The phantom in the booth.
Audio Phantom is the modern soundboard for rodeo and arena sound operators — structured show flow, instant cues, and an open control surface. Heard by thousands. Seen by no one.
Run the show, not just the sounds.
Show Flow is the running order, the walk-up list and the sponsor log in one place — a structured script for the whole performance that advances at the speed of the arena.
- A per-event running order — bareback to bulls, built before you roll into the lot.
- Walk-up music for every contestant, armed automatically as the order advances.
- One tap to advance. Drag to reorder when there's a scratch or a turn-out.
- Sponsor spots, grand entry and anthem sequenced into the same flow.
The old way has no running order — it lives on a legal pad next to the console. Show Flow puts it in the board.
- 017:00NOW
Grand Entry
Flags + riders · full sequence
- 027:06NEXT
National Anthem
Live singer · house mics open
- 037:09
Sponsor Spot
Bar T Feed & Ranch · :30 read
- 047:12
Bareback Riding
12 contestants · walk-ups armed
- 057:38
Steer Wrestling
10 contestants
- 068:02
Barrel Racing
Per-contestant entrance music
Every sound, one tap away.
The board is built for gloves-on, lights-down, forty-degree press-box reality. No menus between you and the moment.
STOP ALL
Click-free panic ramp · 250 ms to silence
Instant one-tap cues
Pre-decoded, pre-gained, ready in memory. Tap to fire, tap again to stop — spam-safe by design.
Hotkeys everywhere
Every pad maps to a key. Hands on the console, eyes on the arena.
Dual output
Booth cue bus and house bus on separate devices, with independent level and metering.
Automatic mic ducking
Announcer opens the mic, music dims itself. Closes it, music comes home.
You got handed a thumb drive in the parking lot and the gates open in twenty minutes. Fine. That's enough time to build the whole board eight times over.
Drop your library in
Drag your music folder onto the window. Every track becomes a cue — no per-file dialogs, no import wizard, nothing to configure.
Lay out the board
Drag cues onto pads, color them by event, map hotkeys. The board is the show — everything is one tap from silent.
Call the show
Load the running order, arm the first walk-up, and go. Advance with one tap while the announcer never waits on you.
Timed with a stopwatch, not a marketing department.
One phantom. Every surface.
Every action in Audio Phantom is addressable over OSC, WebSocket and SignalR. Fire cues from a Stream Deck, advance the show from a MIDI pedal, hand a producer a phone that only stops sponsor beds. If it speaks a protocol, it can run the board.
- Stream Deck
- MIDI
- X-keys
- Second-operator remote
The old way has no API at all. This one was built around it.
Eight seconds on a bull doesn't pause for a dialog box. Every layer of Audio Phantom is built to keep audio moving through crashes, power cuts and operator panic — the machine can die, the show doesn't.
Atomic saves
Every write lands whole or not at all. A power cut mid-save costs you nothing.
Autosave
Debounced two seconds behind your last edit. You never think about saving again.
Rolling backups
The last ten versions of every setup, kept automatically, one click to restore.
Crash recovery
If the machine goes down mid-show, relaunch picks up exactly where you were — cued and silent, back from the dead.
That's not a slogan. It's the spec.
Your show, on any machine.
The old way is one Windows box and a .set file on a thumb drive. This is your whole season, everywhere you work.
Windows + macOS, one product
Native on both. Same board, same shortcuts, same setups — whichever machine is in the booth tonight.
Cloud backup & sync
Setups back up to your account and follow you between machines. The truck dies; your show doesn't.
Share with your crew
Hand the Saturday operator the exact board you ran Friday. One link, no thumb drive.
Sports Sounds Pro has run booths for twenty years, and it shows. Here's what changes when the soundboard is built this decade.
Sports Sounds Pro feature set and pricing as publicly listed at sportssoundspro.com (Version 8, July 2026). Audio Phantom pricing shown is introductory and subject to change. Sports Sounds Pro is a trademark of its respective owner; Audio Phantom is not affiliated with or endorsed by it.
Half the price of the old way.
The incumbent charges $299.99/yr for 2004 software. Every Audio Phantom feature is in one plan, and the first 30 days are free.
Pro
Everything included- Show Flow running orders
- Unlimited boards & cues
- Open Control API — OSC, WebSocket, SignalR
- Dual output + auto mic ducking
- Cloud backup, sync & setup sharing
- Rolling backups & crash recovery
- Windows + macOS, one license
No card required
Arena
Multi-seat licensing for venues, committees and production companies running more than one booth.
- Seats for the whole crew
- Shared setup library
- Priority show-week support
Sports Sounds Pro — $299.99/yr/Audio Phantom Pro — $144/yr
Yes — completely. Audio, your library, and your boards all live on the machine; nothing about playback touches the network. Cloud backup and sync simply catch up the next time you're online.
Your setup autosaves two seconds behind every edit, with the last ten versions kept as rolling backups. Relaunch after a crash or power cut and you're offered recovery exactly where you were — cued and silent.
MP3, WAV, FLAC and OGG play natively. Everything else — M4A/AAC, WMA, AIFF, Opus, even the audio track of video files like MP4 — is converted once at import and plays like any other cue.
Point Audio Phantom at the same music folders and you'll have a playable board in minutes — cues, colors and hotkeys are drag-and-drop. A direct importer for SSP setup files is on the roadmap.
Pick two output devices — say the house PA on a USB interface and your headphones on the built-in jack — and audition cues privately in the booth while the house keeps playing.
Yes. Pair a phone or tablet as a second operator — they can fire cues and advance the running order from the chutes while you drive the board.
No. Thirty days, every feature unlocked, no card up front.
Something else? support@audiophantom.com
Thirty days free, every feature unlocked. Bring your library over and run your next performance on Audio Phantom — the crowd hears everything, and never sees a thing.
Start free trial · No card required
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