Audiovisual consulting and design-build for Nashville multi-floor venues, restaurants, offices, and healthcare briefing rooms. We design the system, specify it, install it, and support it, working with your architect and general contractor from the drawings forward.
On a lot of Nashville projects nobody owns the audiovisual scope. The architect puts screens on an elevation without knowing where the speakers have to land or how loud each floor is meant to run. The IT group asks for the simplest system that will stay off their desk. Nobody asks the operator what the space is supposed to do until the walls are closed, the pathways are full, and the fix is a change order. What opens is the system the building would allow rather than the one the venue actually needed.
An AV consultant exists to stop that. We come onto the project as the technology partner, ask what every floor and every room has to accomplish, design around that answer, and hand your architect and general contractor requirements they can bid and build to. Then we install, commission, and support what we designed, so one AV company is accountable for the room instead of a designer and an installer trading blame. We have been doing this since 2008 across hospitality, corporate, and healthcare work throughout Nashville and Middle Tennessee.
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Every system is designed, installed, and supported by our own team in Nashville — never subcontracted.
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From Lower Broadway multi-floor venues to corporate floors in Midtown and briefing rooms on the medical campuses, we consult on audiovisual design across Nashville, and we plan every install around the building and the jurisdiction the site actually sits in.
Heat and humidity are what actually shorten equipment life, so cooling gets engineered to hold the AV room at or below 75 degrees before a single component is ordered.
Winter ice cycles are hard on outdoor hardware and on install schedules, so exterior components are specified to live through the cold rather than be pulled in each year.
Severe storm season brings power events that take out unprotected equipment, so surge protection and clean power get designed into the rack instead of added later.
Rooftops here earn revenue most of the year, so they get engineered as their own weather-rated zone with coverage and control that work independently of the floors below.
How we work
There is no reason your technology partner is not at the architectural phase. By the time the venue is being built, the mark has already been missed.
A project a year out does not need a large upfront spend. It needs its technology requirements inside the architectural plan, because a clean permit set and an honest GC bid both depend on them. Nashville makes the penalty for skipping that steeper than most markets, since much of the work downtown happens inside old narrow buildings where there is barely room for cable pathways and no easy way to add one later. Riser space, conduit sizing, and floor-to-floor routing have to be reserved on paper before framing, not negotiated afterward. Bring us in at the first floor plan and we model what each floor needs and send requirements back for the plan set, so the GC bids against something complete. Projects engaged at the architectural phase run roughly 95% fewer change orders.
Most of what goes wrong at install was decided months earlier by information that never arrived. The general contractor needs conduit sizing, pathway plans for open ceilings, blocking and backing behind every display, power for the rack, and cooling for the AV room. Humid summers make that cooling requirement real rather than nominal, since a rack of amplifiers in an uncooled room cooks itself and pulls in dust. Sites in Davidson County, Brentwood, and Franklin answer to different jurisdictions, so we confirm the review path for the actual address instead of assuming one process covers all of them. Timing stays predictable: engineering and design two to three weeks after contract, equipment thirty to forty-five days, and nine to twelve months from groundbreak to opening on new construction.
What we consult on
Nashville consulting work splits three ways, and it lands in four kinds of space. The design question changes in each one, and the equipment list comes last.
The Lower Broadway multi-story venue is the hardest room type in the country to design. Three to five floors plus a rooftop, several of them running live music at the same time, inside an old narrow building with almost nowhere to put cable. The core problem is vertical isolation and per-floor source control, so a band on two does not bleed into the dining room on three and every floor can select and hold its own program without a manager climbing stairs. Our scope is the permanently installed system and the zoning that lets a performance and a house program coexist, not running the shows. Rooftops get designed as their own weather-rated zone with sightlines and coverage worked out for an open space.
Two complaints tell you a Nashville room's audio was never designed: guests cannot hold a conversation, or staff cannot hear the program the operator picked. Both trace back to speakers mounted without accounting for direction, height, and hard room surfaces, often run around the perimeter so the middle has no coverage and the edges are too loud. So audio gets zoned, and the dining room, the bar, and the patio each get tuned to the concept instead of sharing one volume. Displays sit off the primary sightlines so a screen adds to the room rather than running it, and control stays simple enough for a manager to change mid-service. On hotel properties the lobby, restaurant, bar, and meeting floors each get their own zone rather than one system stretched across all of them.
The relocation wave has brought a lot of office work here, and those clients usually arrive with a platform already chosen and a room size assumption that does not hold. Manufacturer marketing sells a system built for five people into a boardroom that seats twenty, and the far end of the table spends the next year unintelligible on calls. So we design from the space: dimensions, acoustics, glass versus drywall, and which platforms your people and your clients use, whether that is Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms, Google Meet, or a mix. Training and all-hands rooms get treated as their own problem. Where a company runs several floors or several sites, we write a room standard so every room behaves the same way, and where IT owns the network we work with them on it.
