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It was that time of year again when the V8 engines started roaring and slowly but surely, driving through the eastern park lands you could see the formation of something massive growing out of the victoria park race course. The Clipsal 500 After Track Concerts were bigger than ever this year with a massive line up. GoslingProductions was contacted by production provider Osmond Electronics to come on board as MA Systems Engineer, LX Systems Tech & MA Programmer.

This years line up included names such as Eskimo Joe, Status Quo, John Stevens & Noise Works, The Hilltop Hoods, Jessica Malboy, Tom Williams, The Funkoars to name a few. GoslingProductions was privileged enough to provide one on one MA programming support for operators of The Hilltop Hoods, John Stevens & Noise Works, The Funkoars and Tom Williams.

As is to be expected throughout any show, there are to be some hiccups. This year, the grandMA fullsize we had running at FOH had a couple of bugs in the effects engine, but thankfully, GoslingProductions was to the rescue and was able to sort out some substantial work arounds through the use of macros and reassigning sequences within the console so that all operators could get their desired looks right when they needed them.

At front of house Clipsal’s Lighting Designer Justin Accatino opted to run a grandMA Series 1 Fullsize, with MA onPC as a full tracking back up and an MA NSP to provide signal. We also threw in MA 3D into the mix to allow easier visualisation during day time programming hours. The rig was a big one, with 3 main trusses and one huge curved rear truss. The rig consisted of:

24 x Mac 700 Profiles
12 x Mac 700 Wash
8 x Mac 2000 Profile
8 x Mac 250 Beam
8 x Mac 600 Wash
10 x Atomic Strobes
5 x 8-way Molefay Blinders
6 x 4-way Molefay Blinders
14 x 2-way Molefay Blinders
12 x Bars ACL’s
4 x Bars P64 MFL
12 x ETC Source 4 Profiles
4 x 2.5KW Studio Due City Colours
24 x LED Honeycombs
1 x grandMA Fullsize Console
1 x MA NSP
1 x MA onPC
1 x MA 3D
2 x 48Way Dimmers

Attached below are some images of the lighting rig. Sound at this years Clipsal 500 was designed by FOH Engineer Travis Anderson. A huge array of 20 XB cabinets per side, plus side, side FOH, centre fill and subs provided a huge bang. FOH was running a Midas Heritage 3000 and the Digidesign console with a Yamaha PM5D and a Midas Heritage for monitors.

Overall Clipsal 500 was a huge success, and GoslingProductions was thrilled and privilaged to be such a big part of this years events.

Special thanks to Justin Accatino, Travis Anderson & Andrew Gough for their ongoing support.

After The Jungle Book and then Christmas, It was straight back into the busy festival season in Adelaide. This year saw GoslingProductions participating in Soundwave, Adelaide Fringe Parade, Adelaide Fringe 2010, Clipsal 500, Country Arts SA Shows On The Road, Marion Fashion Shows and the Ray White Awards at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre.

GoslingProductions was engaged by Central Audio Visual to provide lighting programming and operation services for the annual Ray White awards held at the new Adelaide Entertainment Centre Theatre. The set up was an interesting one, with a stage at either end of the venue. The main stage was for the award night itself and featured key note speakers from Ray White and visiting dignitaries and a separate stage at the back of the room where the band FizzyPop played 2 amazing sets at the end of the night.

The main stage was fed vision by 2 x 6500 lumen projectors, as well as vision and graphic content being fed to 4 x HD LED Video Walls for some added eye candy. This content was switched through a 408. There was also a rear screen over the rear stage of what was being fed to the two main projector displays.

Lighting on both the main stage, the rear stage and over the audience was:

4 x Mac 250 Profiles
4 x Mac 2000 Profiles
3 x Mac 2000 Wash XB
4 x Mac 700 Profiles
4 x Mac 600 Wash
6 x ETC Source Four Profiles
8 x 2K Fresnels
1 x LED Star Curtain
2 x City Colours
1 x Hog 1K

The new AEC Theatre also boasts fully controllable LED House Lighting from 30 permanently installed units controlled over a ethernet matrix and fully RF remote controlled trusses. These trusses are both box truss for lighting gear, cable picks, PA points and drape/traveller lines. Fully customisable layouts available.

I have added a few pictures of the gala dinner, the awards ceremony and ops.

After returning from the Country Arts SA Tours, GoslingProductions was approached by lighting designer Peter Riley to be a grandMA operator for his annual dance show with Desteno Dance. Held in Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide city, control was of the house rig of conventional fixtures as well as 6xMac 700 Profiles for effects. Control, as mentioned before, was off the grandMA Fullsize, running grandMA 3D as a realtime visualizer. 2 x DF50 hazers provided ample atmospherics for the performance.

Both Peter and Desteno Dance were thrilled with the results achieved, and have already begun talks with GoslingProductions about adding more ‘eye candy’ to next years show.

