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CREATIVE & TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT WINNERS ANNOUNCED AT THE 32nd ANNUAL NAMM TEC AWARDS
PRESTIGIOUS LES PAUL AWARD PRESENTED TO AEROSMITH’S JOE PERRY WHO JAMS LIVE WITH BANDMATES
JOHNNY DEPP & ALICE COOPER
AEROSMITH PRODUCER & ENGINEER JACK DOUGLAS INDUCTED INTO
NAMM TEC HALL OF FAME
Comedian Sinbad returned as host
Presenters
included Johnny Depp, Lita Ford, The Foo Fighters’ Rami Jaffee &
Jessy Green, Om’Mas, Jerry Harrison, Geoff Emerick, Jeff
Greenberg (Village Recorder), Eric Boulanger
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Anaheim, Calif., (Jan. 21, 2017) – Winners in
31 technical and creative achievement categories were announced at the 32nd Annual NAMM TEC AWARDS,
presented annually by the NAMM Foundation and held January 21 in Anaheim, CA. The annual event celebrates the best in professional audio and sound production and is
held during The
NAMM Show,
the world’s leading global music industry trade event. Comedian
Sinbad returned to host for the third time.
Four
companies – AVID, iZotope, Sennheiser and Solid State Logic – scored
several Outstanding Technical Achievement awards, each taking home two
statues each. AVID’s Pro Tools Dock
and Pro Tools 12.3 picked up in Workstation Technology and Audio Apps
& Hardware categories; iZotope in a new designation: Audio Education
Technology, for the company’s Pro Audio Essentials and the Ozone 7
Advanced in the category of Signal Processing Software;
Sennheiser in Wireless and Headphone/Earpiece Technology categories for
the Wireless G3 A-1 Band and the HD 25 Plus and finally Solid State
Logic for Large and Small Console Technology categories for the System T
and the Sigma Delta. Outstanding Technical
Achievement honors were chosen in 23 categories.
“Game
of Thrones” returned for its second win in a year for Outstanding
Creative Achievement in the Television Sound Production category.
Following a posthumous recent birthday
milestone, David Bowie’s Blackstar EP won in two categories –
Record Production Album & Single respectively. Several Star
Wars-themed projects beat out the competition as well:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens from Lucasfilm won for Film Sound Production while
Star Wars: Battlefront won for Interactive Entertainment Sound Production. Outstanding Creative Achievement honors were chosen in eight categories.
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Joe Perry, one of music’s most significant artists and executives, received
the evening’s highest honor, the Les Paul Award, presented to remarkably-distinguished and accomplished individuals from the music industry. Hollywood Vampires bandmate and actor
Johnny Depp presented Perry with the award, then joined Perry, Brad Whitford, and Alice Cooper on stage for a live performance.
Perry dedicated the award to his manager Howard Kaufman, who recently passed away. News is forthcoming related to Perry’s
upcoming sixth solo album. Learn more
here.
Keeping it in the family, famed Aerosmith engineer and producer
Jack Douglas also became the newest inductee to the
NAMM TEC Awards Hall of Fame. Douglas engineered and produced many multi-platinum associated for many of Aerosmith’s
most iconic releases and is affectionately dubbed "the sixth member” of the band.
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See the complete list of awards:
TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Amplification Hardware - Studio & Sound Reinforcement
Crown
XLS DriveCore 2
Ancillary Equipment
Rupert Neve Designs RNHP: Precision Headphone Amplifier
Audio Apps & Hardware/Peripherals for Smartphones/Tablets
AVID Pro Tools | Dock
Audio Education Technology – (new category)
iZotope
Pro Audio Essentials
Computer Audio Hardware
Universal Audio Apollo Twin USB Interface
DJ Production Technology - Hardware/Software – (new category)
Native Instruments TRAKTOR
Kontrol S5
Headphone / Earpiece Technology
Sennheiser HD 25 Plus
Large Format Console Technology
Solid State Logic System T
Microphone Preamplifiers
AMS Neve
1073DPX
Microphones – Recording
Schoeps ORTF-3D
Microphones - Sound Reinforcement
Shure KSM8 Dualdyne
Musical Instrument Amplification & Effects
Softube Marshall JMP 2203
Musical Instrument Hardware
Moog Music Mother-32
Musical Instrument Software
Softube Marshall Bluesbreaker 1962
Signal Processing Hardware
Warm Audio
WA-2A Tube Opto Compressor
Signal Processing Hardware (500 Series Modules)
API 512V
Signal Processing Software (Dynamics / EQ / Utilities)
iZotope Ozone 7 Advanced
Signal Processing Software (Effects)
Soundtoys 5
Small Format Console Technology
Solid State Logic Sigma Delta
Sound Reinforcement Loudspeakers
Meyer Sound MJF-208 Stage Monitor
Studio Monitors
Genelec
8430A IP SAM
Wireless Technology
Sennheiser evolution Wireless G3 A-1 Band
Workstation Technology / Recording Devices
AVID
Pro Tools 12.3
CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
Film Sound Production
Lucasfilm Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Interactive Entertainment Sound Production
DICE / Electronic Arts Star Wars: Battlefront
Record Production – Album
David Bowie
Blackstar
Record Production – Single
David Bowie
Blackstar
Remote Production - Recording or Broadcast
Studio Design Project
Walters-Storyk Design Group Boston Symphony Orchestra
Control Room
Television Sound Production
HBO Game of Thrones
Tour/Event Sound Production
Sting and Peter Gabriel Rock Paper Scissors North American
Tour
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total, winners were selected from 180 nominees. Title sponsors for the
show included The Les Paul Foundation, Harman and Visit Anaheim. A full
list of sponsors can be found
here. Many of the evening’s winning products and technologies are available at music and pro audio retailers worldwide both online
and in stores.
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