Drive-in events are the new normal during a pandemic. They are throwing typical events such as weddings, movies, graduations and concerts, but from the safety of your car. That’s right, you can have events while sitting in a vehicle.
How does a drive-in event work?
Using SILENCE Activations, you can broadcast audio to anyone who has an FM radio. Just choose a channel on the transmitter and everyone tunes into that channel in their car or on their personal FM radio.
What types of events can I have in my car?
There are many types of events that can be had, but here is a brief introduction to the main types of drive-in events you can throw.
Movies
Planning a movie night and need a way for everyone to stay six feet away from each other? Then use our transmitter stream the audio of the movie over car radios. This is the best way to social distance with your neighbors!
Multiple movies can be played concurrently, giving a family in a car the ability to individual choose the movie they wan to watch.
Art Shows
What about having a drive-thru art show where everyone tunes into the radio to learn about each art piece they are about to pass. This would be great for viewing murals all across the city or even a staged show in a parking lot.
Weddings
Using our transmitters and silent headphones, you will plug your audio device into the transmitter. The officiant is on a screen while you and your partner are standing in front of your families cars. The sound of your voices will stream over the car radios and wow your social distancing wedding plans are finally realized!
Concerts
Venues can rent our transmitter to throw a massive social distancing concert using the same set up as a drive in movie. Guests will tune into the same radio frequency as the band and will be able to hear the live music from the safety of their cars.
What are the benefits to having a drive-in event?
Besides being able to stay 6 feet away from the other attendees, there are many reasons to have a drive in event.
- Perfect sound quality: Adjust the volume to each person listening in.
- Continuous play: Some newer cars have power management systems that turn the radios off if the car is not running.
- Multi-language: Provide multiple languages in the same vehicle.
- Monetize each person: Don’t lose out on charging for everyone watching the movie vs. just one vehicle.
- New audience: Create a non-large vehicle section for bikes or socially safe seating for those that don’t have an FM Radio.
- No loud sounds: Allow for people to listen while they are out of their cars, sitting in their flat beds without bothering anyone around them.
We hope this information is helpful for when you plan your drive-in event. Feel free to reach out to us to give you some more ideas!
A silent disco, silent rave or silent party is an event where people dance to music listened to on wireless headphones. Rather than using a speaker system, music is broadcast via a radio transmitter with the signal being picked up by wireless headphone receivers worn by the participants.
Silent parties are a popular way to allow groups of people to party past noise curfews. Silent disco parties are popular at hotel parties, music festivals, youth groups, conferences and more!How Does a Silent Party Work?
Silent parties are a great way to have an all-night party or just be a little avante-garde and switch it up for an upcoming company event.- Your guests grab a pair of headphones.
- Push the button on the side of your headphones to choose which channel you want to listen to. Red, Green or Blue? Each color allows you to listen to the DJ of choice.
- Switch channels anytime to listen to another DJ or to sing along with your group of friends!
- Turn up the volume and sing out loud!
The best part is 3 different channels of music
Think about everyone in your department all hanging out with headphones on and all of a sudden, you start hearing everyone singing a song word for word, but you aren't hearing that song. You can easily switch over to that channel and join the party. Let's TalkWould you be interested in going to a silent party? Let us know on social!
If you haven’t yet tried silent disco yoga, then we’re not sure what you’re waiting for. This experience is such a treat that it tends to become a new hard-wired hobby for first-timers.
It’s more immersive, and that gives practitioners even more of what they love most about yoga class.
The headphones make it easier to lose one’s self, allowing them to go deeper and deeper into their flow.
This is another reason people feel they’ve gotten more out of the class when headphones are utilized.
Silent headphones provide yogis with more personable, intimate, and distraction-free yoga time—a time that is considered sacred for many who practice.
What is Silent Disco Yoga?
First off, what exactly is it? Silent disco yoga is essentially yoga done while wearing silent disco headphones. It allows class attendees ample social-distancing space.
It also makes it much easier for everyone to hear the yoga instructor perfectly well regardless of where their mat is in the class area.
This is an innovative way to continue practicing yoga in a tough year that has been filled with the difficult task of staying socially distance from others.
Why practice SDY?
Silent disco yoga has been the answer for yoga prayers around the globe. For lots of yogis, the practice isn’t just a part of their health routine. It’s their way of life.
Therefore, the incorporation of silent disco headphones in yoga classes has enabled them to be able to adapt to this scary new world we’ve been thrust into in 2020.
Yoga is a lifestyle for so many practitioners that not only keeps their physical health in check, but it also provides balance with their mental and emotional health as well.
What made it a lasting trend in 2020?
When COVID hit this past March, yoga studios everywhere had to make the tough decision to close their doors in the interest of their clients’ safety.
With the use of headphones, classes can instead be held outside in a spaced-out fashion.
Indoor studios can also hold classes with a smaller capacity, and instructors can talk without having to raise their voices.
They’re able to do this with the plug and play fitness unit that Silence Activations provides, which serves as a wireless mic for the instructor to use.
From a class attendee’s point of view, it’s a much better experience to have your instructor’s soothing voice in your ear no matter where your mat is positioned.
From an instructor’s standpoint, silent headphones make teaching so much easier. Demonstrating poses while having to project your voice can get exhausting very quickly.
The use of silent headphones eliminates that struggle as a yoga instructor.
Many of those who have experienced silent disco yoga have now seen the benefits it has and the problems it solves, making it a trend that will last much beyond 2020.
Conclusion
As we long for normalcy in the closing months of this year, we must remember that things are still not completely back to ‘normal’ yet, and they may not be for quite some time.
In many ways, things won’t go back to the normal we remember at all. On a positive note though, this pandemic has shown us ways that certain things can be done better.
One example is that working from home has proven more efficient and environmentally friendly for some industries.
On a similar note, group classes have resorted to the use of headphones for social-distancing purposes.
What started out as a coping mechanism for yoga teachers has now become a staple for many because of the ways they enhance the experience for everyone involved.
As we eventually crawl back into some sense of normality, this silent disco yoga trend will be one that we believe will stick around.