27th Annual TEC Awards Announces Nominees for Outstanding Technical Achievement The TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio has announced the nominees for the 27th Annual Technical Excellence and Creativity Awards, to be held Friday, January 20, 2012, at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. The awards are co-presented by the TEC Foundation and NAMM. The nominations announced today, comprising 19 categories of technical achievement in product design, will be followed by an announcement of nominees in eight categories of creative achievement in sound production. The nominations, based on product entries by audio manufacturers, were made by a select panel of over 160 professionals in numerous audio specialties. Nominated products and projects must have been introduced during the eligibility period of July 1, 2010 to August 30, 2011. With the introduction of two new awards categories -- musical instrument amplification and effects technology and amplification hardware/studio and sound reinforcement -- the technical achievement categories have been expanded from 17 to 19, and include a wide variety of amplification products in use by performers and audio professionals for both stage and studio applications. Online voting begins on November 1 among members of various professional organizations, including the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy, Society of Professional Audio Recording Services, Motion Picture Sound Editors, Music Producers Guild, NAMM, Game Audio Network Guild, and qualified professionals subscribing to various audio industry trade publications. And the nominees are: Ancillary Equipment Focusrite VRM Box monitor simulator Little Labs Redeye 3D Phantom direct box Manley Labs MicMAID mic/preamp auditioner Rational Acoustics Smaart v7.3 analysis software Shure SRH940 headphones Sony Electronics MDR-7520 headphones Microphone Preamplifier Technology Aphex Channel Dave Hill Designs Europa 1 Millennia Media HV-35 Rupert Neve Designs Portico 517 Tonelux MP5A preamp with TILT Universal Audio 4-710d Studio Monitor Technology Blue Sky International eXo2 Genelec 1238CF KRK ROKIT RP10-3 Neumann KH 120 Pelonis Sound and Acoustics Model 42 PMC AML2 Recording Devices Boss Micro Br BR-80 Fostex AR-4i JoeCo Black Box 2.1 Korg MR-2 TASCAM DR-680 v1.20 Zoom R24 Musical Instrument Amplification and Effects Technology Eventide Space Line 6 DT50 Guitar Amplifier Series Line 6 POD HD500 TC Electronic Blacksmith Bass Amp TC-Helicon VoiceLive Touch Tech 21 Roto Choir Amplification Hardware/Studio and Sound Reinforcement Crown ComTech Drive Core Series JBL Pro MSC1 monitor controller with RMC (Mac version) Kush Audio Main Gain monitor controller Lab.gruppen PLM 20000Q QSC Audio GX7 Radial Engineering H-Amp Speaker to Headphone Converter Computer Audio Hardware Apogee Symphony I/O Avid Pro Tools | HD Native PCAudioLabs Rok Box MC 7xs PreSonus AudioBox 22VSL RME Fireface UFX Universal Audio UAD-2 Satellite Musical Instrument Technology/Hardware Dave Smith Instruments Tempest analog drum machine Fairlight CMI-30a Computer Musical Instrument Korg Kronos music workstation Moog Slim Phatty synthesizer Novation UltraNova analog modeling synthesizer Roland Jupiter 80 synthesizer Musical Instrument Technology/Software Arturia Spark FXpansion Geist iZotope Stutter Edit Native Instruments "Abbey Road Modern Drums" Spectrasonics Omnisphere v1.5 Synthogy Ivory II Grand Piano Signal Processing Technology/Hardware A Designs EM-EQ2 Cedar Cambridge 7 Drawmer 1968 MKII Radial Engineering WR8 Workhorse TASCAM TA-1VP Vocal Processor with Autotune Tonelux EQ5P Series EQ Signal Processing Technology/Software Avid HEAT Dave Hill Designs RA iZotope RX 2 restoration software Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec Universal Audio Studer A800 tape recorder plug-in Waves OneKnob Sound Reinforcement Loudspeaker Technology JBL Professional EON 515XT K-Array KR 400S Martin Audio MLA Multi Cellular Array Meyer Sound Labs MINA QSC KLA Series Yamaha DSR Series Microphone Technology/Sound Reinforcement Audio-Technica BP893 Blue Encore 300 DPA 2011A Earthworks SR40V Heil PR 31BW Shure Beta 181 Microphone Technology/Recording Audio-Technica AT2022 stereo mic Bock Audio 241 DPA 4099P Stereo Piano Miking System Mojave Audio MA-300 Royer Labs R-101 Sennheiser MK 4 Wireless Technology AKG DMS 700 V2 Audio-Technica MTU301 SpectraPulse bodypack Lectrosonics Quadra Digital IEM Line 6 XD-V70 Shure PGX Yamaha M7CL/LS9 StageMix iPad app Workstation Technology Avid Pro Tools 9 Cakewalk SONAR X1 Prism Sound SADiE 6 Steinberg Nuendo 5.5 PreSonus Studio One Pro v1.6 MOTU Digital Performer 7.2 Sound Reinforcement Console Technology Avid VENUE 2.9 DiGiCo SD10 Midas PRO9 Midas VeniceF Roland M-480 V-Mixer Soundcraft Vi1 with VM2 Small Format Console Technology DiGiCo SD11 Focusrite Control 2802 PreSonus StudioLive 16.0.2 Solid State Logic Nucleus Soundcraft Si Compact-16 b>Toft Audio Designs ATB-08M Large Format Console Technology Allen & Heath GS-R24M Harrison 950m-24 Lawo Sapphire Solid State Logic AWS 948 Studer Vista 5 M2 Tonelux 1628
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