Vestax
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Formerly called
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Shiino Musical Instruments Developing Corporation 椎野楽器設計事務所 |
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| Industry | Electronic musical instrument |
| Founded | November 1977 in Tokyo, Japan |
| Founder | Hidesato Shiino |
| Defunct | December 5, 2014 (bankruptcy proceedings decision) |
| Headquarters | 1-18-6, Wakabayashi, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
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Key people
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Kanako Ohsawa (trustee in bankruptcy), Toshihide Nakama (previous president) |
| Products | DJ equipment (DJ mixer, CD players, turntables, phonograph cutting machines, DJ controllers), multitrack recorders, effectors, guitar preamps, electric guitars, etc. |
| Website | http://www.vestax.jp/ (closed) |
The Vestax Corporation was a Japanese musical instrument, turntable and audio equipment firm founded by Hidesato Shiino in 1977. The company started by designing and manufacturing electronic guitars. In the 1980s, Vestax produced multitracks recorders and later move to making DJ mixers, professional turntables, compact disc players and signal processors. Debt troubles lead to the company's bankruptcy at the end of 2014.
The Vestax Corporation of Japan began in 1977 as a designer and manufacturer of electronic guitars. In the 1980s Vestax introduced a series of cassette-based multitracks, including the Vestax MR66, to challenge established products from Fostex, Yamaha and Tascam's portastudios.
During the late 1990s Vestax launched a new flagship range of professional DJ turntables. The PDX models had higher specifications than the two market leading products from Technics and were priced in direct competition with the Technics SL1210/SL1200.
However, the industry standard Technics SL1210/SL1200 models remained the favourite of DJs worldwide. At the time they were an established brand with a twenty-year head start. There have also been some build quality issues reported throughout 2008 and 2009.
This pattern of events has been replicated by other DJ equipment manufacturers such as Numark, Gemini and Stanton. These turntables have either a higher specification or lower cost, in sheer numbers sold they are still dwarfed by the various versions of the SL-1200.
In 2006, Vestax moved into the burgeoning digital DJ market and released the VCI 100, an all-in-one DJ controller used to control digital DJ software. Its design of jog wheels and a mixer in a single compact frame sparked a revolution in digital DJ hardware, quickly becoming the blueprint for most DJ controllers and helping to re-establish Vestax as a major player in the DJ market. The company has subsequently solidified this position by launching a highly respected range of DJ controllers from low-end consumer models to more highly specced pro versions such as the VCI-380 and VCI-400.
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