We have been on the road this week providing Nashville conference AV for a major national legal conference held at the Nashville Hilton Downtown. Central to everything and providing great sights and sounds for conference attendees, this hotel is a top conference destination.

Nashville conference AV is a pleasure at Nashville Hilton Downtown. The facility was built with conference ease in mind. Our Nashville conference AV group was pleased to work again with the great clients for whom we travel each year. And just as pleased to work with the professional and exceedingly personable conference planning group at Hilton Nashville Downtown.

For this Nashville conference AV job, we took with us in part the following conference AV rental equipment which we set up and tore down:

Multiple 8’x8′ Screens
Multiple LCD Projector (2500 – 3500 Lumens)
Shure UHF Wireless Hand Held Microphone Systems
Yamaha MG10/2 Mixers
Shure Handheld Wired Microphones (Podium Microphone)
Wireless Presentation Advancer Remotes w/ Laser Pointers
Laptop Computers
LCD Projectors (2500 – 3500 Lumens)

It was an exciting week for AV Connections providing Conference AV Pinehurst NC for a national medical conference. We were pleased to provide the AV rentals, set up, technicians, and tear down this week at the incredible conference facility at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst. NC.

It is always a good idea to send your RFP to  multiple off-site conference AV Pinehurst NC providers. Often AV rentals companies which are not under contract to a facility a meeting planner is considering can give far better prices for large AV jobs. Be sure you check around, do not just accept the in-house costs. Everything is competitive and negotiable.

Pinehurt, best known for it’s incredible golf courses and five-star acocmodations, not to mention several US Open Championships, is also a great choice for your national conference or meeting. We were the AV vendors selected to provide the ballroom and breakout rooms AV during this three day event.

Some of the AV rental equipment we traveled with was:

9′ x 12′ Fast-Fold Screen (Front Projection Surface – w/black bottom skirt)
Complete Screen Velour Dress Kit – Left and Right Side Drape & Valence Drape
Pipe and Drape: 8′ – 16′ (Black)
Barco RLM-W8 WUXGA DLP Projector (8,000 Lumen)
Barco Lens: 1.5-1.8 XGA, 1.45-1.74 WUXGA
ScreenPro II HD Switcher ((8) VGA Inputs, (2) DVI Inputs)
D’San Pro-2000 Limitimer Package
D’San ASL4-ND3 Speaker Clock (24″)
Extron RGBHV Distribution Amplifier
42″ Sanyo Flat-Screen Plasma
LCD Monitor
Cat5 Cable (150’+)
Shure Hand Held Wired Microphone – SM58/Beta 58 Podium Microphone

If you are planning a conference at Pinehurst Resort, be sure to call or email AV Connections for a competitive estimate on your conference AV Pinehurst NC. AV Connections is pleased to generate a price quote for your conference, meeting, or wedding at Pinehurst. We look forward to hearing from you at avrentals@avconnectionssc.com or 843-574-1174.

AV Connections is pleased to provide Florida Conference AV Ritz Carlton Amelia Island, Florida. The Ritz Carlton Amelia is both a beautiful hotel and an incredible conference site, it is a pleasure for us to provide conference audio visual at this site.

Some of the conference AV inventory which went to this site and is available for rental and staging from AV Connections in SC, GA, FL, and NC are:

JBL EON Powered Speakers with Stands
Yamaha MG10/2 Mixers
Audio patch connections for presentations
Shure hand-hald microphone (Mic)
LCD Projectors (3,500 Lumens)
7.5 x 10′ fast fold projection screens
Wireless presentation laser pointers
Laptop computers
DVD players
Hitachi CP-X809 LCD projectors (5,000 lumens)
Extron DVS 406 Switcher

One of the most frequently asked questions we answer is whether a conference or meeting planner is required to use the in-house AV department for their conference. The fact is, you are not. All contracts are negotiable. A wise planners gets bids from outside AV firms which often offer far more economical conference audio visual packages even with the significant up-charge the hotel will change to use an outside AV provider. A meeting planner may find the AV cost reduced by half quite regularly. It is important to do this leg work before signing the hotel or conference center contract. This contract will lock the conference planner into using on-site services, not only for AV but for literally everything the conference entails. All of these services are available for much less on the outside.

AV Connections works with hundreds of hotels and conference sites around the nation. We regularly work with those where we are not the in-house provider, and the hotels and conference center certainly know how to handle this arrangement. For new planners, this is a little known method of significant AV cost savings for conference and meeting budgets. A meeting or conference planner need not be afraid to approach this negotiation with the conference center hotel and planning staff; it is the mark of a savvy, cost-sensitive planner.

