January 26, 2013 – At the NAMM show this year, they continued their new association as the location of the TEC Awards. Focusing on the recognition of the technical achievement of the music industry. A unique award event that spans from new and innovative equipment creators though final music products and leadership in the professional [...]
January 2013 – Following a very busy showing at CES, Gibson brought their new Min-ETune device to the NAMM show for the professional musician audience. Follow in the line of the robot guitar, bringing multi-tuning options to a few seconds from minutes, they have released a new module that sits on the headstock of the [...]
When I sat with Henry Januszkiewicz for his short interview, Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys made their appearance at Gibson Guitar booth on January 27. But there is no better time for a busy CEO and I felt lucky to steal a few minutes of his time. Wilson started his concert with an acoustic [...]
January 23, 2013,NAMM, Anaheim, CA—The PreSonus company introduced a number of new products including sound reinforcement, and hardware and software related to workflows in production and performance environments. The StudioLive mixer handles 32 individual channels that can be mixed down through delay, reverb, equalizer, and mute groups. The mixer includes a TI 2GHz OMAP processor [...]
January 25, 2013, NAMM, Anaheim, CA—We talked with Ultimate Ears about their custom in-ear monitors for mixing and recording. This personal reference monitor is tuned for a perceived flat response that takes in account the differences in ear canal dimensions and individual hearing response. The monitors were developed with help from Capitol Studios. The user-tuned [...]
anuary 24, 2013, NAMM, Anaheim, CA—Joe Lamond from NAMM talked about the organization’s directions and focus. They are offering more educational courses for the various segments in the industry, with emphasis on the retailers. The Washington D.C. gridlock shows the need for leadership and for people to come together, daring to achieve greatness. The music [...]
January 23, 2013, NAMM, Anaheim, CA—The conference opened with a press preview of selected new products and some interesting performances from a wide range of music genres. This media preview day offers a glimpse of the upcoming show. Drum Workshop premiered their Collector series of snare drums made from a mixture of blue stones and [...]
January 23, 2013, NAMM, Anaheim, CA—Joe Lamond talked with Bernie Williams about life after baseball and music. Williams is a former NY Yankee and is currently a jazz guitarist and music education advocate. How did you change from sports to music? Williams responded that he always played music, but you can only focus on being [...]
January 2012. Anaheim, CA – a major component of the NAMM show was the expansion of home and personal studio recording and playback technology. The prevalence os distributed computing (in smart phones, tablets, laptops and embedded in devices) has now brought the location of these recording devices from the dedicated studio to the home, local [...]
January 2012. Anaheim, CA – Tascam, a division of TEAC America, lead the press conference with the announcement of the partnership with Onkyo and the integration of their products and channel. They also introduced several products in two classes – the prosumer/professional performer and the mobile musician. On the Prosumer side, they introduced thier new [...]
