Live Sound

Bob provides live sound systems and PA hire for festivals, concerts and conferences in the Nelson region.

Bob Bickerton has thirty years concert production experience and has been providing professional live sound services to the Nelson region for over ten years.

As a full time professional musician, performing arts manager and sound engineer he has an in depth understanding of live sound issues and is now specialising in high quality acoustic music production for small and medium sized venues. Skills and experience he has gained as a recording engineer are applied to the live sound environment where he produces the performance to emulate CD quality results.

Operating as BBSound he has provided sound for the Nelson School Of Music Winter Festival, the Nelson Jazz Festival, the Wellington Folk Festival and concerts too numerous to mention.

Custom System Design

Bob will work with you to design a custom system for your event that will deliver professional results. He can also offer recording services as well as basic lighting design for smaller venues.

“Acoustically, the concrete and glass room has everything against it at the Woollaston Estate, but the musical experience of Bob Bickerton meant the sound setup was flawless in design overcoming this and giving every audience member an auditory treat that didn’t blast your ears”……Nelson Mail

Professional Sound Equipment

Bob uses a range of esoteric equipment sourced from Germany, England, America and Australia which is ideal for acoustic live sound production. Care is taken to match microphones to sound sources to achieve optimum results:

Microphones: Neumann, Microtech Gefell, AKG, Sennheiser, Electrovoice, Rode, Crowley and Tripp, Audix, Audio-Technica and Shure.
Pre-amps: Focusrite, M-Audio, Allen & Heath, Mackie and Soundcraft.
Mixing Desks: Allen and Heath including iLive system, Mackie and Soundcraft.
Outboard: TC Electronic, Lexicon, Alesis, Drawmer and DBX.
Speakers/Amps: JBL, Peavey, Yamaha, QSC and Alesis.
Backline: Markbass. Yamaha

BBSound – The Sound professionals

Bob works with fellow engineers Brendyn Montgomery and ‘JR’ Richardson to provide a professional team ready to deliver your sound requirements.

Bob Bickerton is an ex director of the Nelson School Of Music, ex General Manager of the Dunedin Sinfonia, ex founding member and chairperson of the NZ Uilleann Pipers Association and Ceol Aneas. As a multi-instrumentalist he has performed in all major concert venues, folk and Arts festivals in New Zealand and has performed to around 250,000 school students in the last 25 years with his educational programmes.