Live event support includes staging, scenery, mechanicals, sound, lighting, video, special effects, transport, packaging, communications, costume and makeup for live performance events including theater, music, dance, and opera. They all share the same goal: to convince live audience members that there is no better place that they could be at the moment. This is achieved through establishing a bond between performer and audience. Live performance events tend to use visual scenery, lighting, costume amplification and a shorter history of visual projection and sound amplification reinforcement.
Live event support overview
Touring black-and-white video system The Tubes 1975
Touring color system Kool Jazz Festival 1978
Magic Lantern image projector
Sound reinforcement system
A sound reinforcement system is the combination of microphones, signal processors, amplifiers, and loudspeakers in enclosures all controlled by a mixing console that makes live or pre-recorded sounds louder and may also distribute those sounds to a larger or more distant audience. In many situations, a sound reinforcement system is also used to enhance or alter the sound of the sources on the stage, typically by using electronic effects, such as reverb, as opposed to simply amplifying the sources unaltered.
Large outdoor pop music concerts use complex and powerful sound reinforcement systems
Audio engineers use a range of microphones for different live sound applications.
A Yamaha PM4000 and a Midas Heritage 3000 mixing console at the front of house position at an outdoor concert.
Graphic equalizer