Audix
Audix USA was founded in California in 1984, initially as the US distributor for the Japanese electronics manufacturing company of the same name. The company founders, Cliff Castle and Fred Bigeh, later acquired the Audix name and began manufacturing original microphone designs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The company was moved to Wilsonville, Oregon in 1991 where the company built its own R&D and manufacturing facility and a live soundstage for testing microphones in an authentic environment.
The company’s D-series drum mics are produced in Oregon; other mics in the Audix product line are produced overseas.
Audix
The D series was developed as a coherent series [of] application-specific microphones for a wide variety of instruments. [They] were initially designed to compete with the Sennheiser 421, a great mic but expensive and awkward to use, especially on drums.
Current Audix Microphones
Audix ADX-20i
Audix ADX10-FLP
Audix ADX51
Audix CX-112B
Audix CX-212B
Audix D2
Audix D4
Audix D6
Audix f2
Audix f5
Audix F50
Audix f6
Audix f9
Audix F90
Audix FireBall
Audix FireBall V
Audix i5
Audix M3
Audix M44
Audix M60
Audix OM11
Audix OM2
Audix OM3
Audix OM5
Audix OM6
Audix OM7
Audix SCX1
Audix SCX25A
Audix TM1
Audix UEM81C
Audix UEM81S
Audix VX10
Audix VX5
Audix Mic Sets
Audix Studio Elite 8
Audix DP Elite 8
Audix DP7
Audix DP QUAD
Audix DP5A
Audix SCX25A-PS
Audix FP7
Audix FP5
Audix FP QUAD
