Audio Hawes

Tools for live production

Apps and hardware for the people who run the show, made by someone who still works on them.

See the apps
01 / Apps

What I'm building

Six tools, each one started as a problem on a real job. Some are out, some are still on the bench.

Stagehand schedule screen showing a festival running order

Stagehand

Beta

The show-day app for live-audio engineers and stage techs. Patch, stage boxes, wireless and running order in one place.

Mac / iPad / iPhone / Windows Join the beta →
Krewe event screen showing a crew roster with confirmed slots

Krewe

Private beta

Crew scheduling for events and AV production. It collects availability and slots the right people into every role.

Web / iPhone / Android Join the waitlist →
RMS Multitool warehouse dashboard with jobs sorted by prep stage

RMS Multitool

Live

Extra tools inside Current RMS for rental teams. Stock by store on a quote, plus dashboards for quotes, crew and warehouse prep.

Chrome extension Ask about it →
LOCKD timecode display in large green dot-matrix digits

LOCKD

In development

A hardware box that shows, generates and converts timecode. Big digits you can read from across the stage.

Hardware / Mac app Ask about it →
NDI Dashboard matrix view showing what each venue screen is playing

NDI Dashboard

In development

Lets a venue AV operator choose what every NDI screen in the building shows, and see what each one is really playing.

Mac / Windows Ask about it →
ClaudeHUD open in the Mac notch showing usage bars and running sessions

ClaudeHUD

Beta

A Mac notch display that shows your Claude Code plan usage and tells you when a session needs you.

02 / Background

Where it comes from

Audio Hawes started in 2015 in live sound. The shows are still part of the week, and they're where every one of these tools gets its first test.

Road cases at a loading dock
A / Load in01
Close view of a mixing console
B / Show02
Road cases outside at night, one picked out in colour
C / Load out03
Crew in silhouette against stage light
03 / About

One person, Melbourne

I'm Dan Hawes. I work in live production, and I build the tools I wish I'd had on the job.

Most of them start the same way. Something goes wrong on a show, or takes three times longer than it should, and I go home and write the fix. If it holds up on the next gig, it ends up here.

Est. 2015Melbourne, AUTools for live production
04 / Contact

Say g'day

Want to try one of the apps, found a bug, or have an idea for something that should exist? Send a note.

dan@audiohawes.com.au
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