ETC was started 30 years ago with the conviction that there was a better way to make a lighting control console. There was. We developed one of the first microprocessor-based systems, which boasted the then blindingly fast 2 MHz 8080 CPU! Now our popular lighting control consoles are thousands of times more powerful than those groundbreaking early versions. And the thousands of lighting systems ETC has produced over the years keep working everyday. People want to light better, so they light with ETC.
At ETC we're always searching for a better way to do things. We found that the HPL lamp is a better way to create brilliant light in a Source Four®, which in its own right is a better way to make a spotlight. We created an award-winning moving light with a Source Four pedigree and unprecedented quietness to meet the exacting requirements of theater lighting designers. And we are continuously redefining the boundaries of lighting control with brilliant advances in dimming like our new Sensor®+ SineWave system, and our award-winning Eos®-family control consoles.
But we don't only look at products this way, we look at our whole company as well. It is a better way to provide service to customers if you create a worldwide service network that is available to them 24 hours a day, seven days a week in the event of an emergency. It is a far better way when people equal products in importance.
ETC is constantly changing, adjusting to fit your lighting needs. We've grown from a few college-student entrepreneurs, in 1975, to over six hundred talented people in offices worldwide. No matter how much we grow, we always stay close to our creative and hard-driven roots in theater and lighting design, always maintaining the lighting insider's absolute ethic: the show must go on. ETC exists to make sure it goes on better than ever. 'All the world's a stage,' and ETC is there to light it.