Desteno Dance 2010

Shortly after returning from Bali, GoslingProductions was engaged by Country Arts SA to provide Production Management for two of their “Shows On The Road” programs. The first was for a tour called “Guitar Heaven” which featured 4 guitar players of all different styles. Milica Ilic performed her beautiful classical guitar, while Simon Fox performed his mellow moving celtic style. Broom duo Desert Child performed their upbeat groovy riffs and then all 4 performers finished with a sizzling finale. GoslingProductions provided lighting & sound for this tour and production managed the trip.

After that was the second show on the road - part of the 2010 Adelaide Fringe, Fiona Scott Normans ‘Needle And The Damage Done’ hit the road, leaving a huge trail of laughter behind it. A one woman show, GoslingProductions provided lighting, audio and vision aspects to the show as well as production management. The show featured Fiona Scott-Norman and her record collection of the worst records ever made in the history of the world. Everyone who attended fell of their chair at least once during the production!

Both tours performed in Ceduna, Port Augusta, Kadina, Lameroo, Bordertown, Balaklava & Naracoorte.

On the 23rd, 24th & 25th of November, GoslingProductions’ Lighting Designer was invited to take part in the 3 day MA training on the GrandMA 1 series consoles (for the first day and a half) and then on the GrandMA 2 for the third day. The training was held at the Grand Mecure Roxy Hotel in Singapore. It was indeed a privilege to work with some of the top lighting programmers and designers in the South East Asia region, and some of these names included Fares Aljunied, Wee Cheng Low, Javier Tan, Roy Choi and many more!

Not only this, but we were also privileged to be instructed by Ben Marquardt, a beta tester for the GrandMA 2 and met by MA’s Singapore Sales Director Jens Poehlker and MA Lighting International’s Managing Director, Michael Althaus. It was indeed a wonderul few days, not only to learn from some of the best, but to network and meet some of Singapore’s greatest.

I look forward to working more with MA and its already established designers and programmers in the near future.

I have put up some pictures of the training for you to have a look at.

Cheers!

Daniel

MA Training

MA Training

During this years PALME Asia 2008, held between the 8th - 10th of July, GoslingProductions privileged to be invited to work with MA Lighting at their J19 booth at the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore.

It was a great opportunity for GoslingProductions to intermingle with some of the local MA users and meet many new faces, and rekindle some old networks and relationships.

It was also fantastic to meet Lighting Designer and MA Specialist, Paul Collison, and Addam Crawford as they visited after working on the Singapore National Day Parade, a venue very close to Suntec Convention Centre!

At the event, we had the Fullsize GrandMA Series 1 Console, A GrandMA Ultralight, the new Fullsize GrandMA Series 2 Console and accompanying MA2 3D, the brand new visualiser due to be released with the MA 2 consoles. It is a fantastic piece of software, with incredibly realistic shadows, beam effects and movement paths.

We also had a whole range of Schnik-Schnak LED screens (distributed exclusively through MA Lighting) run off a side network rack, fed through a media server and linked into the MA network. Also on the stands network was a range of NSP (Network Signal Processors), DimMA Racks, NPU’s, MA Media Servers, Replay Units and monitors for the media servers. Running off the second media server was a mixture of advertising material being sent to one 40″ LCD TV at the far side of the stand, with the other LCD displaying the pixel mapping being outputted through art-net to the LED Screens.

It was a great few days, and it was a true pleasure to work with MA Lighting’s MD’s Michael Althaus & Michael Adenau, MA Lighting’s Project Coordinator Oliver Ditter, and MA Singapore’s Sales Manager, Jens Poehlker.

GoslingProductions is now exclusively dealing with MA Consoles, as an operating, design and programming platform and strives to integrate video and lighting through their truly one of a kind, leading systems.

Below is a picture of the group of the MA Stand J19, the GrandMA 2 & the GrandMA Series 1 Fullsize Consoles.

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Daniel
GoslingProductions

MA Lighting & GoslingProductions

GrandMA Series 1 Fullsize

GrandMA Series 2 Fullsize

For all those followers of GoslingProductions and GrandMA users alike, I wanted to let you all know that MA Lighting has recently released the GrandMA2!

Unlike the GrandMA Fullsize, the GrandMA2 range boasts an impressive new look with new features and an upgraded software and networking backbone.

Below are some pictures of the consoles:

GrandMA2 Full Size with Fader Wing

GrandMA2 Light with Fader Wing

GrandMA2 Ultra-Light with Fader Wing

The fullsize console boasts some fantastic new characteristics such as the capability to control up to 65, 536 parameters per session, 32 possible sessions with up to 200 stations per session, an enhanced multi user mode with an extra touch screen for programming and colour mixing purposes (9″ command monitor), three 15.4″ touch screen displays with two external outputs available, a motorize fader wing and a whole lot of other features which you will have to check out!

GoslingProductions has not yet had the chance to work with the GrandMA 2, but hopes to do so in the near future to further develop the companies vision about integrating any solution to create truly unique events. If the GrandMA Fullsize was anything to go by, this new and improved GrandMA2 with a stronger networking backbone, new interfaces and improved software will be a delight to use!

