TEC Finalists Announced, Celebration Awaits at the 2023 NAMM Show

by FOH Staff
October 28, 2022
Featured, News
7 min read

CARLSBAD, CA – NAMM announced the finalists of the 38^th Annual TEC Awards. More details from NAMM (www.namm.org): Presented annually during The NAMM Show, the TEC Awards recognize the individuals, companies, and technical innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films, television, video games, and multimedia. At the ceremony, one artist will be presented with the Les Paul Innovation Award. The annual award honors musical artists whose work has exemplified the creative application of audio technology. In total, 21 Technical Achievement and Studio Design Project categories were evaluated by a group of industry experts from all facets of the pro audio and sound production industries. Finalists are those products and projects that, in the opinion of the nominating panel, represent superior accomplishments in their respective fields. For invited members, voting in each category will begin on December 21 and end on March 1, 2023. Finalists from the 22 categories will be selected by industry professionals across major music, sound, and game audio associations, along with pro audio focused media groups. The finalists will be celebrated at The 2023 NAMM Show at the TEC Experience, a special, communal reception designed to gather the crossroads of the industry to applaud the achievements of the researchers and developers, product designers, marketers, and innovators behind the innovations. The event, which is open to all NAMM Show attendees and precedes the return of the TEC Awards in 2024, will be held on the campus of the Anaheim Convention Center on the evening of Thursday, April 13. Congratulations to the 38th TEC Award nominees: Amplification Hardware – Studio & Sound Reinforcement Amphion – Amp400.8 Avantone Pro – CLA400 Crest Audio – CPX-4 d&b audiotechnik – D40 K-Array – Kommander L-Acoustics – LA7.A6i Amplified Controller Audio Apps & Hardware/Peripherals for Smartphones/Tablets Apogee – Control 2 for iOS Flock Audio – PATCH APP DX JBL – Performance Manager Moog Music – Animoog Z Steinberg – Cubasis 3.4 Universal Audio – Volt 2 Audio Interface Waves – MyFOH Audio Education Technology Audio Test Kitchen – ATK Mobile Audiomovers – Listento Plus Berklee Press – Hip-Hop Production: Inside the Beats iZotope – Are You Listening, Season 4 Video Series Mix with the Masters – Mix with the Masters Shure – Microphone Techniques for Recording Educational Booklet Computer Audio Hardware Antelope Audio – Galaxy 32 Synergy Core Digital Audio Denmark – Core 256 Flock Audio – PATCH XT Focusrite – Clarett+ Series Focusrite – Vocaster Neve – 88M Universal Audio – Volt 276 Console Technology Allen & Heath – Avantis V1.2 DiGiCo – SD12T Theatre Version RØDE – RØDECaster Pro II Solid State Logic – ORIGIN Solid State Logic – UC1 SSL Plug-in Controller Waves – CA3000-MX Commercial Audio Mixer DJ Production Technology (Hardware / Software) Numark – NS4FX Omnitronic – TRM-422 Pioneer DJ – DDJ Rev-7 Reloop – Mixon 8 Pro Roland – SP-404MKII Creative Sampler and Effector Headphone / Earpiece Technology Audeze – MM-500 Audio-Technica – ATH-M50xMO Austrian Audio – Hi-X60 Headphones Jerry Harvey Audio – Sharona In-Ear Monitors Neumann – NDH 30 Headphones Shure – SRH840A Headphones Ultimate Ears – UE Live In-Ear Monitors Microphone Preamplifiers AEA – TRP500 Antelope Audio – Discrete 8 Pro Synergy Core Audient – iD 44 Mk2 Daking Audio – Mic Pre 4T Focusrite – Clarett+ OctoPre Rupert Neve Designs – 5025 Dual Shelford Mic Pre sE Electronics – DM2 Microphones – Recording AKG – Ara Austrian Audio – CC8 Earthworks Audio – ETHOS Lewitt – LCT 1040 Mojave Audio – MA-37 Warm Audio – WA-8000 Microphones – Sound Reinforcement Audio-Technica – ATND1061 Austrian Audio – OC707 True Condenser