Long-time Sweetwater friend, Charlie Wicks, founder and CEO of Pro Co Sound passed away March 11 from complications due to cancer. He was 65 years old. Wicks formed Pro Co in the early 1970s as a P.A. speaker company, and moved into making cables in 1974. The company grew to become a successful international audio industry presence with a full line of cabling and interconnects, stomp boxes (including the famous Rat family of fuzz boxes), direct boxes, patchbays, and more. Wicks was a talented organist who was devoted to the care of abandoned animals. With his wife, Willie, he formed Canine Safe Harbor in 2006.
Our condolences to his family and to all our friends at Pro Co. We will miss the “Captain of the Universe.”
