Tree Audio的创始人，Steve Firlotte和Ian Gardiner，既是音乐人，也是工程师/制作人和设备设计者。他们知道，要获得优秀的声音并不需要太辛苦的工作。

关于Ian Gardiner和Steve Firlotte：

在1990年代后期，Inward Connections的Steve Firlotte和Boutique Audio and Design的Ian Gardiner开始共同工作。他们很快发现，Steve在电子设计上的专业正好可以补充Ian的机械设计和构造技术。他们的个项目是给Danny White（Sixteen Ton录音室，田纳西，纳什维尔）设计的Dymaxion调音台。这台电子管/晶体管复合调音台取得了巨大成功。随后，他们又为其他客户定制了调音台，比如Flea（Red Hot Chili Peppers）、Pete Townshend、Herbie Hancock、Barry Gibb（Bee Gees）、Weezer、Daniel Lanois以及其他主流艺人。

在接下来的几年里，Steve和Ian讨论建立家调音台设计公司。在2007年后，他们创办了Tree Audio。他们的台产品是Tree Audio 500系列定制调音台，获得了2009年的TEC“大型调音台技术”奖提名。2012年，他们发布了The Roots，台来自Tree Audio的复合型调音台。

“她”来了！向我们定制的Tree Audio调音台“打个招呼”！“她”已经进入“Studio A”了。我们很荣幸地邀请到Steve Firlotte和Ian Gardiner，制造了这台特别的电子管/复合设备！赶快跟我们预约录音，来感受这台“野兽”的魅力吧！

来自Tree Audio的Michele，站在All Welcome唱片公司的Tree Audio调音台旁。

The Dymaxion: The first console Ian Gardiner and Steve Firlotte designed and manufactured together.

Excerpt from a Mix Magazine article, written by Rick Clark -The Dymaxion recording console at Sixteen Ton's Nashville recording studio - The first console Ian Gardiner and Steve Firlotte designed and manufactured together, before the Tree Audio 500 Series and the Roots tube-hybrid recording console

At the heart of Sixteen Ton's (Nashville Recording Studio, owned by Danny White) control room is a visually stunning, custom-built console, inspired by the Art Deco era. Sitting in front of the board almost feels like being in the cockpit of some classic WW II — era B-52. “We even went to the point of finding new old-stock Bakelite knobs from the late 1940s for the controls,” enthuses White, adding, “The curved mahogany legs are also very 1940s and the perfect complement to the control surface.”

The guts of the console, which took three years to design and build, feature pure Class-A discrete tubes on the input side, and the monitor section is Class-A discrete transistor, based around the John Hall — designed (Langevin, Altec, etc.) SPA 690 amp block. There are more than 130 of these blocks in the console! The inputs employ 6072A tubes on the input and output stages, balanced by custom-wound transformers by Tom Reichenbach of Cinemag Inc. (Los Angeles). The design and electronic topology was done by Ian Gardiner of Boutique Audio and Design and Steve Firlotte of Inward Connections, also in L.A. The console is driven by a tube power supply designed by Steve Barker in L.A. “The design philosophy was minimalistic: straight-ahead hi-fi tube/transistor hybrid with minimal signal path, all hand-wired to boot,” says White.

Seafoam green console Tree Audio designed for Dave Rodenbach.

The first Tree Audio Roots console owner: Alex Richardson, Engineer and Producer in Australia.

Ryan McGuire's custom 16 channel Roots Console