Sound System Hire in Southampton
We load the van in Southampton, so most of the city is a short run. Speakers, mixers and microphones delivered, set up and tested well before your first guest walks in.

- Base
- Southampton
- Distance from base
- This is home
- Typical arrival
- 90 min before doors
- Postcodes
- SO14 · SO15 · SO16 · SO17 · SO18 · SO19
- Availability
- 7 days, 8am to 10pm
- Up to 60 guests
- Two tops on stands, one mic
- 60 to 120
- Tops, one sub, small desk
- 120 to 200
- Full PA, subs and monitors
- Over 200
- Call us, we spec it to the room
Guide figures only. We confirm the actual spec on the call, once we know the room, the guest count and whether anyone is playing live. Nothing is fixed until you have agreed it.
Every corner of the city
Zadeking has been supplying sound across Southampton for years, and we know the rooms. We cover the city centre, Portswood, Highfield, Bassett, Shirley, Freemantle, Millbrook, St Denys, Bevois Valley, Bitterne, Woolston, Sholing and Thornhill, along with everywhere in between.
Southampton rooms have a habit of being harder work than they look. A lot of the function space in this city sits on a first floor above a bar, reached by one narrow staircase. Plenty of it's hard-surfaced, all glass and painted brick, which turns a badly chosen system into an echo. And a good number of the best rooms are on residential streets where the parking is permit only and the neighbours are ten feet from the fire door.
None of that is a problem when someone has seen it before. We ask the awkward questions when you book, so none of them come up on the day: what the load-in looks like, where the van can sit, what the venue's cut-off is, and whether there's a sound limiter on the wall. Then we bring a rig sized for the room rather than the biggest one we own.
Rooms we work in around Southampton
- Hotel function rooms and suites across the city and out towards the airport
- Church halls and community centres, many with no installed PA at all
- First-floor function rooms above pubs and restaurants in the centre
- Sports and social club rooms, where the bar noise competes with the speeches
- Marquees and gardens, including power planning if there's no supply near the tent
- University and school halls for graduations, showcases and society events
The city questions
Can you get equipment up to a first-floor function room?
Yes. Plenty of Southampton function rooms sit above a pub or a restaurant. Tell us when you book whether there's a lift or stairs and roughly how many flights, and we'll bring the right hands and the right sized rig for the room.
Where do you park to unload in the city centre?
We ask about loading before the day. Some city centre venues have a loading bay, others need a permit or a short stop on a restricted street. If you can find out what your venue allows, we'll plan the arrival around it so nothing is rushed.
How late can the sound run at a Southampton venue?
That's set by your venue's licence rather than by us. Most function rooms in the city stop amplified music between 11pm and midnight, and some have a sound limiter fitted to the wall. Tell us the cut-off and we'll build the night around it.
More questions are answered on the common questions page.
What we're booked for
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Event in Southampton?
Tell us the venue, the date and roughly how many people. We'll come back with a price and what we'd bring.