The organization of concerts is a complex technical process, because for a quality performance it is necessary to provide:
- setting up the stage and all the necessary scenery;
- correctly adjusted sound of all equipment: from musical instruments to the soloist’s microphone;
- a quality light show, capable of working smoothly with the playing songs
- a decent level of acoustics;
- additional design elements.
Concert sound design
Live performances are the most complex format of a concert event. No concert can do without professionally staged sound and top-notch work by a sound engineer. It is a sound engineer who has to be constantly at a mixing console and monitor all sound equipment installed on stage. During one two-hour event a sound engineer often has to process several dozens of tracks simultaneously, taking into account the specific room or outdoor venue where the concert is held.
A huge number of monitors, speakers, microphones and headphones are used as sound equipment during the organization of events of all kinds. This allows for one concert to develop several mixes simultaneously for each musician performing on stage.
Video accompaniment
Almost during any modern concert show video accompaniment services are used without fail. It is not only a translation of what is happening at the event on large screens, but also the creation of a background video for the performances of musicians, dance groups and artists. Video background together with sound and light effects can create a special design for each creative composition. MIDI or SMPTE allows synchronizing video with sounding music tracks.
Lighting design
It’s just as hard to imagine a concert today without a unique light show. Stage lighting equipment is usually placed at various points around the concert venue. A lighting technician is responsible for his work during the event. It is he who looks after:
- the movement and color of the spotlights;
- the level of operation of the lights;
- the work of pyrotechnic devices and more.
Management is performed using faders in interactive mode. Lighting technician makes sure that the work of light was in sync with the music, sounding from the stage. The use of modern equipment allows you to automate p he use of modern equipment allows you to automate the operation of some of the lighting equipment and program it to fit the timeline and schedule of a particular event.
Concert equipment
The organization of events, both large and small involves the use of a large amount of equipment. In order to ensure the quality of operation of all systems involved in a concert event, it is necessary:
For light: lighting control consoles, LED walls and server to ensure their coordinated operation, floodlights of different power levels, pyrotechnic equipment, lamp installations.
For sound: sound control set for the sound engineer, wired and wireless monitors corresponding to different types of instruments, radio microphones with preamplifiers, speakers and much more.
Stage decorations, including, huge video monitors and screens for backdrops.
Concert Event Planning
People who order rental services for decorations, sound and light design, should take into account that the conduct of concerts and festive events begins to be planned well before the expected date of its implementation. On average, this period of time is a month. Especially when it comes to a concert with several guest singers and bands, because you must not only agree on the performance with the managers of each group, but also get the appropriate riders from the representatives of the musicians, and have time to coordinate them.
After that a stage engineer can approve a concert schedule, coordinate the nuances of the concert and give specific tasks to decorators, sound and light technicians, video editors and other specialists.
On the day of the concert
Scenes are usually mounted either in the early morning, or, if possible, 1-2 days before the event. During the installation, all the lighting and video equipment is installed, as well as the sound design of the stage is prepared.
After installation is complete, the visiting artists will have the opportunity to check the light and sound, if there is time to do so. After the opening of the box office and the launch of the first spectators to the event, all the mounting work is wrapped up. After all, during the concert you must take care about the safety of the audience and the safety of expensive equipment.
After the event is carried out dismantling works. The complexity of preparing to hold a concert, show or holiday event depends largely on the scale of the concert being organized. Despite the fact that large artists during name concerts use their own equipment, it is always necessary to take care of the synchronization of all systems with the equipment that is available in a particular concert hall or on a particular stage.
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