PA and sound system hire for events in Dublin and across Ireland.
Speech that carries to the back of the room, music that fills it, and an engineer who stays for the whole show.
AXL Audiovisual supplies professional PA systems, sound engineers and audio production for conferences, awards dinners, corporate events and live music across Dublin and Ireland. We deliver, install, tune and operate the system, then take it away again. We are not a dry hire counter. Every system we supply is specified for the room it is going into, and almost every one of them goes out with a technician.
What we supply
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Line array and point source PA for rooms from 50 to 2,000 people, lecterns, ceiling and floor coverage for long or awkward rooms, and enough headroom that a quiet speaker still lands at the back table.
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Handheld and lapel radio systems, gooseneck and lectern mics, comms for the production team and coordinated RF planning so nothing drops out mid speech in a busy venue.
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Full front of house and monitoring, digital consoles, playback and multitrack recording for concerts, festivals, band nights and showcase events.
Brands we supply
We hire and supply audio from L-Acoustics, Midas, Sennheiser, Shure, Yamaha, Audio-Technica and Electro-Voice. We keep the same core brands across our stock so that consoles, radio mics and PA boxes are interchangeable between jobs, and so every engineer on our team already knows the gear they are handed.
Most audio problems at corporate events are not equipment problems.
A ballroom with 400 people eating dinner is one of the hardest rooms in live audio. Hard surfaces, a wide and shallow shape, a low ceiling and an audience making more noise than they realise. Put a large PA in that room and turn it up and you get volume without intelligibility, which is the failure people actually notice. They will not say the sound was bad. They will say they could not hear the speech.
What we do is specify for the room rather than the guest count, tune the system once the tables and drapes are in, and keep an engineer on it for the duration. If your CEO steps away from the lectern, someone rides the fader. If a radio mic starts to struggle, someone is already swapping it before you have noticed.
For clients we work with repeatedly, we hold the previous event's settings and stage plan, so the second and third events start from a known position rather than from scratch.
Venues we know inside out
We work regularly in hotel and conference venues in Dublin and across Ireland, which means we usually arrive already knowing the room's power, access and rigging positions.
In and around Dublin we've delivered at The Alex Hotel, The Gibson Hotel, The Westbury and City North Hotel. Elsewhere in Ireland we've worked at the Four Seasons Hotel in Carlingford, Ballymascanlon Hotel in Dundalk and the Great Northern Hotel in Bundoran, and in Northern Ireland at Titanic Belfast, the Europa Hotel and Galgorm Resort. If your venue isn't on that list, we'll survey it before the day.
“AXL are a fantastic team to work with. They really go out of their way to ensure everything is perfect for every event, and are very quick to respond to any questions. I would thoroughly recommend hiring AXL for your next event.”
Yazmin Bowers, Event Executive, Callow Events
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers on cost, engineers, room size, coverage across Ireland and what we need to know about your venue.
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It depends on the room size, the guest numbers, whether you need speech only or full live music, and whether you need an engineer on site. Every quote includes delivery, installation, tuning and an engineer for the day, itemised so you can see what each element costs. Send us the venue, the date and the running order, and we'll quote against the actual requirement rather than a package.
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For a straightforward meeting with one lectern mic, you can usually run it yourself. For anything with multiple speakers, radio microphones, video playback or live music, we strongly recommend a technician. Most of the audio failures that get noticed at corporate events happen in the moments when nobody is watching the desk.
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Yes, anywhere in Ireland. Recent events include the Four Seasons Hotel in Carlingford, Ballymascanlon Hotel in Dundalk and the Great Northern Hotel in Bundoran, with travel and crew time built into the quote up front.
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It depends more on the shape and surfaces of the room than on the headcount. A long narrow room needs different coverage from a wide ballroom with the same number of people in it. As a rough guide, up to 100 people in a single meeting room is usually a pair of point source tops on sticks; 100 to 400 in a ballroom needs distributed point source or a compact line array with delay fills so the back tables are not chasing the front; and above 400, or anywhere with a balcony or an L shaped room, is line array territory. Tell us the venue and we will usually know the room already.
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Yes. Panels normally need a mix of lectern, table and radio handheld microphones, plus roving handhelds or a radio mic runner for audience questions. We plan the RF so the channels stay clean in busy venues.
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Both. Audio alone is common for smaller conferences and meetings. Most of our larger work combines audio with lighting, LED video and staging, delivered by one crew under one point of contact.
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Three things, and they are the ones that decide what actually fits in the room. Power: what supply is available, where it is, and whether it is shared with catering or staging. Access: loading bay or front door, lift and doorway sizes, and what time we can get in. Rigging positions: whether the PA can be flown, or has to be ground stacked, and what the venue will allow. We check all three before quoting. If you tell us the venue, there is a good chance we have already worked in it. Send us the venue, the guest number and the seating layout and we will tell you what actually fits, including whether the room can take it.
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