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that the design was based on a similar smaller cart made by Wilcox Sound. That style of cart served our needs as we were using Nagra recorders, Sela or Nagra mixers, cabled microphones and very few wireless. As equipment requirements grew, the next progression was to the Magliner with custom shelves and attachments, introduced by Backstage Equipment, Inc. There are many mixers still using the PSC upright and Magliner sound carts more than four decades later. Several sound mixers began designing their own customized carts and offering them for sale, Brett Grant Grierson, Matthew Bacon, Gene Martin, Rob Stalder, Devendra Cleary, Eric Ballew, and of course, the late Chinhda Khommarath. EXPERT AUDIO RECORDING SERVICES, INC. For almost two decades, Brett Grant Grierson began by modifying Magliners with custom welded parts to hold SKB upright rack cases. Brett continues to evolve new designs, whether it is a custom 80/20 cart, special brackets, or cheese plates on a rolling stand. I must disclose that I have had four carts built by Brett over the last eight years. RASTORDER, PTY Sound Mixer Rob Stalder of Australia took a break and worked in sales. Inspired by the Backstage modified Magliner, Rob made a completely new design he called the 2g and his company Rastorder, PTY was born. Rob learned to weld steel in his early years. He remembers building a canopy for his Landcruiser and a tri-bike trailer for his dirt bikes. Rob's design of choice was the upright cart, the SU was the first built with welded aluminum. "The SU was big. It has split modules because not everyone doing drama had a van, but nearly everyone had a larger analog mixer," says Rob. "It's interesting to note that the SU has morphed along with everyone else, finding a following with those large digital mixers." Rob continues, "The Foldup came next, perhaps my best seller, one hundred and forty to date. Yes, it's similar to the PSC folding cart. But I wanted a different configuration, a different size, and some different assembly techniques." Rob joined the move in building smaller carts and has a new prototype, which will go into production later this year. It offers more flexibility and inter-changeability. Rob concludes, "My challenge has always been freight cost, I am now located further inland in Australia. This is offset by the low Australian dollar, currently one Australian dollar is worth 77 cents US. DC AUDIO & MUSIC Devendra Cleary's interest in cart building began simply in building a cart for himself in 2013. Eventually, he took the leap in what he admits is a crowded market to have a side business and thus, DC Audio was born. Devendra posits, "The concept was to design an affordable sound cart made of 'off-the- shelf" items. I wanted to take industrial and consumer pieces and find a way to snap them together without the need for fabrication." The DC Intro cart included an all-weather cover designed and manufactured by Susan Ottalini of MTO. VK cart Right, from above: Susan Ottalini marking up one of her cover prototypes for (the now discontinued) DC Intro cart; pencil to paper of the original DC- TRM concept; prototype DC-TRM with added options, loaded up with gear. BGG carts Mb cart