“It all started with a trap case,” recalls Joe Calzone, as he reflects on the case making company he founded in 1975. The legendary company, now known as Calzone and Anvil Case, celebrated its 40th anniversary last year. Recognized as the largest fabricated case manufacturer in the world, the name is synonymous with protective cases across a broad spectrum of industries other than rock-n-roll.
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Sometimes, you just outgrow your name. When it happens, it’s better to embrace it.
The company formerly known as Entertainment Metals, a provider of precision metal and cabling solutions for the professional audio, video, broadcast, theater and install markets announced recently an all-inclusive corporate re-branding initiative starting in 2016.
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I’m riding over to DPS’ warehouse from their HQ in Burbank with Robert “R.J.” Lynn in his Audi and director of marketing Alan Sherin. At a stop light, founder and consultant Anthony Dever pulls up in his Tesla, rolls down his window and jokes, “Wanna race?” Lynn, DPS general manager, laughs and points out that maybe that’s not prudent, cop-wise. The light turns green, and Dever hits the pedal, if only for a short spurt.
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A Rare Look Inside This Leading Industry Supplier
Founded in 1999, Sommer Cable is an innovative designer and manufacturer of high-end audio, video and data cables, connectors, assemblies and electronics. Based in Germany’s Black Forest region, the company recently opened its U.S. branch in Santa Rosa, CA, headed by German/American citizen and 35-year industry veteran Martin Ucik.
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Returning after InfoComm 2015, David Croxton of KV2 is still enjoying the success of the company’s reveal of the new VHD5.0 Constant Power Point Source Array. He says there was considerable interest in the whole new approach to large venue sound.
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Jim Van Winkle, general manager of Professional Wireless Systems (PWS), wrote this article about navigating the new live event workflow. -ed.
Earlier this year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it would soon be taking steps to “recognize the important social, cultural and economic benefits of low-power auxiliary station operations, including wireless microphones, by expanding license eligibility for qualifying users.”
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Touring RF engineer Marc Depratto was looking for some solutions for helping him deal with wireless interference and frequency coordination issues. He eventually turned to two Kaltman Creations Invisible Waves X RF products — the RF Command Center and CPAntenna. Here are some of his experiences. —ed.
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While we come into this office every day, we’re still live sound guys,” laughs J.P. Boucher, COO. “We don’t want to read a 200-page manual on how to operate something and we know the people out there mixing or installing sound don’t either. Another thing that sets us apart is when you call, a real person will help you through any issue on any product or situation. And I wake up every day loving this job!”
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We spend our days working in a technology-driven and fairly young industry, where if a startup company can make it through its first five or ten years, that’s considered an accomplishment. So if a company reaches the 30-year mark — nearly a third of a century, as in the case of Hosa Technology — that accomplishment is quite impressive indeed.
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Christian Poulsen of DPA Microphones has a plan to take over the world with good audio
On December, 17, 2013, renowned microphone manufacturer DPA announced that the Riverside Company would become majority shareholders in the company. It was a startling move to many observers of the fiercely independent Danish company, but this manufacturer has been making sweeping changes under its relatively new CEO Christian Poulsen, and his latest move only bolstered his mission to make sure DPA becomes one of the top three microphone companies in the world — by any standard.
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Great things sometime spring up out of humble beginnings. And a good example of that is Kaltman Creations, a business that began in 2006 to market the Kaltman Cable Coiler™, a device to speed the coiling of microphone cables after a performance. Yet early on, company founder Mark Kaltman, a musician and studio/touring engineer who also held positions at various pro audio and broadcast companies, including Klotz Digital, Aeta Audio, Denon and Sabine — recognized a growing need in the industry. He applied his keen entrepreneurial sense to eventually develop a line of RF and EMC test and measurement devices that provided practical and cost-effective wireless solutions at the right time and place.
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You only turn 25 once, and what Riedel Communications did to mark their quarter century in business was a doozy. The party itself took place at their headquarters in Wuppertal, Germany where 1,400 revelers joined in a celebration that included musical performances, high-wire acts, a robot band (playing heavy metal), outdoor whirlpools and a fire show.
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