Festival Sound
System Rental
Austin.
Festival audio is a different job from renting speakers. Six acts, five changeovers, a wind shift at sunset and a hard curfew. We've been doing it for 30 years — the full Turbosound Floodlight system, engineers on both ends, and a schedule that doesn't slip.
The system is
the easy part.
Anyone can put a big PA in a field. What decides whether your festival runs is everything around it: line checks that happen while the previous act is still playing, an input list that survives a band showing up with three more channels than they advertised, and a monitor engineer who can get a nervous vocalist comfortable in ninety seconds.
That's what 30 years buys you. Not a bigger speaker — a crew that has already seen the thing that's about to go wrong, and has the spare in the truck.
Front Of House
The mix the audience hears, run live all day by someone who has done it for thirty years — not left on a preset.
Monitors
Wedges and mixes per act. The single biggest factor in whether a band plays a good set or a nervous one.
Changeovers
Staged line checks, labelled looms and a stage plot per act so the schedule holds from first act to curfew.
Stage + Backline
Stage build, risers, power distribution and backline coordination as part of the production, not a separate vendor.
Advance + Input Lists
We talk to your acts before the day, so nobody discovers a missing channel at line check.
Load-In To Strike
One crew, one point of contact, from the truck arriving to the site being clear.
From one stage
to a full day.
Single Stage
Community festivals, block parties and day events. One stage, a handful of acts, FOH and monitors covered by our crew.
Main Stage
The full Turbosound Floodlight system at its rated capacity. Full production, engineers on both ends, load-in to strike.
Multi-Stage
Second stages, side stages and DJ areas built and run alongside the main system. Send the site plan and lineup and we will scope it honestly.
What size crowd can you cover at a festival?
The full Turbosound Floodlight system is rated to comfortably cover roughly 1,000 people. That makes it a strong fit for single-stage festivals, community events and day parties. For anything substantially larger we will tell you honestly rather than under-spec it.
Do you provide the sound engineers too?
Yes, and for a festival you want them. Front-of-house and monitor engineering is the difference between six acts that all sound good and six acts that each spend fifteen minutes of their set fighting the system. We can crew both positions.
Can you handle multi-act changeovers?
That is the core skill. Line checks staged during the previous set, labelled looms, a stage plot per act and a monitor engineer working the changeover. The goal is that the audience never notices the transition and the schedule never slips.
Do you do multi-stage festivals?
We can build and run additional stages depending on scale and date. Tell us the site plan and the lineup and we will tell you exactly what we can cover ourselves versus what needs a second system.
What about outdoor conditions, wind and curfew?
Outdoor sound changes through the day — temperature, wind direction and humidity all move where your sound goes. That is a live problem, not a setup problem, which is why an engineer on site matters. We also aim low end toward the crowd and away from property lines to protect your curfew.
How far in advance should a festival book?
As early as possible. Festival dates cluster in spring and fall in Central Texas and this is one system. If your date is set, lock the audio in — the input lists and stage plots can be finalized much later.
Book the crew,
not just the PA.
Send the date, the site, the lineup and the curfew. We'll come back with a plan, not a price list.