For more information, please visit the GrandMA2 website, or contact us through our Support Forum with any questions you may have.

The 2008 Adelaide Fringe has come and gone, and it has been a busy time for GoslingProductions.

The first show on the list was an outdoor event in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and was a classic shakespearean performance of “As You Like It”. With a fantastic cast, it was a privilege to work on such a prestegious show. As the performance was outdoors in a amphitheatre like setting, there was no sound needed but a simple array of open white lighting fixtures. Positioned in the OP Tree were two 500W Mini Fresnels. Positioned in the Prompt tree were two open white Par64’s, with another set of standard 100W globes for house light. Along the front of the performance area were another three 500W mini fresnels, with three 1K fresnels on push up stands positioned along the back of the audience seating area. There was also a boom arm with 2 Par 64’s, 1 mini fresnel and 1 source 4 profile for extra side fill. The whole array was run off a Jands HP Dimmer and controlled off a 12/24 LSC Atom desk from backstage.

GoslingProductions must thank the fantastic cast for the continual support during the event, as a bump-in and bump-out was required every night after every show! The performances were a huge success, despite the noise pollution from the Clipsal500 and the Garden of Unearthly Delights.

The second show that GoslingProductions was engaged in was “A Bit Of Swing, Blues & Broadway” by Citrus Entertainment at the Stag Hotel. Sound was the topic of investigation for this event, as the hotel had some previously installed pinspots and Acme iColour4’s in the room. Running off  Mackie 16 channel control desk, with compressors, effects, amps, and a cross over positioned in the rack below, the control system powered two FOH EV 1000W speakers, and four foldback wedges for the 5 piece band. The band consisted of a saxophone, trumpet, double bass, drum kit and keys with vocals by organiser Chris Eaton. Signals were returned through a 20 loom XLR Multicore and were mixed accordingly.

The event was a huge success, with packed out houses on all three nights of the cabaret event. GoslingProductions were privileged to work on such a high calibre performance and look forward to working with Citrus Entertainment again on future shows.

Full  reviews of all the shows at the Adelaide Fringe 2008 can be found at www.talkfringe.com or www.theatreguide.com.au.

For more information, please contact us through our Support Forum.

Daniel Gosling
- GoslingProductions

Today GoslingProductions was privileged to be invited to a private training session to learn more about the intricacies of media servers, and mixing video with both pre-defined vision mixers and combining it through cat-5 servers and switches in conjunction with consoles such as the grandMA or grandMA2.

The training was a valuable insight into the tips and tools of troubleshooting RGBHV connectivity problems, VGA-RGBHV conversion issues, or amplifying RGBHV signals to spread over a number of output sources.

The visionmixer was a SmartFade, with a DVD and three monitors being actively viewed (two for preview, one for live output).

For more information please contact us through our support forum.

Daniel

GoslingProductions

GoslingProductions has just returned from the Unleash Your Marketing GeniusMarketing Seminar at the Acer Arena in Sydney, Australia. Run and organized byStephen Pierce International, the seminar showcased some of the worlds mostinnovative and successful Internet Marketers infront of a crowd of around 230people.

Speakers such as Stephen Pierce, Alan Forrest Smith, Nikhil Parekh, Andrew & Daryl, Janet Switzer, Ken “The Storm” Shimitzu, Melissa Hewetson, and many more were impressed with the professionalism of the GoslingProduction crew. Some of their testimonials include:

“You’ve done it before and you’ve done it again! You were just so professional and added that unique touch to the seminar, and I hope you do it again soon!” - Stephen Pierce International

“I would just like to thank you for the absolutely incredible service at the UYMG Seminar Sydney Daniel, Please pass my regards onto the crew from the event” - Nikhil Parekh

GoslingProductions was called upon to Liase with event staff from

Norwest Productions, Chameleon Lighting & Big Picture Productions for the duration of the event. Norwest Productions supplied all sound equipment, and the show was run off a Yamaha PM1D Digital Console. Lighting (consisting of 4 x Mac700, 8 x Selecon 1.5K Fresnels & Source 4’s) was controlled off a Jands Hog 1000. Vision was controlled off a vision mixer with signals from laptops on stage and at OP’s to two Barco projectors positioned behind two snap-lock rear projection screens.

A problem that was found early on in the seminar was trying to get the 230 participants on the Internet (which was supplied by The PA People). 8 Wireless routers were positioned around the room and connected to a central server,
however various problems were encountered with different Operating Systems (XP, Vista, Mac) conflicting with overcrowded ports and routers. A solution was needed, and some 100 + hardwired connections were run from server sub-stations around the room to the participants. The problems were ironed out thanks to the fantastic work of The PA People and their IT team, so GoslingProductions would like to give a special thankyou to them for a job well done!

Having worked with Stephen Pierce International on previous occassions, it was a privilege to work with them again as a liason between International Speakers and Production crews.

For more information on the UYMG Sydney Seminar, please use our support forum!