Over fifty years ago, Carl Countryman started crafting custom gear for touring rock bands and performers. Today, our family business is an industry-leading manufacturer of legendary direct boxes and ultra-miniature microphones, with the same goal of serving audio professionals all over the world with personal attention and exceptional quality. Our wide range of direct boxes and highly customizeable earsets, lavaliers, instrument, hanging, and podium microphones are all designed, manufactured, and rigorously tested at our office in Menlo Park, California.
Less is more. Less distance from you to the microphone means less feedback, less ambient room sound, less gain on the console for less electronic noise and more full, natural sound. Countryman microphones achieve maximum isolation by getting close to the source. Halving the distance from the microphone to the source increases the incident sound energy by four times, giving you more gain-before feedback and more headroom for the house system and monitors.
Stainless steel and aluminum bodies. Custom formulated scratch and sweatproof coatings. Aramid fiber cables skinned in chemical-resistant polymers. Countryman microphones and DI boxes are built tough from the inside out for unmatched durability. Your gear shouldn't call it a day before you do.
"Transparent" means an acoustic response that doesn't alter your sound, and a low visual profile that keeps all the attention where it belongs. We evaluate dozens of color samples to precisely match our cables, paints, and engineering polymers to carefully selected theater makeup shades.
