Uli Behringer
Uli Behringer (* 1961 in the Baden (Aargau) district ) is a Swiss musician , sound engineer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and managing director of the audio technology manufacturer Behringer .
Childhood and youth
Behringer's father was a church organist and nuclear physicist , his mother was a pianist and interpreter, his uncle was a composition professor at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich and his aunt was a classical singer and pianist. At the age of four he learned the piano. When he was five years old, his father built his own pipe organ with over 1000 pipes and integrated it into the family home. He bought the organ in 1965 from a church being demolished and was the first to build an electronically controlled pipe organ. At that time all organs were controlled pneumatically or mechanically, and the manual connections were made mechanically.
Behringer was allowed to help his father build this organ and learned a lot in the fields of craft and electronics. At 16, Behringer built his first synthesizer - the UB1 . In 1978 he built his first digital reverberation device .
Training, development and company formation
In 1982, Behringer passed the entrance exam to become a sound engineer at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences , which was combined with piano studies at the Robert Schumann Institute . He partly earned his living playing the piano in hotels.
Behringer wanted to have his own recording studio , but since professional recording technology was very expensive at the time, he began to build his own equipment. He also offered this to his colleagues for comparatively little money. Behringer began converting his apartment into a production facility.
In 1987, Behringer and a friend received a production order from the music house Spiecker & Pulch in Ratingen . The developed devices were sold under the name Greenfield and provided Behringer with the financial means to start their own company.
According to Behringer, this was the time when he realized his personal mission: to make excellent equipment affordable for musicians so that they can fully exploit their talent. He continues to refer to this as his company philosophy . In 1989 he presented Behringer devices for the first time at the Frankfurt Music Fair .
The first devices were an exciter (sound enhancement device ), a denoiser (noise reduction system) and a compressor . The successful Compressor Composer followed shortly afterwards, which has been sold over 500,000 times to date.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Behringer, Uli |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss musician, sound engineer and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden District (Aargau) |