For almost 60 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.
2016: Launched Brio, a super-compact 36-fader surface with more faders in a given footprint than any other audio console.
2018: Launched Type R, Calrec’s first native IP product.
2018: Launched Assist, a HTML-based remote-control UI for a range of Calrec consoles.
2018: Launched ImPulse, a powerful, IP-based, processing and routing engine.
2020: Launched the Calrec Sound Institute, featuring free certified training on Brio, Type R, Summa, AoIP and Immersive mixing.
2022: Launched Argo, a new approach to audio mixing which is designed to keep pace with broadcasters’ changing requirements. Launched ImPulse1, a powerful 1U audio processing and routing engine which is designed for small to medium single mixer applications.
We’ve been busy being part of the broadcast community for almost 60 years and we’re still busy shaping the future of broadcast audio.
Alongside DiGiCo, Allen & Heath, SSL, KLANG:technologies, Sound Devices, Slate Digital, Harrison and Sonible, Calrec is part of the Audiotonix group of British console companies.