For over four decades, MIDAS has enjoyed a long
history of innovation and leadership in the world
of audio mixing consoles—a legacy that continues
ontoday.
Formed in 1970 by Je Byers and Charles Brooke,
MIDAS originally designed and manufactured
musical instrument ampli ers. Je soon became
fascinated by the concept of improving and re ning
professional audio systems, and so MIDAS went on
to develop the rst fully integrated modular audio
system, comprising consoles, crossovers, ampli ers
and speaker systems. Indeed the powered mixers
built by Je in his at in West Hampstead, London
can be regarded as the very rst MIDAS consoles.
A fortuitous collaboration came about in 1972
when MIDAS found new premises near Euston
Station in London, which just happened to be
next to already-established speaker manufacturer
Martin Audio. The two co-located companies
became synonymous in the minds of many live
sound customers and the calibrated MIDAS / Martin
modular PA systems became a regular xture
MIDAS—40 Years of
Legendary Performance
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