Audio-Visual Equipment Hire

Concert Trade offer AV equipment hire for all types of events. We provide Audio-Visual equipment for Company Presentations, Conferences, Product Launches, Trade Shows, Training Seminars, Public Meetings, Schools, Colleges, Universities, etc. Our AV equipment includes: projectors, screens, radio microphones, lecterns and lectern microphones, distributed sound systems and more, catering for any event, big or small, from 10 - 5,000 people.

Audio-Visual equipment is available for Dry Hire, or Fully Operated.

If you have an event coming up that needs AV facilities, then call us to discuss your requirements on +44(0)161 928 1004, or email the Hire Department. Although Manchester based we can provide equipment throughout the UK and Europe.

Projectors and Screens

Projectors supplied from 1,000 - 12,000 lumens, suitable for presentations in all lighting environments. Industry standard products such as Barco projectors ensure reliability.

Screens are available for front projection or rear projection. Portable screens and electric screens in sizes up to 4 x 3m.

Plasma Screens / LED Screens

Plasma screens 42 - 52" wide, High Definition (HD Ready) models. Video Walls for extra large displays.

LED screens including sports perimeter displays, largescale LED Walls for backdrop applications, indoor and outdoor solutions.

Wireless microphones

Radio microphone systems: Handheld mics, Lavalier mics, Headworn mics. Industry standard wireless systems tailored to your event.

Lecterns and lectern microphones

Lecterns available to enhance the corporate image. Complete with dedicated microphone, either a cardioid condenser gooseneck microphone, or a high quality cardioid or omni-directional boundary microphone.

Sound systems

Portable self-powered lightweight speakers. Easily mounted on stands, portable active speakers provide a top quality sound with a minimum of cabling.

Mixers and sound sources

Mixers ideally suited to AV events can be supplied with other sound sources as required: CD Players, mp3 Players, DAT Recorders and Turntables are all available.

Broadcast and video

Simultaneous broadcast equipment hire: add the facility to broadcast your event to a different location or to large screens at the venue. This broadcast can also be recorded, and more details of our video recording and video editing can be found on the video page.

Concert Trade - AV Hire
Audio-Visual Equipment Hire

We are involved in many AV events, hiring a wide variety of equipment, and we can supply skilled technicians and sound engineers if required. Every event is different, so please call or email our experienced staff to discuss your requirements.

Recent events:

BGC Partners Second Annual Global Charity Day

BGC Partners, a leading provider of financial services worldwide, raised $5 million through its global network of offices on its highly successful Second Annual Global Charity Day.

The London event, held at BGC’s global headquarters at Barclay Tower, Canary Wharf, was supported by: Her Royal Highness, the Princess Royal; Countess Mountbatten of Burma; Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank England and a long list of celebrities from the worlds of sport, television and film, including rugby World Cup winning captain, Martin Johnson, international cricket icons Shane Warne and Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff, and newly crowned three-day event World Champion, Zara Phillips.

In New York, BGC was supported by former New York Giants players Billy Ard, Harry Carson, and Phil Simms, alongside New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, basketball coach Rick Pitino, and supermodel Petra Nemcova.

We provided a fully distributed sound system over the whole of the 20th floor, including a balanced, even coverage of the trading floor, utilising RCF Acustica C3108 speakers in 13 different locations. We also provided staging and a lectern, plasma screens, and an array of wireless microphones. Our camera crew filmed the day's events and produced a 30 minute DVD for the company. We also supplied simultaneous outside broadcast facilities, so that events taking place outdoors could be shown on the large indoor plasma screens.