Trust is the whole product.
For 55 years, in one building in New Mexico, we have built wireless that crews reach for without thinking. The audio shows up, take after take. Everything else is detail.
The gear in the bag, not the name on the marquee.
Lectrosonics makes the wireless microphone, IEM and DSP systems that carry the audio on takes that can't be redone. Sound mixers know us. The rest of the world mostly does not, and that suits the work.
We earned trust the slow way. Build a transmitter that survives the day, ship it, fix what needs fixing, and do it again for fifty years. There is no shortcut, and we never went looking for one.
Read the Not Fragile storiesA few dates that matter.
Founded in Albuquerque, moved up the road to Rio Rancho, and stayed. The headline events, kept short.
Founded in Albuquerque
Larry Fisher starts the company building portable PA and lecterns.
The first wireless mic
The Freedomike, our first wireless microphone, ships.
A turn toward precision
Under John Arasim, the company commits to in-house engineering and manufacturing.
581 Laser Road
Moves to Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Wes Herron joins as a machinist.
Academy Award
For Digital Hybrid Wireless — a Technical Achievement award.
The team steps up
Wes Herron named President; Karl Winkler, EVP of Product Design & Distribution.
The Freedman Group
Acquired by the parent of RØDE. The work stays in Rio Rancho.
The people who reach for it.
Production sound mixers, broadcast crews, theatre engineers. They do not think about the transmitter until it matters, and by then it is already working.
One building. Nothing offshored.
A circuit board, a machined housing and a finished transmitter all start and end at 581 Laser Road. Designed here, machined here, assembled here, tested here. When something comes back for service, it comes back to the people who built it.