Services — Adelaide Backline

Mission

“Our aim is to ensure touring and local musicians are 100% confident with the hire gear they rely on to perform with on any given day. From soundcheck to the final bow it’s critical to achieve a smooth experience for the production team, artists and audience – with no unnecessary distractions. It’s always a delight to hear band members, crew and promoters comment that we consistently have the best quality backline gear in Australia. It’s just one of the many reasons the best-in-the-business keep coming back.”

Benedict Sweeney
Owner/Production/Operations/Producer – ABPH

Backline & Musical Instrument Hire

Our extensive range of musical equipment includes drum kits, cymbals, Afro-Latin/Middle & East Asian percussion and hardware accessories; bass & guitar amplifiers and instruments; speaker cabinets and modellers; keyboards, MIDI controllers & accessories.

Adelaide Backline inventory includes professional tier models from Aguilar, Akai, AKG, AllyStage, Ampeg, Aphex, Audix Microphones, Beyerdynamic, Boss, C&C Drums, D’Addario, Drawmer, Drum Works (DW), Ernie Ball, Evans Drumheads, Event Electronics, Fender, Gallien-Krueger, Hercules, JBL, Klark Teknik, König & Meyer, Korg, Laney, Laney, Latin Percussion, Ludwig, M-Audio, Mapex, Markbass, Marshall Amplifiers, Mesa Boogie, Midas Consoles, MOTU, Nashua, Nexus, Nord Clavier, On-Stage, Pearl Drums, Porter & Davies, Quik Lok, Radial Engineering, Rane, Remo, Ritter Amplification, Røde Microphones, Roland, Sabian, Sennheiser, Sequential Shure, Shurtape, Ultimate, Vox, Yamaha, Zildjian and more.

PA Systems — Consoles, Stage Boxes & Speakers

Equipment by DAS Audio, dBX, JBL, Klark-Teknik, Midas, QSC, Soundcraft and Yamaha. Curated festival PA solutions for 50 – 2500 pax audiences, ideal for one-off and community events. Private parties, venues, weddings or multi-day outdoor festivals are all within our scope of experience and expertise. We have battery powered high-quality portable speakers for wedding ceremonies, funerals and PR media launch events.

We work in association with our respected local AV partners on larger scale events.

Lighting & Truss

Brands include Event Lite, Chauvet, American DJ, AVE and ACS. Although we mainly focus on the audio side of production services, we have a focused (see what we did there) range of DMX LED lighting fixtures and truss to help spruce up a band type gig. Truss components are by Global Truss and we mostly stock black-finish in various lengths.

Piano Shell (Post Modern Jukebox @ Festival Theatre)

Stage & Riser Systems

Theatrical Stage – Up to 10m x 7.5m x 0.9m
(1.25m sq decks)

Drum Risers – 2.4m sq
(rolling 325mm, 450mm or 610mm height)

Choir | Brass | Poser Risers – 2.4m x 1.2m decks
(static 330mm height)

Camera Operator Platform – Square – 1.2msq @ 300mm / 450mm / 600mm height

Power Distribution

Distros include Tortech 110v U(S) step-down power transformers, Cyber Power Universal Power Supplies and OmegaTech 3-phase RCD distro.

We are test and tag compliant!

Logistics

Transportation of hired and fly-gear equipment is an important adjunct to our on-hire services. Simply advise the location and scheduled time and we’ll have your hire &/or fly gear on stage, set up and ready for your crew and artists to tweak at soundcheck – according to your stage plot of course. Or we’ll simply do a “dump ‘n run” to save you some bucks. Your comfort and confidence is our favourite musical key. Do note we operate under the Live Music Awards with regulatory compliance to after-hours plus Sunday and Public Holiday (min. 4hr call) requirements.