Festival Noise

Music to your ears….

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd can provide a Noise Management Strategy for controlling event and festival noise. We will assist you at the initial planning stages, during stage set up & sound checks, and live ‘real-time’ event monitoring enabling you to meet your event license conditions and festival noise control obligations.

How do you control festival noise?

We can support multiple sound monitoring locations & real-time advice during the event ensuring that you reduce the risk of community festival noise complaint, meet your event license conditions & demonstrate a pro-active festival noise management strategy to the Local Authority.

What else can you help us with?

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd can also provide noise risk assessment for staff, volunteers & services at the event.

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Festival Noise Portfolio

Boomtown Fair 2013, Winchester

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd returned to Boomtown Fair to assist with the land owners license. we worked closely with Vanguardia Acoustics and the Local Authority in attempting to control perhaps the most outrageous festival in the UK. Photo credit: Charlie Raven Photography

Glastonbury Festival 2013, Pilton, Somerset

This festival needs no introduction and the headliners this year were none other than The Rolling Stones. Soundguard Acoustics Ltd worked for two weeks at the festival assisting with infrastructure & behind the scenes essential requirements!

Strummerville, Taunton, Somerset

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd formed part of the noise control team in maintaining the festival license. We worked closely with the sound engineers, artists and the local authority to ensure that the headliners, 'The Pogues' & a reformed 'The Clash' didn't impact upon the local noise sensitive properties.

Farm Festival 2013, Bruton, Somerset

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd managed the noise control for this festival from the initial Noise Management Plan & discussions with the Local Authority to stage layout advice and sound monitoring during the 2 day festival.

Orchestra in a Field, 2012, Glastonbury Abbey

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd was asked to assist with the noise control and noise monitoring of this two day classical music festival in the Glastonbury Abbey grounds. The festival included a a live classical performance of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells, as well as Carmen and a surprise appearance of Professor Green and Labrinth!

Notting Hill Carnival 2011, London

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd was asked to determine the sound expsoure of employees, the Metropolitan Police and volunteers working at the carnival. Using a team of 6 consultants and equipment, including 60 dosebadges, the team produced a noise risk assessment for the carnival organisers.

Boomtown 2012, Winchester

Soundguard Acoustics Ltd second year at this festival proved to be just as much fun as the first but the increase in the size of the festival presented many new challenges within the noise control, layout and monitoring during the 4 day festival. Soundguard Acoustics Ltd provided part of the noise control & monitoring team for the event.

Notting Hill Carnival, 2012, London

After completing noise risk assessments for the previous carnival in 2011, Soundguard Acoustics Ltd was invited back, this time by the Local Authority, to repeat the work and also control carnival float noise through key noise monitoring points on the carnival route. using a team of 6 consultants Soundguard Acoustics Ltd was instrumental in controlling the noise levels without impacting on the expected noise and vibrant atmosphere of the carnival!