On January 23rd, at the Winter NAMM trade show in Anaheim California, the winners in the 31st Annual NAMM TEC Awards were announced. Comedian Sinbad hosted the show, which presented awards in 31 technical and creative categories recognizing excellence in audio and sound production. The night’s highest honor, the Les Paul Award went to producer/songwriter/musician Don Was, while our friend Jeff “Skunk” Baxter became one of the newest inductees into the NAMM TEC Awards Hall of Fame.
Our congratulations to all of the members of the extended Sweetwater family who took home Technical Achievement awards at this year’s event!
AMPLIFICATION HARDWARE — STUDIO & SOUND REINFORCEMENT
Antelope Audio Satori Monitoring Controller
ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT
Rupert Neve Designs RNDI: Active Transformer Direct Interface
AUDIO APPS FOR SMARTPHONES & TABLETS
PreSonus Notion 2 for iOS
COMPUTER AUDIO HARDWARE
Universal Audio Apollo 8p Thunderbolt 2 Audio Interface
HARDWARE/PERIPHERALS FOR SMARTPHONES & TABLETS
Shure MOTIV MV88 iOS Digital Stereo Condenser Mic
HEADPHONE/EARPIECE TECHNOLOGY
Audio-Technica Corporation ATH-R70x Pro
LARGE-FORMAT CONSOLE TECHNOLOGY
Solid State Logic XL DESK
MICROPHONE PREAMPLIFIERS
Manley Labs Manley FORCE
MICROPHONES — RECORDING
Neumann U47 FET
MICROPHONES — SOUND REINFORCEMENT
Shure 5575LE Unidyne 75th anniversary Vocal Microphone
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT AMPLIFICATION & EFFECTS
Eventide H9 MAX
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT HARDWARE
Moog Music Modular Recreation
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT SOFTWARE
iZotope Iris 2
RECORDING DEVICES
Zoom F8 MultiTrack Field Recorder
SIGNAL-PROCESSING HARDWARE
Tube-Tech HLT 2A Equalizer
SIGNAL-PROCESSING HARDWARE (500-SERIES MODULES)
Solid State Logic 500-Format LMC+
SIGNAL-PROCESSING SOFTWARE (DYNAMICS/EQ/UTILITIES)
iZotope RX 4 Complete Audio Repair & Enhancement
SIGNAL-PROCESSING SOFTWARE (EFFECTS)
AMS Neve AMS RMX16 Digital Reverb Plug-In For UAD-2 Platform
SMALL-FORMAT CONSOLE TECHNOLOGY
Avid Pro Tools I S3
STUDIO MONITORS
Genelec 8351A SAM
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
Sennheiser Evolution Wireless D1
WORKSTATION TECHNOLOGY
Avid Pro Tools 12