Sennheiser Lights Up H.O.T. Zone with Wireless Headphones at NAMM Show 2015Audio specialist Sennheiser (NAMM Show 2015, January 22 - 25, at the Anaheim Convention Center, hall A, booth 6577) announces that its wireless headphone technology will support the H.O.T. (Hands On Training) Zone this year as Brian Hardgroove hosts "Silent Jam" at the NAMM Show 2015. Hardgroove (Public Enemy) and host of the radio shows "Hardgroove's Fuse Box" and "This is Hardgroove," will host the Silent Jam in the H.O.T. Zone stage on Friday, January 23, Saturday, January 24, and Sunday, January 25. David Schwartz of the TEC Award Foundation will serve as producer for each event, which is limited to 140 at-tendees. The sessions, which are an hour long and being co-produced by Sennheiser and Impulse Groove Foundation, will feature Steve Morse of Dixie Dregs fame (Friday, 1:00pm) and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, known for his work with Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers (Saturday, 12:00pm). Sunday's session at 12:00pm will feature special guests to be announced. Each session will be broadcast through Sennheiser wireless headphones to 140 attendees and consist of in-depth artist interviews, followed up by an impromptu jam session featuring Hardgroove on bass, Mike Boyko on drums, and Robert Muller on keys. "This event is an extension of the 'From A Whisper To A Dream' band competition we did last summer, during which we used wireless headphones at the suggestion of Senn-heiser's Dave Missall," commented Hardgroove, who was inducted into the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his band Public Enemy. "It was a huge success there, so Dave asked me to bring it to NAMM and invite some extremely high profile musi-cians." On bringing Steve Morse and Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter to the H.O.T. Zone stage, Hardgroove says: "My choices are based on what inspires me. As a kid, I remember Steve Morse and The Dixie Dregs coming to play where I lived -- they were so progressive. Meanwhile, Skunk is a guy who can play anything. He can play heavy-hitting rock or the funk and soul like he created these genres." Longtime IEM engineer Mark Frink will be mixing each of the lunch-time ses-sions, which will occur in the NAMM H.O.T.Zone's Tec Lab (Room 202 B). Sennheiser RS 120 headphones will be provided for the audience, with the band using Sennheiser EK 2000 IEM wireless monitors and Ultimate Ears custom molds. "I've used Sennheiser IEMs on all my tours and find them very musical," Frink said. "We used the RS 120 headphones for the recent inaugural AES Live Sound Expo in Los Angeles." Interview content and post-session Q&A will be captured with Sennheiser e 835 wired and wireless dynamic microphones, while all instrumentation is fed into a Yamaha digital console via Radial JDIs. "Sennheiser, Yamaha, and Ra-dial and Ultimate Ears have been very supportive of all my recent trade show events," Frink added. For more information on the H.O.T. Zone, please visit the NAMM Show site at http://plasa.me/fawqh; to learn more about Sennheiser, please stop by booth 6577 during the exhibition. 
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