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Dizzy Blonde Productions Dizzy Blonde Productions is a small business based in Hampshire, UK run by Doug Boyce & Annie Parratt, offering live sound reinforcement and lighting services.

We are able to provide varying sizes of sound and lighting systems, tailored to the size of your event and can accommodate solo artists, duo’s or full bands at all levels of ability from amateur to professional. Our largest sound system, is based around the RCF HDL20 array system and uses a state of the art digital mixing system providing high quality sound at high sound pressure levels with good

coverage for larger events. This system will typically cover up to 2000 people. We can also provide a full range of backline equipment, stage monitors, microphones, DI box’s, stands, power distro and all the necessary hardware to run an entire stage. What we can currently offer

Backline:

1x Blackstar Club 40 Valve guitar combo.
1x Laney VC30 Valve guitar combo.
1x Warwick 300w Bass head & 2 x12 Bass cab.
1x 5 pc Peavey drum kit with cymbals, Remo heads and Mapex hardware. Stage hardware:

Drum kit mic’s/Instrument mic’s/Vocal mic’s & stands. (Shure/Rode/Audio Technica/AGK). LED Lighting rig incl moving head fixtures, controlled from laptop based DMX software.

3m or 5m Triangular lighting truss with winch stands. Free standing lighting plinths. Smoke machine, Hazer, laser & other dance floor lighting effects available.

8x DI box’s.
6 auxiliary on-stage snakes/stage box’s.
2ea 80m Cat 5 “multicore” for Allen & Heath GLD-80 and QU-24/32 systems.
32 channel signal splitter to enable stage side monitor desk. Front of house:

1 x 48Ch Allen & Heath GLD-80 Mixing System with digital stage boxe & Cat 5 cable.

2 x 24Ch Allen & Heath QU-24 digital mixer with digital stage boxe & Cat 5 cable (also capable of using conventional multicore) - can also multi-track record up to 18 tracks for live shows.

1x 32Ch Allen & Heath QU-32 digital mixer.

4x RCF 4-PRO 8003AS 1000w Active Bass Bins.

2x RCF ART 722A 750w Full range Active speakers (For smaller venues).

2x RCF ART 745 Full range Active speakers.

2x RCF HD12A 600w Full range Active speakers (For smaller venues - can also be tandem mounted with RCF 722A for additional coverage at larger venues).

10 x RCF HDL-20 array speakers.

6 x Blacka Acoustic 3500w Passive folded horn subs.

1 x FOH amp rack - for passive bass bins.


2x DBX “Driverack PA plus” loudspeaker management system. Monitors:

6x RCF NX12 Active monitor wedges with 6 separate mixes available. All of our electrical equipment is PAT tested annually and we hold full Public Liability insurance (copies available on request). Please note that we do not offer dry hire services at this time.

20/08/2023

Another great gig with Sam and Chris from Eurohire at the Yew Tree yesterday....

14/08/2023

Wow, what a weekend......

Live Wire.....complete with cannons ! 😜
11/08/2023

Live Wire.....complete with cannons ! 😜

11/08/2023

Nearly there....

05/08/2023

Outdoor gig in the rain 🤣

We're working with the luvverly Eurohire crew once again this weekend, as we find ourselves back in the Purple Turtle te...
12/07/2023

We're working with the luvverly Eurohire crew once again this weekend, as we find ourselves back in the Purple Turtle tent at the "Readipop" festival...

Come in and see us (Friday evening, all day Saturday and Sunday).

06/03/2023

Our first gig of 2023

Have a look at our latest video to see what we got up to this weekend at the Readipop Festival....
11/07/2022

Have a look at our latest video to see what we got up to this weekend at the Readipop Festival....

23/05/2022

Yes, its been a while since we last posted, yes, we are well thank you and yes, thankfully things are starting to pick up on the sound and lighting front.

So far this year, we had the pleasure of providing sound and lighting services for three events, including an awesome Battle Of The Bands event on behalf of the Buckinghamshire Music Trust and fantastic mini festival on behalf of !daft!

We are also looking forward to once again supporting the Hurst Pimary School in Bexley for their Summer International Music Festival and at least 2 more quality events on behalf of !daft!

We also received an enquiry today from our lovely friends at Eurohire, asking if we could provide sound and stage tech services for the upcoming Readipop festival in July.