Vocal Microphone Austrian Audio – OD505 Active Dynamic Vocal Microphone DPA – 4055 Kick Drum Mic Neumann – Miniature Clip Mic System Shure – KSM11 Wireless Musical Instrument Amplification and Effects Ampeg – Micro VR Limited Edition White BOSS – Katana Bass Guitar Amplifiers BOSS – RE-202 Space Echo Hotone – Ampero II Stomp Softube – Marshall Murder One Lemmy Signature Strymon – Deco V.2 Strymon – El Capistan V.2 Universal Audio – UAFX Dream ’65 Reverb Amplifier Musical Instrument Hardware Moog Music – Etherwave Theremin Moog Music – Mavis Nord – Piano 5-88 Oberheim – OB-X8 Analog Synthesizer Robkoo – Wind Synthesizer R1 Roland – JUNO-X Programmable Polyphonic Synthesizer Musical Instrument Software EastWest Sounds – Forbidden Planet ILIO – Andy Narell Steel Pans — The Ellie Mannette Collection Roland – Jupiter-4 Software Synthesizer Spectrasonics – Omnisphere – Sonic Extensions Sound Magic – China Ensemble Universal Audio – UAD Opal Morphing Synthesizer Vienna Symphonic Library – Synchron Brass Vienna Symphonic Library – Synchron Woodwinds Production Essentials Genelec – GLM V4.2 GRADE Report Merging Technologies – Ovation 10 Other World Computing – OWC Flex iU4 Radial Engineering – Power-1 Rational Acoustics – SMAART 8.5 Audio Analysis Software U-he and Bitwig – CLAP Signal Processing Hardware Antelope Audio – Synergy Core Bettermaker – Stereo Passive Equalizer Black Lion Audio – Auteur MK3 GC Audio – Density Compressor Line 6 – DL4 MkII Pultec – MEQ-500 Jack Douglas Edition Midrange EQ rockruepel – sidechain.one Solid State Logic – THE BUS+ Signal Processing Software (Dynamics / EQ / Utilities) Eventide – SplitEQ Softube – Overstayer M-A-S Sonarworks – SoundID Reference Multichannel Steinberg – SpectraLayers 9 Universal Audio – UAD Hitsville EQ Collection Waves – Nx Germano Studios New York Waves – SSL EV2 Channel Signal Processing Software (Effects) FabFilter – Volcano 3 New Audio Technology – Spatial Audio Designer Roland – JUNO-60 Chorus Software Effect Softube – Atlantis Dual Chambers Solid State Logic – X-Delay Universal Audio – UAD AMS DMX Digital Delay & Pitch Shifter Sound Reinforcement Loudspeakers Celestion – CF1025BMB d&b audiotechnik – XSL-Series DAS Audio – LARA Line Array EAW – AC6 Column Holoplot – Immersive Matrix Array JBL – SRX900 Series LD Systems – MAILA Intelligent Array Meyer Sound – PANTHER Studio Monitors Augspurger – MX-65 MinimaX Auratone – Active 5C Super Sound Cube Focal – Solo6 Genelec – 6040R Smart Active Loudspeaker Neumann – KH 750 AES67 Subwoofer PreSonus – Eris E5 BT Wireless Technology Audio-Technica – 3000 Series IEM System BOSS – Waza-Air Bass Carvin Audio – IEM EM900 (500 MHz) Lectrosonics – IFBlue Sennheiser – Evolution EWD Wireless Mics Workstation Technology / Recording Devices Merging Technologies – Pyramix 14 PreSonus – Studio One 5 Professional v.5.5 Steinberg – Cubase 12 Steinberg – Nuendo 12 Tracktion – Waveform Pro 12 Universal Audio – LUNA v1.2.5 Studio Design Project Expanding Sky Studio – FM Design Hermes Sound – Carl Tatz Design MTSU – Middle Tennessee State University – Studios D and E – nonzero architecture Rambling Rose Studio – Russ Berger Design Group Spotify Content Campus at Mateo – WSDG – Walters-Storyk Design Group Warm Studios – Alex Otto – Otto System Works The TEC Awards will also honor an individual for their contributions to music and recording. Soon to be announced, an honoree who embodies the creative, innovative, and enterprising spirit of Les Paul will be honored with the Les Paul Innovation Award. Past Les Paul recipients include Carol Kaye, Peter Frampton, Jackson Browne, Joe Perry (Aerosmith, Hollywood Vampires), Slash (Guns N’ Roses), Don Was (Was, Not Was), Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac), Pete Townsend, Stevie Wonder, Todd Rundgren, and others. More info: www.tecawards.org