Merry Kingsmas & Happy 2024 New Year!

Wishing all of our loyal customers, friends and crew a wonderful Christmas time and peaceful New Year. The office closes 22//12/23 and we re open 02/01/2024. Ho Ho Ho! : )

New StageMobil XXL stage — just in time for Christmas!

Great news for King Sound just in time for Christmas! We’ve wrapping up 2022 with another big purchase to upgrade our hire equipment stock. Meet our brand new StageMobil XXL mobile stage!

We’ve recently placed an order and expect it to arrive in time spring. We are taking bookings now for Summer ‘23 and beyond!

Stagemobil exclusively specialises in mobile event systems and have been leaders in in the field since 1997. We’re always looking to expand our staging portfolio and, having hired in one of these excellent units for many events in 2022, we have taken the decision to invest in our own.

Why it’s particularly special?

Well, conventional stage systems are familiar to most people. Typically, they require a great deal of time and energy to build, not so with Stagemobil — the principal difference is that this stage can be towed to site then constructed within 30 minutes, with a maximum of 2 people involved in the process.

This extremely short set-up time helps to significantly save the costs whereas simple handling saves the additional use of on site plant and minimises background noise during assembly and dismantling.

With 10 m x 6 m of stage area and a clearance of 4.60 m, the XXL Mobile Staging creates an impressive space for imposing and sophisticated stage design. Due to the extensibility with side wings for rigging PA or branding, this mobile stage generates a genuine rock ‘n‘ roll feeling at any festival!

The weight of the mobile platform (3500 kg) eliminates the need for additional ballasting which is another nice bonus when it comes to impact on-site, cutting transport requirements and boosting sustainability. Despite its impressive size it can be operated quickly and easily – disassembly is as quick as set-up so, once any technical equipment is removed, a clear site can be only minutes away!

This stage is perfect for bands, festivals and events where a quick set-up is needed. With the sound wings on the XXL stage you can fly 500KG of audio per side.

QUICK FACTS:

• Dimensions (as the trailer):  L 11,70 m x W 2,54 m x H 3,95 m

• Dimensions (as the stage):  W 10 m x D 6,10 m x H 6,30 m x Clearance H 4,60 m

• Height of stage floor: 1,20 — 1,40 m

• Floor capacity: 350 kg/m2

• Roof capacity: 1.050 kg

Come check it out, we’re confident it will be one of our most popular stages. Of course we are also able to equip the stage with high end sound and lighting options and provide any crew needed to deliver your next event.

Happy Holidays and see you at hire.kingsr.com soon!

K2 Arrival: King Sound Reinforcement is the largest stockist of L-Acoustics in the South West!

L-Acoustics Rental Partner, King Sound Reinforcement takes delivery an L-Acoustics world renowned K2 system! Affectionately dubbed as “lightweight heavyweight” in the industry, the K2 system is a high end, rider friendly large format line array system.

Really excited to be featured by L-Acoustics who have published a story about our K2 purchase!

Read a full story here!

It’s been long time coming but we were finally able to take delivery of 24 L-Acoustics K2

Adding to our existing stock of Kara II Kiva II systems, this latest investment cements King Sound as the largest stockist of L-Acoustics in the South West.

We look forward to enjoying the K2 during the crazy busy summer and beyond. Meanwhile we’d better give a good clean as it’s back from the fantastic Queen’s Platinum Jubilee concert last weekend at the palace 👑 🔊🇬🇧

New PA Towers from ALC truss

Check out our new PA Towers from ALC truss as our founder and MD, Paul King is sharing some cool features of these powerful structures in this new video! They join our existing rigging stock of ALC S60 10m towers. Exquisitely designed product from an excellent Belgian company. Available to hire from today!

DiGiCo & Klang Roadshow comes to town

A great day hosting the DiGiCo and Klang Roadshow last week.

