About Us

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Rycote were founded in 1969 by an engineer with a problem, that was how to make on location audio recordings uninterrupted by the sound of the wind.
The straightforward yet innovative approach to problem-solving that led to the creation of the first Rycote windshields still drives the company over 40 years later.

Today, the Rycote name is synonymous with microphone windshields the world over, and the company's products, which now include windshield and microphone suspension systems, are used daily by news, TV, film and recording industry professionals from Hollywood to Harare. Despite this worldwide success, Rycote remains a family-led company, staffed by a dedicated team of a couple of dozen people. Its products are still entirely designed, made and hand-assembled at its headquarters in a quiet corner of Gloucestershire in the UK, making it that rarest of entities in 21st-century Britain - an on-going manufacturing success story.