Commercial AV Installation in Edmonton
Afterdark Sound & Media designs, supplies, installs, and supports commercial audio and video systems for Edmonton businesses — LED video walls, restaurant and bar sound, boardroom AV, and distributed audio that covers a whole property evenly. One local team handles the design, the equipment, the wiring, the programming, and the training, so your staff end up with a system they can actually run.
Whether it is a new build, a renovation, or a sound system that has never quite worked, start with a site visit: we walk the space with you, talk through how it is used, and quote the complete job — equipment, wiring, installation, and setup — before any work begins.
What a commercial AV installation includes
A proper installation is not a pile of equipment — it is a system designed around your room, your hours, and the people who will run it every day.
Design
Speaker coverage, screen sizes and sightlines, zoning, and control are planned on paper first, matched to how the space actually operates — lunch rush, game night, Sunday service, board meeting.
Supply
We supply the equipment from the brands the pros trust (see below), sized to the design — no overbuying, no underspeccing the room.
Installation
Mounting, structured cabling, rack building, and finishing work, done cleanly and scheduled around your business hours wherever possible.
Programming & training
Sources, zones, and scenes programmed behind simple controls — then we train your team before we leave, so opening day is not a guessing game.
Support
When you want changes, additions, or help, you call the same Edmonton team that installed it.
LED video walls & commercial displays
A video wall is the centrepiece of the room — sized to your space, bright in daylight, and seamless in a way a grid of televisions can never be.
We install direct-view LED video walls for lobbies, venues, restaurants, showrooms, and houses of worship, along with commercial displays and digital signage such as menu boards. Sizing and pixel pitch are chosen for your real viewing distances: finer pitch for close viewing, brighter panels for glass-fronted spaces. The wall is only half the spec — we also plan the structure behind it, the power and data runs, and the media players and distribution (Kramer, Atlona) that feed it, so menus, brand content, sports, and presentations each land where they should.
Restaurant, bar & hospitality sound
Hospitality sound is a balancing act: energy in the bar, conversation at the tables, clarity at the host stand, and a patio that sounds great without annoying the neighbours.
Zoned background music
Different areas — dining room, bar, patio, washrooms — run at different volumes, or with different music entirely, from one system. Distributed 70-volt audio keeps coverage even at low volumes, so no table sits in a blast zone and no corner is dead.
Paging & announcements
Kitchen calls, host-stand pages, and event announcements that cut through cleanly and then get out of the way.
Screens & menu boards
Sports on the right screens from every seat, and digital menu boards that can be updated without a ladder and a USB stick hunt.
Boardroom & corporate AV
Meeting rooms should disappear into the meeting. We install boardroom displays and video walls, video conferencing cameras and microphones, and control systems (Crestron, Q-SYS) that start the room with one tap — screen on, camera live, sound clear at the far end of the table and the far end of the call.
The same distributed-audio design covers offices, showrooms, warehouses, and waiting areas: paging, background music, and displays that inform without distracting.
Distributed audio & video, by sector
- ✓Restaurants & bars — zoned music, paging, menu boards, and game-day screens.
- ✓Hotels & venues — ballrooms, lobbies, and event spaces with video walls and house sound.
- ✓Offices & boardrooms — conferencing, displays, and one-touch control.
- ✓Houses of worship — speech clarity, music, and screens that read from the back row.
- ✓Retail & showrooms — signage and sound that set the pace of the floor.
- ✓Fitness & recreation — music that motivates, screens that entertain, paging that reaches the floor.
Our installation process
1. Consultation & site visit
We walk your space, listen to how it runs, and measure what matters — free, and with no obligation.
2. Design & quote
You receive a design and a complete quote covering equipment, cabling, installation, and programming — the whole job, up front.
3. Installation
Clean, scheduled work: mounting, structured cabling, rack build, and finishing, planned around your hours wherever possible.
4. Programming & training
Zones, sources, and scenes programmed behind simple controls, and your team trained before we hand it over.
5. Support
The same Edmonton team stays your call for adjustments, additions, and service as your business grows.
