About Dallas Event Audio: the crew behind the sound since 2001.
We are a full service event production company in ZIP 76053, between Dallas and Fort Worth. We own the sound, lighting and DJ equipment we send out, we deliver, set up, test and pick up all of it ourselves, with a technician on site for the services that call for one, and we have been in business since 2001. This is the short version of our story and how the work gets done.
An event company that owns its own gear and delivers it
The story of Dallas Event Audio starts in 2001 with a pair of 15 inch Mackie subwoofers, a set of JBL JRX200 speakers and a Crown I-Tech amplifier. I swapped the compression drivers for Selenium D220Ti units, which made the whole rig sound better than it had any right to, and my DJ friends and live band friends rented that setup for years of events. It paid for the next step: BassBoss SSP118 subwoofers under Yamaha DZR12 speakers, a combination that still makes me smile.
Over time I started hosting my own EDM themed events and put the money back into equipment: Technics turntables, a Pioneer DJM-900NXS2 mixer, CDJ-200s, an XDJ-RX3, and a set of plug-in RGB uplights that were modest on output and got the job done anyway. There were basic ADJ Inno Spot Pro moving heads, and a fog machine from a Halloween store that I bought at a discount. Corporate work came next, and with it the Epson 700U projectors and snap-on projector screens. One year a church asked whether I had televisions on stands, so I added a few 65 inch TVs, and they have been out on rentals ever since.
DJing weddings led to learning the dancing on the clouds effect alongside another DJ, and it has been a staple of our wedding work since. All the while I kept studying AV, taking classes online and moving into mixing sound for live bands: analog band mixers first, then the Soundcraft Ui24 digital snake mixer that we settled on. The change that reshaped how we run microphones was discovering the Alpha Labs De-Feedback system. I have watched clients walk straight in front of a PA speaker wearing a lav mic and the microphone stayed clean. Twenty five years later the inventory is a lot bigger, and the reason we own it is the same as it was for that first pair of subwoofers.
The part that matters to a client is simple. We own what we send out. Every speaker, every microphone and every light in the rental is ours, which means we know how each one has behaved at the last dozen events. When something has to be replaced, we replace it before it goes on the truck instead of finding out about it in front of your guests.
We're also a sound company that DJs, which is unusual. The person on the decks and the line array behind them come from the same crew, they load in together, and they answer to one phone number. On most events that means the DJ and the sound company are the same people, and the room has one owner.
What a booking with Dallas Event Audio looks like
Every rental we take is full service. We deliver, set up and collect every system ourselves, because a system only sounds right once somebody has tuned it in the room. Here is the whole sequence, start to finish.
You tell us about the event
Date, venue, headcount and what has to happen in the room. We quote the microphones and the speakers together, because the two are one answer.
We size the system
We put a system together for the room rather than for the price sheet. A ballroom for four hundred and a backyard for sixty are different problems, and a rental that ignores that shows up short or shows up silly.
We load in and set up
Our crew arrives on the schedule your venue sets, runs power and cable, and makes the connections between the speakers, the microphones and the console before anybody else needs the room.
We tune it to the room
Levels get set at the position a person will speak from rather than at the console. Every microphone system we send includes our AI-powered De-Feedback processing, so speech stays clear in rooms full of glass and stone.
A technician stays when the event calls for one
For DJ, live sound, corporate and streaming work, and whenever you ask, somebody from our crew is at the event for the length of it. They ride the room through the toasts and the quiet moments, change batteries on our schedule, and handle whatever the night adds to the plan. When your own DJ or engineer is running it, we sound check the system with them and come back for it after the event.
We strike and go
At the end of the night we coil, pack and load out. The returning is ours, and the room goes back the way we found it.
Full service rental only, and that is on purpose
Every piece of equipment we own is for rental. It has been rentals from the start, and today every rental is white glove and turnkey: we deliver, set up, tune, test and strike the system with our own crew, and a technician stays to run it for the services that call for one. That is the only way to promise that the gear in your room sounds the way it did in our shop and that the night runs the way it was planned. If you want to see the inventory before you ask for a quote, the equipment list is public.
Four departments, one crew, one invoice
Most events need more than one of these, and booking them from one company is how load in days go smoothly. Everything below comes off the same trucks, from the same warehouse in ZIP 76053.
