Events
A live band needs a system that fills the room and monitors that let the musicians hear themselves properly. We provide PA, full microphone provision, monitors and stage lighting, with an engineer riding the mix and a setup sized to your line-up.
The problem
A live show runs on energy, but one feeding-back wedge or an undersized PA is enough to kill it: the band can't hear, and neither can the room. Our job is to leave you thinking about nothing but playing — a system sized to the space, clean monitors on stage, and an engineer holding the mix from the first song to the last.
Why us
One technical point of contact coordinating the crew, from the site visit through the stage build to the live desk.
PA sized to the space and the crowd: full, defined sound everywhere, not just in front of the stage.
Monitors properly looked after and, on larger shows, a dedicated monitor position: every musician hears themselves on stage.
Stage, truss and lighting rig built and signed off by our own crew, ready before soundcheck.
If the band has a technical rider, that is the most useful thing you can send us. We read it before quoting and answer honestly: what we cover as standard, what we would add, and — occasionally — what the venue physically will not allow regardless of budget.
That last part matters in Campania. A rider written for a theatre does not automatically translate to a villa terrace or a cloister, and it is better to know in advance than to discover it at soundcheck.
If there is no rider, tell us the line-up: how many musicians, which instruments, whether there is a drum kit, and whether anyone sings while playing. That is enough to size the system.
A DJ set needs coverage and a monitor. A band needs a different category of setup, and it is where most under-quoting happens.
A multichannel desk, because every instrument, every microphone and every DI line is a separate input to be balanced. Full microphoning of the drum kit and amplifiers. Stage monitoring — wedges or in-ears — because musicians who cannot hear themselves play badly regardless of how good the front-of-house sound is. And a soundcheck with real time allocated to it, not fifteen minutes before doors.
On paper it is a technical step; in practice it is a logistics one, and at weddings and private events it is nearly always the tight point.
A band needs the stage built, powered and quiet for the check. If guests are already arriving, or the venue is still laying tables, the check gets cut — and a cut soundcheck is audible for the first three songs.
The fix is planning the build backwards from the guests’ arrival, not forwards from the crew’s. We agree that timing with the venue and with the band before the day, and it is part of what the technical direction covers.
A band on a coastal terrace is a different problem from a band in a hall. Outdoors there are no reflecting surfaces, so the sound disperses and the system has to be sized for it; there may also be a noise limit or a curfew set by the venue or the comune, which we check beforehand rather than negotiate at midnight.
Historic courtyards do the opposite: they can be very live acoustically, and the work becomes controlling reflections rather than adding power.
A band needs somewhere to stand, and usually something above it. Deck height and area come from the line-up; the truss above carries the lighting and sometimes a LED wall for visuals. See staging and rigging for how that is built.
The line-up or the rider, the venue, whether it is indoors or out, and what time the band can get on stage for the check. From that we propose a configuration — and if the schedule does not allow a proper soundcheck, we will say so, because that is the thing most likely to spoil the set.
Example setups
Every event is different: these are real examples of how we size a setup. We'll build yours together, around your venue and your guests.
Example 01
A band playing a contained space: you need a system that pushes without saturating the room, clear wedges on stage, and light that gives depth even to a small stage. We build in the afternoon and soundcheck before doors.
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Example 02
Outdoors the sound has no walls helping it: you size for the distance to cover and the expected crowd. What counts here is even coverage, a safe stage, and an engineer holding the mix all night.
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Example 03
A night with several bands, a big crowd, a tight running order: here the difference is made at the desk. Separate front-of-house and monitor positions, fast changeovers, lighting programmed to the songs. We get there early; you just play.
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No fixed packages: every quote is built around your request, on the venue and the number of guests.
Tell us about your eventFrom our archive
Stages, lighting rigs and desks we've built for live bands: from the front-of-house console to stage monitors, through to the lighting design cued on the songs.
Photos of our own builds · click to enlarge
Our setups in motion
Lighting design only really reads in motion: here you can see the beams working, the band on stage and the floor responding.
Footage from our own events · no sound
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Answers
Yes. We provide two to four wedges depending on the line-up and, on larger shows, a dedicated monitor position so every musician gets an independent mix on stage.
Yes, the engineer is part of the service: they run the soundcheck and ride the front-of-house mix live, first song to last. On more involved productions we add a monitor engineer and a dedicated lighting technician.
We start from the venue capacity, or from the distance to cover outdoors. Smaller shows need a PA with subs; with a large crowd we move to double subs or a line-array, so the sound stays full and defined everywhere.
Send us the technical rider and we'll come back with what we can cover from our own stock and what we'd cross-hire locally. We're used to reading riders in English and to working with tour managers arriving the same day.
Answer a few questions in the configurator: we'll propose the right setup and prepare your quote.
