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Symetrix Is 30

Symetrix said it recently noted its 30th anniversary.

Symetrix said it recently noted its 30th anniversary.

The company was founded in 1976 by Dane Butcher. In the early 1970s, Butcher worked as a recording engineer, helping to make the first gold instrumental album, Herbie Hancock’s “Head Hunters.”

Butcher took a job with Greg Mackie at Tapco and learned to design electronics. Six months later in 1976, he started Symetrix in an artist’s loft and former garment factory in Seattle. A surplus electronics store across the street enabled him to manufacture the company’s first product, the SG-1 Signal Gate, and subsequent compressors, limiters and phasers.

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