We were very excited to welcome so many people during our morning and afternoon sessions. The training took place in our own warehouse where we could incorporate our own SD12s consoles as well as with new, impressive DiGiCo Quantum 225 & 338 consoles, along with the new Klang immersive IEM kit.

The atmosphere was amazing, after a long and draining Covid gap it was definitely refreshing to see so many passionate engineers eager to learn new things and get their hands on a DiGiCo again. Friendships were re-kindled and tea was drank — it was excellent.

Special thanks goes to our very knowledgeable and friendly DiGiCo specialist, Tim Shaxson. He demonstrated all the advantages of the Quantum software in the new consoles, only previously available on their flagship models. The sleek, futuristic designs and amazingly bright 17” screens needed no explanation...!

Everyone who tried it was impressed with the Klang system and it was generally agreed that once an artist had a demo there would be no going back to stereo.

All in all, a great day!

King Sound celebrates 25 years of service with the crew new uniform!

Much awaited upgrade for the King Crew uniform!

If you’ve followed us for a while, you’ll know that our team has been wearing branded, brown ‘King Crew’ t-shirts for more than ten years now and 'King Brown’ (as it is affectionately known here) was formally adopted as our company colour back in 2008! With that in mind, (and after a LOT of feedback from the team) we thought it was time to evolve our employee dress code a bit!

We are pleased to share that all our crew members now have a set of winter uniform they can wear in colder times of the year. It symbolically marks an amazing 25 years anniversary for the Company. Yes, King Sound Reinforcement has been in business for more than two decades!

The new uniform includes a brown branded sweatshirt paired with the stylish beanie hat in brown too with a smaller (crown) version of our logo. 

Christina Meyer-King, the head of Branding and Marketing, was responsible for the project.

She said: ‘’Our brand and heritage is something we are immensely proud of and keen to preserve. Our goal was to keep our branding concept alive yet give our staff something they can feel comfortable, warm and smart in. We've tried different styles and colour combinations but based on our team's feedback, sweatshirts proved to be most practical and professional looking attire. Admittedly, it took us a while to find the right supplier to ensure the right materials and embroidery techniques are used. However, the result was well worth the wait! Our crew loves its new workwear and some even admit wearing it outside working hours (which honestly is the best compliment any company can get!) The hats in particular were so coveted by some of our clients and partners we’ve started handing them out as swag!’’

Welcome to the Team!

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King Sound Reinforcement would like to welcome Phil Round as the newest member of the Team. Phil, having just returned from a 2 year stint working for a large AV company in New Zealand, contacted us shortly after moving to Bristol looking to get involved.

His CV looked good and we liked his ‘can do’ attitude. He initially worked for us a crew member on technical and non-technical assignments and the more we saw of him, the more impressed we were. Mindful that good people get snapped up quickly in this industry we invited him to apply for a full time job Live Event Production Manager with a focus on audio.

Phil’s calm attitude, friendly manner and solid technical ability are a great fit and he’s quickly settled in to the King team. Expect to see him operating shows, designing systems and advancing jobs with clients.

Managing Director Paul King says: ‘I am well known for being extremely picky about who we employ, especially in our sound department. The fact I hunted Phil down and offered him a job tells you all you need to know about my regard for Mr Round’s abilities!’

Phil, immediately took the sound department under his wing and got stuck in prepping shows and building racks.

Merry Christmas from King Sound!

The full King Sound family having a blast at Casa Mexicana last night. We all had a great time as we celebrated another year of achievements, challenges and amazing projects! We've had an excellent year thanks to our fantastic Team and particularly, our clients - we're beyond grateful you keep choosing us and promise to never let you down! 

Merry Christmas to you and yours and here's to very happy and prosperous 2020! x

Getting ready for busy summer!

Busy summer is ahead of us, the King team is working hard to get everything ready and lined up for the upcoming shows!

IPAF training for King Sound

IPAF training for King Sound. Braving zero degree temperatures we all completed 3A and 3B tests for MEWP platforms - cherry pickers and scissor lifts. So we are licensed to operate for another 5 years!