From Down Under to Peak Performance

Over 10 years ago Australians Bruce Jackson and David McGrath partnered to create a unique new way of processing sound for live concerts. The new venture received backing from Clair Brothers, one of the world’s leading touring sound providers.

Jackson is a veteran live sound mixer (for artists ranging from Elvis to Bruce Springsteen) and the founder of the pioneering digital audio company Apogee Electronics. McGrath, who co-founded Lake Technology with Brian Conolly in 1991, is known for his career as a mathematician and scientist as well as an innovative creator of DSP algorithms. He holds 19 audio patents.

In 2001, the live sound project was transferred from Clair Brothers to Lake Technology, and the launch of the Lake Contour speaker controller occurred shortly thereafter. In 2004 Lake became part of Dolby® Laboratories. The Dolby Lake Processor, introduced in 2006, added powerful audio networking to the distributed processing architecture.