LAST CHANCE TO WIN A
 2000 Watt JBL PA System worth over $13,000!!!

Shure is the world's leading manufacturer of performance microphones.

When you buy a Shure microphone
you know you’re getting quality!

But now, for a limited time only, if you buy a Shure microphone in December or January, you may also WIN a top notch 2000 Watt PA system from JBL and Soundcraft!

That's right, all you have to do is buy a Shure wired microphone or wireless system between
1 December – 31 January and you can go in the draw to WIN a pair of JBL PRX512 powered loudspeakers, a pair of JBL PRX518S powered sub-woofers and a 20-channel Soundcraft MFX20 mixing console.

The PRX500 series is the new powered speaker line up from JBL, featuring crystal clear sound and thumping bottom-end in a surprisingly light weight package. The Soundcraft MFX20 is a professional 20-channel console with heaps of inputs and onboard Lexicon effects, ready for any band to start cranking it out.

So what are you waiting for?
There has never been a better time to buy Shure!

Conditions apply.
See participating authorised Shure dealers or visit the Jands Website for more information.

With the ease, power and operational style of Eos in a small, affordable package, Ion’s small footprint (only 19” wide) is the perfect solution for space-challenged environments and small venues. Providing fully integrated control of conventional and moving lights, Ion packs a punch.

Elegant, highly intuitive and simple to use, Ion will satisfy the needs of beginners
and pros alike. But you don’t need a PhD in Ion to use it! Start with the everyday (channel 5 at full) and let the full potential of Ion – like the powerful effects package, marking and timing functions – unfold with your experience. And it’s an easy step from Ion to Eos (ETC’s top of the range control system), so the knowledge gained will work for you professionally for years to come.  

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 Deluxe Audio rate the Soundcraft Vi6™ Digital Live Console
best on the market!

Melbourne-based Deluxe Audio has a solid reputation within the Australian audio market and they are known for keeping up to date with their hire inventory. Consequently a digital mixing console has been top of their shopping list for the past few months.

“Both Michael Shanahan, one of the other directors of Deluxe Audio, and I have spent the last twelve months using different digital consoles in all parts of the world, and at either end of the multi core,” commented Dave Rees. “It’s interesting how your perception changes once you’ve made the decision to purchase a digital console. It certainly makes you look beyond the obvious. After every gig or tour Michael and I would discuss the merits of the console we had been working on.”

After their extensive hands-on research, Dave and Michael decided upon the Soundcraft Vi6™, the first Australian hire-company to do so and they are both extremely confident that the next twelve months will see a dramatic increase in local engineers keen to use the Vi6™.

“In a nutshell – it’s easy to use, handles complex mixes, has a compact size, is reliable, is affordable, and sounds great!” declared Dave. “I think we’ve definitely chosen a winner!”

Timeline Programming Explained

Timeline Programming is Better...

The Jands Vista console is the first entertainment lighting console to fully embrace timeline editing to program lighting, instead of a traditional ‘cue-list’.

In traditional consoles, the operator records a series of individual cues into a cue-list, and one or more ‘fade’ and ‘delay’ times are used to determine when and how long it takes to transition between each of the cues. Usually, these times are entered via a numeric keypad and a cue-list spreadsheet. This presents a lot of work when programming moving lights, as potentially each moving light, and each parameter of the moving lights, may require a distinct fade and delay time. It also becomes very hard to determine “what will happen after I push play?”, because all you see is a screen full of numbers.

In Vista, each parameter of each moving light is represented as a bar (or ‘event’) on a timeline. If you want the ‘fade time’ of the position move to take longer, you simply click on the end of the bar and stretch it to the right. If you want a colour to change after the light has finished moving, you drag the colour event to sometime after the position bar. With the Vista you can actually see everything that's happening in your design in relation to time: when lights come on, when they go off, when they change colour, when they move. In our example above, you may have the lights moving in 1 second, and changing colour in the next second. What happens if you need the whole cue to take an extra half-second? In Vista, simply select both events together and stretch them till they’re another half their length!

When you consider that how and when a moving light moves, changes colour etc. is often just as important as what it does when it reaches the recorded cue.

It’s easy to understand why timeline editing makes so much sense.  

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