Our Work in Nashville's Venues

Every photo below is a real Nashville Audio Visual production — our gear, our crew, our load-in. Nothing here is stock, and nothing is a rendering. After 30 years and 25,000+ events we have a lot of rooms to show you, so here is what to look for as you scroll.

The stages and screens are general sessions and award shows — LED video walls, laser projection, IMAG camera work, scenic drape and staging built the day before doors. The rooms washed in color are event lighting: uplighting along the walls, gobo monograms and company logos, chandeliers, and string-light ceilings hung off truss or existing structure. The consoles are front of house — the part of the night the audience is never supposed to notice.

You will see ballrooms at the convention hotels, historic halls, glass pavilions, barns and chapels, warehouse and industrial spaces, closed streets, and open fields. That range is the point: the venue changes every week, and the standard does not.

What It Takes to Make a Room Look Like This

Most of these photographs were taken about an hour before doors, which is the only hour the room is ever this clean. Behind each one is a stage plot drawn from the venue’s floor plan, a load-in the day before, a focus session on a ladder, and a sound check nobody in the photo attended.

The gear is ours. We own the LED panels, the line arrays, the laser projectors, the moving lights and the chandeliers, which is why a Nashville Audio Visual quote does not change when a sub-rental company has a busy weekend. The crew is ours too, and most of them have been loading into these same rooms for years — they know which freight elevator lies about its weight rating and which ballroom breaker trips if you look at it wrong.

If a particular look here is what you are after, the fastest brief you can send us is a link to the photo. Tell us the venue and the date and we will tell you what it takes to build it in your room — see how we produce events, browse the AV rental catalog, or read a few event spotlights for the full story behind a production.