New Bern, NC — Wheatstone Corp. has acquired Audion Labs and with it, the industry’s VoxPro digital audio editor, a PC based software program with optional control panel surface developed to facilitate rapid-fast audio editing.

Wheatstone is an industry leader in IP audio networking and developed WheatNet-IP, a complete, end-to-end IP audio network comprising audio consoles, routing, mixing, processing, silence detection and logic control.

Audion’s VoxPro is a staple in radio studios as one of the few broadcast-specific digital voice editors designed to record and quickly edit phone calls on the fly for on-air broadcast.

Both dominate in the U.S. in their respective product categories, often as part of an integrated system.

“This is a terrific little company that with one product has made a big difference in the day-to-day operations of most radio stations today,” says Wheatstone CEO Gary Snow. Audion’s VoxPro is a PC based software program with optional control panel surface developed to facilitate rapid-fast audio editing. Its intuitive layout has endeared the VoxPro to on-air broadcast talent everywhere, significantly reducing a typical call-in editing session.

“Other professional editors are like bringing a machine gun to a stick fight,” says Snow.

Wheatstone, has a distribution channel that includes a worldwide footprint spanning the United States, France, UK, Germany, Scandinavia, Middle East, North Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Korea, India, China, and Malaysia.

“With VoxPro now in the Wheatstone fold, it can go global and continue to be the powerful, creative broadcast tool it was designed to be,” says Charlie Brown, who created the first VoxPro editor in the early 1990s while working as a Seattle morning radio personality and went on to found the Audion Labs company in 1994.

Audion Labs will remain a separate brand entity under Wheatstone. Rick Bidlack, Audion Labs’ Chief Technology Officer, will remain with the company and operate from his office in Seattle, Washington.

VoxPro adds to Wheatstone’s large family of broadcast studio lines that include Vorsis and Audioarts Engineering brand names, as well as IP audio networking, control surfaces, talent stations, audio processing, software applications, and other products developed and designed specifically for broadcast.