"We were changing how people could play their music"

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The Quiet Revolution

At first, it just seems like gear...
Another gadget. Another upgrade.

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But then you listen a little closer.

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And you realize it's about artists losing themselves in the moment. And then there's the panic. About needing something to hold onto.

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The in-ear monitor didn’t just help them sound better —
it gave them a sense of control. A sense of self.
A way to come back to center while standing alone in front of a stadium.

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You’ll hear how it changed sound checks.
How it changed relationships.
How it changed the experience of performing itself.

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This isn’t a movie about who invented what.
It’s about why it mattered.

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And it reminds us that behind every performance —
is a human being who wants to feel safe enough to give you everything they’ve got.

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Full Video Transcript below:

_{Bryan "Froggy" Cross: "You see those things that are in the artist's ear on stage and wonder, what in the heck is that? Is that, that like a earplug? What's going on? Well, that is an in ear monitor. It's a little earpiece molded for your ear that fits inside with speakers inside of it."}

_{Daniella Peters: "It Was a brilliant life changing technology."}

_{Jeff Tortora: "We couldn't not do the show without them because we're like 200 feet away from each other."}

_{J.D. Andrew: "It's like being in the studio. We control our levels on the stage."}

_{Francois Pare: "All of a sudden, like, you know, your, the, your singer is having the time of his life! They can hear everything."}

_{Scott Sullivan: "We were changing how people could play their music."}

_{J.D. Andrew: "Honestly. It's just so much easier to perform."}

_{Dr. Michael Santucci: "I found it very fascinating that there was just a handful of bands in 92 that were wearing them, right? And everybody, I was under the impression from most of the manufacturers, it's a fad. It's gonna go away. You know, whatever."}

_{Dave Friesema: "Like, Nobody knew what they were. It was such a strange foreign concept. Like, take this thing and put it deep in your ear canal. And I think we called them canal phones, which is probably not the sexiest name for something that you put in your ear."}

_{Hovannes K: "How can that little thing be able to reproduce all these, uh, frequencies and vibration?"}

_{Scott Sullivan: "And I remember my boss at the time telling me, you know, Scott, we're gonna put you on this project. Um, it's a bit of a risky project because we, we don't make products in this category. It's a brand new category and this, it may not work. And we knew how to make it actually better than it was already at that particular time."}

_{Matt Engstrom: "It drew a lot of attention. Um, and we did direct sales on our website back then, and so we could see the names of the orders and two of the first 10 orders for the E-5 when we started shipping it on our website were Steve Jobs and Jann S Wenner."}

_{Dr. Michael Santucci: "And then it started growing and growing and growing."}

_{Jason Batuyong: "We all win because they put all of this technology into these in-ears and we get a perfect product now!"}

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