ArrayCalc V12 · System design
20+ years worldwide touring experience

Sound engineered
for every scale.

PA system design, sound engineering, and touring system engineers — from intimate theatre runs to stadium world tours. Drive systems available to rent, delivered anywhere.

Liam Gallagher
Kylie Minogue
Girls Aloud
Sam Fender
Biffy Clyro
Fontaines DC
Olivia Dean
David Gray
Reading Festival Main Stage
Liam Gallagher
Kylie Minogue
Girls Aloud
Sam Fender
Biffy Clyro
Fontaines DC
Olivia Dean
David Gray
Reading Festival Main Stage
What we do

End-to-end PA expertise

From initial system design through to tour support — at any scale, anywhere in the world.

PA system design

Bespoke loudspeaker system design for any venue — from a 500-seat theatre to a 90,000-capacity stadium. Modelled and optimised before a single box is flown.

Design & consultancy

Sound design & engineering

Creative and technical sound design for live events and productions. Every seat hears the show as intended — stalls to upper tier, night after night.

Live events

Touring system engineers

System engineers who've toured theatres, arenas, and stadium world tours. Available for the full run — advance to load-out, every city, every night.

Touring support

Drive system rental

Fully configured drive rack — Direct Out Maven A, Rational Acoustics Smaart, Netgear switching with Dante and AVB over CAT and fibre. Ready to connect on arrival.

Equipment hire
System design credits

Trusted by artists
and events worldwide

A selection of artists and events for whom Audio Butler has produced PA system designs.

Liam Gallagher
System design
Arena / Stadium
Kylie Minogue
System design
Arena
Girls Aloud
System design
Arena
Olivia Dean
System design
Arena / Festival
Sam Fender
System design
Arena
Biffy Clyro
System design
Arena
Fontaines DC
System design
Arena
David Gray
System design
Arena
Reading Festival
Main stage · System design
Festival
Diljit Dosanjh
In-the-round · System design
Arena / In-the-round
Drive system rental

What's in
the rack

Audio Butler — Drive rack
1U
Direct Out Maven A
Audio processor · direct outputs
Core
SW
Rational Acoustics Smaart
Real-time measurement · transfer function · SPL
Software
1U
Netgear managed switch
AVB + Dante · CAT & fibre uplink
Network
Dante audio transport
Layer 3 IP audio · low latency
Protocol
AVB audio transport
IEEE 802.1 · time-sensitive networking
Protocol

Full system specification

Every drive system is built to the same standard — configured, tested, and ready to patch in on any scale of show.

Processing
ProcessorDirect Out Maven A — direct output processing with full matrix routing and delay
MeasurementRational Acoustics Smaart Suite — transfer function, RTA, SPL metering
Networking
SwitchingNetgear managed switches — configured for AVB and Dante domains
PhysicalCAT (copper), fibre, and HMA Fiberfox hybrid multicore supported
Audio transport
Dante AVB / IEEE 802.1 AES Analogue CAT Fibre HMA Fiberfox

Systems delivered pre-configured for your show. On-call support throughout the rental period. Need an engineer on site to tune and verify? We can supply that too.

Who we are

Built on two decades
of world touring

Audio Butler was founded by system engineers with over 20 years of worldwide touring experience. We've run PA on intimate theatre runs and on stadium world tours — productions where the margin for error is zero and the pressure to deliver is absolute.

We understand what touring crews actually need: gear that works, engineers who arrive prepared, and a system that holds up night after night across every kind of room — from a 600-seat theatre in Manchester to a 70,000-capacity stadium on the other side of the world.

Theatre
Intimate productions · precise coverage
Arena
Large-scale rigs · complex system design
Stadium world tour
Global productions · maximum scale
20+
Years worldwide touring
9+
Major artist credits
90k
Max capacity delivered
How we work

From brief to show

A clear process means fewer surprises — whether it's night one of a theatre run or the opening date of a world tour.

01

Brief & discovery

We start by understanding your venue, capacity, rider requirements, and budget. The more we know upfront, the better the system we design.

02

System design & modelling

Coverage modelled using prediction software for even SPL — from a 400-seat theatre to a 90,000-capacity stadium bowl — before anything is specified or ordered.

03

Deployment & tuning

On site, we configure, align, and tune using Smaart measurement and trained ears. Every room is different; we treat it that way.

04

Tour & show support

On the road with you for the run, or available remotely for venue installs. Wherever the tour goes, the support goes with it.

Get in touch

Let's talk about your
next project

Theatre run, arena tour, or festival site — tell us what you're working on and we'll come back to you within one business day.

Send enquiry