New York (September 9, 2010)–The TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio named nominees for the 26th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, to be held Friday, January 14, 2011 at the NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA.
The nominees are in 17 categories of Technical Achievement in product design; nominees in nine categories of Creative Achievement in sound production will be announced at a later date.
Online voting begins on November 1 among members of various professional organizations, including the Producers and Engineers Wing of the Recording Academy, the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS), NAMM, the Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) and qualified professionals subscribing to various audio industry trade publications.
And the nominees are…
ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT
Crown XLS series power amplifiers
JBL Professional MSC 1 Monitor System Controller
Rational Acoustics Smaart v.7 analysis software
RealTraps MegaTraps bass traps
Shure SRH840 pro monitoring headphones
T.C. Electronic PolyTune tuner
DIGITAL CONVERTER TECHNOLOGY
Apogee Electronics Apogee One
Focusrite Saffire PRO 24 DSP
Metric Halo LIO-8 AD-DA
MOTU UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid
PreSonus FireStudio Mobile
RME M Series AD converters
RECORDING DEVICES (HARDWARE RECORDERS)
Marantz Professional PMD661
Olympus LS-11
Roland R-05
Sony PCM-M10
Tascam HS-P82
Zoom R16
MICROPHONE PREAMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGY
Electrodyne 501
Focusrite Octopre MKII Dynamic
Grace Design m103
Rupert Neve Designs 5017
SPL Frontliner
True Systems PT2-500
MICROPHONE TECHNOLOGY/SOUND REINFORCEMENT
AKG C 747 V11
Audio-Technica AT4081
Earthworks PM40T Touring PianoMic
Heil Sound PR 28
Neumann KMS 104 plus
Shure Beta 27
MICROPHONE TECHNOLOGY/RECORDING
Audio-Technica AT4050/ST
DPA 5100
Josephson C715
Neumann TLM 102
Royer SF-24V
Telefunken Elektroakustik R-F-T AR-51
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
AKG Wireless iPhone App
Audio-Technica 3000 Series “b”
Lectrosonics SMV Series Transmitters
Sabine SWM6000
Sennheiser G3 500 Series
Shure PSM900 Personal Monitor System
SOUND REINFORCEMENT LOUDSPEAKER TECHNOLOGY
Bag End IDS12-I
EAW KF740
Electro-Voice ZXA1
JBL VerTec VT4886/VT4883
QSC Audio K Series
RCF TTL55-A
STUDIO MONITOR TECHNOLOGY
ADAM S3X-H
ATC SCM25A
Blue Sky SAT 8/Sub 212
Dynaudio BM5A MkII
Focal Professional CMS 40
Genelec 8260A
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY/HARDWARE
Dave Smith Instruments Mopho Keyboard
Korg Stage Vintage Piano
Moog Taurus 3 Bass Pedals
Nord Electro 3
Novation Launchpad
Yamaha CP Series CP1
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY/SOFTWARE
Ableton Max For Live
Celemony Melodyne Editor
IK Multimedia AmpliTube 3
Line 6 POD Farm 2
Native Instruments Maschine
Spectrasonics Trilian Total Bass Module
SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY/HARDWARE
Bricasti Design System 1
Dangerous Music BAX EQ
Endless Analog CLASP
Lexicon PCM 92
TC Electronic System 6000 Mk II
Universal Audio UAD-2 Solo/Laptop
SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY/SOFTWARE
CEDAR DNS One
iZotope Alloy
Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Bundle
Sonnox Restore Suite
Universal Audio Manley Massive Passive Plug-in
Waves Vocal Rider
WORKSTATION TECHNOLOGY
Ableton Live 8
Apple Logic Studio
Cakewalk SONAR 8.5 Producer
Harrison Mixbus
PreSonus Studio One Pro version 1.5
Sony Creative Software Sound Forge Pro 10
SOUND REINFORCEMENT CONSOLE TECHNOLOGY
Allen & Heath iLive-R72/iDR-16 3U MixRack
Avid Venue SC48
DiGiCo SD8-24
Innovason Eclipse
Soundcraft Si1
Yamaha
M7CL-48ES
SMALL FORMAT CONSOLE TECHNOLOGY
Audient Zen
Euphonix MC Control Version 2
Mackie Onyx-i Series
PreSonus StudioLive 24.4.2
Solid State Logic X-Desk
Sound Devices 552
LARGE FORMAT CONSOLE TECHNOLOGY
Calrec Artemis
Fairlight EVO
Lawo MC2 66 MkII
Solid State Logic Duality SE
StageTec Crescendo
Studer Vista 9
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