Students at Backstage Academy benefit from having access to a wide range of specialist equipment, software and technology in line with the latest industry developments - much of which is made possible through our partnerships with some of the industry’s best entertainment technology manufacturers and distributors.
Specialist Equipment, Software & Technology

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Sound equipment
Such as:
- Desks from Allen & Heath, Avid, Midas and Soundcraft
- Sound Systems from D&B and KV2 Audio
- Microphones from Audix, Sennheiser and Shure.

Lighting equipment
Such as:
- Wide range of lighting fixtures including Art2000s, Powercubes, moving lights, Source 4s and blinders from Avolites, Chauvet, Chroma-Q, Clay Paky and Prolight
- Lighting control from Avolites, ChamSys, GrandMA and Hog
- TitanNet processors from Avolites.

Video equipment
Such as:
- Media servers from Avolites, Disguise, Green Hippo and Isadora
- LED video wall from ROE Visual and Prolights
- Laser projectors from Epson and Panasonic
- Video switcher and cameras from Blackmagic Design
- Networking from Luminex.

Plus a whole lot more...
Communications equipment from Riedel.
Software such as: Avolites Ai & Titan, Blacktrax, Disguise, Green Hippo Zookeeper, Isadora, Notch, SketchUp, Smode, Vectorworks, WYSIWYG, Adobe Creative Cloud package and Microsoft Windows 365 suite.
Rigging equipment such as:
- Truss from Prolyte and Sixty82
- Motors from CM Lodestar
- Load cells from Broadweigh.
