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How does a $2010 voucher sound?

Yes Factoryites - our now famous Factory Sound Footy Tipping competition is on again. It's the question we've heard more than any others lately: Not "How much are 58's going for?", not "What happened to the Tower of Gaffer", not "When is the rain going to stop", but "When is Footy Tipping starting"

Well, the answer is "right now" and this year promises to be our biggest year yet. At the end of 22 rounds, our winner will receive a $2010 Factory Sound voucher, the tipper who finishes in 75th place will receive a Rode NT1-A microphone package, and our last placed tipper will get the traditional prize - Shure SM57. Like our $2007, $2008 and the award-winning $2009 seasons, we'll come up with some not-to-be-sneezed-at weekly prizes too.

Please remember that this competition is only open to current Factory Sound customers, Factory Sound suppliers and Factory Sound staff (who are sadly ineligible for the end-of-year prizes). If you're ready to rip straight in, head on over to the 'footy' tab - you'll see it up there on the right hand side. Best of luck for Season $2010, and should you need any further inspiration, here's our preview clip for this year!

MIDAS PRO6 masterclass with Nahuel Gutierrez

We were lucky enough this week to host a couple of great days, featuring MIDAS PRO6. The masterclass sessions were hosted at Factory Sound, in conjunction with MIDAS and National Audio Systems (the Australian importer for both MIDAS and Klark Teknik).

Our presenter was Nahuel Gutierrez, who has worked with a stack of touring acts as PA tech (Beastie Boys), Monitor Engineer (Oasis) and heaps more. Rather than presenting as a company product specialist, Nahuel was able to give real-world perspective during the 2 sessions we ran. It would have been great to invite everyone, but we only had space for 12 in each session. Both days were highly informative, and a great forum for healthy and robust discussion between a bunch of live sound engineers eagar to learn more about the future of mixing both here and abroad.

Of course, Factory Sound TV was there to grab an interview with Nahuel.

MIDAS PRO6 has featured in a few other episodes, so help celebrate YouTube's 5th birthday (doesn't seem long enough!) and have a Captain at this lot: Richard Ferriday talks us through Pro6 in Sydney here, Phill Webb shows us Klark Teknik hooked up to PRO6 at Integrate 09 here, Bryan Davidson shows PRO6 running IrisNet at Integrate 09 here, and some much older episodes with Phill Webb showing us some the 'new' Klark Teknik SQ1S at Entech 08 here, with Richard Ferriday showing the 'new' XL8 at the same Entech 08 show here.