Outdoor Production
Festivals and Outdoor Events
Power, weather, and a stage schedule that holds
What is included
What you get
Community festivals, street events, rodeo grounds, and outdoor concerts. Outdoor production is a power and weather problem before it is an audio problem, so that is the part we plan first.
- A site visit and a written power plan before the date
- Stage audio sized to the field, the crowd, and the local noise ordinance
- Monitor world for multiple acts with fast changeovers
- Coordination with your stage manager and a running set schedule
- A weather plan with an agreed call time for covering or pulling gear
- Generator ready setup with clean power and proper grounding
- Wind rated stands or ground stacked positions
- An announce microphone for the emcee and sponsor reads
- Load in and load out that fits your site schedule
How we work
Our approach
Power comes before audio
Outdoor sites almost never have the power people assume they do. We walk the site, find out what circuits exist and what else is already on them, and figure out whether a generator is required. Getting this wrong does not cause a small problem. It causes the system going down in the middle of a headline set.
The weather plan is agreed in advance
Afternoon storms in the Black Hills are normal and they arrive fast. Before the date we agree on who makes the call, at what point, and what happens when they make it. Covering gear, pulling a stage, or moving indoors are all workable if they were decided beforehand and chaotic if they were not.
Changeovers are a schedule problem
Multi act outdoor events run late because changeovers eat the schedule. We patch for every act on the bill in advance, work out the order with your stage manager, and keep transitions tight. The last band on the bill is usually the one people came for, and it should not be the one that gets cut short.
What we bring
On the truck
We size the system to your room and your guest count rather than rolling the same rig into every job.
- Stage system scaled to the field size and expected crowd
- Subwoofers ground stacked for outdoor coverage
- Monitor system with independent mixes for multiple acts
- Digital console patched for the full bill in advance
- Generator ready power distribution with proper grounding
- Wind rated stands, ballast, and weather covers for all gear
- Announce and emcee microphones separate from the stage patch
- Cable ramps and matting for public walkways
Questions
What people ask us
Do you provide the stage as well as the audio?
We provide the audio, monitors, and the production side. Staging, tenting, and barricade we coordinate as a rental line or work alongside whoever you have already booked. Tell us what is already in place and we will build around it.
What happens if it rains?
That depends on the plan we agreed on before the date, which is exactly why we make one. Covers go on, the system either rides it out or comes down, and somebody named in advance makes the call. What we will not do is improvise a decision about expensive electrical equipment in a storm.
How do we handle the noise ordinance?
We plan to it rather than test it. Most towns here have a level and a cutoff time, and downtown sites in Rapid City and Deadwood have residents close by. We aim and limit the system to cover the crowd rather than the neighborhood, which usually solves it without anybody having to turn anything down mid set.
Can you run a whole day with multiple stages?
Yes, with enough lead time. Multi stage days need the crew, the gear, and the schedule worked out well in advance, and they need a stage manager on your side we can coordinate with. Bring us in early on those.
Service area
Festivals and Outdoor across the Black Hills
We run festivals and outdoor throughout western South Dakota and into Wyoming. Every town on this list has its own page with what the work actually looks like there.
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Send us the date and the venue and we will come back to you with what production actually makes sense for it. No pressure, no packages pushed at you.