46 PARTNER VISIT Lawo
PARTNERING FOR QUALITY FEED visited Lawo’s headquarters in
founder Peter, the company occupies eight buildings in its home town of Rastatt, as well as maintaining a development facility in Wiesbaden for its broadcast control and monitoring products, plus several sales and support offices around the globe. In 2015, Lawo was a founding member of AIMS – the Alliance for IP Media Solutions. This trade organisation set out to encourage the media and entertainment industry to adopt a set of common, standards-based protocols for interoperability over IP. The open standards approach has led to easier collaboration between brands and made it easy for Lawo to integrate with other vendors – not only in its audio portfolio, but its more recent broadcast and video products. Germany to find an ethos of partnership and collaboration combined with a focus on product quality In partnership with Lawo
he story of Lawo is a story of pure engineering. At every step in the company’s journey, a problem has been turned into a stepping
had a very special audio mixing need for its experimental music studio and came to Herr Lawo for a solution. What they got back was a completely new audio mixing console, engineered from the ground up. The new console even included a patching matrix, a feature which was in the broadcast world for decades, but which was a startling innovation then. The company quickly became an innovator in digital technology, becoming a pioneer in programmable mixing technology and developing some of the very first digitally controlled motor faders. The company has become a favoured name in high-quality audio, with a huge footprint in sports broadcasting and live production. Now run by Phillip Lawo, son of
stone to something bigger. The company name is synonymous with high-end audio mixing desks, serving everyone from broadcasters to major recording studios to top opera houses and theatres. But it wasn’t music that started Lawo on its journey into the heart of media production, it was engineering. Peter Lawo was owner and operator of a multi-faceted engineering firm in Rastatt, Germany, at the edge of the Black Forest, a company specialising in a variety of technological problem solving. In 1974, the regional public TV station SWF (now SWR)
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