2016 Includes 100% Sales Growth, Placements with Top Artists and a New Product Launch
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PORTLAND, OR – It is rare in the pro audio world for a company, of any size, to be able to boast a 100% sales growth, yet that is exactly what boutique microphone company, Ear Trumpet Labs
(ETL) continues to achieve. ETL will celebrate their 5-year anniversary
this fall touting that exciting news along with many other
accomplishments that paint the picture of a thriving company with an
enthusiastic and growing customer base. For the past three years ETL has
doubled in sales every year, and 2016 is no exception.
Founded
by Philip Graham, ETL’s workshop is based in Portland, OR, where a
small team meticulously handcrafts each microphone. Their impressive
sound and signature style has landed them on stages and in studios
across the world with a growing list of artist enthusiasts including
Andra Day, Elvis Costello, Violent Femmes, Brandi Carlisle, Jason Mraz,
The Milk Carton Kids, and Old Crow Medicine Show. Tim McGraw and Faith
Hill chose ETL’s Edwina and Chantelle models when they performed a
memorable duet at the 2014 ACM Awards and in 2016 the Infamous
Stringdusters selected Edwina and Myrtle for their performance on The
Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
The
story of Ear Trumpet is personified through their fearless leader,
Philip Graham, who, like so many innovators, made the jump from a steady
career to pursuing his passion. "It was an improbable leap five years
ago to quit my job and try to make a full-time business out of the
basement tinkering that had kept me sane as a software engineer,” he
recalls. “I look around now with surprise and an abiding sense of good
fortune at our beautiful workshop space and the craftspeople building
dozens of mics each week.”
Above
all Ear Trumpet Labs is a family business. Graham first began
experimenting with microphone construction in order to record his
daughter Malachi, who is now the business manager. When he landed on
what are now ETL’s signature models, the Edwina, Louise and Myrtle, the
family spent a week coming up with the company name. Malachi did the
graphic design, Philip programmed the web site and Ear Trumpet Labs was
born.
In
five short years, Ear Trumpet Labs has carved a distinguished place in
the competitive MI industry from their impressive list of artists,
monumental sales, and stellar line of diverse microphones. One can only
imagine what the next 5 years will hold. Graham notes, “Most of all I
enjoy the chance to see our mics bringing the music of artists to
audiences. That's what it's all about.”
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I
can't begin to express my gratitude for the artists and engineers who
shared their experiences and helped me figure out what it was that my
mics could uniquely contribute, that no one else was doing. I am
profoundly lucky that I had such people take an interest in the
possibilities and guide me to some answers. I am even more lucky that
they took my mics on the road, showing them off through night after
night of beautiful music. Our story is really all about the artists,
musicians and engineers who have spread the word, shared their happiness
and most importantly let us help them make their music.
From all of us to all of you, thanks.
– Philip Graham, founder of Ear Trumpet Labs
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