We buy all our equipment new, with a few exceptions, and offer for sale ex-hire after a few weeks use. Each item is individually priced according to how many days hire use it has had and the class of equipment (Lav mics, for example, depreciate very quickly in theatre use, whilst shotgun mics depreciate very slowly).
All equipment is inspected between hires and tested as per the following table:
| Asset Class | Between Hire | Occasional |
|---|---|---|
| Amplifiers | PAT; firmware check | speaker profile update; Dante reset |
| Speakers | White noise | Frequency scan |
| Monitors | PAT | |
| Desks | PAT; firmware check; factory reset | |
| Lav Mic | clean; pass audio | |
| Computers etc | PAT; hire specific s/w | Dante reset |
| Cables | Continuity check | Ethernet bandwidth |
| Solid State IO (eg SWP) | PAT | firmware check |
| Complex IO eg CCS-2; XDante | PAT | Dante reset; config check |