Category: Mixing Consoles

Summer festivals continue with TKO at Arklow Seabreeze Festival

AMP Sound Systems had the pleasure of providing the PA system for TKO‘s performance at the Arklow Seabreeze Festival. Luckily the heavy rain held off for the gig and everyone stayed relatively dry!   View the full album here.

Small Festival Packages

AMP Sound Systems are delighted to announce that we have developed some great value audio solutions for the 2011 festival season! Please take a look at the price list below and get in touch to discuss your requirements. FP1 – Small Outdoor Festival 4 x 600 Watt subwoofers and 2 x 600 Watt Tops Total [...]

Not even Santa could deliver something this cool!

Even with so many shows cancelled due to the unprecedented weather conditions lately, we still managed to get our brand new DiGiCo SD9 out on a few gigs before we wrapped up for Christmas. Words can’t describe it – so here is a few thousand words (aka pictures) of it doing it’s biz! We just [...]

Brand new DiGiCo SD9 in stock!

AMP Sound Systems are delighted to announce that we now have one of the world’s leading digital mixing consoles in stock! When DiGiCo introduced the SD9 – a complete, integrated system, which includes the mixing surface, a D-Rack digital stage interface and CAT 5E digital multicore, with the additional ability to simultaneously record 56 channels – [...]

SC48 Test Drive!

The budget has been set aside for the new console – but the search continues to try to find the best performing mixing platform that will add to our already impressive inventory of pro audio equipment. We need something with the highest audio quality, 100% reliability, and a small footprint to keep staff costs down [...]

Summer festivals end with some sun!

Sunday the 12th of September meant an early start for the AMP Sound Systems crew! Just off from a late night at Darver Festival, we were in Phibsborough in Dublin for Phizzfest. AMP Sound Systems was subhired by The Sound & Music Co. to provide sound equipment and staff to the event. The gig consisted of [...]

Rain not enough to stop Darver Festival!

It may have been pouring rain on Saturday, but that did not stop us rigging a D&B line array and amplifying some great bands! Darver Intercultural Festival in Co. Louth brought acts and punters from all over the world to display their culture, crafts and music! Acts from Africa, Lithuania, Ireland and many more performed [...]

The life saver that is "Studio Manager"

Yamaha’s studio manager has saved my bacon a few times at gigs. Most of our work can only be done once we reach the venue. Yes, it is possible to be organised and have all leads wrapped correctly and have a clear channel list made out, but thats about all you can do before you [...]

When an engineer gets bored…

Every so often, you get a gig which isn’t terribly entertaining. Maybe cos it aint your type of music, or is just too easy and not a challenge. Now, it doesn’t happen much I have to say, but when it does you have to find some way to keep yourself occupied – and the saving [...]

The Eskies rock Knockanstockan Festival!

I luckily managed to clear a day off for myself in between all the other festival bookings – just enough time to nip out to Knockanstockan Festival in Co. Wicklow to mix one of my favourite bands to work with – The Eskies!