Category: LIVE

An awards night is a schedule problem before it is a production problem. There are a fixed number of awards, a room full of people who want dinner, and a hard end time. Everything we build is aimed at getting through the programme without losing the room.

Keeping the programme moving

Walk-up music under each recipient, a screen showing the category and the name, and an MC who keeps the pace are what stop an awards segment from running an hour long. We work from your programme in advance, build the graphics and the cues, and rehearse the stage path so recipients know where to walk and where to stand for the photograph.

What we bring

• Podium and presenter audio with wireless microphones
• LED wall or projection for categories, names, sponsor slates and video packages
• Stage wash lighting so the photographs are usable
• Staging and lectern
• Walk-up music and playback run by a technician
• Uplighting in the organisation’s colours
• Photobooth for winners and teams
• DJ for the portion after the programme

Photographs are part of the deliverable

The pictures from an awards night get used all year — in newsletters, on social, in next year’s sponsorship deck. That means the stage has to be lit for cameras, not just lit. We light faces from the front rather than relying on coloured wash from above, which is the usual reason awards photos come back unusable.

Related: nonprofit galas, conferences.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

December is the most compressed month in this business. The first two weekends book out months ahead, and the companies that leave it until November end up on a Tuesday in a room they did not want. If you are reading this before October, you are early enough.

Book the date before you pick the theme

Venue and production availability decide more about a December party than any other factor. Lock the date first. Everything else — the theme, the menu, whether there are awards — can be built afterwards, and we can work to a theme decided later.

Weeknights work better than people expect

A Tuesday or Wednesday in December is easier to staff, easier to book and often gets better attendance from employees than a Saturday competing with family plans. It is also the part of the calendar where the best rooms are still available in late autumn.

What we bring

• Room-wide uplighting, which transforms a hotel ballroom more than any décor
• Audio for speeches, awards and the dance floor
• LED wall for the year-in-review video, sponsor or brand content and awards graphics
• Photobooth or 360 booth — the most-used thing at any company party
• Dance floor lighting and effects
• Staging and dance floors
• DJ and MC to run awards, speeches and the schedule

One vendor, one invoice

Corporate parties usually mean separate bookings for AV, lighting, entertainment and the booth, each with its own contract and its own certificate of insurance. We provide all of it on one contract, which is markedly less work for whoever in your office has been handed this on top of their actual job.

Related: corporate production, award banquets, photobooths and 360.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

Graduation season compresses into a few weeks in May and June, and the good dates go early. It is also a party with two audiences in one room — the graduate’s friends and the family — and the job is keeping both on the floor.

Two crowds, one night

The music that fills the floor at 10pm is not the music that works while grandparents are eating. We build the night in stages: family and dinner music early, a moment for the toast and the slideshow, then the floor opens and the room belongs to the graduate. An MC manages the handover so it feels intentional rather than like the party changed hands.

The slideshow always matters more than expected

Nearly every graduation party has photos from kindergarten onward, and it is usually the moment the family remembers. We run it from a proper screen or LED wall with the audio balanced so the music underneath does not bury the room, and we test the file in advance rather than opening it for the first time on the night.

What we bring

• Audio for a hall, restaurant, back yard or clubhouse
• Screen or LED wall for the slideshow and photo montage
• Uplighting in school colours
• Dance floor lighting and effects
• Photobooth or 360 booth — the highest-used add-on at graduation parties
• Cold sparks for the entrance
• DJ and MC

School-side graduations too

We also cover the official side: ceremonies, senior brunches, promotion ceremonies and grad nights. We have worked 66 schools across Miami-Dade and Broward, so we know how school venues, cafeterias and gymnasiums behave acoustically before we arrive.

Related: school events, birthday parties.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

A retirement party is a speech event with a party attached. People have come to say something to someone, and most of the room will not be able to hear it unless somebody plans for that.

Speeches are the main event

There will be more speakers than anyone admits at the planning stage, several will be nervous, and at least one will speak too quietly. We provide handheld wireless microphones rather than a fixed lectern mic so people can speak from where they are comfortable, set levels for soft voices, and give the MC a running order so the segment does not sprawl past the point where the room is still listening.

The tribute video

Almost every retirement party has one, usually assembled by a colleague the week before and never tested on a real system. Send it to us in advance. We will check it plays, that the audio level matches the room, and that it is on a screen everyone can actually see.

