Audio, lighting and video production in New Orleans, built to execute.
Deep South Productions supplies audio, lighting and LED video for New Orleans concerts, festivals, corporate general sessions and civic events. We own the line arrays, the fixtures and the LED panels. We run the trucks. Our own engineers, programmers and techs run the show. One company answers for the whole system, from the site survey to the last case on the truck.
Audio, lighting and video production for New Orleans events
Most AV problems are handoff problems. The sound company blames the lighting rig for the power draw. The video vendor delivers a wall the stage plot never accounted for. You stand in the room at 4pm and sort it out yourself.
We take the handoffs out. One producer designs the audio, lighting and video as a single system, and one crew builds it. If you need all three, you get one scope, one schedule and one number.
We build festival main stages and we build hotel ballroom AV. The scale changes; the standard doesn't.
A New Orleans AV production company that owns its inventory
We aren't brokering someone else's gear and hoping it shows up. The consoles, arrays, fixtures, truss and LED are ours, maintained in our own shop and loaded by the people who will unload them. That is why the schedule holds. Doors open at seven whether or not the video wall is finished, so we plan load-in backward from doors, not forward from the truck.
When something fails at 4pm on show day, we have a spare in the warehouse and a crew to swap it. We don't promise nothing will break. We plan for the moment it does.
Audio
Our flagship PA is a d&b audiotechnik SL-series line array, scaled to the room or the field. Main and side hangs, subwoofer arrays, front fill and delay positions go in where the coverage model says they belong. DiGiCo consoles run front of house and monitors.
Speech and music get different designs. A keynote has to be intelligible in row 20, so we design coverage first and the mix second. A multi-artist festival day runs on a shared-console workflow with a documented patch, so visiting engineers walk up to a surface they know. Details are on concert sound and event audio.
Lighting
We design the plot, supply the fixtures, program the show and operate it. Moving lights, conventionals, LED wash, atmospherics, truss and power travel together. Followspot operators are trained and called, which is the detail that's missed most often at an awards show or a headline set.
For a gala, lighting means uplighting, pin-spotted centerpieces and clean key light at the podium. For a concert, it means looks built at the console in advance, so the operator runs cues on show day instead of inventing them. More on concert and event lighting.
LED video
We carry more than 2,000 LED panels in 3.9mm to 5.9mm pitch, in 500x1000mm and 600x1200mm cabinets. Pitch follows seat distance. A 3.9mm wall suits a general session where the front row sits fifteen feet from the screen. A festival IMAG screen with nobody closer than sixty feet doesn't need it.
We build straight walls, curved walls, columns and irregular scenic builds. Outdoors, ground-support towers handle wind load and ballast. Processing, playback, cameras and IMAG operators come with the wall. See LED video wall rental and event video.
What we cover around New Orleans
Our home base is Sulphur, Louisiana, in the Lake Charles area. The shop, warehouse and fleet are there, and we have a New Orleans location serving Southeast Louisiana: festivals, venues and hospitality. Between the two, most of the Gulf is inside a comfortable drive with our own trucks.
New Orleans work we take on includes:
Festival stages and multi-day outdoor sites
Concerts in arenas, amphitheaters and fields
Hotel ballroom general sessions, galas and awards nights
Convention center and casino events
Municipal celebrations and public events
Mobile stage setups for parking lots, parks and street closures
Our mobile stages, including a Stageline SL320, arrive, deploy and are show-ready the same day. See mobile stage rental and setup. Where there's no house power, generators, distribution and event cooling travel with us.
Beyond the region, we work across the United States and into Canada with the same fleet.
New Orleans credits
The Clients & Credits list includes the New Orleans Superdome. Festival and event credits on it include Bayou Classic, Gretna Fest, Westbank Heritage Festival, Jean Lafitte Seafood Festival and The National Fried Chicken Festival. The list covers only the clients we are allowed to name.
In 2022, PLSN named us Regional Lighting Company of the Year at the Parnelli Awards.
Frequently asked questions
Can you hold the sound under a permit limit at an outdoor New Orleans event?
Yes. We design against the permit: noise ordinances, curfew and measured SPL limits at defined points. Tell us the permitted number early and we model the system to hold it. We don't turn it down at nine o'clock and hope.
Do you send operators with the gear, or only equipment?
Both are available. A full package includes audio and lighting engineers, programmers, board operators, video and LED techs, and stagehands, with a production manager on your show from the first walkthrough to load-out. Production companies, venues and promoters can also dry-hire gear without crew.
Can you work in a ballroom or venue with no rigging points?
Yes. Truss and ground support cover rooms with no rigging points. Rigging is coordinated, not blanket in-house. Our crews self-perform limited, low-risk applications, and we bring in qualified specialists for structural and arena-level work, managed inside the same plan.
How much does audio, lighting and video production cost in New Orleans?
It depends on scope, scale, duration and travel. A single general session and a three-day outdoor festival aren't in the same conversation. Give us the date, venue, headcount and what you need. You'll get a written scope and a number rather than a guess.
How far ahead should we book?
As early as you can, especially in festival season and for anything that needs a mobile stage or a large LED build. A lot of this work happens on short notice, though, so call whatever your date is.
Tell us about
your New Orleans event
Send the date, the venue and roughly what you need covered. A date and a city is enough to start. You'll get a real producer, not a form response, and a reply within one business day, usually sooner.
1441 Swisco Road, Sulphur, LA 70665