Lighting, AV, Sound & Special Effects

Light, picture, sound and the big moments

Lighting changes a room more than any other single rental. The same ballroom reads warm and formal in amber or loud and playful in blue and pink. This collection brings together everything that shapes how a space looks and sounds, from the first guest through the last song.

Lighting the room

Uplighting washes walls, columns and draping in your palette and is the base layer for most events. Centerpiece pin spots make each table glow while the rest of the room stays low. Gobo projection puts a monogram or logo on a wall, and Leko spotlights cast patterns like snowflakes or damask. For the dance floor, moving heads and lasers bring motion. Outdoors and under tents, string lights and bistro lights take over after dark.

Video and sound

Corporate video walls carry presentations and branding at conferences and launches, while social video walls play montages and live feeds behind the DJ. Video mapping turns a whole room into the screen. Our sound and PA system covers speeches, bands and DJ sets.

Effects for the peak moments

Time cold sparks, dry ice, a CO2 cryo gun or a confetti cannon to an entrance, a first dance or a countdown.

Planning lighting and AV

• Start with a color palette and build the uplighting around it before adding effects.
• Ask your venue early about power, ceiling rigging and its rules on haze, sparks and confetti.
• Plan the moments. Write down when each effect fires so the DJ, the planner and our crew are on the same cue.
• Pair lighting with the floor. Our LED dance floors and stages work with the same palette.

See how this comes together at Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, corporate events and galas.

Where our lighting and AV crews work

Most of our lighting goes into rooms after dark. In New York City that means hotel ballrooms, Manhattan lofts and rooftop venues across the five boroughs, where gobos and video walls carry the branding for corporate nights. On Long Island, it is Mitzvahs and weddings in Nassau and Suffolk catering halls and country clubs, plus string lights over backyard tents. Our Farmingdale showroom sits right in the middle of it. We also light estates and tents in the Hamptons, venues in Westchester and the Hudson Valley, ballrooms in Northern and Central New Jersey and events in Fairfield County, Connecticut. We install everything to your plan and break it down at the end of the night.