QSC and MampW Pro Audio Ltd partner for digital mixers
Published: ASIA
WORLD: QSC has formed a co-development partnership with M&W Pro Audio Ltd to create a series of digital audio mixing consoles. M&W is the organisation formed by industry legends Greg Mackie and Peter Watts.
After retiring from Mackie Designs (now Loud Technologies) in 2003, Mr Mackie was persuaded by Mr Watts (the man responsible for the first digitally controlled console, the Trident DiAn) to come out of retirement in 2008 and develop the concepts for a line of digital mixing consoles. With concepts and preliminary designs developed, the pair began looking for a partner to bring these mixers to life.
‘We needed a pro-audio partner with established sales, marketing and distribution. A partner with a solid reputation for quality and reliability – one that had the technical capabilities to develop advanced digital mixing consoles and the manufacturing know-how to produce the products, explained Mr Mackie. ‘I had a long time personal friendship with John and Barry Andrews and knew I could trust QSC to be exactly the right partner.’
‘We are delighted to be working with Greg and Peter. Their passion for creating fine audio products mirrors our own,’ said Gerry Tschetter, QSC VP of marketing. ‘Our efforts to create value and performance on the ‘B-Chain’ (processing, power and loudspeaker) side have yielded a number of highly successful product lines. It’s great fun to be working on the ‘A-Chain’ (mixing) side as well.’
Design work on the products will be done by both M&W and QSC while manufacturing, distribution, sales, marketing and technical support will be handled entirely by QSC. The first products are expected to be announced during the first half of 2011.