The Visionary Sound Company

(a.k.a. neat gizmos for hum heads & squints!)

 

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Our Mission

(should you accept it...!)

We at Vizear are committed to developing truly useful devices to help the theatre professional.  We try to exploit the gap that exists between equipment manufacturers and those actually working in the field.  All too often the manufacturers come up with great products that don't quite operate the way we need them to in the field.  How many times have you commented to yourself  "why on earth did (didn't) they ever do that!" about a piece of sound gear?

This is where Vizear comes in.  We are the people working in the field.  We know what we need.  So instead of being a manufacturer having to learn what the end users want, we are end users learning how to design and build for ourselves what we truly need.

As well as providing the finished product, lovingly built by hand here in Clemmons, NC., we also make a few of our products available as DIY projects.  In these instances the instructions for building the device are freely downloadable from this site, and the kit of parts can be purchased from us.  Conversely, we also publish a list of parts and sources if you wish to 'go it' completely alone.

 

Who Am I?

(David E. Smith - who the heck is he?)

Director of the undergraduate and graduate Theatre Sound Design program at the North Carolina School of the Arts
Freelance Theatre Sound Designer
Vice Commissioner and  relentless presenter for the USITT Sound Commission
Previously Theatre Sound Editor for the industry magazine Live Sound International
Previously with the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain
Helen Hayes Award nominee for outstanding sound design 1996
Member of Syn-Aud-Con and the Audio Engineering Society

 

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This site was last updated 06/29/05