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Presonus
Website:https://intl.presonus.com/
Est. year: 1995
Location: USA
PreSonus is an American maker of recording and live-sound gear, founded in 1995 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, by Louisiana State University electrical engineering graduates Jim Odom and Brian Smith. It started in Odom's garage and grew into a broad supplier of audio interfaces, digital mixers, studio monitors and software, best known for the AudioBox and StudioLive hardware, the Eris monitors and the Studio One DAW, now renamed Studio Pro.
Range & what it's known for
Hardware covers StudioLive digital mixers, AudioBox and other recording interfaces, control surfaces, MIDI controllers, headphone amplifiers, PA loudspeakers and studio monitors. The Eris family runs from the compact Eris 3.5 desktop speaker through the Eris Studio range to the Eris Pro series, whose horn-loaded coaxial driver acts as a single point source. The Sceptre S6 and S8 CoActual monitors pair a coaxial driver with a 1-inch horn-loaded tweeter, 100 W Class D amplification per driver and DSP running TQ temporal equalisation, developed with Dave Gunness of Fulcrum Acoustic. Software includes Notion for notation and Capture for recording StudioLive mixers.
Who owns it and where it's made
Since November 2021 PreSonus has been a subsidiary of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Before that it grew partly by buying other firms - KristalLabs Software in 2009, Nimbit in 2012, the Notion Music assets in 2013 and WorxAudio in 2014. At the time of the Fender deal Jim Odom held the role of founder and chief strategy officer. Early on it patented a MIDI-controlled digital processor, the DCP-8, and in 2011 it co-developed the ARA plug-in extension with Celemony.
The lineup in this catalog
Active studio monitors and interfaces. A single monitor costs from about USD 100 to about USD 1,000, depending on the series.
Who it's for
PreSonus suits home and project studios that want monitors, an interface and recording software from one maker that are designed to work together. Desktop creators can start with the Eris 3.5, move to the Eris Studio models for a first proper mixing setup, and step up to the coaxial Eris Pro or Sceptre monitors when a single point source from one driver is the priority. Users of Studio Pro gain the closest integration with the company's own hardware.
Range & what it's known for
Hardware covers StudioLive digital mixers, AudioBox and other recording interfaces, control surfaces, MIDI controllers, headphone amplifiers, PA loudspeakers and studio monitors. The Eris family runs from the compact Eris 3.5 desktop speaker through the Eris Studio range to the Eris Pro series, whose horn-loaded coaxial driver acts as a single point source. The Sceptre S6 and S8 CoActual monitors pair a coaxial driver with a 1-inch horn-loaded tweeter, 100 W Class D amplification per driver and DSP running TQ temporal equalisation, developed with Dave Gunness of Fulcrum Acoustic. Software includes Notion for notation and Capture for recording StudioLive mixers.
Who owns it and where it's made
Since November 2021 PreSonus has been a subsidiary of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation. Before that it grew partly by buying other firms - KristalLabs Software in 2009, Nimbit in 2012, the Notion Music assets in 2013 and WorxAudio in 2014. At the time of the Fender deal Jim Odom held the role of founder and chief strategy officer. Early on it patented a MIDI-controlled digital processor, the DCP-8, and in 2011 it co-developed the ARA plug-in extension with Celemony.
The lineup in this catalog
Active studio monitors and interfaces. A single monitor costs from about USD 100 to about USD 1,000, depending on the series.
Who it's for
PreSonus suits home and project studios that want monitors, an interface and recording software from one maker that are designed to work together. Desktop creators can start with the Eris 3.5, move to the Eris Studio models for a first proper mixing setup, and step up to the coaxial Eris Pro or Sceptre monitors when a single point source from one driver is the priority. Users of Studio Pro gain the closest integration with the company's own hardware.
