The same application, a different evening
The features do not change from trade to trade — what changes is which of them is doing the work. These pages describe the evening rather than the software.
Guides by trade
Music and cues for a magic act
The build, the reveal and the blackout — landing when you decide they land, not a beat and a half later.
Sound for a hypnosis show
A hypnosis show is the one performance where the music underneath matters as much as anything said over it — and where stopping it at the wrong moment undoes twenty minutes of work.
Walk-on music and stings for stand-up
Walk-on, walk-off, and the sting that rescues a dying bit — from a laptop at the side of the stage and a button in your pocket.
Sound effects and party music for children’s entertainers
Thirty effects arranged where your fingers expect them, and the party playlist running underneath the lot.
Backing tracks for a solo or duo act
Your setlist in order, one press per song, from a laptop that cannot buffer, ring, or show you a notification mid-song.
Sound cues for theater, school and community productions
A numbered cue list somebody else can run, on the computer your venue already has.
Music for dance, cheer and competition floors
One competitor, one track, started on the nod — and a running order that is redrawn between every heat.
House sound for a room that runs a different show every night
The act changes nightly, the person at the keyboard changes nightly, and the machine stays where it is.
Sound for a ventriloquist act, run without being seen to run it
One hand is inside the figure. The other one is doing something the audience can see. Neither of them is free to find a laptop.
Service sound for a rotating team of volunteers
The order of service barely changes. The person running it changes every week.
Entrance music and match-night sound
The card is written on a whiteboard and it changes twice before doors. The music has to keep up.
Sound for a drag or cabaret night
The number is the mix. It was edited for months, it runs four minutes, and nothing may interrupt it.
Assemblies, field day and the school play
The same gym computer does the assembly, the field day and the play, and none of the people running it were hired to do sound.
Cue audio for escape rooms, immersive shows and haunts
The same forty cues, twenty times a day, fired by somebody watching a camera in another room.
Running a bill when the bill stops behaving
Ten acts, and by the interval the running order is not the running order any more.
Not on the list?
Plenty of people run their own sound and are not on it: theater and holiday shows, dance and cheer competitions, skating and dog agility, churches and celebrants, schools, burlesque and cabaret, escape rooms, quiz and bingo hosts, corporate events, wrestling and roller derby. The application does not care which of those you are — it is the same running order and the same wall of sounds.
More of these are being written, and which ones come next is decided by who asks. Say what you run, or put it on the waiting list form — there is a box for exactly this.