Equipment & brands we install
We install the brands the pros trust: JBL, QSC, Crestron, Electro-Voice, Yorkville, Yamaha, Shure, NEC, Ashley, Crown, Kramer, and Atlona.
Speakers and amplifiers sized to the room, microphones that behave in reverberant spaces, control and processing (Q-SYS, Crestron) that make a complex system feel simple, and distribution (Kramer, Atlona) that puts any source on any screen. The brand list matters less than the design behind it — the right equipment, in the right places, tuned to your room.
What affects the cost of a commercial AV installation?
Every installer gets asked for a number before a site visit — here is the honest answer: the number is built from your room. These are the factors that move it.
- ✓Room size & ceiling height — coverage is physics: bigger, taller rooms need more speakers and more display.
- ✓Number of zones — each independently controlled area adds amplification, control, and wiring.
- ✓Display size & pixel pitch — for LED walls, size and fineness of pitch are the biggest single cost drivers.
- ✓Cabling distances & construction — finished ceilings, long runs, and retrofit conditions take more labour than open new-build framing.
- ✓Control & sources — simple volume knobs cost less than one-touch scene control with conferencing — and are worth less on a busy Friday night.
A site visit turns those factors into one complete quote — equipment, wiring, installation, and programming — so you can budget the real number instead of a guess.
Why Edmonton businesses choose Afterdark
Edmonton businesses have been trusting Afterdark with their sound and screens for well over a decade — restaurants, bars, venues, offices, and houses of worship across the city and all of Alberta.
We are installers first: design, supply, installation, programming, training, and support under one local roof — not a rental house that also hangs speakers, and not a national template with a Sherwood Park mailbox. Our commercial work speaks in pictures: explore the gallery on our homepage, including real Edmonton installs and the ICE District gala hall above. And when your system needs to grow, the team that built it is a phone call away at 780-903-4037.
Edmonton & Alberta service area
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Commercial AV installation FAQs
What does a commercial AV installation include?
Design, supply, installation, programming, training, and support. We plan speaker coverage, screens, and control around your space, supply the equipment, install and wire it cleanly, program the system behind simple controls, train your team, and stay your call for service and additions afterward.
How much does a commercial sound system cost in Edmonton?
It is built from your room: size and ceiling height, how many independently controlled zones you need, display size and pixel pitch for video walls, cabling distances and construction type, and how much control and how many sources you want. After a free site visit we quote the complete job — equipment, wiring, installation, and programming — as one number you can budget.
How long does an installation take, and will it disrupt my business?
Timelines depend on the size of the system and the state of the space. We schedule the work around your hours wherever possible — including staged work in operating restaurants and venues — and confirm the schedule before we start.
Do you install LED video walls? How is the size chosen?
Yes — direct-view LED video walls for lobbies, venues, restaurants, showrooms, and houses of worship, plus commercial displays and digital signage. Size and pixel pitch are chosen for your room's real viewing distances and light: finer pitch for close viewing, brighter panels for glass-fronted spaces.
Can different areas play different music at different volumes?
Yes. Zoned, distributed audio (often 70-volt) lets the dining room, bar, patio, and other areas run different music at different volumes — or the same music everywhere — all from one system with simple controls.
Will my staff be able to run the system?
That is the point of professional programming. Sources, zones, and scenes sit behind one-touch controls, and we train your team before we leave. Day-to-day operation should never need a manual or a phone call.
Do you work in existing buildings, or only new construction?
Both. New builds let us cable during construction for the cleanest result. In existing spaces we retrofit — mounting, cabling, and rack work planned to keep your business running while we work.
Which brands do you install?
The brands the pros trust: JBL, QSC, Crestron, Electro-Voice, Yorkville, Yamaha, Shure, NEC, Ashley, Crown, Kramer, and Atlona — speakers, amplifiers, microphones, control, and distribution, specified to the room rather than to a sales quota.
Which areas do you serve?
We are based in Edmonton and serve St. Albert, Sherwood Park, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc, Beaumont, Red Deer, Calgary, and communities across Alberta.
Tell us about your space
A restaurant that sounds right, a boardroom that just works, a wall that stops people mid-stride — it starts with a walk-through. Tell us about your space and we will quote the complete system.