"Pete Traynor: Musicians amp up their tribute". Any Sound You Can Imagine: Making Music/Consuming Technology. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated.
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In 2021, Yorkville Sound continues to be owned by the Long family.
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In 2014, Jack Long received the Order of Canada for his contribution to the Canadian music industry, and in particular for founding both Long & McQuade and Yorkville Sound. The Unity design was licensed from Danley's company Sound Physics Labs. In 2001, Yorkville contracted with designer Tom Danley to create the "Unity" line of loudspeakers which was introduced in 2003. In 1996, Yorkville introduced the "TX" line of concert touring loudspeakers. Ī line of studio monitor speakers was created in 1991. A thousand-watt subwoofer was brought out in 1986: the SW-1000.
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In 1985, two new product lines appeared with the introduction of the "élite" series of portable loudspeakers with non-user adjustable 'black box' processing and the "Audiopro" line of electronic amplifiers. In 1983, Yorkville Sound created their own "Sound Crew" line of concert speakers. Around 1981–1982, Yorkville Sound was contracted to fabricate loudspeaker enclosures for Martin Audio's North American market.
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ĭuring the 1970s and 1980s, the company grew. Steve Long, son of founder Jack Long, began working full-time at Yorkville Sound in 1981 and eventually became company president. The Traynor brand would be slowly phased out over the next 17 years, until it was reintroduced in 2000. In 1976, Peter Traynor sold his shares and left Yorkville Sound. In 1972, Yorkville expanded operations to Europe, opening offices in the UK and Sweden. In 1970, the Canadian dollar ceased to be pegged to the American dollar and US dealers found their Yorkville prices suddenly jump 10% higher, followed quickly by another 10% added due to a short-lived US surtax on imported finished goods. Concurrently, Yorkville incorporated their Buffalo operation to create a US-based business entity: Yorkville Sound Inc. The sound contracting business also designed and used wedge-shaped monitor speakers on stage for artists to hear themselves. In 1969, Yorkville began designing larger concert equipment including eight-, sixteen- and 24-channel mixers with a pair of integral graphic equalizers, an audio snake and heavy folded-horn "W"-style bass bins loaded with 18-inch drivers. In 1967, Yorkville expanded distribution westward to Vancouver and southward into the United States via Buffalo, New York.
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The portable mixer-amplifier concept was a novel idea that quickly proved popular among musicians, and was the inspiration for the 1967 introduction of the competing "Vocal Master" product line by Shure. The Voice Master contained 1/4-inch phone jacks for PA speakers, a master volume control, treble, mid-range and bass tone controls and patching points for the TR-1, a spring reverb unit made by Traynor. In 1966, more products were introduced including the YVM-1 "Voice Master", a portable 45 watt tube amplifier combined with a four-channel microphone mixer. The operation moved to Dundas Street near Parliament in Toronto. In 1965, Yorkville Sound incorporated as "Yorkville Sound Limited" with Long as President and Traynor as Vice-President. The line of products was sold with Traynor logos on the front and rear nameplates reading "mfg. Original Traynor logo Yorkville Sound's first brand Yorkville provides North American distribution for Hughes & Kettner guitar amplifiers as well as exclusive distribution for KRK studio monitor speakers, Line 6 guitar amplifier, effects and wireless systems, Dynaudio studio monitor speakers, Epiphone guitars, Gibson guitars, Steinberger guitars, Gold Tone guitars, Ritter bags, Samson audio products, HK Audio products, X-Vive Wireless products, Aston microphones and Gallien-Krueger amplifiers. Yorkville manages its original Traynor brand, its own Yorkville brand and has expanded to include other brands such as Apex, ART (Applied Research and Technology), Orion FX Lights, Granite Percussion and Denver guitars. Based in Pickering, Ontario, Canada, the firm has a global presence as an importer and exporter of audio electronic products.
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Yorkville Sound is a Canadian manufacturer of audio amplifiers (including the Traynor amplifier line), loudspeakers and related professional sound reinforcement equipment.