About Us
Our Story
Our founder, Andy Pope, can trace his love of live performance all the way back to 6th grade in Copper Beech middle in the suburbs of New York city. While living there with his family, his parents afforded him the opportunity to catch live performances at the Met, on Broadway and Radio City Music Hall. After graduating from that school, his family moved across the country to Bellevue WA, where he spent most of his free time in the Newport Sr High School theater. Yes, he was a theater geek before there was a name for it. He likes to joke that more of his classmates knew him by the nickname "Techie" than knew his real name. High School was followed by college at UW, and after graduation, Andy began to tour the world as a monitor engineer. At times when he was home, he worked on permanent installation projects ranging from small clubs to churches, eventually installing world class PA systems in the Kingdome and Alamo Dome.
As time passed, Andy started to feel that life on the road was not compatible with his desire for a family, so he transitioned from a full time touring engineer to a career in IT, but his passion for live performance never died. He would occasionally pick up an engineering gig and even take a short tour away from home. This led to the founding of SDP Lighting and F/X. With his vast combined live performance and IT experience he was very well positioned for the analog to digital transition that the audio industry was going through. SDP specialized as a small regional Lighting and F/X company, but demand for Andy's audio talent grew and led to the company buying its first PA. To support the larger gigs coming in the company grew and it was beginning to look like Andy would need to join the team full time -- then COVID shut down the industry.
SDP was able to weather that multi-year storm and with recent investment has refreshed most of their equipment. If you are looking for state of the art equipment and outstanding design, implementation and operation support for your event or facility, don't look past us. We have the knowledge, experience and burning desire to make your event amazing. We're excited to work with you.
Looking for Gear?
If you're in the market for new or used gear, it would be well worth your time to reach out to us. We are fully licensed dealers for most of brands of equipment we work with. As dealers we enjoy preferential pricing on new gear. If you're either looking for new or you're in a place where well cared for equipment is a better fit, we are modernizing our systems which means we can make smoking deals on our experienced equipment. Either way, our prices in most cases will be on par or maybe even better than what you find from any other licensed reseller because we subsidize our equipment sales prices through our live performance work.
What do you have to lose, let us get you a price on whatever you need. Everything we sell that is in "New" condition comes with a full manufacturer warrantee. For our expereinced equipment, we are happy to set it up in your space and demo it for you so there are no surprises. If it doesn't work, WE WON'T SELL IT TO YOU!
Looking for Gigs?
Are you looking for a gig as a production engineer? So are we -- all the time -- but, let us know. When things are hopping here we always need more talent. Do you have a gig, but need gear to get it done? We may have a solution for you.
If you hook us up with someone that buys from us, we know how it works -- we'll take care of you for hooking us up.
