Rode Microphones (originally writte: RØDE) is an Australian manufacturer of professional microphones from Sydney. Logistic establishment and development sites are located in Santa Barbara (USA), Seattle (USA) and Hong Kong. Rode Microphones originated from Freedman Electronics, an Australian audio technology pioneer. The name Rode is like the English word pronounced road; together with NT, the name of the first series of microphones, resulting rodent.
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Rode Microphones evolved from the Freedman Group, which was founded in 1967 by Henry and Astrid Freedman. The Freedman had immigrated in 1966 from Sweden to Australia. Freedman Electronics imported, installed and initially waited German speaker technology from Dynacord. After the death of his father Peter Freedman took a large loan in 1987 and began producing its own speakers, amplifiers and sound engineering tools.
In the early 1990s brought Alesis ADAT to the market, making it suddenly was possible to make a small financial investment professional sounding recordings. Peter Freedman recognized the emerging need for affordable studio microphones. First, he modified cheap microphones that were manufactured in the 80s in China. The NT1 and NT2 then he developed two affordable large diaphragm microphones, which were great sales success. Røde microphones are manufactured in Australia. Here was invested in modern machinery and computerized manufacturing facilities in order to offer products to the Far East prices can. Røde annually produces around 60,000 condenser microphones.
Røde Microphones sells its products worldwide. The company was in 2013 a strategic alliance with the British manufacturer Rycote Microphones–a. On the German market for the RØDE compete with those from Electro-Voice, Sennheiser, AKG and partially Neumann.
Rode Microphones manufactures various microphones for recording, sound, film sound and other applications. These include großkapselige (1 “) and kleinkapselige condenser microphones, dynamic microphones, directional microphones and Others
Initially Rode Microphones focused on large-diaphragm studio microphone. The model NT1-A, which is manufactured in Australia since 1995, is one of the most successful large diaphragm microphones on the market. Outstanding is the low self-noise of the microphone. It is often referred to as a professional microphone at an affordable price. The NT1-A also enjoys recognition among studio engineers like Günter Pauler from Acoustic Label Stockfish Records.
Another successful model is the M1, a dynamic super-cardioid stage microphone. It was the first stage microphone from the production of Røde. From various trade media, the M1 is considered on the basis of similar design, characteristics and price as the Shure SM58 serious competition.
Together, all Rode Microphones with XLR connector, the pin for grounding is a bit longer than the other 2 pins. This is to ensure that the mike is always grounded and there are no clicking noises when unplugging the microphone. In addition to products for stage and studio use presented Røde 2013 NAMM with the IXY (see also XY stereo system) and the smartLAV innovative microphones and accessories for mobile recordings via smartphones and tablets. Another product segment that Rode, are camera microphones. Examples are the Rode VideoMic and the Rode VideoMic Pro, a shotgun microphone, which can also be used, inter alia, on DSLR cameras. The trade magazine Video films refers to this as an equivalent alternative to Sennheiser MKE 400.
In 2006 the parent company bought Rodes Freedman Electronics monitor manufacturers Event Electronics.