dry hire
SXS holds one of the most varied stock of PA, Lighting, Video, Drapes, Outdoor Stage Hire and Rigging in the south west.
Why Use Us? Reason 1 - Hire is a Sideline
Our core business is production so providing dry-hire, or supported hire, does not need to prop our main business. As such we can offer substantially better deals than competitors.
Why Use Us? Reason 2 - Range of Equipment
Furthermore, SXS has a complete cross-section of sound, lighting, power, drapes, video, set, Outdoor Stage Hire and rigging. This means you can get everything you need from one central supplier - saving time, hassle and money.
Why Use Us? Reason 3 - Efficiency
We own our 5000 sq foot warehouse and have invested in the resources for excellent kit maintenance and efficient turnaround, which all adds to our end service.
Please see our Dry Hire Catalogue Here.
We have a separate website for hire, please go to SXS Hire
The Kit
We have a massively diverse stock of kit including:
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Moving Light Hire
Coemar Broardway Cyc changers
Futurelight MH660
Futurelight MH640 wash fixtures
Martin MAC 2000
Martin MAC 600
Martin Atomic 3000 strobes
Control
Avolites Azzure Shadow
Avolites Pearl Tiger
Zero 88 XLS
Pulsar DMX Buffer
Lite Processor DMux
Generic Lighting
CCT Minuette
ETC Source4 22 degree
ETC Source4 50 degree
ETC Source4 19 degree
ETC Source 4 Zoom 22 - 50 deg
Thomas 9-way Mole Fays
Thomas 6-way bar black
Eurolite 6-way bar Chrome
PAR36 Pinspot
PAR36 Pinspot 4-way bar black
PAR64 Chrome
PAR64 Black
PAR64 6-way bar chrome
Strand Harmony
Strand Prelude
Outdoor and Marquee Lighting
Studio Duo City Colour 1800s
Studio Duo Mini City 150
Flourescent tubes, 6' long with 16amp in and 16amp out, with flying points
Emergency exit lights, 16amp in and 16amp out, with flying points
Non-maintained emergency floods, 16amp kin and 16amp out with flying points
Dimmers
Avolites 72-way FD Rack on Powerlok
Lite Processor Q-Pack racks
Zero88 racks
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PA Boxes
Thunder SB1000 single-18"
Thunder Ridge Eclipse Dual concentric 15" and 2"
Thunder Ridge 218 double 8" and 1" mid top
Thunder Ridge 212 Double 12" bass bins
Amps
Camco Vortex 6
C-Audio Pulse
Ecler DPA 2000
Yamaha P2500
Processing
BSS Omni Drives (355 and 366)
BSS FDS 960
BSS FDS 966
Yamaha SPX 990
Yamaha Rev500
DBX 266 comps
XTA DSP
Outboard
DBX 266 Compressors
BSS 4-way compressor gates
Micophone Hire
AKG D112
Sennheiser EW100 up to 18 channels
Sennheiser Belt Packs
Sennheiser head sets
Sennheiser Handheld
Sennheiser E604
Shure SM58
Shure SM57
Multicore Hire
20-way Harting 20m ext
Harting Fans
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DJ Mixer Hire
Allen and Heath XOne 62
Pioneer DJM 600
Pioneer DJM 700
Pioneer DJM 909
Pioneer DJM 800
Vestac PMC-05
DJ Deck Hire
Pioneer CDJ 1000 MKII
Pioneer CDJ 800
Pioneer CDJ 100s
Technics 1210
Needles
Ortofon DJs headshels
Stanton Scratchmase headshells
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Steel Deck
8' x 4' steeldeck
8' x 2' steeldeck
8' x 4' triangle steeldeck
Treads
2' treads
3' treads
4' treads
Handrails
Steeldeck Handrails
Screw Jacks
Leg Savers
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Distro
400-amp three-phase production distro with tails on Powerlok - 12 x 32-3 out, 2 x 125-3 out, 4 x 63-3 out, 1 x 16amp out
125-amp three-phase rubber box with one 63-3 out, four 32-3 out
Dimmer Distro Racks - 63-3 in, 18 dimmer channels on soca, 18 x 16amp, 2 x 13amp, 1 x 63-3, 1 x hard-power soca
