A worn touring road case opened in a dawn-lit loading dock, a red Radial direct box resting in the foam.
Concept · A pilot film for Radial

The film is inside the red box.

Your gear comes home from the road still working. Three continents, a dozen trucks, one box that never quit. That story is the most filmable thing Radial owns, and it has never been on film. We make it, starting with the rigs that survive the tour.

1996First JDI shipped
~100Hands, one building
#eb2d2eThe red, on every rider
The reframe

Built like a tank. Never shot like one.

You didn't say "built like a tank." Your customers did, and you were smart enough to keep it. It's the most consistent line in your reviews and the truest thing about the gear. But it lives as a phrase, not a picture. There's no film of the box that went into a river and kept transmitting, no portrait of the hands that built it to do that. We fix the part that's missing: the camera.

How we work
A close detail of a touring signal rack, a red direct box laced into black gear with a hand-labeled patch.
A front-of-house engineer at an arena mixing desk, seen from behind during a show.
The proof you already have

The engineers who carry you on the rider are your best ad. They've never been on camera.

Taylor Swift. U2. Dead & Company. The people who spec the J48 on a fifty-million-dollar tour show up on your site as a photo of a rack and one sentence. They belong in a portrait.

What the site does today

All there. None of it moves you.

The catalog is deep and honest. The red-on-white is disciplined. The artist roster is real. None of it makes a gear nerd feel anything about a DI box, which is the one thing this audience is primed to feel. The story is all there, in plain text, three clicks deep, with no director.

See the gap, side by side
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Real-estate post standing in for the factory film
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Quotes where a touring portrait should be
Q&A
The reamping documentary, locked in text
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Films of the gear that survives the road
The pilot

Start with one film. The one that proves the red.

A two-day shoot, a tight pilot scope, a number you can say yes to in a meeting. We bring the director; you bring the box that came home.