Allen & Heath
| Allen & Heath | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Part of the Audiotonix group (owned by Electra Partners) |
| founding | 1969 |
| Seat |
Penryn , UK
|
| Branch | Mixer manufacturer |
| Website | www.allen-heath.com |
Allen & Heath is a British sound engineering equipment manufacturer specializing in mixing consoles . Other products include control systems for sound installations and special mixing consoles for DJs . Allen & Heath was part of the Japanese D&M Holdings until 2013 and was taken over by Electra Partners. Allen & Heath has been operating as part of a group of three manufacturers of audio technology equipment under the management of Electra Partners under the name Audiotonix since mid-2014.
history
The company was founded in 1969. After a few years of losses, the situation improved after Andy Bereza and Ivor Taylor and Andrew Stirling soon after.
In the early 1970s Allen & Heath developed a special quadraphonic mixer for the band Pink Floyd , the MOD1, which Alan Parsons used to mix their live performances. The MOD1 can be seen in the film Live at Pompeii .
A number of innovations that are taken for granted today can be attributed to Allen & Heath, for example the practice of soldering potentiometers and switches directly onto the circuit boards instead of connecting them with cables. This allowed a modular structure of the devices and the simple exchange of individual assemblies. The company was also one of the first on the market to use operational amplifiers in their products. Finally, the CMC console connected the mixer to a control computer for the first time via a MIDI interface.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ D&M press release on the takeover of Allen & Heath (accessed May 18, 2009)
- ↑ Biographical information u. a. via A. Bereza, I. Taylor and A. Stirling (accessed May 18, 2009)
- ↑ 'Welcome to the Machine' The story of Pink Floyd's live sound ( Memento from February 14, 2001 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 18, 2009)
- ↑ Article in 'Live Sound International' ( Memento from May 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, English )