Selected work
Rooms we have rigged, wired and commissioned.
Some of these were a single show. Some arrived as somebody else’s drawing and had to end up in the air, on structure, working. All of them had to sound right when the doors opened.
Theaters and music venues, bars and restaurants, houses of worship, school gyms and auditoriums — the rooms fail in different ways, and we write about each of them separately.
Design, install & commissioning
Full AV design-build
Rigging, wiring & commissioning
Rigging, wiring & commissioning
Supply, rigging & commissioning
Riviera Theatre, Chicago
Line array rigging
First Avenue — Main Room
Venue audio & lighting
Berlin
Venue system
Uptown Theater
Coverage modeling & system design
Green Room
PA hang, wiring & commissioning
Mystic Lake Hop House
Live production
Palace Theatre
How the work arrives
Two ways we come into a job.
Both are the same discipline pointed at different halves of the problem.
We design it
Green Room, Animales BBQ Co. and Hutton Arena started with us: room modeling, coverage prediction, drawings, and a specified system with numbers behind it. The Animales lighting plot further down is what that documentation looks like.
Or someone else designs it, and we make it real
Icehouse, Normandale Lutheran, Mystic Lake and Parkway arrived as somebody else’s drawing — L-Acoustics’, a consultant’s, an integrator’s. Rigging back to real structure, wiring and commissioning is its own trade, and it decides whether a good design survives contact with the room.
Case study · Hutton Arena
A college gym, ours from the model to the handover.
Hamline University’s basketball and volleyball arena in Saint Paul, until now served by four wall-mounted speakers at court level and a roof horn system that had been dead for years. We modelled the room, designed an L-Acoustics system that aims at the bleachers rather than the hardwood, then installed, tuned and commissioned it. The install took about 80 hours.
Case study · Icehouse
An L-Acoustics rig, hung on steel we put there.
A Minneapolis venue whose underpowered PA was limiting what it could book. We supplied new structural steel, then rigged, wired and commissioned an L-Acoustics rig designed and sold through Allied Productions & Sales — sixty-one crew hours in total. Icehouse started booking national touring acts.
Case study · Normandale Lutheran
Speech intelligibility in a room built to fight it.
A hard-surfaced sanctuary running a single loudspeaker from one side. We rigged, wired and commissioned two L-Acoustics A10i arrays specified through Allied Productions & Sales — about 10.5 crew hours of pre-wire and seventeen of install. Speech intelligibility now holds up during services.
Case study · Animales BBQ Co.
The other kind of job: ours end to end.
A ground-up audio, lighting and video build for a restaurant and live-music room in North Minneapolis, taken from concept through drawings, rigging, install and commissioning — ours from the first sketch.
Tell us about the room.
Send over the venue, the date and roughly what you need. We read every request and reply with real questions, not a form letter.