Resources
Notes from the
production floor.
Practical AV planning, budgeting, and technical guidance for event organisers. Written by the crew who run the shows.
- 25 May 2026Planning
Conference AV by scale: what changes between 200, 500 and 1,000 delegates
Audience size is the first question every venue sales rep asks. It is also the wrong place to start an AV brief. What actually changes at each scale in a Sydney conference, the real price ranges, and the mistakes we see most often.
4 min read - 19 May 2026Planning
Hybrid or livestream: which one your event actually needs
Most clients ask for a hybrid event when a polished livestream is what they need. The two cost very differently, and getting the wrong one means paying for production complexity you cannot use.
4 min read - 12 May 2026Planning
AV for product launches: engineering the moment people remember
A product launch is the one corporate event where the AV production is the product, not the backdrop. The hero moment has to land. Here's what's actually involved, what it costs in Sydney, and where most launches under-invest.
4 min read - 5 May 2026Technical
Live streaming production for corporate events: platform, bandwidth, and redundancy
Most corporate livestreams fail in one of three places: the destination platform was wrong for the audience, the venue's internet collapsed under the bandwidth demand, or the production had no redundant path when the encoder froze. All three are preventable in pre-production.
4 min read - 28 Apr 2026Technical
Microphone strategy for corporate panels: more than just lavaliers
A panel is the AV format most-often under-served by its microphone scope. Wrong mic choice on a four-person panel produces audio that sounds fine to the front row and unusable for the broadcast. The decisions worth getting right at brief, not on the day.
4 min read - 21 Apr 2026Planning
AV at ICC Sydney: what we've learned producing events there
ICC Sydney is the easiest venue to produce in correctly and the easiest to under-spec. The house AV is excellent and the in-house team know the rooms inside out, but every event we run there hits the same four decisions worth knowing about before the brief.
4 min read - 14 Apr 2026Planning
AV at Carriageworks: cinema, conference, and gala configurations
Carriageworks is one of the most rewarding Sydney venues to produce in and one of the most demanding. Heritage industrial space, generous rigging, no in-house AV. What works, what does not, and what to plan for in pre-production.
4 min read - 8 Apr 2026Planning
AV for AGMs and town halls: the boring-is-good production brief
Annual general meetings and corporate town halls are the events where the AV scope is most-often over-engineered in the wrong places and under-engineered in the places that matter. What good AV for these formats actually looks like in 2026.
4 min read - 3 Apr 2026Technical
Hybrid event AV: the technical checklist most organisers miss
Hybrid isn't 'an in-room event plus a Zoom link.' The mistakes that kill it are technical, predictable, and almost always preventable. A buyer's checklist for organisers.
4 min read - 25 Mar 2026Industry
Why your event's audio is the first thing your audience will judge
Audiences notice bad lighting after the event. They notice bad audio in the first 30 seconds, decide the event is amateur, and stop giving it the benefit of the doubt for the rest of the day. The unfair weight that audio carries in event perception.
4 min read - 11 Mar 2026Planning
Wedding AV: what's worth paying for, and what isn't
Premium wedding AV is the production category most loaded with industry markup and the least understood by buyers. Where the production budget actually does work, where it does not, and the four decisions worth getting right before signing a wedding venue contract.
4 min read - 17 Feb 2026Technical
Why corporate events go down on the day (and what to demand from your AV vendor)
Audio cutting out, the stream freezing, lights coming up at the wrong moment. The failures that ruin corporate events aren't random. They're predictable, and almost all of them are preventable.
4 min read - 9 Dec 2025Planning
What to look for in a corporate AV proposal (and what to ignore)
Three vendors send three documents that look the same. The differences live in details most marketing checklists skip. Five things to read for, three to skip past.
4 min read - 22 Oct 2025Pricing
Conference AV budgeting in Australia: what shapes the price
Audience size matters less than venue complexity, streaming, and crew seniority. Honest ranges for Sydney corporate conferences in 2026, plus where to cut and where not to.
4 min read - 12 Aug 2025Planning
Choosing an AV partner: 7 questions that surface the real ones
Most AV vendors sound the same in their pitch. Seven questions, asked sharply, separate the ones who'll deliver a clean show from the ones who'll deliver excuses.
4 min read