JERRY BRUCK

Forty four years ago, Posthorn's proprietor, Jerry Bruck, began to augment his recording activities by introducing noteworthy audio equipment to discerning studio and location sound recordists.

In the intervening years, he has put together an unusual ensemble of products, selected with an eye on function and an ear on quality. The "value added" aspect comes from Jerry's first-hand knowledge and experience with the products he provides.

For more than a quarter century, Posthorn represented SCHOEPS condenser microphones in the United States, bringing them to the attention of professional users. They were eventually joined by SONOTRIM® electret lavalier microphones. The most recent addition to the top rank of products Posthorn represents is STABILANT 22 Metal-contact Enhancer.

Among the types of equipment supplied by Posthorn are mixers and microphone preamplifiers from BENCHMARK, MILLENNIA, SONOSAX, and SOUND DEVICES; wireless microphones from AUDIO LTD. and LECTROSONICS, K-Tek microphone mounts and fishpoles, K&M microphone stands and booms, and RYCOTE windshields. Complementing these are selected products from AEA, AERIAL, ATS, BENCHMARK, BRYCO, DENECKE, FURMAN, MacARTHUR, RIP-TIE, REMOTE AUDIO, SABRA, TROISI and WAVES.

Posthorn's PRODUCT LISTING and PRODUCT INDEX will link you to descriptive and technical information on any of the above.

Specific issues and questions may be resolved by email or direct phone contact with Jerry Bruck, who will be pleased to discuss your needs and arrange shipment when you are ready to order.

Professional Profile

Jerry Bruck was born in 1935 in St. Louis, Missouri. Despite an early interest in chemistry, pyrotechnics and radioactive materials, he reached college age with only minor injuries.

A prudent shift of interest to electronics and recording technology, whetted by a consuming passion for classical music, brought him to KCFM, that city's first commercial "good music" station. He played Musical Chairs as staff engineer, announcer, and Program Director until Muzak replaced Mahler*. He then decamped to New York City and joined WBAI-FM in 1961. In 1963 his pioneering late-night program "Oddenda" was taken off the air for being "in bad taste." Now faced with the spectre of unemployment, he abandoned the airwaves to nurture his growing free-lance recording career.

As his credits for LP, CD, film and video sound recording accumulated, Jerry joined the AES (Audio Engineering Society). He has twice served as a Governor of the Society, chaired its 91st Convention, and was three times elected Chairman of its New York Section for which he now serves as Advisor. In 1999 he received an AES Fellowship Award in recognition of his contributions to the field of audio engineering.

Most recently he conceived and developed a "Purist's Surround Sound System," a dual M/S adaptation of the "KFM" sphere microphone of Dr. Gunter Theile. Its commercial implementation is known as the "KFM 360 Surround Microphone System by Bruck," and is currently marketed by Schoeps.

Jerry still hopes to become rich and famous someday, but is getting tired of waiting.

*Gustav Mahler is something of a Deity in the Bruck household. The "Posthorn" cited in the business name refers to Mahler's particular use of that instrument in his Third Symphony. Those curious enough to venture further into Jerry's personal obsession are welcome to tiptoe through the looking-glass and explore In Touch with Mahler.