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Live bands

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.

Example setups

What your setup could look like

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 in a club or a venue

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.

May include

  • Compact PA with low-frequency reinforcement
  • Digital desk and microphones for vocals and instruments
  • 2–4 stage monitors with independent mixes
  • Stage lighting with moving heads

Example 02

A band in a square or outdoors

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.

May include

  • PA with double subwoofers and a digital desk
  • Full microphone provision: vocals, drums, amps
  • Modular stage with truss and lighting rig
  • Dedicated engineer at front of house
  • Hazer to give the beams body

Example 03

A full live production

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.

May include

  • Line-array sized to the capacity
  • Separate front-of-house and monitor desks
  • Full truss and lighting rig with a lighting operator
  • Large stage with changeovers handled by the crew
  • Dedicated sound engineer and lighting technician all night

No fixed packages: every quote is built around your request, on the venue and the number of guests.

Tell us about your event

From our archive

Setups we've put our name on

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.

A hall with overhead truss, moving heads lit, LED wall and stage rigged before the event
Truss, rig and stage built
Six moving heads fan beams above a stage with drums, sax and LED bars
Lighting rig above the stage
Close-up of the faders on a digital console at front of house during an event
The audio desk
A live band playing under a lit pergola: vocals, sax and percussion with PA and monitors either side
The band on stage
A ballroom with chandelier, red LED bars and two moving heads crossing beams above the drum riser
Crossed beams indoors
A terrace rigged at sunset with warm lights on stands and the music position ready for the set
Live on the terrace
Blue and green beams cutting through haze above the dancefloor during the set
Beams over the dancefloor

Photos of our own builds · click to enlarge

Our setups in motion

See them live

Lighting design only really reads in motion: here you can see the beams working, the band on stage and the floor responding.

Lighting design indoors
The band live
Beams over the floor

Footage from our own events · no sound

Why us

Why choose FC Service

  • 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.

Answers

Frequently asked questions

Do you handle stage monitoring for the musicians?

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.

Is the sound engineer included?

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.

How do you size the system for the crowd?

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.

We're a band touring into Italy. Can you supply backline and a rider check?

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.

Let's build your show together

Answer a few questions in the configurator: we'll propose the right setup and prepare your quote.