Burbank / California / United States
David Royer started Mojave Audio in 1985 in the garage of his house. The location was Fullerton, California, and Mojave Audio was a one-man, custom pro audio gear shop. David is best known for his ribbon microphone designs with Royer Labs, but he originally started out designing and building vacuum tube microphones, mic pres and compressors for engineers in the Los Angeles area. Since the mid 1990s, Davids custom Mojave products have been used on a number of well-known recordings and have achieved legendary status among a small circle of high-end engineers. With the launching of Mojave Audio, we are able to bring Davids non-ribbon designs to the world. After a four year hitch in the Navy, where he honed his skills in electronics and acoustics as a sonar technician, David started designing his own microphones. He founded a small company called Mojave Audio in his garage in in Fullerton CA, where he modified amplifiers and made his own condenser microphones, mic pres and compressors. Building gear under the Mojave and DVA labels, he created a number of condenser mics that have become studio staples among a small group of high-end audio engineers including Bob Clearmountain, Mutt Lang and Sean Beaven. In 1997 David designed his first ribbon microphone, The R-121, which led to the opening of Royer Labs in 1998. In a short period of time it became a breakthrough ribbon microphone that reintroduced ribbons to engineers around the world. David also designed a number of ribbon "firsts, " including phantom powered ribbons and tube ribbon mics. David has a number of proven condenser microphone designs that will be released by Mojave Audio over the next few years.
