pull the plug on live music.
We will meet at 4pm outside the State Library and make our way along Swanston and up Bourke St to Parliament House in Spring St where we will have guest speakers from 6-7.
We have organised the Rockwiz Orchestra with guest performers to lead the rally repeating the three chords from 'It's a Long Way to the Top' in the back of a flat bed truck as we follow- ALL 10,000 + OF US- holding placards and instruments chanting down these ridiculous laws!!
Lack of support for this precious industry has gone on for too long!!
This cannot and will not be a case of not knowing what we have until its gone
- WE know it even if our government doesn't!!! -
Celebrate the diversity of Victorian music, this will be a day to remember!!!
Review - Broadcast Translator
Written by Cameron Holmes
Friday, 29 January 2010 12:54
For the uninitiated, Rob from Broadcast Audio (http://www.broadcastproaudio.com/) is an absolute saint in the audio industry in Australia, handling many of the channel racking and custom work that a lot of us throw at him with some regularity as well as Pro Audio gear repairs through his "sister company" Pro Harmonic Technical Services (http://www.proharmonic.com/).
All things aside, and aside of him being a brilliant bloke to deal with, he has come up with some solutions to issues that we have all been craving for some time, like this one. The "Broadcast Translator".
This is essentially an "in-line" passive device (although I have been told that there is an active device currently in prototype stage) that essentially enhances the signal by shaving off the harshness. It does this by apparantly running the signal through some trnasformers at untiy gain. Unexciting you say? Hardly.
How many times as a live engineer have you walked into these situations?
Walked into a venue and you heart has absolutely sank, due to the desk you appear to have to use for the evening would be more at home as an anchor, with harsh sounding pre's and no headroom
You have just hooked up your expensive rack pres to the desk and headed to the stage to set the mics and some idiot has used your rack case as a stand for their beer glass
Your two thousand dollar rack pre just went for a drink in the gutter due to some awesome punter knocking it off the pile of gear you have so carefully piled next to your car loading out.
Need I go on? Really? we all love the sound of our favorite "go to" boxes and fix-a-problem gadgets, but essentially we do get concerned taking them to venues due to the environment we work in.
well, today is my birthday, but this time i'm giving you a gift!
we are trying a user file repository, Initially you will be able to upload up to 24 x 8Mb files at a time, once we have established the demand, we will up the limit and the files for members, basically if we see it getting used, we'll expand it.
Files remain active for 30 days, and can be downloaded up to 50 times each.
accepted file extensions are txt,rtf,doc,pdf,zip,mp3 and wav
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Interview with Adam Dempsey - Deluxe Mastering
Written by Administrator
Thursday, 07 January 2010 12:00
www.thataudioguy.net had the sheer pleasure of interviewing the softly spoken mastering engineer Adam Dempsey at Deluxe Mastering one afternoon after many attempts to get the interview underway and many fails! This author had broken down cars, broken down cameras, finally we got there, and it was well worth the wait!
We have recieved a number of enquires whether www.thataudioguy.net can supply you with an audio engineer, and I am here to tell you a YES!
We have several engineers that work for and with us, so nine times out of ten we'll be able to not only supply you with an engineer, but generally one who has worked within you genre of music before, and within budget. We can supply walk in engineers, we can supply engineers to mix an entire night, we can even cart an entire rig if need be hired from one of our Preferred Suppliers!
just drop us an e-mail at
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and we'll get it sorted for you, or call Cam on 0405261882.