What we bring

• Speech-focused audio, tuned for intelligibility in a function room or restaurant
• Multiple wireless handheld microphones
• Screen or LED wall for the tribute video and photo montage
• Uplighting to lift a plain function room
• Music across the evening, from background through to a dance floor if wanted
• Photobooth for the group photos people actually keep
• DJ and MC

Workplace and office venues

Many of these happen in an office, a cafeteria or a conference room rather than a venue. Those rooms are usually acoustically hard and unflatteringly lit. Uplighting and a properly placed system change both, and we can work within building rules on load-in times, lifts and security sign-in.

Related: corporate production, award banquets.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

An activation has to look like the brand, not like an event company turned up. That means the light, the surfaces and the sound all take direction from the brand book rather than from whatever was in the truck.

Lighting is the fastest way to brand a room

Uplighting mixed to your exact brand colour changes a neutral space more completely and more cheaply than any amount of décor. We colour-match from your hex values rather than approximating, and we can shift the room between states across the evening — one look for arrivals, another for the reveal, another for the party after.

The reveal is a cue

Whatever the moment is — a curtain, a screen wipe, a cold spark line, a wall of light coming up on the product — it needs to be rehearsed and called, not improvised. We build it as a sequence with a countdown everyone can hear on comms, so the music, the lighting and the reveal land on the same beat.

What we bring

• LED walls and screens for brand content and the reveal
• Brand-matched uplighting and lighting states across the run of show
• Audio for speeches, presentations and the DJ set after
• Staging and dance floors
• Special effects — cold sparks, haze, CO2
• Photobooth or 360 with custom overlays and data capture
• DJ and MC

Agencies and DMCs

We work as the production vendor behind agencies and destination management companies, quoting net so you can mark up, and taking direction from your producer rather than the client directly if that is how the job is structured. We have built for a FIFA World Cup watch party, the Coconut Grove BID and a range of brand and hospitality clients across South Florida.

Related: trade shows, corporate production.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

A grand opening is a short event with a lot riding on it. There is a photograph that has to happen, a few people who have to be heard, and a first impression of the business being formed by everyone standing on the pavement.

The ribbon shot is the deliverable

Everything else supports the moment the scissors close. We keep the sound system, cable and stands out of the camera line, light the ribbon area so faces are not in shadow under a harsh Miami midday sun or a dark awning, and cue music to hit as the ribbon drops. Your photographer should not have to work around us.

Short call, full production

Most openings run two to four hours, which makes them efficient work for a crew and easy to fit around a weekend booking. That short window still needs a proper setup: speeches usually involve a chamber of commerce representative, an elected official or a landlord, and those are exactly the people who must be audible.

What we bring

• Compact PA sized for a forecourt, lobby or pavement crowd
• Wireless microphones for speeches and the countdown
• Battery-powered audio where there is no usable power outside
• Uplighting and accent lighting for evening openings
• Photobooth with branded prints as a takeaway
• Cold sparks or confetti on the ribbon cut where the site allows
• DJ and MC to run the countdown and hold the crowd

Anniversaries and re-openings

The same build covers a business anniversary, a re-brand, a re-opening after renovation or a new location launch. If you are inviting press or officials, tell us at the enquiry stage — it changes where we put the sound so the speeches record cleanly.

Related: product launches, corporate production.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

A conference is judged on whether the person in the back row can hear the speaker and read the slide. Everything else — the staging, the lighting, the walk-in music — is in service of those two things.

Speech first

Presentation audio is tuned differently from party audio. It is set for intelligibility rather than impact, with the system aimed to cover seats rather than fill volume, and gain structured so a quiet presenter and a loud one both land. We provide handheld, lavalier and headset options and check every one before doors, because a presenter discovering their mic on stage is the most avoidable failure at any conference.

Slides, video and the switch

We take your decks in advance, run them from our machine, and switch between presenters so there is no laptop shuffle between sessions. Confidence monitors let speakers see their own slide without turning around. For larger rooms an LED wall reads better than projection in ambient light and does not wash out when the room lighting comes up.

What we bring

• Presentation audio and a full complement of wireless microphones
• LED wall or projection, with playback and switching run by a technician
• Staging, lectern and confidence monitors
• Stage wash and house lighting control
• Breakout room audio
• Walk-in and break music, and an MC for housekeeping announcements

One contract for the whole room

Conferences usually mean an audio company, a video company, a lighting company and a staging company, all invoicing separately and all pointing at each other when something fails. We provide all of it as one vendor, which means one load-in schedule, one sound check and one number to call on the day.

Related: trade show booths, corporate production.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

On a show floor you are competing with three hundred other booths for a glance. What wins attention is motion and light at eye level, and something for people to do once they stop walking.

