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Novatech on the Gold Coast

The 2011 Officeworks National Conference and Gala Dinner were held on the Gold Coast and event organisers, Kojo Events, once again chose Novatech Creative Event Technology as their production partner to supply production and technical labour services.

The event included an exclusive Gala Dinner at Movie World. The 80’s All Star Retro Show featured a performance from ‘The Australian Super Group’, which is made up of some of the country’s highest profile performers including Paul Grey (ex Wa Wa Nee), Erik Weideman (1927) and Brian Canham (Pseudo Echo).
Novatech’s lighting design for this event included 24x GLP Impression 90, 6x Martin Mac 250, 12 xJarag5 Par30, 12x 2lite DWE, 4x Selecon 1200w fresens, LSC Epak 12ch Dimmer, a GrandMa 2 Console, 12x Stagemaker motors and a pile of CLS truss.

In addition to the Clearcom and Two-way comms system, Novatech also supplied 1x Digi Design D-show FOH console, 1x Digi Design Profile monitor console, 2x XTA GQ 600 EQ, 2x Dolby Lake DLP system controllers, 1x Motion Computing tablet PC, 1x APB Mix Switch Rack Mixer, 20x L’Acoustics Kiva compact array cabinets, 4x L’Acoustics Kilo Sub cabinets, 2 x L’Acoustics LA4a Amp Racks, 12x L’Acoustics 115HiQ Speakers, 2 x L’Acoustics LA48a Amp Racks w/XTA DP 428+ 6 channels Shure R series UHF, Whirlwind MASS 56 multi-core and all mics and accessories.

The Officeworks conference sessions held at the Hyatt Regency Sanctuary Cove required an Audio Visual solution that created a unique and intimate setting that hightened audience interaction. Novatech’s AV design featured a 30ft x 10ft custom screen with a series of high definition 65” LCD display panels postioned around the room. Two Barco RLM W8 projectors were used for the image blend and controlled by Novatech’s Barco Encore Presentation System.

“This was the very first event that we had used our new Hi-definition W8 projectors and I’m really pleased with their performance” said Omar Fairley–Cisse, Head of Audio Visual. “The guys in our multimedia department did a awesome job with the clients graphic design work and the result was simply amazing with excellent depth of color and image quality.”

The conference audio system had a combination of L’Acoustics 115TX and 108’s speaker cabinets and a Yamaha M7C console out front.

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