Yorkville Sound
MusiciansOntario, Canada51-200 Employees
Yorkville Sound is a privately owned Canadian company based in Pickering, Ontario, with additional operations in Niagara Falls, New York, and a workforce of 51-200 employees. The company manufactures a full range of professional PA equipment at its Pickering facility, including mixers, amplifiers, active and passive loudspeakers, and portable lighting rigs, and it designs and builds Traynor brand tube and solid-state instrument amplifiers. Yorkville Sound maintains a substantial resale distribution division and is the North American distributor for brands such as Aston Microphones, HK Audio, and Hughes & Kettner guitar amplifiers, with additional lines including Granite Percussion, Denver Guitars, Orion FX Lighting and Rouge Valley Bags. In Canada, Yorkville Sound is the exclusive distributor for Gibson & Epiphone Guitars, and its Canadian distribution catalog includes Mapex Drums, Universal Audio, Ernie Ball, and other brands. Yorkville also wholly owns Applied Research and Technology (ART), which develops preamps, signal processors, studio tools and microphones under ART and ARTcessories; it markets microphones, headphones and accessories under the Apex Electronics brand and carries a catalog of instrument cases, bags, cables, stands and related accessories.