The Rock Factory

The Rock Factory Team

20 Years of Awesome Auckland Audio

The Rock Factory are your friendly Auckland Event Production specialists.

Michelle and Mark have run The Rock Factory for 20 years and have extensive sound and event experience.  With a comprehensive inventory and excellent customer reviews, the Rock Factory is a great choice for your next event.

Meet Auckland’s Experienced Live Sound Engineers, your next event production partner.

At the heart of The Rock Factory is a team of passionate and experienced sound engineers and AV techs. Our professional Auckland event production services are backed by years of industry experience, guaranteeing that your event’s technical aspects are in skilled hands. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional audio quality and seamless event production, making us the go-to experts for any event.

Sound Engineer Michelle from the Rock Factory operating a sound desk. rockfactory is your one stop shop for event production hire. Rent microphones and speakers for your event and make sure everything is heard and seen.

Michelle Klaessens-Rawstron

The Rock Factory

Managing Director and Sound Engineer
  • Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Diploma in Audio Engineering
  • PGDip Sound
  • GradDip Teaching – Maths

“Every day at the Rock Factory we get to watch people being inspired, entertained, fascinated and enjoying themselves.”“It is our love of music, storytelling and presentations that got us involved in the first place. And because we love it we don’t consider what we are doing to be work… In fact, we will go to extra lengths to ensure both our clients, the entertainers and the audience are loving it too!”Michelle enjoys helping with custom solutions for bands. She’s helped many bands with setting up their in-ear monitoring systems, purchasing band PA systems and choosing personal microphones. She can also help with one-on-one tutorials on setting up PA systems, sound installations and more.
Mark from The Rock Factory holding a boom mic. Hire audio equipment, Dj gear and backline from rockfactory in auckland.

Mark-Rawstron

The Rock Factory

Managing Director and Sound Engineer
  • Bachelor of Technology (Production & Manufacturing Engineering)
  • Diploma in Audio Engineering
  • MPCA Sound and Acoustics
  • GradDip Teaching – Maths

Mark is a live sound engineer who enjoys seeing an event come together.  And slowly but surely improving the technology within the Rock Factory’s hire inventory.He’s also very knowledgeable about acoustics and sound installations. Need someone to help maintain your school or church’s sound system or suggest what you should upgrade in your school theatre? Both Michelle and Mark can help you out.Are you having audio troubles during school assemblies? Need some items tag tested? Michelle and Mark can help you tune and maintain your existing sound system in your school hall and tag test all your gear. This is handy if you are a band that needs to perform at a venue that will check that your equipment is electrically safe with tags that are up to date.

The Rock Factory Journey

Michelle and Mark founded the Rock Factory in Auckland during the early-mid 2000s, initially as a recording studio. But they soon grew to incorporate live events. 

As you may have guessed from the name, in the early days, these events involved a lot of Rock Music! 

Over time, they began to hire audio gear, both for recording and live events and have worked with cover bands, orchestras, jazz groups, choirs, opera, theatre and many more types of entertainers!

When the Rock Factory expanded, they also began taking on other kinds of events.  Now, from weddings, to public speaking engagements, from Christmas parties, to festivals, to charity events, and political speeches, the Rock Factory has done it all and provide you with the technical know how to make your event as easy as possible for you by taking care of all technical aspects or technical riders of the entertainment and more.

With nearly 20 years in the business, the Rock Factory are proud of their journey.   From a storage-room recording studio to a company with the capacity to tackle festival-sized set-ups, they have never lost their passion for sound.

Our Mission

We work hard to bring great sound, staging, and lighting, to events in Auckland and around New Zealand.  

We use solar power at many large daytime events, reducing our clients reliance on diesel generators. 

The Rock Factory are keen to keep up to date with technology and make events and gigs as clean and green as possible.

Our Vision

To create inspiring sound experiences all over the country and the world. 

Utilise more solar power for lower emission events.

Continue to improve on our delivery of great audio hire experiences throughout Aotearoa. Life is too short for bad sound at events and gigs! At The Fock Factory we want both the artist and the audience to enjoy the joy of great audio and music and we want to share the music and the message with the community.

 

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