Headlamp – Bring Your Own Light
Whether you’re helping to load in the equipment or operating the speakers or lighting rig, bringing your own personal lighting source is a game changer and should be considered part of your everyday carry! Not only will you have the hands-free convenience and safety of light on demand, you can show compadres that you are very well experienced and prepared – ready for any situation.
Headlamps these days come in both rechargable battery and disposable battery styles, though our favorite is the energizer brand that uses a 3-pack of AAA batteries; in case your battery runs out, you can always change the AAA’s quickly rather than waiting for the headlamp to charge. They’re also priced attractively, so having a spare headlamp is an affordable investment.
PRO TIP: Wash your headlamp headband often.
Power Bank – Bring Your Own Portable Charging Battery
There’s no feeling quite like low battery anxiety on your phone or other important portable device like a tablet. Losing communication with your team, or even worse, your audio or lighting system could prove to be a showstopper. Most industry professionals will agree that low battery problems are not acceptable and your clients will likely to hesitate to call you back in the future.
You can avoid this nightmare scenario entirely by investing in a power bank! Available in all shapes and sizes, a power bank is the easiest and most convenient way to ensure you have all the power you need for your devices to make it through the show without a hitch! We recommend the Anker brand of power products due to the exceptional build quality, durability and reliability.
Zip Tie Holder/Dispenser
Zip ties are synonymous with event production and allow for a tight yet temporary method for attachment of a wide variety of materials and devices. The downside of these modern plastic marvels is the cumbersome storage and deployment of them, often times being fumbled, reverse oriented or even not having a hand free at the right time to feed one end into the other to start/make the attachment.
Enter The Zip Tie Organizer. an inexpensive solution to the zip tie fumble problem. This spring-loaded, keychain/belt loop ready piece of kit has become an indispensable bit of kit for our team and has saved hours of setup time as well as countless trips up and down ladders by placing our zip tie collections reliably at our fingertips.
Easy-Pull Tape Tabs
As a group of professionals who have worked thousands of events setting up lighting equipment, audio systems, and auxiliary equipment, heavy duty tape products are a very commonly used tool of the trade. Great tape can help you complete your production tasks reliably in quick and easy ways, but removing these adhesive bonds can prove troublesome.
To make your tape removal process faster and easier, simply fold over the end of each strip of tape you’re applying to make an easily grabbable tab to pull on: Voila! Easy Pull Tab. Not only will this make your cleanup easier, but if you do it to the tape on the roll, it makes finding the edge and peeling a strip that much easier as well!