Audio innovator Paul Wolff and start-up company DCA (Digitally Controlled Analog) have entered a collaboration ‘to deliver audio tools with uncompromising performance and unprecedented control to inspire audio professionals at every level’.
Wolff has been at the forefront of audio innovation for more than four decades as the force behind brands including API, Tonelux and Fix Audio Designs. His designs have also contributed to breakthrough technologies for Steven Slate, A-Designs and Sunset Sound among others. He has a well-earned reputation for the sonic excellence of his designs and is often regarded as the ‘mad genius in residence’ for the world’s top audio professionals.
Founded in 2019, DCA is the brainchild of Jared Vogt, creator of TL Labs, one of the pioneering Pro Tools plug-ins manufacturers, and subsequently acquired by Digidesign/Avid. DCA’s mission is to create digitally-controlled analogue hardware, with the company dedicated to advancing workflow and utility. DCA’s flagship product, ProPatch, is the first passive, relay-based, software-controlled, high channel count, patching system. It will enable exciting new possibilities in signal flow design and management, with zero audio compromise. The first ProPatch units are in the final stages of release at select studios.
Wolff Audio will introduce a wide range of products that combine Wolff’s designs with DCA’s digital engineering, including large- and medium-format recording consoles, classic analogue processors, mic pres, equalizers, and compressors. Products will be characterized by enhanced workflow innovations such as digital control, intercommunication, integrated AD/DA conversion, and AoIP/Dante support.
‘We share an obsessively crazy commitment to creating the best tools you never even imagined,’ Wolff says. ‘My entire career has been based on supporting the creative process – designing and building new and better ways to capture and mix music. Our products are an intuitive and essential part of the inspirational flow, never a groovebuster. We will unabashedly meld the new with the old, the classic with the unexpected. I’m truly excited for the cool stuff we will create at Wolff Audio.’
‘Paul is a legend in pro audio design, and we could not be more excited to join forces with him,’ Vogt adds. ‘We know the DCA team’s expertise in digital technologies and software will be instrumental in creating new products that are not just innovative but indispensable.’
Wolff Audio will operate from its new development and production facility in Santa Barbara, California, and celebrates its official launch to the public in October 2023 at the AES Show in New York.
More: www.wolffaudio.com
