What is backline

Livesound company provides backline equipment for rent at favorable prices. You can take a ready-made instrumental set for conference concerts, exhibitions, trainings and other events or assemble your own set of missing equipment. Depending on the final composition of the backline will differ the price of the service.

Backline or backline is a set of equipment (musical equipment, instruments, apparatus) on the stage for the primary processing of sound and its quality reproduction, as well as for the musician to be able to control the game. If you ask an artist performing on stage: backline – what is it, he will answer – it is something that provides complete comfort during the performance.

Backline allows the musician to hear himself and the whole band to hear each other on stage. Thus backline is needed not only for concerts, but also for banquets and other events.

What goes into a backline

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To understand what backline is, you can even understand by the name. It consists of two English words – back and line. Back means back, line translates as line. It turns out that backline is the back line, that is, the necessary “technical background” for the performance of a musical group. The composition of backline equipment includes:

• percussion rigs;
• bass or guitar combo amplifier;
• stands for keyboards, microphone and musical instruments;
• monitors;
• di-boxes;
• microphones;
• headphones;
• accessory switching (wires).

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Musicians have their own instruments, but equipment for sound conversion and reproduction is an equally important part of the preparation, without which it is impossible to imagine a good performance.

What equipment to choose for outdoor and indoor venues

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The ideal option is to get a consultation with a sound engineer before the event. The specialist will make an assessment and recommend which backline is needed, taking into account every nuance of sound. Our company also provides this service (the work of the sound engineer is paid separately).

One of the parameters, which is evaluated by a professional, is the interior of the room, because in two seemingly similar rooms the sound will sound different. In one room everything will be perfect and the setup will take a minimum of time, in the other – it is a jewelry work. Such rooms are called complex: they may have a lot of mirror, metal, glass, dense fabric surfaces, niches in the ceiling – and all this must be taken into account.

For example, in a simple (from the interior point of view) hall it is enough to install several powerful portal speakers. In complex rooms, additional small speakers will be needed throughout the area in order to “finish” the sound quality. If these rules are neglected, the sound becomes distorted: there is hum, clarity drops, unintelligibility appears, certain frequencies are amplified or, on the contrary, absorbed.

On open stages it is usually easier to set up high-quality sound (provided that the equipment is properly arranged). The only condition is weather without rain. Most often for street scenes choose portal speakers of high power, because in the open space there are no reflective surfaces and restrictions for the spread of energy.

At the same time, the main share of power of the portal speaker goes to the lower frequencies: the more it produces, the more powerful it is considered to be. And for open areas it is important that there were at least 2 times more lower frequencies for greater propagation of the sound wave.

It is necessary to choose power with reserve: it is possible to reduce the volume, but to increase it – if the portal speakers are already working in full – will not work. This is a common mistake at concerts: guests are not always warmed up at the beginning of the event, and high volume cuts the ear. Towards the end of the evening, people usually ask to play loud and powerful – that’s where the extra power is needed.