Calrec is relied on by the world’s most successful broadcasters.
From Premiership football, to the Superbowl, from “X Factor” to “Dancing with the Stars”, if it’s live, it’s probably mixed on a Calrec. Our customers focus on pushing the boundaries of broadcast audio, we help them succeed. Everything we do is designed, manufactured and tested in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England.
In 2013, Hebden Bridge was voted the coolest place to live in Britain by The Times, and in 2018, British Airway’s High Life magazine described it as “one of the world’s funkiest towns”.
Midway between Manchester and Leeds, Hebden Bridge is fiercely independent and punches way above its weight. It has a strong community spirit, and Calrec plays a key role, hosting open days and film screenings, working with arts festivals and providing recycled goods to the many artists who live and work in the town. Calrec gets involved in wider local community ventures, like #WeMakeEvents, Overgate Hospice and Calderdale Smartmove.
Even Calrec’s HQ is record-breaking – in the 1800’s Calrec’s Nutclough Mill was the world’s first worker’s cooperative textile mill. Today, all Calrec equipment is designed, prototyped, built, tested, sold and supported in the same building.
Innovative and punching way above its weight; no wonder Calrec is such a good fit.
Over the last 50 years, Calrec has earned a reputation for innovation and has a history of technological world firsts:
1977: Designed the world’s first stereo broadcast console.
1978: Launched the Soundfield microphone, the world’s first single-point surround microphone.
1981: Supplied the world’s first digitally controlled assignable mixing console.
2007: Launched Bluefin, the first FPGA-based high-density DSP card which improved efficiency by 5,000%.
2009: Unveiled Bluefin2 to increase DSP capacity to 1020 channels.
2009: Launched Hydra2, routing networks with control software to intelligently manage all routing.
2018: Launched the ImPulse IP processing and routing engine, retrofittable to existing Calrec consoles to provide simple IP upgrades.
We’ve been busy being part of the broadcast community for over 50 years, and we’re still busy shaping the future of it.
Alongside DiGiCo, Allen & Heath and SSL, Calrec is part of the Audiotonix group of British console companies.
Proud to be an active part of the local community, we’re keen supporters of local causes, great at getting social, musical misfits, collaborative, innovative, and massive nerds.
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