Live sound equipment is the gear between the instrument and the audience, covering PA speakers and amplifiers, mixing desks, DI boxes, microphone stands and road cases.
Live sound equipment is the gear between the instrument and the audience, covering PA speakers and amplifiers, mixing desks, DI boxes, microphone stands and road cases.
About Live Sound Equipment
A great performance only reaches the audience if the gear behind it holds up. Live sound equipment covers everything between the instrument and the crowd: PA speakers and amplifiers for front of house, mixing desks to shape the mix, and DI boxes and signal processors to keep every signal clean and strong.
SWAMP supplies musicians, audio technicians and sound production companies across Australia, pairing pro audio equipment with the road-ready essentials: road cases to protect your gear in transit, microphone stands for stage and studio, and stage lighting to complete the rig. Not sure where to start? Reach out for advice on putting together a PA system that suits your venue and budget.
A basic live rig is a pair of PA speakers, a mixing desk, microphones and cables. Add DI boxes for instruments with unbalanced outputs, microphone stands, and road cases to move it all safely between gigs.
PA stands for public address. PA equipment is the gear that projects sound to an audience: speakers, power amplifiers, a mixing desk, microphones and the cabling that ties them together. Systems scale from a single powered speaker for a solo act up to multi-speaker rigs with subwoofers for full bands and venues.
If you plug an acoustic guitar, keyboard or laptop straight into a mixer over a long cable run, a DI box converts the unbalanced signal to balanced XLR. That removes noise and interference and gives the sound engineer a clean, consistent level.