Playback rigs
Redundant Ableton playback with failover, timecode out to lighting and video, click and stems to the desk, all in a flight-rated rack that opens and is on air in minutes.
Services
We build the rig. You run the show.
Gainware™ designs and builds complete playback, in-ear, front-of-house, and lighting systems: the racks, the cabling, the patch panels, and the software that makes it one system. Built by working touring professionals, for the shows you actually play.
Builds · openAgency · coming soon
What we build
Complete systems, not parts lists
Every system leaves as one thing: racked, wired, labeled, configured, and tested on a real show day before it ships.
In-ear monitor systems
Wireless or wired IEM racks sized to the band: transmitters, RF distribution and antennas, a mix engine, and a patch panel so the whole system connects with a handful of cables.
Front-of-house packages
Console, stagebox, snake or network, plugin host, and the software to run it. Specified for the rooms you actually play, from clubs to arenas.
Lighting systems
Lighting that follows the show from Ableton or Logic, or that you busk from a controller: fixtures, nodes, networking, and Automate DMX™ programming, so the light show runs every night.
What's included
Racks, cabling, software, and the people who built all three
Design and spec
We start from your band, your rooms, and your budget, and design a system that is actually buildable and serviceable on the road.
Racks, cabling, patch panels
Every rack is built, wired, and labeled by us: power, audio, network, and custom patch panels with the connectors your show needs (XLR, etherCON, USB-C, HDMI, and more).
The software, configured
LiveTC™, LiveRack™, Audioduct™, Gainware Chat™, and Automate DMX™ installed, licensed, and set up for the system. One team built both the rack and the software in it.
Commissioning and training
We bring the system up with you, run a full show-day test, and hand over documentation your crew can follow at 2am in a new city.
How it works
From a conversation to a rack on your truck
Tell us about the show
Band size, the rooms you play, what has to be redundant, what has to fly. A quick call or an email is enough to start.
Spec and quote
You get a bill of materials, a rack layout, and a fixed price for the build. Change anything before we order a single part.
Build and wire
We source, build, wire, label, and configure the system, then run it through a full show-day test before it leaves.
Commission and support
We commission it with your crew, train the people who will run it, and stay reachable when something breaks on a Tuesday in Tulsa.
Start a build
Tell us what the show needs
Leave your email and a few lines about the rig. We reply personally, usually within a day, with questions and a rough direction.
The agency · coming soon
Booked through Gainware™.
We are starting an agency. Productions come to Gainware™ to find a front-of-house, monitor, or lighting engineer for a tour, or to have a playback rig, IEM system, or lighting setup built. Technicians come to Gainware™ to get booked. To be on the roster, you have to be certified.
- Front-of-house, monitor, and lighting engineers for tours and one-offs
- Build-outs: playback rigs, IEM systems, FOH packages, lighting systems
- Every technician on the roster is Gainware™ certified, so what you book is what you get
Gainware™ Certified Technicians · coming soon
Get certified. Get booked.
Certification programs and exams for playback, monitors, front of house, and lighting are on the way. Passing puts you on the Gainware™ agency roster. Leave your email and we'll tell you the moment the first exams and programs open, with no other mail in between.
Direct
Mid-tour and something's on fire?
Email us. Messages go to the people who build the systems, not a support queue.