GRADUATIONS & COMMENCEMENTS
EVERY FAMILY HEARS THEIR GRADUATE'S NAME.
Ceremonies for universities, community colleges, and school districts across Southern California. One shot, no retakes, and a stadium full of families who came to hear one name out of two thousand. We've been doing commencement season out of Santa Ana for decades.
50+
YEARS IN LIVE AUDIO
Back-to-back
MULTIPLE CEREMONIES PER DAY
Stream ready
CLEAN FEEDS FOR REMOTE FAMILIES
Owned
INVENTORY IN SANTA ANA
Intelligibility is the whole job.
SYSTEMS BY VENUE
Nobody remembers whether commencement sounded impressive. They remember whether they heard the name. Coverage gets designed for the far bleachers and the back of the lawn, because that's where the families end up.
Stadiums & fields
Graduates on the field, families in the stands, and hundreds of feet between them. Delay positions and level control so the far side hears the same words at the same time.
Delay towers · Field & stand zones · Wind-tolerant coverage
Quads & lawn
Campus ceremonies on grass with no rigging points, no shade, and a start time nobody can move. Ground-supported systems and power planned around what the site actually has.
Ground support · Power planning · Sun & heat protection
Arenas & halls
Convention halls and campus arenas with long reverb tails that turn name reading to mush. Distributed coverage tuned for speech, not for a concert.
Speech-tuned system · Distributed delays · Reverb management
Theaters & chapels
Smaller convocations, hooding ceremonies, and baccalaureate services in rooms that were built beautiful, not built for speech. Discreet systems that respect the architecture.
Low-visual-impact rigging · Balcony coverage · Organ & ensemble
WHAT SHIPS TO YOUR CEREMONY
Everything from the processional to the last name read.
Campus purchasing needs a scope it can compare and file. Here is the standard commencement build; multi-ceremony days and multi-campus districts scale from here.
Four ceremonies in one day? Normal. We build once, stay through the turns, and reset between schools so your 8am and your 6pm sound identical.
The paperwork won't be the holdup. We're used to campus procurement — line-item scope, certificates of insurance, and vendor paperwork returned without chasing.
What the day actually looks like.
CEREMONY DAY
01 / Advance
Program first
Order of ceremony, speaker count, name-reading method, music, and stream requirements reviewed. Written scope back before anything ships.
02 / Build
The day before
Set and cabled ahead of ceremony morning wherever the venue allows, so nothing critical is being solved while families are finding seats.
03 / Check
Names, not just levels
System tuned for speech, RF coordinated, and a real name-reading check at the podium with the person who will actually be reading.
04 / Ceremony
Engineer stays seated
Someone is on the console for every ceremony, riding the podium and the reader. Spare mics and packs within arm's reach of the platform.
05 / Turn or strike
Reset between colleges
Reset for the next ceremony or struck to the campus schedule, site left the way facilities expects it.
THE PEOPLE
A concert can recover from a rough first song. A commencement cannot. The families in section 214 get one chance to hear that name, and the video lives on the university's channel forever. Our crews treat it that way.
- An engineer at the console for every ceremony, not a system left running
- Comfortable working with campus facilities, AV staff, and event services
- Experienced with multi-ceremony days and multi-campus districts
- One point of contact from advance through strike
One shot at a day nobody gets to repeat.
NEXT STEP
Send the ceremony schedule. We'll send back a real number.
Dates, venue, number of ceremonies, expected attendance, and whether you're streaming. You'll hear back with a line-by-line scope you can hand straight to procurement.