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 GearFest A Tremendous Success!
We hope that you were able to attend Sweetwater's GearFest '09 this past weekend! Thousands of our friends were here at the Sweetwater campus to see more than 150 manufacturers, to attend the 45 seminars and clinics, to see live product demos, to interact with industry legends, and to network with other musicians, producers, and engineers!
We had an absolute blast hosting this event, and we would like to extend our thanks to everyone who made the weekend such a success. We know that hundreds of manufacturer reps, product specialists, clinicians, and celebrity presenters gave up their weekend and traveled to Fort Wayne to help with GearFest, and our appreciation for their efforts is boundless!
Our unbounded appreciation also goes out to everyone who attended GearFest! There were customers here from literally all over the world (we personally ran into friends from Italy, Denmark, and Poland, as well as Canada and all across the United States). We hope that everyone enjoyed the event as much as we did, and went home as inspired and excited about making and recording music as we did!
If you couldn't make it to GearFest '09, or, if you want to re-visit the event, then videos, photos, and stories from GearFest will be appearing at Sweetwater.com in the coming days - and, in fact, you can visit our Facebook page right now to check out the excitement and fun!
Thanks again to everyone who made GearFest '09 a huge success!
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