Ambient Recording was founded in 1989 by two sound recordists, Chris Price and Gunter Knon.
Chris Price, an engineer trained at AEI and Siemens, had been working as a sound recordist since 1974 working on documentaries, TV dramas, and feature films shot in Germany, and was a founding member in 1976 of Gruppe III Amsel Cineton, an equipment sales and rental company in Munich.
Gunter Knon has spent some time working with Dedo Weigert as a Technician developing high speed video recorders and had afterwards gone into film sound recording where he had been working for several years before Ambient was formed as a company.
Originally a sound equipment rental and sound transfer facility, Ambient has evolved into two distinct parts: sales and rental, and Ambient-designed and manufactured products.
Ambient, following its experience in the sound recording field, soon began selling film and video sound equipment. This activity became a large part of the company business which it is today. |
The idea of making Ambient products came from our interest in the profession and also because we felt there was still great room for improvement in available products.
The first of these were the Quickpole range of booms, and the Clockit portable timecode equipment. There is now a whole palette of sound and sync products.
Ambient Recording is now a regular exhibitor at AES, IBC and NAB trade shows where our products are shown and a network of dealers representing our products had formed.
Our aim is to remain an agile and enthusiastic company where we are still able to do not just what we have to do every day, but also what we would like and enjoy doing.
This web site is specifically for Ambient-branded products. Visit our German site for sales and rental information on Ambient and other distributed products in Germany. |
