Nashville, TN (May 21, 2026)—More than 250 engineers, producers, musicians and audio professionals made their way to the top of Music Row on Saturday, May 16, for the fourth annual Mix Nashville music production event.
The day kicked off at BMG’s Nashville headquarters with a special Keynote Conversation titled “Bringing the Music Back to Music Row,” followed by a full day of expert panels and leading-edge technology demonstrations in multiple world-class studios, and then ended 12 hours later with the ever-popular Studio Crawl in nearby Berry Hill.
Here’s a Mix Nashville overview overview and a look at our sponsors, who not only make the event possible, but enhance the experience by offering up their own daylong programs featuring the best in talent and technology.
Look for more coverage of the event next week!
BACKSTAGE STUDIO (Black River Entertainment):
SSL, Genelec, Audio-Technica
SSL is a founding sponsor and longtime supporter of the Mix Music Production events, and for the past three years they set up in Starstruck Studios’ immersive mix room and showed the System T. This year, they decided to switch things up—in a big way!—and move to the big live room at Backstage Studio. On Saturday, they brought in an Origin evo, an Oracle and a Harrison 32Classic, and in collaboration with Genelec and Audio-Technica set up three separate stations, with a three-way split from the A-T 40 and 50 Series mics at the source, all tracking simultaneously, all listening through Genelec Ones, offering the audience real-time demonstrations and comparisons.
CURB STUDIOS 43:
Sony, API
Both Sony and API are original and annual sponsors of Mix Nashville, and for the past four years API has staked its claim to the Curb Studios 43 Control Room. And why not? The centerpiece is one of the finest consoles on Music Row, a 48-channel API AXS. This year, they brought in a hit man, producer, engineer and owner of Gold Pacific Studios, for a series of recording and mixing demos.
Meanwhile, for the past three years, Sony had focused primarily on individual 360VME testing and measurement for attendees, based out of either the immersive mix room at Black River or at Jeff Huskins 7.1.4 studio at BMG. This year, they continued with VME measurement, added more demo sessions on the 360RA creative toolsets sessions, and they also expanded in a big way by moving to the coveted Live Room at Curb 43 and setting up headphone listening stations, immersive and stereo, featuring the popular MDR-MV1 Open-Back Reference Monitor Headphones.
RCA STUDIO A:
Sweetwater, Avid, Neumann, RBDG
Sweetwater and Avid seem to have found a comfortable Mix Nashville home at the legendary RCA Studio A. Their series of producer-engineer panels always play to a packed house, as do their advanced product demos. And this year they added even more, bringing in Neumann on the technology side, with a special session titled “Behind the Glass at RCA Studio A With Phillip Smith,” and the Russ Berger Design Group on the studio design side, where the Sweetwater-RBDG collaboration was on display in the parking lot in the form of the recently debuted Sweetwater Airstream, the first 7.1.4 Dolby Atmos mobile production facility custom-designed for the iconic brand.
RONNIE’S PLACE (Black River Entertainment):
KRK Systems
Last year, KRK Systems dipped its toe into Mix Nashville by setting up stereo speaker systems in Curb Studios 28 Studio Six. This year, with the Spring 2026 launch of the new V-Series Five family of studio monitors, they really upped the game by moving into Ronnie’s Place, a classic Nashville studio tucked inside the Black River Entertainment complex. Inside the two-story live room, they set up and tuned a 7.1.4 playback system based on the V-Series Five family, and hosted drop-in and private listening sessions throughout the day. Meanwhile, in two scheduled sessions, Senior Software Engineer Emily Cheng took advantage of the setup to introduce KRK Mesh, a new wireless app control of immersive systems.
CURB STUDIOS 28, STUDIO SIX:
Wolff Audio
Last year, Wolff Audio became a first-time supporter of Mix Nashville by partnering with producer and engineer David Kalmusky at Addiction Sound and featuring real-time demos of MeMore cue system. This year, they continued with Addiction Sound, while also expanding down the hall to Curb Studios Studio Six, where they offered attendees a rare hands-on, inside look at an 8-channel bucket, a “Mini-Me” of the custom Wolff Audio Console. Outside Studio Six, flanking the entrance, Wolff Audio CEO Jay Porter proudly stood by a six-foot-tall outboard rack filled with Pultecs, a result of the company’s September 2025 acquisition of Pulse Technologies.
ADDICTION SOUND:
David Kalmusky and Wolff Audio
Wolff Audio again held demos of MeMore at Addiction Sound, but Addiction Sound is really all about the talent and passion of studio owner David Kalmusky, a songwriter, producer, engineer, musician and one of the best-kept secrets in music and recording. Although not pictured here, as part of Mix Nashville David also opened up his Dolby Atmos mix room, where he played back commercially released, classic albums on reels of ¼-inch tape from the late-’70s, early ‘80s—in quad! Morrison Hotel, The Traffic Sessions, Dark Side of the Moon… Alan Parsons is smiling somewhere.
BMG and BMG Studio:
Host Partner
Following Mix Nashville 2025, Mike Porter informed us that Belmont University was about to start a massive two-year construction project in the parking lot behind Columbia Studio A and that they would be unable to serve as the hub of Mix Nashville for a while. After a few calls, looking for alternatives and for contact names, Jeff Huskins, the talented in-house BMG engineer with an affinity for immersive music and many years of experience, stepped up and said, “We can do it, Tom. It’s only a half-block away.” Jeff brought in the marvelous BMG facilities team, and within two months we were flying into BNA and setting up signage. Our many, many thanks to all at BMG. We’re coming back in May 2027!
BMG LOBBY:
ASG
Advanced Systems Group set up in the BMG Lobby, sponsoring the breakfast and lanyards, and hosting networking central. But much of that seemed incidental following the recent death of one of their team, a longtime fixture of the professional audio industry, Tom Menrath. On Thursday night, the ASG team and friends of Tom gathered at Gnome Recording Studios in Nashville for a toast and remembrance. On Saturday, on the ASG tabletop, a book was laid out for his audio friends to write down a message or a mory, to be gathered for his wife.
GEMINI Mobile Truck:
Remote Production Group
A week before the January 2026 NAMM Show, Scott Pederson, one of the principals of Remote Production Group, texted me (Tom Kenny, Mix co-editor) and said, “Tom, we’ve completely redone Gemini, with two rooms of 7.1.4 Atmos, the first music broadcast and live truck to go immersive, and we’re gonna park it at NAMM. You gotta see it!” I saw it, I was blown away, and after finding out that when it wasn’t on the road it was parked at SeisMic Sound in Nashville, a facility owned by Tom Davis, a longtime friend and also a partner in RPG, I asked, “Can you bring it to Mix Nashville? Our audience will love it.” And they did.
