Sound Rental Service, Inc.

What Sound Rental Service, Inc. does

Sound Rental Service, Inc. is a privately held event production and equipment rental company headquartered at 907 Rayon Drive in Parkersburg, West Virginia, founded in 1963. The company provides sound, lighting, and staging equipment rentals along with professional event production services, system design, sales, and installation to clients throughout the Eastern United States.

Its service portfolio spans three core lines — Event Production (turn-key sound, lighting, and staging for events of all sizes), Rentals (per-event equipment hire), and Sales & Installation (permanent system design and installation for venues) — plus a complementary product line, Roadbilly Custom Cases, for transport and protection of audio gear. Customers range from local meetings requiring a "speaker on a stick" to major music industry concert productions and large-scale distributed public address deployments such as the World Whitewater Championships.

The business operates a traditional equipment-rental and services model with regional direct sales reach. Pricing is quoted on a per-event basis rather than published as standardized tiers, and revenue mechanics depend on event volume, installation project wins, and equipment utilization. The company is a small operator with 11 employees, no disclosed funding, no parent company, and no technology platform beyond the physical rental fleet — making it a legacy, people-driven regional services business.

Name

Sound Rental Service, Inc.

Legal name

Sound Rental Service, Inc.

Website

https://soundrentalservice.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1963

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Sound Rental Service, Inc. is a West Virginia-based event production company founded in 1963 that provides sound, lighting, and staging equipment rentals plus system design and installation for music industry clients, houses of worship, sports venues, and corporate event organizers across the Eastern United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Event Production & Audio-Visual Equipment Rental

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Equipment Rental & Leasing (7350)

akta.pro primary industry

Backline & Musical Instrument Rentals (Concert/Performance Support) (THAHAEAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Audio-Visual Equipment Rentals (Sound, Projection, Screens) (HSACAFAF), Live Sound & Stage Equipment (PA Systems, Amplification, Monitoring) (MPAIAJAD), Pro Audio Equipment (Mics, Interfaces, Mixers, Studio Monitors) (MPAIAJAB)

Keywords

• Event production services
• Audio equipment rental
• Lighting and staging
• Sound system installation
• Concert production

Headquarters

HQ city

Parkersburg

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Sound Rental Service provides professional event production, equipment rental, and system installation services for the Eastern United States. The company supplies sound, lighting, and staging equipment along with on-site personnel for events ranging from small business meetings to turn-key concert productions for major music-industry performers. It also designs and installs permanent sound systems for houses of worship, sporting complexes, and commercial facilities, and sells a proprietary line of custom equipment cases under the Roadbilly brand.

Product overview

Sound Rental Service offers a unified portfolio of event production services and products serving the Eastern United States. The core offerings consist of Event Production (professional sound, lighting, and staging for events of all sizes), Rentals (equipment rental services), and Sales & Installation (system design and professional installation for venues). Additionally, the company offers Roadbilly Custom Cases as a complementary product line for equipment protection and transport. Founded in 1963, the company serves diverse clients including houses of worship, sporting complexes, and major concert productions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Roadbilly Custom Cases: Custom cases for equipment transport and protection

Products and services

• Event Production Professional event production services providing sound, lighting, and staging for events of all sizes — from small meetings to complete turn-key concert productions for major music-industry performers — delivered with on-site personnel to clients throughout the Eastern United States.
• Equipment Rentals Rental of sound, lighting, staging, and related audio-visual equipment for events of any size, ranging from simple "speaker on a stick" PA systems for meetings to large-scale event rigs and distributed public address systems covering extensive outdoor areas.
• Sales & Installation Custom system design, equipment sales, and professional installation of permanent sound systems for houses of worship, sports complexes, and commercial facilities across the Eastern United States.
• Roadbilly Custom Cases Custom-manufactured protective cases designed to transport and protect audio, lighting, and event equipment; sold as a complementary product line under the Roadbilly brand.

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Regional players

• Special Event Services (SES): Special Event Services provides concert sound, lighting, staging, and event production across the US Southeast and beyond. It is a regional-scale peer to SRS, offering a comparable portfolio of rentals, event production, and system installation for concerts, worship, and corporate clients.

Broad incumbents

• Encore (formerly PSAV): Encore is the largest provider of event technology, AV production, and venue services in North America. It is a broad incumbent that competes with SRS across the same rentals, event production, and installed-services categories but at significantly greater scale and national reach.
• Solotech: Solotech is a major North American provider of audio, video, lighting, and rigging solutions for live events, tours, and broadcast. It competes with SRS across concert and corporate event production but at much larger scale and broader geographic reach.
• Production Resource Group (PRG): PRG is a global provider of entertainment and event production solutions, including audio, lighting, and staging for concerts, tours, and live events. It competes directly with SRS in concert production but operates with vastly larger inventory, crew, and geographic footprint.

Direct peers

• Clair Brothers: Clair Brothers designs, manufactures, and rents professional audio systems for tours, concerts, and live events. It is a direct peer to SRS in the live sound and concert-production rental category, serving similar artist and touring customers.
• Rat Sound Systems: Rat Sound Systems provides professional audio equipment rental and tour sound production for concerts and festivals. It is a direct peer to SRS in the live-event sound rental and production category, serving music industry clients with similar full-service delivery.
• Sound Image: Sound Image provides professional audio reinforcement and tour sound services for major concert tours and corporate events. It is a direct peer to SRS, offering rental and production services for music industry clients with a similar full-service concert production model.
• Maryland Sound International: Maryland Sound International provides professional concert touring sound reinforcement, system design, and event audio production. It is a direct peer to SRS, with overlapping expertise in large-scale live event sound and a similar mix of concert and corporate clients.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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