We are here to help with all of your questions regarding cost-effective and economical conference and meeting AV. AV Connections services conference clients throughout the United States from our branch offices. We are your best conference and meeting AV rentals and production resource.

More SC event lighting and audio visual staging by AV Connections in Myrtle Beach for you this week! This was a really exciting job, very literally. We were pleased to work with FIRST: For Inspiration and Recognition of Information of Science and Technology, Palmetto Partners. The event was supported in part by NASA, the National Aeronautical and Space Administration.

FIRST’s mission is begin scientific creativity as early as age six and continue to support it though enrichment and competions for children through the age of eighteen in order to support the science and scientists of our future. The youngest participants begin building with Legos and over the years of enrichment can advance to the SC event lighting and audio visual staging event you see being set up in these photos by AV Connections in Myrtle Beach; the regional Robotics Competition.

AV Connections is the preferred SC event lighting and audio visual supplier to Charleston, Myrtle Beach, Colombia, and Greenville. We specialize in large scale audio visual and lighting for indoor and outdoor events. We are also happy to service national conventions with audio visual staging across the United States. We provide audio visual and lighting staging throughout the Southeast: SC, FL, GA, MS. We look forward to providing audio visual for your next meeting or conference.

We are thrilled to be providing the corporate conference audiovisual and lighting for the Vector Marketing summit at the Sheraton Downtown Atlanta Hotel and Convention Center this week. This large-scale national conference has brought together our teams from our North and South Carolina branches of AV Connections. We met up in Atlanta, GA to get rolling together on the corporate conference audiovisual, after a night of loading in and a full day of set up, you see the incredible results!

Thousands of corporate conference and meeting attendees were treated to top-line event technology presentations on our innovative corporate conference audiovisual technology.

On site for our equipment were:

JBL speakers
Yamaha audio mixers
Shure wireless microphones
Sanyo projectors
Extron 506 switchers
Tascam DVD players
9×12 rear surface screens
7.5×10 rear surface screens

Here is an inside look at the night of on-site loading and a little of our set up early on the job:

Vector Marketing is an amazing client and we were pleased to be the conference audiovisual and lighting vendor of choice for their presentations and events. It was a great week in Atlanta, GA (which was actually kind of chilly for Hot-lanta) and we look forward to returning for Vector, the convention center, and other Atlanta clients soon.

For all your conference audiovisual and lighting needs in Atlanta, GA, as well as SC and FL, AV Connections should be your first call. We are budget savvy, customer-service driven, and have thirty years experience in hotel and convention center audiovisual and lighting. Once AV Connections has been one  ajob for you, we’ll always be your first and last call. Quality is the only way.

We traveled to fabulous and exciting New Orleans, Louisana this week to provide audio rentals and video equipment at the Loew’s New Orleans Hotel and Conference Center (just a small part of our client and partner services across the southern United States). Our team, along with our branch team members from our home office, Visual Aids Electronics of North Carolina Inc., were pleased to partner with another audio visual staging company to be a part of exciting conference staging at the Loew’s New Orleans. Our group was able to snap a few shots of the beautiful city of New Orleans during their travels to share with you.

Our group arrived to unload our client’s audio rentals and video setups in the middle of the night (just part of the job).  Our gentlemen unloaded in the rear bays of the conference center for the client to be ready to to go first thing in the morning. The quieter hours of the middle of the night are also the easiest time to maneuver trucks through the usually busy and heavily trafficked city streets downtown.

As you can see from the trucks, we provided a great deal of equipment to this client. Some (but not all) of the audio visual rental equipment that made the trip to the conference was:

(2) Panasonic PT-DW10000U HD DLP  10,000 Lumen projectors

(1) Folsom Presentation Pro Switcher

(2) Stumpfl 7’11” x 14’ HD Format Screens

(7) 32” HD LCD Flat Screen TVs

(7) 3500 Lumen HD LCD Projectors

(6) UHF Shure Wireless Hand Held & Lavalier Microphone Combo Systems

(11) JBL 15” EON Powered Speakers

After two long days of exhaustive travel, set up, and tear down to provide the best audio visual customer service in the nation, our team was able to get a little well-deserved rest.

On a side note, if you are headed to NOLA here are a few things we love about New Orleans which are not to be missed if you go to the Queen City:

A quiet coffee and beignet at Cafe du Monde.

A morning walk through the French Quarter or Garden District.

A visit to Jackson Square and the Cabildo.

An hour (if you can tear yourself away)  in The Presbytere with the amazing cultural artifacts of generations of Mardi Gras celebrations.

Laissez le bon temps rouler!