1927
— Partnership founded by Al Kahn and Lou Burroughs, who begin making
microphones in the basement of the Century Tire and Rubber Company in South
Bend, Indiana.
1930 — Designs a PA system to assist
legendary Notre Dame football coach, Knute Rockne. Rockne refers to the new
system as his "electric voice," inspiring the company name.
1945 — Burroughs is awarded a special
citation from the War Department for designing and developing the T-45 lip
microphone.
1954 — Introduces the Variable-D®
microphone which reduces proximity effect and becomes a standard world wide.
1962 — An EV microphone accompanies John
Glenn on his pioneering orbit of the Earth.
1968 — Receives an Academy Award for the
development of a shotgun microphone.
1969
— Neil Armstrong speaks his famous words through an EV microphone as he
sets foot on the moon.
1979
— Pope John Paul II uses an EV RE10 microphone during his first visit to
the United States.
1985 — Develops and is the first to market
N/DYM® dynamic microphones with higher output and greater frequency
response. 1993 — Purchased Klark Teknik, Midas, and DDA, the finest names
in concert digital signal processing and live-performance mixing consoles.
1997
— The X-ArrayTM concert system is introduced and debuts on the
Rolling Stones "Bridges to Babylon" Tour.
1998 — Telex and EV merge into a single
company. 2000 — Introduces the X-LineTM linear-array concert
loudspeaker system (used by artists such as the Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart,
B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Tool, Alabama, and more).
2002 — X-LineTM, XLC, P-Series power
amplifiers, Klark Teknik signal processing, and Midas live mixing consoles used
extensively on the massive Rolling Stones "Licks 2002-2003 Tour." © 2004 Telex
Communications, Inc. 12000 Portland Avenue South Burnsville, MN 55337
800.392.3497 www.electrovoice.com
