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Lake Kawana Community Centre Opens with LSC

A community celebration featuring a spectacular fireworks finale on Lake Kawana marked the official opening celebrations for the much anticipated $11.5m Lake Kawana Community Centre. Kawana is Caloundra’s newest master-planned suburb and its community centre boasts state of the art multi-function halls, performance stages featuring high quality sound and lighting, a commercial kitchen and bar, rehearsal courtyard, meeting rooms and kiosk.

Entertainment Services Theatrical of Brisbane was contracted to supply and integrate the lighting, audio, curtaining and specialist staging equipment. The venue is designed around a large flat-floor auditorium with two raised stages - one at either end. Two central operable walls can divide the space into two or three spaces. The in-house lighting is mainly conventional with moving lights hired in when required and Kent Dayhew, Entertainment Services’ projects manager, knew straight away which lighting console would be ideal for this venue and hence recommended the LSC maXim LP and a maXim XXL consoles.

“The LSC maXim console is perfect for this type of venue because it can have a simple, analogue interface for the amateur user but can be quite powerful as well when you look at the PatPad option on the maXim LP,” he stated. “These LSC consoles are becoming more and more popular in fact they are becoming the standard for smaller and amateur/community-type venues. Thus I’m finding that more and more people know how to use the maXims but if they don’t know, it’s very easy to learn the basic analogue section. Plus there is an easy to follow training video for the PatPad.

“My feeling was that as the maXims become more popular they will be regarded as standard in these venues,” he explained. “At the moment, there are probably more of the other manufacturer’s consoles out in middle of the road installations such as this, but I believe that their technology is dated and LSC have recently put a lot more into their R&D in this market.”

Accompanying the two maXim consoles are LSC Delta DMX splitters used to ensure an optically isolated signal to each of the dimmers and a dedicated interface for hire-in movers. Power distribution for exhibition mode is provided by two LSC Delta distributors and nine iPaks, which Kent describes as bullet-proof, provide the stage dimming.

“I’m also very familiar with the iPak dimmer and always happy to use them,” Kent added. “I’ve never had any problems with iPak dimmers and it’s reassuring to install a product that you know is going to work.”

“The LSC consoles are the most modern and suitable for the venue,” concluded Greg Hughes, Entertainment Services’ project co-ordinator.

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Lake Kawana Community Centre Opens with LSC

24th March 2006

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