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Should product reviews make manufacturers happy? Here’s one that didn’t. For over 22 years CX has held editorial independence as a hard won principle, so we were not about to ship our X32 review to Behringer for ‘approval’ before we published. Now we wonder whether we (Julius and Jimmy Den Ouden) went too hard. Which…

My newsagent is Carey from Wahroonga Village. He rolls up at 3am to meet the trucks from News Limited (Telegraph, Australian) and Fairfax (Herald and Australian Financial Review). The papers are rolled and delivered by 5.30am. Not today. For the second time in recent weeks, one of the trucks was horribly late. Last time it…

Monday 10 Sept 2012: SYDNEY Maybe it’s the weather – balmy and calm. The news is thin today. Peter (Rode) Freedman just launched his Jewellery design and manufacture company. “Jewellery is very much like mics. Mics are very much the Jewellery of the audio game after all. This is definitely a hobby though, nothing more.…

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Pictured today, the flagship Sydney store in the chain of 30 Allens Billy Hydes outlets. The Liquidation Sale is just that – the stores, and importer Music Link, are on the block today after entering voluntary administration. (Franchised stores are not included). It’s a sad day for three hundred staff across Australia. The Music Link…

14 August 2012 In another time in my life I was both a senior account manager and part of the leadership team at Staging Connections in Melbourne.  I am now an event producer and am subject to the TOD charges that you speak of. SC owes me nothing nor me it.  I am not speaking…

22 August 2012 Actually there are not many rules here, and those that exist are at the sole discretion of the mogul in charge. You can’t defame anyone, which is why sometimes before approval a line is deleted or a name is redacted. You can’t hide behind anonymity to flame anyone. You CAN be anonymous,…

Let’s see, what consumes, burns within, and DEFINES the CX-ter? Oh yeah – that’s YOU, a CXter! Title   Views Radiohead Disaster – site report 4,357 Home page / Archives 3,481 Radiohead Roof Failure: More Info 1,602 TOD fees 1,334 Fat Harry – hopes of quiet funeral dashed 670 Hip Hop Cancellations 657 Unfriendly Audio Visual Supplier advisory 593 Cheap stage?…

17 August 2012 Two things stopped the sale of petrol in the mid 1970’s. The Oil Crisis, and Wildcat Strikes. Both are foreign concepts in these easy days, but I remember petrol rationing. We had a car with an even last number, and the Ford F350 gig truck truck had the odd number. A Cleveland…

Looking for something new and exciting? Have a sense of adventure? Interested in the music of other cultures? Want to gain new sound recording skills? Greg Simmons has room for a few more people on his eighth ‘guerrilla ethnomusicology’ recording expedition through Asia and the Himalaya. Scheduled from the 17th of December 2012 to the…

  A reminder that draft units, qualifications and skill sets for the review of CUE03 Entertainment Training Package are all available in the IBSA Feedback Hub for viewing and comment. Feedback has been extended to 8 August. Registrations for validation workshops will close 3 days prior to the workshop. This will be the final opportunity to…

At ENTECH CX heard case after case of production firms complaining that they KNEW other firms were NOT paying 9% super for casual contractor crews. One larger production firm are telling contractors they are not entitled, and routinely charging 9% less for labour. Here’s the GOOD / BAD news: ALL CONTRACTORS are REQUIRED TO BE…