Sound
Speakers, subwoofers, wireless microphones, consoles and the cable that ties them together. Our inventory includes Flat Panel Audio DML500 panels, BassBoss subwoofers, Yamaha DZR and EV powered speakers, and Shure wireless microphone systems. Every microphone package ships with AI-powered De-Feedback, which is why your cocktail hour is ours to set up rather than to ring out.
Lighting
Uplighting around the perimeter, dance floor lighting, follow spot for an entrance or an award, monogram projection on a wall or a floor, and laser and effects for the rooms that want them. Lighting is the part of an event people photograph, so it is worth getting the color right rather than settling for whatever the venue has in the ceiling.
DJ
Our DJs work off our own rig, on CDJs and controllers we maintain, through the same speakers our sound department would have brought anyway. That is the whole argument for booking both from one company. The DJ knows what the system will do at eleven o'clock because it is the system they were standing behind at the last four events.
Photo, video and effects
Photo and video coverage for corporate events, live streaming for the people who could not travel, projector and screen packages for presentations, and the effects that make an entrance land, including fog, low lying clouds and cold sparks. Photo and video are how the moments from a corporate event reach the people who were not in the room. These are also the pieces clients tend to add late, so we keep them in stock rather than chasing them.
The events we spend our year on
Since 2001 the calendar has settled into a handful of event types. Each one asks for something different from the same inventory, and each one has its own page with the detail.
Weddings Ceremony, toasts and the dance floor
Weddings are the events where the smallest moments matter most. Vows at a normal speaking volume, a toast from somebody holding a microphone for the first time, a first dance that has to start on time. We set the ceremony system for intelligibility and the reception system for the last hour of the night, and the same crew handles both, so the changeover happens out of sight. See weddings for how a wedding day runs with us.
Corporate events Keynotes, panels, galas and general sessions
Corporate work is where the whole company shows up at once: audio, lighting, projection, live streaming and photo and video coverage. A general session with four presenters and a video roll needs the connections planned in advance, not improvised in the ballroom. See corporate events.
Private events Backyards, homes, clubs and celebrations
Birthdays, anniversaries, reunions and the parties that make their own category. The moments people remember from a night like this are usually small ones, so the system has to stay out of the way. These are also the events where the host is doing this for the first time, so we do more of the planning and less of the paperwork. See private events and celebrity and luxury events.
Live music and bands Full input lists and stage monitoring
A band changes the job from picking microphones to building an input list, with drums, amps, acoustic instruments and vocals all arriving at once. We bring the console, the monitoring and an engineer who has mixed the room before. See live music and band events.
Schools and universities Assemblies, homecomings and campus events
Campus events run on a tight schedule with a tighter budget and a lot of people who need to hear an announcement in a gym. We have been doing DFW school and university events for long enough to know which gyms fight back. See college, school and university events.
Raves and nightclubs Subwoofers, lasers and a long night
The one category where the system gets pushed for six hours straight. Headroom, subwoofer count and thermal margin are the whole conversation, and the lighting and laser rig has to survive the same night. See rave and night club events.
Based in Hurst, working across Dallas-Fort Worth
We're based in ZIP 76053, which sits between Dallas and Fort Worth. That was the plan. It puts a loaded truck inside forty minutes of most of the Metroplex, and it means a second run for a late addition is a short drive.
Our normal service radius is about forty miles from ZIP 76053. That covers Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Southlake, Grapevine, Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Richardson, Irving, Denton and most of the venues in between. If your venue sits outside that, ask anyway and we will tell you honestly whether it works.
We're insured and we have been every year we have been in business, so most venues in the area already have our certificate on file. If yours needs one made out a particular way, send us the requirements with the booking and we will have it back the same day.
Since 2001
Twenty five years of events in the same market, under the same name, with the same phone number.
Owned inventory
The equipment in your rental is ours. We know its history, and we service it between events.
Insured
Certificates of insurance for your venue, prepared to their wording, usually the same day you ask.
One point of contact
The person who quotes your event is the person you call on the day. See our work for recent events.
Questions people ask about our company
How long has Dallas Event Audio been in business?
Where are you based and how far do you travel?
What is included in a rental?
Do you sell equipment?
Do you own your equipment or sub rent it?
Are you a DJ company or a sound company?
What kinds of events do you work on?
Can you provide a certificate of insurance for my venue?
Tell us about your event and you'll hear back from us today, with a straightforward quote within 24 hours
Give us the date, the venue and roughly how many people will be in the room. We will come back with a system sized for the space, the crew who will be in the building, and one price for the whole thing delivered, set up, tuned, run and struck. That is how we have quoted every event since 2001.