Speech first, then everything else
Most events are lost on intelligibility, not on volume. If the CEO cannot be understood at table 40, nothing else about the room matters. We start from coverage and clarity, then add the parts that make it a show.
The systems are ours, they are serviced between jobs, and the engineer standing at the desk is one of our own.
- L-Acoustics and comparable line array systems, flown or ground-stacked
- Point source and distributed systems for ballrooms and delay zones
- Coordinated wireless microphones and in-ear monitoring
- Digital consoles at front of house and monitors
- Playback, press feeds, mix-minus and a split for camera
- Power distribution and cable management that a venue will accept
By room
Three different problems
Conference and general session
Even coverage with no hot seats and no dead ones, lecterns and lavaliers that do not feed back, and a quiet stage. Recorded or streamed cleanly if you need it later.
Ballroom and gala
Music that fills a room people are talking over, then drops to speech clarity for the programme. Delay zones so the back of a long room hears the same show as the front.
Concert and festival
A rider-compliant system with the headroom to do a full set, monitors or in-ears, and an engineer who advanced it with the tour weeks before the truck arrived.
Questions we get asked
What size PA do I need?
It follows the room and the headcount, not the guest list. A 200-person ballroom for speech is a different system from a 200-person party, and an outdoor show needs more of everything because there are no walls to help. Tell us the room and the programme and we will spec it.
Do you provide an engineer?
Yes, and for anything with a band we insist on it. A system is only as good as the person mixing it. Our engineers read a rider, run the advance early, and are there from load-in to load-out.
Can you work with the venue’s house system?
Often, and sometimes we should. House systems are tuned for the room and cost you nothing to use. What they usually cannot do is a band, a large ballroom split into sections, or anything needing more than a couple of microphones. We will tell you honestly which case you are in.
How many wireless microphones can you run?
Enough for a full awards show, and — more to the point — we coordinate the frequencies for the venue and the day. Wireless that was not coordinated is the single most common reason a show falls over.
Do you cover recording or a broadcast feed?
Yes. A clean mix-minus or a split off the desk for camera, streaming or archive is normal for us; say so in the advance and it costs nothing extra to plan.
Send us the room
The venue, the date, the headcount and what is happening on stage. That is enough for a real number.