Event sound in Fargo.
We bring it, and we run it.

The difference

A person, not a box.

There are two ways to get sound for an event around here, and neither one fits most events. You can rent gear and figure it out yourself on the day, or you can hire a concert rig with a light show and a drum sub for an awards dinner that needs two microphones.

We are the middle option. We bring what your event actually needs, we set it up before your guests arrive, and we stay to run it. When a presenter walks away from the podium, when a laptop will not play through the room, when someone in the back cannot hear a question, there is someone there to fix it.

What we cover

Four kinds of events.

• Awards banquets and ceremonies: a podium microphone, a roaming microphone for winners, and music between awards.
• Meetings and conferences: presenters, panels, questions from the floor, and audio from your laptop.
• Graduations and open houses: names read clearly, or background music with a microphone for a toast.
• Car shows: announcing over engine noise, with music between announcements.

The gear

Sized to your room, not to impress you.

We run JBL SRX cabinets, the same tour series you would find on a real stage, plus JBL EON ONE column speakers for smaller rooms where a pair of speakers on stands would be overkill. What comes out of the van depends on your room and your crowd, not on what looks impressive.

We carry two wireless microphones, one wired microphone, and an eight channel mixer. Backup gear comes to every event, including spare batteries, because a dead wireless microphone partway through a program is the failure we see most often and the easiest one to prevent.

Straight pricing

What it costs.

• Weekday events: from $400. Monday through Thursday. Most meetings, conferences, and weeknight banquets land here. Weeknights are already open on our calendar, so there is no wedding to turn down to take your event. You get the benefit of that.
• Friday, Sunday, and Saturday daytime: from $550. Car shows and daytime ceremonies fit here. These days start to compete with wedding work, so they run a little higher than a weeknight.
• Both rates buy up to 4 hours of event time. Event time only. Setup and teardown are free on top of your 4 hours, never counted inside them. Your clock starts when we start running sound for you and stops when we stop. We are usually on site 60 to 90 minutes before that to set up and test everything, and we stay afterward to pack out. You are not billed a cent for either, and neither one shortens your 4 hours.
• Longer events: $125 per additional hour. A six hour car show is the base rate plus two hours. We work the total out with you before you book. Past four hours we are into a long day, often ten hours door to door once load in and load out are counted. The hourly keeps a long event worth doing properly instead of rushed.
• Saturday evenings: usually booked for weddings. Ask and we will tell you honestly what is open. A Saturday night is a wedding reception for us, and those book up to a year ahead. If your date happens to be open we will say so.
• Announcing or MC work: add $200. Optional, and only if you want it. Running the microphone is a different job than running the sound. This is the part that four decades of doing it actually buys you.
• Travel: Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, and Dilworth are included. Anywhere farther is quoted plainly up front. Those four are our home metro, so there is no drive time worth passing along to you.

That is the whole list. You will know your full number before you sign anything, because we ask how long your event runs and quote the hours up front instead of adding them to the invoice afterward.

Where we stop

What we do not do.

We are not a concert production company and we do not pretend to be. Three microphones and eight channels cover speakers, background music, and a small acoustic act or duo. If you are booking a full band with drums and separate monitor mixes, you want a production company, and we will point you toward one rather than take the job and hope.

Planning a company party with dancing instead? That is our corporate event DJ service.