Small steps are all we can hope for in the current climate but I'll take small steps going forward, over going backwards all day long.
Let's all hope the world sorts itself out sooner than later......

Yaaay,! ....our new amp and processing rack for subs is pretty much finished.. 18,000W in such a small space, thanks to...
19/05/2020

Yaaay,! ....our new amp and processing rack for subs is pretty much finished.. 18,000W in such a small space, thanks to PKN Audio.

Hi all, we sincerely hope you are as well as can be expected in the current climate.Well, since FB keeps telling me that...
15/04/2020

Hi all, we sincerely hope you are as well as can be expected in the current climate.

Well, since FB keeps telling me that Dizzy Blonde Productions haven't posted anything for ages, I guess I had better say something to prove to FB at least that we are alive and kicking if not out and about for obvious reasons !

We have taken this enforced down time to check and repair all of our cables, re-paint speakers and and generally tidy things up.

We have also re-vamped our festival amp rack to install some new PKN XE4000 series amplifiers to drive our outdoor subs.
These latest offerings from PKN incorporate full remote monitoring and voltage output and limiting control, very useful to feed the drivers with the optimum voltage levels. This new arrangement provides for future expansion allowing the addition of another 8 subs if required.

We also took the opportunity to upgrade our amp rack power distro with a natty little Powercon distribution unit and also the sub hook up cables to handle the power from the amps.

I also decided to build a passive splitter to enable stage side monitoring. The photo below shows the splitter rack ready wired to accept our second A&H stage box's when needed.
Both connect to the respective desks with CAT5....a very neat solution I thought 😇

All we need now is an opportunity to make use of it all...not this year I fancy though 😕

Keep safe and well everyone.....see you on the other side as they say !

All tested and ready for the summer !(RCF HDL-20A)
22/05/2019

All tested and ready for the summer !
(RCF HDL-20A)

Hah, so true 😏
16/07/2018

Hah, so true 😏

This year's "Amped" stage featured 3 stacks per side EAW KF850 and KF850SB supplied by Eurohire.These huge output cabs g...
15/07/2018

This year's "Amped" stage featured 3 stacks per side EAW KF850 and KF850SB supplied by Eurohire.
These huge output cabs go back to around 1985 and are still used for many events around the world in various configurations.
In terms of design, they are not that dissimilar to the RCF 6001A cabs we had prior to investing in the line array (albeit the 6001's are active cabs having on board amplifiers).

Weighing in at 250lbs, these EAW cabs need 3 to 4 people to safely stack but once in place, provide crisp mids and highs and chest thumping bass when paired with the sub bass cabs.

The KF850's are tri-amped cabs meaning that 4 power amps are required to drive a top and sub-bass combination, for 6 pairs of cabs, that's a lot of amplifier power which is usually supplied by the Eurohire Lab Gruppen amp racks.

15/07/2018

Well, here we are a full week after another successful Basingstoke Live (or "B Love" as they call it now) and it was all hands to the pumps for another double gig weekend with the lovely !daft!

"B Love" went very well but the hot weather made the already strenuous weekend even more draining for us workers.

The new Allen & Heath Qu-32 worked flawlessly on the "Amped" stage, driving the Eurohire EAW 6 cabs per side rig.

Our Qu-24 we used as part of our own rig we supply for the "Electric Soup" stage, apparently started to exhibit minor glitches due to the heat which we were able to remedy on the Sunday by adding a fan.
An integral cooling fan would be a worthwhile addition to the otherwise excellent Qu range.

This week saw us back with !daft! on Friday at the Hilton St Anne's Manor for a large corporate summer ball and then a sumptuous wedding in Stokenchurch on Saturday.

We have a few more busy double gig weekends ahead with !daft! until we settle back into the normality of single gig weekends. These include 3 more festival type events, one of which is a military event which I am particularly looking forward to (any excuse to get a look around the vehicle sheds and talk to the guys about the latest kit 😉).

Check out Blacka Acoustics.We use their BS15 2000w 136dB "W" BinsBig ?....YesHeavy ?...YesKickarse ?...Definately 😜
17/06/2018

Check out Blacka Acoustics.
We use their BS15 2000w 136dB "W" Bins

Big ?....Yes
Heavy ?...Yes
Kickarse ?...Definately 😜

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