Our team is led by Frank Foti, Founder, Chief Developer, and CEO of Syndicate of Sounds. A pioneer in broadcast audio processing and engineering, Frank’s innovations have shaped the sound of radio and television for over 40 years.
He is the creator of Déjà Vu, the breakthrough technology that transforms stereo into a natural-sounding 5.1 surround sound upmix for both live events and recorded audio. He also developed Déjà Phonic, our proprietary binaural audio technology that delivers lifelike 3D sound for headphones.
Frank’s other industry-changing achievements include the Non-Aliasing DSP Clipper, Low-IMD Clipping for cleaner high-performance radio audio, and patents such as the Dividend Composite Filter, Dynamically Flat Time-Aligned Crossovers, and Multi-Band Look-Ahead Limiting — all of which have set new benchmarks for audio quality worldwide.
Frank was chief engineer at the legendary WMMS and WHK(AM) in Cleveland, where he got his start developing custom audio processing systems for radio stations. His later work at KSAN and KNEW(AM), San Francisco, and Z-100 (WHTZ-FM) in New York cemented his reputation as a leader in the signal processing field. In fact, he helped take the latter from “worst radio station” in New York City, to the number-one station in only 74 days. WHTZ is chronicled in the documentary film “From Worst To First, The True Story of Z100, New York.” His technology is used by the majority of Top 100 rated radio stations in the USA, and in all major radio stations worldwide.
Outside the world of audio, he is deeply involved in the world of 1/8th scale live steam railroading, as well as building an HO scale empire in his steam-powered man-cave!
Our corporate headquarters is proudly located in the heart of the Rock and Roll Capital of the world, Cleveland, Ohio!
