Sound design and music reinforcement is one of our core skills. Back many years ago when the company first established we provided sound only. As such we see our main discipline as sound. Constantly investing in the newest, fastest and highest quality equipment has been at the forefront of our growth and success. We have speakers of all different sizes and styles to always give us the option to have a solution, or make the impossible happen.
We have much experience ranging from school live music productions such as battle of the bands, through to local music festivals with pub band covers, through to professional artists. We treat everybody with the same respect and give opportunity to all. The current young stars might just be the future artists, we therefore give as much equipment and consideration to a school as a pro festival.
Looking at our hire range of microphones, it might surprise you that we use some more unusual brands and models. We’ve spent years pioneering our sound and believe that our mix of modern and vintage microphones provide us with a full experience of sound. Our vintage ribbon microphones are maintained in house and kept in good working order. Using them for vocals both on and off stage provides an authentic sound. The main thing with our collection is that they’re robust, reliable and sound great for their applications. We also stock a range of radio microphones from Sennheiser, hand held, headset, sax horn clip on mics as well as guitar pack cables.
Converting the analogue signal of a microphone or instrument into digital data is often carried out by a digital stange box. A highly underrated piece of equipment often just seen as a place to patch in cables, however it’s a critical role in analogue to digital for microphones, and digital to analogue conversion for speakers. For this reason we only us a minimum processing of 96 kHz speed to provide you with the most transparent sounding system free of digital glitching and conversion errors.
For any event past 4 or so inputs and depending on budget our preference would always be to specify a digital console. Why? quite simply a digital mixing desk provides a highly diverse range of options to the engineer and equips them with an assortment of useful tools. From analogue days these tools we refer to would have come in the sorts of large 19″ racks of outboard compressors, Parametric equalisers, gates as well as effects such as plate, reverb and echo. Often the outboard equipment racks were as large as the mixers and were pre specified and wired accordingly pre gig. Now much of the outboard equipment is built into the digital desks as software, often replicating traditional rack units both in look and operation. Outputs can be reassigned to different areas meaning setups can be dynamically altered, speaker processing and delays can all be at the engineers fingertips. One great advantage is the ability to remotely control via a tablet,phone or laptop and operate the desks via wifi.
The majority of our speakers are KV2. We trust our sound with KV2 systems. From a technical point of view KV2 provides the least amount of processing of all their amplifiers. The sound is transparent and genuine to the original source, the level of detail the speakers are able to recreate is incredible. We’ve often found listening to pre recorded tracks on our systems reveal a new layer of sound unheard through any other PA system. There is a reason why KV2 is installed into many West End theatres and music clubs for live music.
We also stock other brands including Proel which is an Italian brand. Again the level of detail on these speakers is very good and reproduction is clear and transparent.
For general speech and reproduction we have all different shape and size speakers, from small cube speakers, to battery powered column speakers and 100V line systems for outdoor addressing. Rather than buying based on brand, we demo and test the speakers for the kinds of applications we would use them for to make sure they fit our requirements.
Everything runs on electric and as such proper planning is needed for the distribution and supply of amplifiers, stage boxes as well as mixing desks. A digital mixing desk nowadays can be restarted in as little as 20 seconds, however a loss of power mid gig for only a fraction of a second could be disastrous. Considerations for battery UPS back-up, looking to minimise nuisance tripping and other elements to protect the system and look at it in a modular manner. Another example would be to split supplies to sides of amplifiers on stage, not only to balance current draw which is very important for generator but useful to avoiding losing a complete stack of speakers if they are all fed from the same phase.
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