32 amp three-phase IP55 distro with a range of outputs, let us know what you need and we will have it
63 amp three-phase IP55 distro with a range of outputs, let us know what you need and we will have it
32 amp single phase catering distro - 32-1 in, 32-1 out, with 4 x 13amp, perfect for catering tents
32 amp single-phase IP55 distro
Three Phase Cabling
125-amp three-phase 20m
125-amp three phase 10m
63-amp three phase 20m
63-amp three phase 10m
32-amp three phase 20m
32-amp three phase 10m
Single Phase Cabling
63-amp single phase 20m
63-amp single phase 10m
32-amp single phase 20m
32-amp single phase 10m
16-amp single phase 20m
16-amp single phase 10m
16-amp single phase 5m
16-amp single phase 2m
13-amp single phase 20m
13-amp single phase 5m
IEC Cable 2m
IEC Cable 5m
Black Drape Hire
10' wide by 17' drop Black Wool Serge Drapes
20m wide by 4m drop black wool serge drapes
Stage Valances
Drape Rigging
White Drape Hire
10' wide by 17' drop flat white trevera
20' wide by 10' drop flat white trevera
20m wide by 5.4m drop pre-gathered white trevera drapes
Stage Valances
Drape Rigging
Softscene 7' - 17' upright pole
Softscene 7' - 12' horizontal pole
Softscene base plates
Softscene Spigot
Various catinery wire, gipples, gripple tensioner, masonary bolts
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Truss
Litec QX40s - 40cm box truss with eggs
Litec QX30s - 30cm box truss with eggs
Trlite 200 truss - lightweight
Lifting Gear
500kG chain Hoists - 6m drop
500kG chain Hoists - 10m drop
Mobiltech Stands - max height 7.2m with 250kg weight load
Accessories
2m 2t Black round slings
4m 2t black round slings
8m 3t black racket straps
3t D-shackles
5m 5t steels with thimbles
Aero-quip fixings
Doughty Couplers
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Pole and Cage Dancing
Dancing Cages - 4' x 4' steeldeck base with 8' high 3-sided cage
Pole Dancing Stage - - 4' x 4' steeldeck base with 8' high pole
Heating
Arcotherm EC-70 diesel heater
Patio Heaters with 20kg LPG
2000 watt infra-red electric heaters
Furniture
Sofa - custom made 8' x 2' base, and 2' back, white, made from steel frame and 18mm ply
Cube Seating - 60cm x 60xm x 40cm acrylic cube seating - can be illuminated internally
2000 watt infra-red electric heaters
Games
Table Football - full-sized oak-style table football set
Arcade Machine - Full-sized MAME arcade machine with all arcade game classics like Steet Fighter, Double Dragon, Space Invaders, Simpsons etc etc. Has function coin system, so you can make a few squid from it!
Scale-ectrix - set based on i8' x 4' area and with four competing cars
Nintendo Wiis - 4-way setup with standard Wii games - use this with our 60" plasmas!
Plants
Palm Tree - full sized (10') palm tree with free-standing base place and plastic leaves, it looks quite real
Lemon Tree - about 1.5m high, looks very real.
Ferns - live ferns, approximately 1.2m high and with porceline pot
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Video Control
Edirol V4
Extron Scanconverters
Kramer VGA Switch
Kramer Cat5 VGA converters
Kramer VP727 switcher scaler scale
Numark 3-way composite preview monitors
Dell 17" TFT Monitors
Dell 19" TFT Monitors
Apple Mac Mini - as playback device
Tascam DVD players
Media server PCs with 3 x VGA outs and arkaos installed
Video Projector
Sanyo XP 50
Sanyo XP 55
Sanyo XP 56
Full range of XP-series lenses
Sanyo XF45 - 10 000 Lumen Projector
1.8 - 2.8 Sanyo XF lense - other available as required
Plasma
Panasonic TH42 plasmas (x 9)
Panasonic TH50 (x9)
LG 60" screens x 2
