Dynacord

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Dynacord
legal form GmbH (Bosch)
founding 1945/1946
Seat Straubing , Bavaria
Number of employees 650 2013
Branch Audio technology
Website www.dynacord.com

Dynacord is a manufacturer of professional sound technology based in Straubing in Lower Bavaria . Today it belongs to the Bosch Group and is subdivided into the Bosch Building Technologies division .

history

Dynacord effects in the recording studio

In 1945 Ing. Werner Pinternagel opened a radio repair workshop in Pilsting , where he built his first tube amplifiers . One year later the company "Dynacord Funktechnik und Gerätebau" was founded. In 1947 the company moved to Landau an der Isar . Dynacord produced the Dynaphon MV1 , a tube amplifier with the simplest circuitry with inputs for high-impedance microphones , for radio and crystal pickups , as well as cinema amplifiers for movie theaters . In 1948/49 the first mixer and case amplifiers came onto the market under the name "DYNACORD Ing. W. Pinternagel". With the case amplifiers KV 6 (6 watts) and KV 10 (10 watts) the company had great success in the 1950s, the successor KV 12 did not follow until 1960. The company sold over of the DA 15 model , which had also been in production for 10 years 70,000 pieces.

In the 1950s, the development of the echo cord began , with the help of which echo and reverberation could be generated in musical performances. From the mid-1950s, high-quality mixer amplifiers such as the MV 15 were developed and produced , especially for musicians, and from 1958 Dynacord was already delivering stereo amplifiers. The export share rose from 3 percent in 1955 to 15 percent of the annual turnover of 928,000 DM in 1959. In 1958 the company relocated to Straubing.

In the 1960s, Dynacord engineers designed the Eminent , a mixer amplifier with five mixable inputs and tone control with separate treble and bass controls for the first time. The Giant II followed in the 1970s . The extensive orchestra and vocal system could be controlled from the middle of the hall for large events with many artists.

In the 1960s Dynacord also built electric guitars and electric semi-acoustic basses. The Cora model was an innovation in 1965, a frame guitar with three pickups without the usual wooden body. While Cora was still being developed and built by Dynacord itself, the individual parts for the subsequent models came from various companies. In the meantime there was a collaboration with the Hopf company . At the end of the 1960s guitar production was stopped again.

A CLS 222 in Eric Clapton's rack system (sixth from the bottom).

In 1969 Dynacord merged with the amplifier and effects device manufacturer Echolette , who u. a. was responsible for the unmistakable live sound of the Beatles . Echolette devices were produced by Dynacord until 1981. Former Echolette owner Hans Bauer became a partner in Dynacord. At the end of the 1960s, Dynacord also began building discotheque systems (full transistor power amplifier plug-in units from the STE series, mixing consoles, loudspeakers). Light control devices were also built (e.g. the Dynalux - a 4-channel, low-frequency controlled " light organ "). By the end of the 1970s, Dynacord already had an extensive, high-performance discotheque program on offer, which was growing steadily.

The ADDone, Advanced Digital Drums, made Dynacord temporarily the market leader in digital drums in the 1980s . From 1984 Dynacord sold 1,950 pieces of its Percuter drum machine . From 1985 Dynacord produced the Rhythm Stick , a MIDI controller for drummers shaped like a guitar. From 1982 Dynacord built effects units to simulate a Leslie loudspeaker , the Dynacord CLS series .

In 1990 Dynacord was sold to the American company Telex Communications . Dynacord has been part of the BOSCH security system group since January 1st, 2006 . Amplifiers, mixers and loudspeakers are still sold under the Dynacord brand.

Dynacord today

40 engineers are currently (2013) working in Straubing. The company refers to their direct contact with users, as their engineers themselves are musicians, sound engineers or sound engineers. Today Dynacord serves as a “full-line supplier” the entire audio chain from the mixer to the loudspeaker.

Dynacord is regarded as the market leader in the ELA sector , with the range of signaling systems in public buildings and shopping centers, concert halls and music festivals up to the sound system for entire stadiums. Nine out of ten stadiums for the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa were equipped with Dynacord loudspeakers. Competitors on the German market are primarily JBL , Electro-Voice (also a Bosch Communications Systems company) and the like. a.

EVI Audio GmbH is Dynacord's European headquarters and employs around 650 people in Europe, around 500 of them in Germany. EVI Audio GmbH is also responsible for the activities of the sales companies in France and Great Britain , as well as for sales in Africa and the Middle East . The company headquarters is in Straubing .

Awards

Some products have received the Musikmesse International Press Award twice and have been nominated several times in the following years.

literature

  • Gabriele Christl, Markus Fritsch: DYNACORD: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Chronicle of a success. PPV Medien, Bergkirchen 2003, ISBN 978-3-932275-33-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Development , company homepage
  2. ↑ a b c radio manufacturer - information and history of Dynacord (Pinternagel) , radiomuseum.org
  3. ↑ Radio Electronics Show 1960, pp. 217, 348
  4. ↑ Hans Ohms: Some considerations on analog echo / reverberation devices with an endless tape loop (PDF; 196 kB), Internet Museum of German Orchestra Electronics , el-me-se.de , 2008
  5. ↑ Hans Ohms: Dynacord MV 15 (PDF; 127 kB), el-me-se.de , 2007
  6. ↑ Hans Ohms: Dynacord Gigant (PDF; 68 kB), el-me-se.de , 2007
  7. ↑ a b Stefan Lob: Dynacord & Echolette (Klemt) , schlaggitarren.de, accessed on October 23, 2013.
  8. ↑ Thorsten Knublauch: The Bravo-Beatles-Blitzournee: five days Beatlemania in Germany in June 1966 , 2nd edition, Norderstedt 2011, ISBN 3-8423-5356-1 , p. 37 ff. ( Preview )
  9. ↑ Hans Ohms: A brief review of the history of Echolette (PDF; 70 kB), el-me-se.de , 2008
  10. ↑ Mark Vail: Keyboard Magazine Presents Vintage Synthesizers: Pioneering Designers, Groundbreaking Instruments, Collecting Tips, Mutants of Technology , Backbeat Books, 2000, ISBN 0-87930-603-3 , p. 70 Online
  11. ↑ Dynacord Percuter , drummachines.de
  12. ↑ Milestones , Dynacord website
  13. ↑ Helen Casabona, David Frederick: Advanced MIDI Applications , Keyboard magazine library for electronic musicians, Alfred Music Publishing, 1988, ISBN 1-4574-3893-3 , p. 42 ( preview )
  14. ^ The Jamma & Dynacord Rhythm Stick official site , thejamma.com
  15. ↑ Hans Ohms: CLS 22 / CLS 222: Compact Rotor System , el-me-se.de , 2004
  16. ↑ Development , company homepage
  17. ^ Mahler's Second in Debrecen - with Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi and the Dynacord Cobra , live-production.tv, March 29, 2013
  18. ^ Dynacord Cobra at Tamworth Country Music Festival , Bosch Security 2009
  19. ^ [1] , Stadionwelt Business, accessed on October 18, 2013.
  20. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MIPA Award 2003  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mipa-award.de
  21. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MIPA Award 2004  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mipa-award.de
  22. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MIPA Award 2005  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mipa-award.de
  23. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MIPA Award 2009  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mipa-award.de
  24. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , MIPA Award 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mipa-award.de