Founder

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ASL founder Kim Hyung-gap was a young man who had been immersed in the guitar and composition while attending Sogang University's Department of Korean Language and Literature since 1988. However, he became more interested in the technical side than musical talent, so he started studying MIDI and recording, and in 1992, he published "MIDI ON" and "Synthesizer Bible", playing a leading role in this field in Korea. After that, he became the first person in Korea to sample essential sounds of traditional Korean instruments and modern sounds on a synthesizer at a research lab of a karaoke company that develops synthesizer sounds. In 1996, he started to take an interest in AES papers and started to study AES publications published by world-class research institutes that had been accumulated since 1950. In 1999, he established a company called SEG (Sound Engineering Group). At first, he mainly did acoustic consulting, but soon he became the first in Korea to produce a 15" 3-way line array. After that, in 2002, during the World Cup in Korea, his L-TEX70, L-TEX75, and L-TEX80 were used in various cheering events and large-scale street festivals, making him the only pro audio maker in Korea. Since then, he has produced various line array products, point array speakers, various monitor speakers, and column arrays. Recently, he has focused his research on planar devices and created powerful planar drivers such as APD-01A and APD-01B. The products he created began to be used in various environments such as disaster broadcasting by public institutions, schools, and military units, and many foreign companies began to take interest, leading to exports. He believes that the future of pro audio lies in planar drivers and he are confident and are developing products related to this. His company, ASL, started in 2016 and changed its name. He has developed over 200 types of speakers for professional audio to date, and many of his products, including amplifiers, microphones, and DI boxes, are used in the market.