Planning an event at Georgia Aquarium? Atlanta Music Pros can help coordinate audio, video, lighting, entertainment and production requirements, subject to the venue’s policies and vendor requirements. Georgia Aquarium designates an exclusive audiovisual provider, so AV at this venue is not ours to supply. What we can do is help you plan entertainment and production requirements that work inside the aquarium’s rules — including its sound level limits set for animal welfare — and coordinate with the venue’s designated providers rather than around them.
This page is unusual among our venue pages because the honest answer is a partial no. Based on the aquarium’s own published event information, it designates an exclusive audiovisual company, which means an outside AV vendor is not an option there regardless of who you ask.
That is worth knowing before you collect quotes, and it is worth knowing early, because the aquarium also enforces sound level limits set for the welfare of the animals. Those two facts shape an event here more than any equipment decision, and any production company that tells you otherwise is not being straight with you.
Because AV at this venue runs through the aquarium’s designated provider, our role here is planning and entertainment rather than technical supply. The service list below describes what we do generally; at this venue, assume the technical elements come from the venue’s provider unless the aquarium tells you otherwise.
Speech first.
Seeing the stage and keeping the content.
Content people can read.
Making the stage look intentional.
Someone owning the show.
The half most AV companies do not provide.
Events at the aquarium are atmosphere-led. The building does the visual work, which changes what production is for.
Cocktail receptions in the galleries, where the exhibits are the design and production exists to support conversation rather than compete with it.
Hospitality events where the venue itself is the reason guests accept the invitation. Music kept deliberately low and unobtrusive.
Seated dinners with a short program, where speech has to be intelligible at a level that respects the venue’s sound limits. See awards gala production.
Activations that borrow the aquarium’s visual impact, with production planned around fixed sightlines and protected exhibits.
Company celebrations in a space that needs no theming, with entertainment scaled to the venue’s acoustic limits.
Fundraising events with a program, where the venue itself contributes meaningfully to attendance.
Three published facts drive everything about planning an event here.
The aquarium’s event information designates a single audiovisual company for events in the building. That means AV is ordered through the venue’s process, not from an outside production company, and it means quotes from outside AV vendors for this venue should be treated with suspicion. We would rather tell you that plainly than take a booking we cannot fulfill.
The aquarium enforces a sound level limit in event spaces for the welfare of the animals it houses. This is a genuine constraint on what an event can be: amplified music and program audio sit at levels well below what a ballroom would tolerate. It rules out a loud dance floor, and it makes speech intelligibility a design problem rather than a volume one, because you cannot solve coverage by turning up.
Food and beverage runs through the venue’s exclusive caterer. That matters for your planning timeline and budget even though it is not our department, because it removes a variable you might otherwise expect to shop.
Entertainment and program planning, within the limits above. A DJ or musician who understands they are working at a fraction of normal level, an MC for a short program, and realistic advice about what the room can and cannot support. Venue policies, outside-vendor requirements, power, internet, loading access and production restrictions should be confirmed with the venue during pre-production. Many hotels, arenas and convention facilities maintain in-house AV departments, exclusive service providers, union labor rules, rigging approvals and outside-vendor fees, and those terms decide what any outside company can do in the room.
An illustrative plan showing how an event here is shaped by the venue’s constraints rather than by an equipment list. AV elements would be ordered through the venue’s designated provider. This is a hypothetical illustration of how a production of this shape fits together. It is not a past project, not a quote and not a price.
The most valuable thing we can do at this venue is set expectations early. A client who booked the aquarium expecting a late-night dance floor has a problem that no production company can fix on the night.
This page exists because planners search for AV help by venue. It does not indicate any affiliation, endorsement, partnership, preferred-vendor status or approved-vendor status, and we make no claim to any. Georgia Aquarium is named here only to describe the kind of production planning an event in that building involves.
Whether an outside production company can work in a given space, and on what terms, is decided by the venue and by your own contract with it. We will work within those terms, and we will tell you plainly when something you have asked for is not ours to promise.
Atlanta Music Pros is an Atlanta-based company covering Metro Atlanta and North Georgia. We travel to the venue rather than operating suburban offices.
Not the audiovisual portion. Based on the aquarium’s own published event information, it designates an exclusive audiovisual provider, so AV is ordered through the venue rather than from an outside company. We can help with entertainment and program planning inside the venue’s rules, and we would rather tell you this upfront than quote work we are not permitted to deliver.
Yes. The aquarium enforces a sound level limit in its event spaces for the welfare of the animals it houses. Practically, that means amplified music and program audio operate well below what a hotel ballroom would tolerate, and a loud dance floor is not achievable. Confirm the current limit with the venue during pre-production, and plan the event’s energy around it rather than against it.
Entertainment is generally possible but it has to be planned for the venue’s sound constraints, and the performer needs briefing well in advance. A DJ working at a fraction of normal level is a different job requiring a different approach, and someone who has not been told will either be turned down repeatedly or create a problem with the venue. Confirm the specifics with the aquarium as part of your event agreement.
Venues designate exclusive providers for various operational reasons — familiarity with the building, protection of the facility and its exhibits, consistency of service and simplified coordination. Whatever the reasoning, the practical effect for you is the same: AV comes through that channel. It is worth factoring into your budget early, since exclusive arrangements remove the option of competitive AV quotes.
Entertainment and program planning: music appropriate to a low-level environment, an MC for a short program, running-order planning, and honest advice about what the space will and will not support. The most useful thing we contribute here is expectation setting, because the mismatch between what clients imagine and what the venue permits is where these events go wrong.
For a reception or client hospitality event where the venue itself is the draw, it is genuinely hard to beat — the building does the work that production would otherwise have to. For an event whose success depends on a loud, late dance floor, it is the wrong venue, and no amount of production solves that. Which of those your event is worth deciding before you sign.
If you are holding an event at the aquarium, tell us what you want the evening to feel like. We will be straight with you about what the venue’s rules allow and where our part of it fits.