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At QSC, we’ve spent over five decades designing, engineering, and manufacturing award-winning solutions and services. Our success is driven by Q-SYS, a cloud-first platform for audio, video, and control, built on a modern, standards-based IT architecture. With solutions tailored for corporate, education, hospitality, venues, events, cinema, government, healthcare, and transportation, we’re redefining what’s possible for live, hybrid, and virtual experiences. We also offer QSC Audio products, including high-performance loudspeakers, digital mixers, power amplifiers, software, and accessories. These tools empower creators, performers, and entertainment providers to deliver impactful experiences with confidence. QSC is part of Acuity Intelligent Spaces, a business segment of Acuity Brands, Inc.

Jim Odom and Brian Smith founded PreSonus in 1995 with the goal of building professional and affordable music production tools for musicians and audio engineers. PreSonus began in Jim’s garage and moved to the second floor of Causey’s Furniture in downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where it stayed its first three years. PreSonus’ first product, the award-winning DCP8, digitally controlled 8-channel compressor/limiter/gate, holds a patent for analog control over digital circuitry. Truly ahead of its time, the DCP8 was designed for the studio engineer to insert 8 channels of analog compression with the ability to save, recall and automate settings which where features only found in mixing consoles costing more than $100,000. At Causey’s location, PreSonus designed and built the ACP8, an analog version of the DCP-8, the BlueMax two channel tube compressor, and the ACP22 dual compressor/limiter/gate. In 1998, PreSonus moved to its current location at the Baton Rouge Bon Carre Technology Park. Throughout the past decade, PreSonus has developed innovative professional and affordable tools to the music creation industry with the purpose of enhancing the music creation and production process. Http://www.presonus.com

Allen & Heath is a UK based designer of digital and analogue audio mixing consoles for live sound, AV, installation, recording and DJs. Allen & Heath was in the vanguard of the first wave of great British mixer companies, starting life at the heart of London’s swinging music scene in 1969. In those early days Allen & Heath hand-built mixers for the top bands of the era, including Genesis, Pink Floyd and The Who. Today’s Allen & Heath range is used and loved by bands, rental companies, installers, houses of worship, DJs, clubs, broadcasters and studios in virtually every country across the globe. We design and specify all our mixers here at our headquarters in beautiful Cornwall, UK. Our world class R&D team has kept us at the leading edge of mixing technology and is committed to harnessing the best technologies and materials to give our customers the best possible mixing experience. Many key members of the Allen & Heath team are active sound engineers with years of hands-on experience, and we’re fortunate to have a network of leading audio professionals whose feedback helps to shape our designs to meet our customers’ real-world needs. One of the cornerstones of the company is our shared passion for audio excellence, both in the analogue domain and in our digital systems, where we have won high praise from some of the most discerning ears in the business for the faithfulness of our FX and processing emulations. From the tiny ZED-i8 to the largest dLive pro touring system, all mixers bearing the Allen & Heath logo are designed to our exacting audio and build quality standards. With a strong team behind us and our best ever product range, we’re set to play a leading role in mixing technology in the years and decades ahead. Allen & Heath is part of the Audiotonix group, alongside acclaimed audio brands, Digico, Calrec and DigiGrid.