Healthcare and academic-medical clients here mostly need briefing and training rooms, and the brief is almost entirely about being understood. A clinician presenting case material to a room of forty cannot afford a system where the back rows guess at half the words, and remote participants have to hear the room, not just the person nearest the microphone. So the design starts with acoustics and microphone coverage rather than with a display, and the display gets sized off the furthest seat and the actual light in the room. Control has to be the same in every room so a presenter walking in cold can start on time. Where IT and clinical engineering own the network, we design with them and hand over documentation their teams can maintain.
Plain answers
Ask three firms what consulting produces and you get three answers. Here is exactly what ours produces, and why we do not stop at the specification.
You get documents a trade can build from, not a memo of recommendations. That means system elevations and equipment locations, signal flow and single-line drawings, an equipment schedule, conduit and pathway requirements, power and cooling requirements for the rack and the AV room, mounting and structural backing details, and network requirements. On a multi-floor venue the pathway drawings matter as much as the system design, because that is the part nobody can add later. Where a decision is hard to picture, we show the room visually before anything is ordered, which is what heads off a redesign halfway through construction. Your architect folds the package into the plan set, your GC bids it, and on new construction our drawings travel with the building's permitting set.
The usual consulting model ends at the specification, which means nobody who drew the system answers for how it performs on opening night. That matters more than it sounds, because a bid-spec document is only as good as whoever wrote it, and often that person was an architect working outside their lane or an IT manager trying to keep the system off their desk. We stay on it end to end: design, specification, procurement, rack fabrication in our shop, install, commissioning, staff training, documentation, and support afterward. One company, one number to call. Crunchy Tech started in 2008 as an AV support company before it was an integrator, so racks come fully enclosed, cables are labeled at both ends, and power runs separated from audio and data.
It is the hardest room type in the country, and it gets solved on paper long before anything is mounted. The two real problems are vertical audio isolation and per-floor source control. Sound travels through floors, so the design has to keep a band on one level from bleeding into a dining room on the next, which means coordinating with your architect and structural team on floor assemblies and speaker placement rather than treating it as an audio problem alone. Each floor also has to select and hold its own program independently, with a control layer a manager can run without calling anyone. The building itself is the other constraint, since these are old narrow structures with almost no room for cable, so riser and pathway space has to be reserved in the plan set before framing. Our scope is the permanently installed system and the zoning that lets a performance and a house program coexist, not running the shows.
Both, and accountability is the point. Hand a specification to a low bidder and nobody who drew the system answers for how it performs the night you open, so you get a designer and an installer pointing at each other while you sit in the middle. Our scope runs from design and specification through procurement, rack fabrication in our own shop, installation, commissioning, staff training, documentation, and support afterward. One company, one point of accountability, and one team that has to live with its own decisions. If you want us for design only we will do it and tell you plainly what the risk is. We will also review a specification or a bid you already have and give you an honest read on what it is missing.
That is usually the most valuable thing we do for a corporate or healthcare client. We write a room standard that defines what a huddle room, a mid-size conference room, a boardroom, and a training or briefing room each get, then design every room against that standard rather than case by case. The control layer looks and works the same everywhere, so someone moving between floors or campuses starts a meeting the same way, and your IT and facilities teams support one documented design instead of a dozen improvised ones. The standard accounts for the platforms your people actually use, whether that is Microsoft Teams Rooms, Zoom Rooms, Google Meet, or a mix, along with guest devices visitors bring in. Where an internal IT group owns the network, we build the standard with them so it fits their security and support model.
We survey what the building actually allows before we design to it, and we are honest when the answer limits the system. Older downtown structures often have no usable riser, shallow ceiling space, and walls nobody wants to open, so the design gets built around the pathways that exist or the ones we can create while the walls are still open. That is the argument for engaging early: on new construction and gut renovations we reserve conduit sizing, riser space, and floor-to-floor routing in the plan set, and the general contractor prices it as part of the job. On an occupied building we plan around access windows, after-hours rules, and what the landlord will permit, then design a system that fits those limits instead of one that assumes ideal conditions. We do not interpret code for you, and we confirm the review path with the jurisdiction that has the site. We have opened racks that looked fifteen years old after three months in a sealed room with no air conditioning, dust caked on every surface, and replacing cooked components runs into the tens of thousands.
Client successes drive Crunchy Tech to become better. Below is how our customers feel about us.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
We don’t sell you what we have. We design what you need. That line is the operating principle I’ve built Crunchy Tech around for the last 20 years. And it’s the single sentence that separates us - and the small handful of firms like us - from the other 97% of the commercial AV industry.
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Read article arrow_forwardSend us the basics: the address, the phase the project is in, who your architect and GC are, how many floors are in play, and what is decided versus still open. If the drawings are current we will work from them. If construction has started we will get to the site, confirm what the building and the jurisdiction allow, and come back with one engineered consulting scope instead of an equipment list.
