Navratri & garba
Garba nights
need different sound.
Navratri runs 11–19 October 2026. A garba night is not a stage show with dancing in front of it — the crowd moves in circles around the whole ground, for four hours, every night. The sound has to work everywhere, not just at the front.
Everyone is dancing, so everyone needs to hear
Point a stack at a crowd and the people furthest from it get a thinner, later version of the beat — which matters very little at a concert and a great deal in garba, where the far side of the circle is trying to stay in step with the near side. We ring the ground rather than firing from one end, so the beat arrives evenly wherever somebody is standing. It is the single biggest difference between a garba that holds its circle and one that drifts.
Four hours a night, nine nights running
Garba is relentless in a way most events are not: continuous high level, night after night, usually outdoors with dust and damp. That is hard on amplifiers and drivers, so the rig is specified with headroom rather than run at its limit, and checked between nights. A system that is just big enough on day one is not big enough on day seven.
Live singers, dhol and a DJ
Many societies run live orchestra or singers for part of the night and recorded tracks for the rest, often with dhol. That means vocal mics that survive a loud open ground, monitors the singers can actually hear themselves in, and a clean handover between the live set and the DJ. Amit plays garba nights himself, so the handover is planned rather than improvised.
Society compounds, permissions and the cut-off
Most Mumbai garba happens in society compounds and local grounds: load-in past a gate, power that was never meant for a rig, a committee, and a night cut-off set by the permission. We size and aim the system for the compound so the flats around it are not taking it head-on, and we finish when the permission says we finish. Our store is in Borivali, so the societies around Borivali, Kandivali, Dahisar and Gorai are a short run.
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