Malcolm Hill (audio engineer)

Malcolm Hill is one of the pioneers of the modern public address system (PA), and an expert in large–scale events PA.^[1]

He has been instrumental in the development of many modern items of audio equipment:
Amplifiers: DX and Chameleon Range
Mixing Consoles: Multimix, Datum, J-Series, Concept
Speaker Systems: M-series
Active Multicore Systems
Powered Speakers: M-Series

Since the early 1970s, Malcolm Hill's design philosophy has been the ‘Faithful Reproduction of the Original Sound’. Throughout the '80s and '90s Hill Speaker Systems established their reputation with many international touring artists, in theatres, arenas and stadiums around the world - from Wembley Stadium to Madison Square Garden to Nuremberg. In the mid-'90s, under the banner 'faith comes through hearing', Malcolm Hill designed the PowerCube,^[2] a compact self-powered speaker. He has continued development throughout the 21st century and has now produced the M9DX.^[3]

The M-series speakers systems have been used for many high–profile global events: M2 Gary Numan, M3 Saxon, M4 Live Aid,^[4] AC/DC,^[5] Monsters of Rock, M6 AHA, Status Quo, "Rock till you drop", Frankie goes to Hollywood, B52s

Many of Malcolm Hill's latest speaker designs are fully active enclosures.

Malcolm has recently started a new company called Hill Pro Audio.^[6]

Products Designed by Malcolm Hill

ERC 100 - 4 input, virtual earth, semi-discrete, silicon 100w power amp 1969
M162 - 16 input 4 integrated silicon, virtual earth portable mixer 1972
M402 - 40 input 8 out virtual earth transportable mixer 1973
IC208 - 200W mono block power amplifier 1973
A series - quasi- modular 8 buss virtual earth transportable 1974
M102 - 10ch 4 buss briefcase mixer
B series - with full led metering
C series - with P&G faders and ppm metering
IC404 - 400W monoblock amp 1976
B212 - 400W taper-reflex 2x12 sub 1976
DX700 - 1500W stereo 2U power amp
D series - 24 buss switchable eq centres 1979
J series - fully modular 8 band lossless eq 1983
M3/M4 - fullrange 4 way modular flying PA box 1983
TX 1000 - 2000W tri-channel amp for M4 1983
DX 3000 - 5000W stereo 3U amp 1984 ^[7]
Multimix - 16ch 8 buss rack-mount compact mixer 1984 ^[8]
Concept - hot-plug modular 40 buss8 band lossless eq with sweepable notch virtual earth summing 1985
M6 - fullrange multi line-coupled driver PA box 1986
Chameleon - 2000W 1U total symmetry ultra- linear studio power amp 1990 ^[9]
Chameleon D - 5000W 1U ultra-linear super-toroidal power amp 1995 ^[10]
Ruby - 300W 1U stereo HiFi amp 1997
Powercube - versatile selfpowered point-source coaxial compact PA box 1998
M7 - compact selfpowered concert system 2000
M8 - full format, point source, coaxial, wide dispersion LineArray box 2002
M1 - revised Powercube 2004
M9 - mid format horizontal point source LineArray 2009
M10 - compact, full performance, horizontal point-source, wide dispersion, LineArray 2012 ^[11]
M9S - 2000W taper-reflex 1x18 transportable sub 2013

References

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