SOUND CAMPS

Updated for Alchemy 2024

Here are the current Alchemy Amplified Sound Policies. Please send any questions to sound@alchemyburn.com

ALL CAMPS WISHING TO BRING AMPLIFIED SOUND THAT INCLUDES LOW OR HIGH-END DRIVERS (I.E. SUB-WOOFERS, MONITORS/SPEAKERS, ETC.) TO THE BURN MUST REGISTER THEIR SOUND! Due to space limitations, registering amplified sound is NOT a guarantee that you will be placed in an area where amplified sound is allowed. Remember: registering for placement is a request, not a guarantee. Click here to see the Placement Registration Form - but the deadline for Alchemy 2024 has passed.

  • There is no need to register boombox's, home stereos, docking stations, small bluetooth speakers, etc.

  • Basically, if you'd see it at a club or at a concert, then it needs to be registered.

Theme Camp Sound Manager

Any camp that brings amplified sound that includes low or high-end drivers (i.e., sub-woofers, monitors/speakers, etc.) is considered a "Sound Camp." All Sound Camps need to have 1 person who will be point-of-contact with the Sound Team. This person must be able to…

  • Gve sound team reliable contact information

  • Be available to cut sound immediately in emergency situations.

  • Work the music system

Volume Restrictions

This year Alchemy will adhere to the 65 dB limit at all times, our Our Sound Team will patrol and monitor levels after 10 PM .

Subs will be cut at 2am Friday and Saturday and 11pm Thursday and Sunday 

Friday Sound Check

  • Sound Team will perform a property-wide sound check with the Sound Camps.

  • Your system must be set up by Friday.

  • If you don't participate in the Sound Test for any reason, then you may not play amplified sound for the duration of the event.

Big Time No Nos

  • No sound systems with more than 4 low end drivers (subwoofer speakers) and 8 mid/high range drivers (speakers)

  • No unregistered camps with systems larger than a small home stereo or boom box.

  • No abandoned, still-making-sound Sound Camps. Someone must be present and monitoring and/or DJ'ing. Sound Team will turn off camps like this when found.

Generators

  • Please consider creating dampening box for generator

  • Must be appropriately placed (Sound Team will help with placement, if needed)

    • So that won't noise bleed across to other camps

    • So that generator fumes don’t inconvenience or harm other participants.

  • Must follow generator policies listed here.

Sound Levels

  • ​During the Sound Test on Friday, each camp will have their maximum levels set by the Sound Team.

  • The Sound Camp is responsible for ensuring that all sound, regardless of who's DJ'ing, stays at or below this level.

  • Depending on placement, some Sound Camps will have levels set by the time of day/night. You will know if this is you before the burn.

  • If you have told Placement that you will keep your volumes at "conversational levels", that you only plan to play sound at night, that you will only play loung-ey easy-listening tunes, you must abide by your agreement to do so.

  • If a sound complaint from outside the event is received, we may ask all amplified Sound Camps to lower levels or to cut sound completely until the complaint is handled.

  • In the event of an emergency, Sound Camps will be asked to cut sound completely until the Events Committee have cleared the emergency.

​Consequences

These are the possible consequences for violating any of these policies. The severity of the consequences depends on the nature and severity of the violation.

  • ​Warning by the Sound Team.

  • Warning by the Events Committee (team that oversees the entire event).

  • No sound for 24 hours.

  • No sound for the duration of the event.

  • Ejection from the event