Ted Fletcher, Inventor

Ted Fletcher is a renowned electronics designer and psychoacoustics expert.  With a long history of producing innovative audio electronics and designs, Ted has some remarkable credits, with airSOUND now challenging everything about how we perceive and will listen to stereo sound.

Ted Fletcher founded the Alice sound mixer company in 1969 and developed and manufactured large sound consoles for film studios, sound recording studios, and the BBC.  In many ways Ted's innovative sound mixing consoles facilitated the invention of local radio with the Alice name becoming a rock in the broadcast market.

In the early 80s Ted developed revolutionary voice communications systems for the spot banking market, and invented the first 'hands-free' telephones for use in cars, for Motorola, and later Vodaphone.  With a combination of signal processing and application of psychoacoustic principles, the new technology opened up horizons for phone based share and monetary dealing.

In 1993 Ted founded the Joemeek audio equipment company and developed a range of classic sound processing equipment.  The 'green boxes' that bear his name featured a revolutionary optical compression circuit that had amazing sonic properties, whose 'fat' yet clean sound shaped much of music production in the late '90s.

2005 saw development of the first airSOUND prototypes - an extension of earlier experiments in both sound recording and reproduction.  The next few years saw honing of these sonic techniques to the airSOUND package that is now available.

In November 2006, at a ceremony at the Barbican Centre in London, Thames Valley University, awarded an honorary degree to Ted in the form of Fellowship of the Faculty of the Arts in recognition of services to sound recording and reproduction.

Ted Fletcher in 2007