http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog Quality theatrical supplies and equipment Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:57:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We recently emailed our customers (and Tweeted our followers—oh yes, we're cutting edge!) advising them we're running a promotion on the Anchor Audio AnchorMAN full duplex wireless 4-user intercom package.* Intrigued by the offer, a prospect wrote us asking if we could put him in touch with any other AnchorMAN users ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2010/01/anchorman-customer-review/ I've just returned from Houston, where I attended WFX 08, the Worship Facilities Conference and Expo. Presented by Church Production magazine, the conference includes workshops and hands-on training in the areas of audio, video, and lighting for houses of worship. The expo show floor hosts equipment manufacturers, dealers, and consultants, and ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/11/wfx-houston-08/ All the latest and newest products from Rosco are featured in their latest catalog. Production Advantage has received a few hundred of them and would like to offer a copy to you.  Email us with your mailing address to request your copy. If you would add angiem@proadv.com to your address ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/10/rosco-catalog-48-available-at-production-advantage/ TDs and scenic artists are always working hard to stretch scenery budgets as far as they will go. Some of us are probably working harder at that now than ever before. Since soft scenery, painted drops and natural materials can be a pretty cost effective way of constructing and  decorating ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/10/treat-your-scenery-right-for-flame-retardancy-that-is/ Tight capital budgets—and who doesn't have one of those nowadays?—make it harder for you to implement your dreams (or even replenish your stock for your next production). To ease your pain, consider leasing. Leasing lets you convert large capital expenditures into small monthly payments. Its benefits include: obsolescence protection by matching payments ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/09/from-wish-list-to-in-the-house/ While prices on almost everything keep costing you and us more to purchase; we have decided it needs to stop somewhere and we have decided it stops here and now! This is not a SALE and it is not a gimmick and it is not temporary. ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/08/while-everybody-else-is-raising-their-prices-were-lowering-ours/ ETC has just wrapped up Workshop 2008 in Madison, Wisconsin. Workshop is the annual event where ETC introduces its dealers and sales reps to new product lines, provides in-depth product training, and offers a forum for dealer feedback as well as networking with the product managers, system engineers, and ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/07/etc-workshop-2008/ The folks from STAGEMAKER chain motors sent the following press release over to us and I thought I'd pass it along. These folks are fairly new to the US market and are currently priced very aggressively to compete with CM (Columbus McKinnon). If anybody has experience with using these hoists ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/07/over-500-stagemaker-chain-hoists-to-lift-scenery-equipment-at-the-olympic-games-in-beijing/ Effective on July 18, 2008, ETC will no longer be accepting orders for the Expression® and Express™ line of control consoles. This includes the Expression 3, Insight™ 3, Express 250, Express 125, Express 72/144, Express 48/96, Express 24/48 and all Expression, Insight and Express Lighting Playback Controllers. As with all ... http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/07/etc-announces-retirement-of-expression-and-express-line-of-consoles/ And the hits just keep on coming! CM has announced a modest price increase, effective 4 August 2008.Schraff http://www.productionadvantageonline.com/Blog/index.php/2008/07/columbus-mckinnon-price-increase/