CALREC

Calrec is a leading designer and supplier of audio broadcast mixing equipment, relied on by the world’s most successful broadcasters. Formed as a microphone manufacturer in 1964, Calrec’s reputation for building quality, reliability and audio performance has made it an industry benchmark across the world.

Over the last 50 years, Calrec has earned a reputation for innovation and has a history of technological world firsts.

1977: Calrec supplies the world’s first stereo broadcast console.
1978: Calrec launches the Soundfield microphone, the world’s first single point-source microphone capable of recording sound in three-dimensions for surround-compatible playback.
1981: Calrec supplies the world’s first digitally controlled assignable mixing console.
2007: Calrec launches Bluefin, an FPGA-based high-density DSP card, which permits real-time 5.1 surround mixing and processing. Bluefin is available as an upgrade to existing Calrec desks, and improves efficiency by a phenomenal 5000%. This technology is another world first for Calrec.
2009: Calrec unveils Bluefin2, a significant step up from Calrec’s pioneering work with FPGAs for real-time audio DSP processing. Bluefin2 increases DSP capacity to a market-leading 1020 channel processing paths.
2009: Calrec launches Hydra2, allowing the construction of complex routing networks with control software which organises all routinng.

It’s an exciting time to be in broadcast audio, and Calrec is right in the middle of it.