Professional Audio Services provides an array of audio, video and lighting services for live events. Our integrated approach makes it easier for our clients, giving them one contact person for the entire production. If you are planning an event and you're not sure what you need, give us a call at 616-990-3129 for a free consultation and a quotation.
We provide sound systems for any size crowd for concerts, corporate events and more, indoors or out. Our qualified crew can help move talent on and off stage quickly and accuratley. We can provide a separate monitor console and engineer, with stage monitors or in-ear monitors. If power availability is an issue we can provide generators for any size sound system.
Professional Audio Services can record your concert or event at your location. We can also record your ensemble at any space of your choice, such as in your practice space, church or school. This works especially well for orchestras and church ensembles that would find it difficult to move all of their instruments into a studio environment.
Our unique system allows recording of up to 96 tracks onto reliable hard disk recorders, which have never crashed, required rebooting, or lost any data. It is controllable by laptop over wireless internet, allowing control from a separate location from the equipment if needed. We use high quality microphones and preamps to ensure the highest quality signal. The recorders can also play back as many tracks of audio as you may need to accompany your performance. The files created by the recorder are compatible with Pro Tools, Avid, Sonar, Nuendo and any other software that uses wave files.
We capture the ambience of the space you are playing in with one set of microphones, and the reactions of the audience with another set of microphones. These sounds are used to add authenticity and realism to the final recording. After the event, you can listen to each instrument individually, and overdub mistakes or add extra parts.
Video projection is a part of many live performances, and many bands on the local and regional levels have released live DVDs of their performances. To make this happen, we can provide mutliple cameras and operators, a video switcher, and projectors. We can also playback video during a show or presentation. To allow for unlimited options in editing, we can make an isolated recording of each camera for editing later, in addition to switching video for a projection screen. Video can be recorded in sync to our multitrack audio recording system, providing eight cameras and 96 channels of audio in perfect sync. This can then be edited into a live DVD that can be sold, used in press kits, or put on the internet. We also offer a mobile editing system for onsite editing and playback when recorded video needs to be available for playback the same day.
Every great concert has great sound, and great lighting, too. Lighting becomes even more important when a show is being video taped or projected onto a big screen. We have lit stages of various sizes, using both ground supported lighting and trussing.
We can provide moving lights, effects lighting, and fog. Our lighting system supports sync to time code, so an entire show can be pre-programmed from beginning to end exactly, or scenes can be pre-programmed and triggered by an operator. In locations without adequate electricity, we can provide a generator for any sized lighting show.