When Farnham recently returned to Tasmania as part of his "Live by Demand" tour Production Works' were once again commissioned to provide the sound and lighting expertise and requirements for his concert at Hobart's Derwent Entertainment Centre. The front of house speaker system was an Electro-voice XLC X-Line Compact line array system, with an Electro-voice X-Array system being used as side hangs to cover the bleachers. For the lighting system Production Works' provided Molefay 8 Liters, ACL Par 64 Bars, Martin Macs, Selecon Pacific profiles, and LSC dimmers and moving light distribution.

To add to our existing Cobra II System we now also have available a Cobra 4 system.

The active 4-way COBRA-4 SYSTEM is designed to project over distances of up to 80 meters in medium to large sized marquees, halls and open-air venues and produces high  SPLs at the FOH position, 30 meters from the stage, of 110 dB in the medium-and high-frequency ranges and up to 120 dB in the bass.
Through the use of COBRA-4 TOPs and a COBRA-4 FAR, optimal line-array performance can be achieved without time consuming tinkering. With the COBRA-4 SYSTEM, high frequency range is particularly wide, to cover the areas directly in front of the stage. To project over long distances, a COBRA-4 FAR, which has a coverage pattern of 90° x 5° in the high frequency range, is positioned at the top of the array. For the low frequency range and the midrange, the same components are used as in the COBRA-4 TOP, so the low and midrange line array continues in an unbroken line. In all, eight COBRA PWH bass horns are used to generate the sound pressure levels and projection typically required by Top Forty bands and these can be stacked or arrayed as dictated by the architecture of the room. The COBRA-4 SYSTEM is driven by two ready-cabled and programmed CSR-4 amp racks with a DSP and power amplifiers.

Production Works were approached to provide options for an Audio upgrade for the cathedral associated with the current restoration works with an intention or aim to improve intelligibility and clarity as well as provide flexibility for performance in the cathedral.

St David's Cathedral is the home to the Church of England in Tasmania, Australia. The Cathedral as it stands today began construction in 1868 following two previous structures on the site, the original timber structure of 1810 having blown down in a fierce gale.
As is the case with most structures of this nature the installation of a new sound system involved a lot of consultation with both the diocese building committee and the Architects involved with maintenance and restoration.
We offered a number of options for consideration that included both line array, distributed and point source options. The heritage listing of the building imposed a number of architectural limitations that ruled out a number of options from both a cost and practicality point of view. It was determined to implement a left and right point source option that would involve the hanging of speakers that would integrate with a future lighting fixture upgrade to make the speaker installation less intrusive.
The system decided on was a less intrusive Electro Voice option incorporating both EV speakers as well as amplification and control. The speakers chosen were XI 2123/106F cabinets selected for their exceptional pattern control that provide excellent coverage of the whole space. Such was the performance of the system that only two ZX 1 fill speakers were required to provide coverage on either side at the front of the Nave. The speakers are driven by EV CP series amplifiers with EV DSP control. The improvement in audio performance has resulted in a lot of positive comments with many saying that they no longer need to rely on hearing assistance to hear the message.
St David's is located in the heart of Hobart the capital city of Australia's island state of Tasmania. 'Production Works' in addition to supplying installation services are also Tasmania's leading supplier of A/V production services offering an extensive inventory of EV equipment including X-Array and XLC speakers systems as well as XW, ZX and SX systems along with EV amplification and processing.
This installation also included a Yamaha LS9-32 Digital console as well as a Klark Teknik Square One Active splitter, AKG wireless microphones systems and more.

It's been a long time coming, but Production Works have negotiated full access to the quality range of Selecon Performance Lighting. This includes the outstanding Pacific series as well as the tried and tested Acclaim Range.
We will in coming months be building up an inventory of stock and spare parts to service our extensive rental inventory as well as our client's needs.

Recently added to our expanding Visual Technology range is a Panasonic AG-HMC70. This beauty records on Solid State media (SD Card). This is a well featured camera with professional XLR audio connections with +48v phantom power as well as BNC connections for composite and component video.

Our AKG wireless system has continued to grow with the addition of further units we now have over 24 channel systems available to hire.  Our systems can come in any configuration with touring systems packaged in 8 channel systems.
The WMS 4000 is a modular system for professional requirements. It is probably one of the most innovative wireless systems available today. Theses units are full true diversity systems with over 1200 selectable frequencies with environment scanning and presets of intermodulation-free frequencies. This truly is a package system.

Our systems comprise of the following

For over twenty years Sullivan Cove and the Princess Wharf in Hobart has paid host to the annual 'Taste of Tasmania' festival where the cream of Tasmanian produce and entertainment show off their wares over an eight day period through New Year's.
This year Production Works were also contracted to supply a site wide paging system to handle emergency messaging and evacuation functions.
Production Works used Bosch for the complete system that included an extensive installation of Bosch horns covering both the internal and external spaces. In addition amplification was also provided by Bosch with the popular Plena VAS system providing front end control with additional slave amplifiers and Bosch music playback devices also being used. The installation of the system was only for the duration of the festival All the equipment being removed following its completion.

Equipment List:

To add to our existing high quality communications packages we have just added a large number of new ICOM portable UHF two-way radios to our inventory.

These CB's have plenty of go with an ample 5 watts of power, they are a rugged commercial grade and a military spec design (IP54) These two-ways also have pre-programmed private frequencies to avoid the interference on public CB bands.

This adds to our extensive range of intercom and communication products which includes

Production Works' have recently added another roof structure to our extensive staging solutions inventory. The "Dome Roof" uses circular box truss sections to provide an extremely "clean lines" support structure for your next event. The structure is capable of supporting lighting elements and can be used with or without a skin depending on the weather.
This structure can also be used inside the "Air Roof" to support its lighting needs when required.

We have also added to our extensive staging inventory a large number of the new "Frame Lock" crowd barriers, these barriers come in 1 meter units and meet or exceed all Australian and International standards.

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For More Information about the Inflatable Roof you can download our brochure from here.

To facilitate production in venues where a full, safety-rated, rigging capacity is not available, Production Works have recently added a ground supported tower system to their rigging capabilities. Custom built for Production Works by Brown's Precision Welding, the system can be used in outdoor settings, heritage buildings, temporary structures or inside an existing building, to safely carry tonnes of sound, lighting, staging and audiovisiual equipment, without any additional support.

By using standard concert truss modules and chain motors, the system is not only flexible enough to be configured for a wide variety of applications, it is also much simpler and faster to assemble, rig and strike, than scaffold structures.

Production Works have recently added two 50inch High Definition plasma monitors to their hire inventory.
Complete with stereo speakers, the monitors are available in either table mounted or hanging configuration.

Technical specification

• 16:9 Aspect Ratio
• High Definition Display (1080i/576p)
• 1366 x 768 TV Resolution
• SXGA 1280 x 1024
• 16.7 Million Displayable Colours
• Contrast Ratio 1000:1
• Over 160 degrees Viewing angle
• Broadcast receiver
• Interfaces for: DVD, VGA, DTV, AV, S-Video

Hobart's exciting new Barilla Bay restaurant features colour changing lighting using Martin Alien 05 downlights and highly flexible background music systems, built around EV's stylish Evid loudspeakers and a digital music jukebox system that stores thousands of music tracks.