Pristine Event Audio Production Every Time
Many events are marred by unintelligible speech and poor dispersion. Drawing from 35 years as one of Australia’s hardest working live audio engineers, Andy Taylor will guarantee that your attendees will hear every last nuance of a a vocal performance or speech. Event Audio Production is an art and Coastal AV takes great pride in designing practical solutions for any venue or room layout.
Event Audio Production is a highly complex and specialised profession and many audio-visual companies lack the finite skills to address the many variables that can affect the intelligibility of speech. At Coastal AV, we always take the time to make a site survey with our clients and walk them through the possible scenarios that may negatively affect their event. Murphy’s Law of Production dictates that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong – and it is imperative that contingencies are catered for in the design stage to address this. From the choice of speaker system (line array versus point source) to the choice of microphone, the choice of frequencies for a radio mic system, the acoustics of a venue, the positioning of the stage, the length and breadth of a room – all these must be taken into consideration when designing an event audio production solution for any scenario.
At Coastal AV, we take all these variables into consideration and draw from our large inventory of high end audio equipment to create a solution that will provide adequate sound reinforcement to every every corner of the room. We look at the horizontal and vertical dispersion of our speakers and place them accordingly. We investigate the feasibility of flying boxes, in conjunction with satellite speakers electronically processed to nullify any slap-back effects caused by delays from speakers placed around the room. Too many functions are marred by large speaker arrays placed at the front of the room, destroying site lines and causing those at the front of the audience to complain about too much volume and those at the rear to struggle to hear anything. Many keynote speakers, both experienced and inexperienced need to be briefed; and some cases, nurtured into projecting their voice and talking into the microphone before they make an address in front of an audience. We use a tried and proven formula of multiple speaker boxes places around the room to provide a balanced level in all areas of the audience.
Coastal AV maintains a pristine inventory of high end speakers, amplifiers, consoles, microphones and cables to guarantee quality in every given situation. We have invested heavily in Allen and Heath and Yamaha consoles, Australian designed and manufactured Acoustic Technologies speakers, QSC, amplifiers and Shure, Sennheiser and Australian made RODE microphones – rather than the basic pro-sumer equipment fielded by many of our competitors. All of our equipment is regularly serviced and cleaned and our cables are tagged and tested in accordance with State and federal legislation. We take enormous pride in rigging our equipment with neat cabling that is both safely secured and pleasing to the eye – you will never see a tangled mess of cables at a Coastal AV production.
If you would like obligation free assistance and advice in planning your event audio production, including a site survey, please ring Andy Taylor on 0424 656 973.