An LED wall out-performs a printed backdrop

A printed graphic says one thing for three days. An LED wall can loop product footage, run a live demo, show a countdown to your stage times and change between show days. It also reads from across the hall, which a fabric backdrop does not. We size the wall to your booth footprint and handle the content playback so it simply runs.

Something to stop for

A photobooth on a show floor is a lead machine, not a novelty. Prints carry your branding out of the hall, the digital gallery captures an email address, and the queue itself makes the booth look busy, which draws more people in. A 360 booth does the same job louder and gets shared to social from the floor.

What we bring

• LED walls and monitors sized to the booth
• Content playback and looping, run reliably for the full show
• Booth audio kept at a level that works without annoying your neighbours
• Accent and product lighting
• Photobooth or 360 booth with branded output and data capture
• Wireless microphone for in-booth presentations

Show floor logistics

Exhibition halls have their own rules about load-in windows, rigging, power orders and union labour, and they are not negotiable on the day. We work to the exhibitor kit, order the power the equipment actually needs, and are set and tested before the hall opens.

Related: conferences, product launches and activations, equipment rentals.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

A field day lives or dies on whether people can hear the instructions. Outdoors, in daylight, across a field, with a few hundred people already excited — that is a harder audio problem than most evening events, and it is the one almost nobody plans for.

Daytime outdoor audio is a different job

There are no walls to reflect off and nothing to contain the sound, so coverage has to be built rather than assumed. We place multiple speakers along the field instead of stacking volume at one end, which keeps speech intelligible at the far cones without deafening anyone near the front. Wireless microphones get frequency-checked on site, because open ground and a hot afternoon are where cheap radio mics fail.

Someone has to run the schedule

The MC is the actual product at a field day. Heats have to be called, teams routed to stations, water breaks announced, and the whole thing kept to a schedule that usually has a hard end because buses or a shift are waiting. We work from your rotation sheet and keep it moving, with music between heats and walk-up music for finals.

What we bring

• Field-scale audio with multiple coverage positions
• Handheld and headset wireless microphones
• MC running heats, announcements and the schedule
• Music between events and for warm-ups
• Battery-powered systems for stations away from power
• Photobooth for the team photo at the end

Schools and company teams

We have run school events across 66 schools in Miami-Dade and Broward, including field days, pep rallies and spirit weeks. The company version is the same job with a different audience: a corporate team day, a family fun day or a staff appreciation picnic needs the same coverage, the same schedule discipline and the same MC.

Related: school events, corporate production.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.

At a fundraiser the audio-visual is not decoration — it is the machinery the ask runs on. If the appeal video stutters, if the microphone cuts during the story that makes people give, or if the auctioneer cannot be heard at the back, that is money off the total. We build galas so the room can hear and see the reason it is there.

The appeal moment is the whole night

Every gala has one segment that does the work: the video, the honouree, the survivor speech, the paddle raise. We rehearse that segment specifically — playback tested from the actual file on the actual system, lighting state pre-built, a backup audio path ready, and the room quiet before it starts. It is the part of the night worth spending the sound check on.

What we bring

• Podium and lectern audio, with wireless handhelds and lavaliers for presenters
• Projection or LED wall for appeal videos, sponsor slates and the live paddle count
• Room and stage lighting, plus uplighting in your organisation’s colours
• Playback and a technician who cues it, so nobody presents from their own laptop
• Staging and dance floor for the after-party portion
• Photobooth with your branding on every print for sponsor visibility
• DJ and MC

Sponsors get seen properly

Sponsor recognition is usually promised in the deck and then delivered as a logo nobody reads. On an LED wall it can rotate through the night, sit behind the podium during the appeal, and print on every photobooth strip that leaves the room. That is a renewal argument for next year’s sponsor conversation.

Working with civic and institutional clients

We have produced for Zoo Miami, Pérez Art Museum Miami, Jungle Island, Miami-Dade County, FIU, the YMCA of South Florida and the Coconut Grove BID, who have booked us for six public events since 2024. We are used to procurement, certificates of insurance naming the organisation, and venue load-in rules.

Related: corporate production, award banquets.

Book it

Tell us the date, the venue and the headcount and we will come back with a real quote built around your room and your run of show — not a package sheet you have to decode. We cover Miami-Dade, Broward and Monroe County.

Check your date or call 786-586-2134.

ATM Sounds and Events — audio, lighting, LED walls, staging, photobooths, special effects and DJ/MC, on one contract from one Miami team.