Listed below are the nominees for the 24th Annual TEC Awards — to be held Friday, October 3, in San Francisco — as selected by the members of the 2008 TEC Awards Nominating Panel. A special TEC Awards Voter’s Guide will appear in the August issue of Mix, and qualified subscribers will also be able to vote online.
OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL ACHIEVEMENT
Ancillary Equipment
Bag End E-Trap
Dangerous Music D-Box
Frontier Design Group AlphaTrack
Primacoustic Recoil Stabilizer
SE Electronics Instrument Reflexion Filter
Sensaphonics 3D Active Ambient IEM System
Amplifier Technology
Aphex HeadPod
Hot House Pro Audio Four Hundred SV
Lab.gruppen PLM 10000Q
PreSonus HP60
QSC PowerLight 3 Series
Digital Converter Technology
Apogee Duet
Digidesign Mbox 2 Micro
MOTU 828mk3
PreSonus FireStudio Project
Prism Sound Orpheus
TC Electronic StudioKonnekt
Recording Devices
ATR Master Analog Tape
Fostex PD606
Korg D888
M-Audio MicroTrack II
Sony PCM-D50
Tascam X-48
Mic Preamplifier Technology
Focusrite Liquid 4PRE
Groove Tubes SuPRE
Millennia Media HV3R Remote Controllable Preamp
Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5015
SSL X-Rack VHD Pre
Universal Audio DCS Remote Preamp
Microphone Technology/Sound Reinforcement
AKG GN ESP Series
Audio-Technica PRO 92CW
Audix M1250
Beyerdynamic TG-X 930
Heil PR-35
Royer Live Series
Microphone Technology/Recording
Audio-Technica AT2020 USB
Brauner Phanthera
Earthworks PM40 Piano Mic
Sennheiser MKH 8000 Series
Soundfield DFS-2
Telefunken|USA Ela M 260
Wireless Technology
AKG IVM 4
Audio-Technica Spectra Pulse Ultra Wideband System
Electro-Voice REV Series
Kaltman Spectran HF4040 RF Analyzer
Mipro ACT-51
X2 XDR955
Sound Reinforcement Loudspeaker Technology
Adamson Metrix
JBL VRX932LAP
Mackie SRM450 v2
Meyer Sound UPJunior
Nexo GEO S12
QSC WideLine-8
Studio Monitor Technology
Blue Sky EXO 2.1
Dynaudio Acoustics BM12A
Genelec SE DSP System
Klein + Hummel O 410
KRK VXT Series
Mackie HR824 mk2
Musical Instrument Technology
Dave Smith Instruments Prophet 08
Digidesign Structure
Korg M3
Propellerhead Software Reason 4
Waves iGTR
Yamaha Motif XS6
Signal Processing Technology/Hardware
CEDAR DNS 3000 Dialogue Noise Supressor
Chandler Germanium Compressor
Elysia Mpressor
Empirical Labs DerrEsser
Solid State Logic Duende Mini
Universal Audio 2-LA-2
Signal Processing Technology/Software
Antares Harmony Engine
Roger Nichols Digital SPL-izer
Solid State Logic X-Comp Plug-in
Universal Audio SPL Transient Designer
URS Classic Console Strip Pro
Waves The API Collection
Workstation Technology
Ableton Live 7
Apple Logic Studio
Bias Peak Pro 6
Digidesign Pro Tools 7.4
Solid State Logic Pro-Convert
Steinberg Nuendo 4
Sound Reinforcement Console Technology
Allen & Heath iLive-80
DiGiCo SD7
Roland RSS V-Mixing System
Soundcraft FX Series
Studer Vista 5 SR
Yamaha PM5DV2
Small Format Console Technology
Allen & Heath MixWizard3 12M
Dan Dugan Sound Design Model E-1
Digidesign Control|24
Euphonix MC Mix Controller
Mackie Control Universal Pro Series
Soundcraft GB2R
Large Format Console Technology
Euphonix S5 Fusion
Lawo mc290
Rupert Neve Designs 5088
Solid State Logic C300 HD
Stagetec Auratus
Trident 8T-32 RTB
OUTSTANDING CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
Record Production/Single or Track
“1234,” The Reminder, Feist
“Icky Thump,” Icky Thump, the White Stripes
“No One,” As I Am, Alicia Keys
“Umbrella,” Good Girl Gone Bad, Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
“The Pretender,” Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, the Foo Fighters
Record Production/Album
Icky Thump, the White Stripes
Just a Little Lovin’, Shelby Lynne
Long Road Out of Eden, The Eagles
Raising Sand, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Revival, John Fogerty
Surround Sound Recording
Fear of a Blank Planet, Porcupine Tree
One Man Band, James Taylor
Oral Fixation Tour, Shakira
The McCartney Years, Paul McCartney
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5; Fantasia on a Theme By Thomas Tallis; Serenade to Music, Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chamber Chorus
Tour Sound Production
Bruce Springsteen, Audio Analysts
The Police, Clair Showco
Justin Timberlake, Clair Showco
Tool, Eighth Day Sound
Roger Waters, Clair Showco
Interactive Entertainment Sound Production
Bioshock, 2K Games
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Activision
Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios
The Orange Box, EA Games
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, SCEA
Remote Production/Recording or Broadcast
2007 Academy of Country Music Awards, CBS
2007 American Idol Finale, Fox TV
50th Annual Grammy Awards, CBS
Garth Brooks Live in L.A. (live on CBS and benefit for FIRE)
VH1 Rock Honors — Genesis, Heart, ZZ Top, Ozzy Osbourne
Film Sound Production
3:10 to Yuma, Lionsgate
Ratatouille, Buena Vista/Disney Studios
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, DreamWorks Pictures
The Bourne Ultimatum, Universal Pictures
Transformers, DreamWorks
Television Sound Production
24, Fox
American Idol, Fox
Battlestar Galactica, CW
Lost, ABC
Saturday Night Live, NBC
Studio Design Project
2 Hard Records, Kingston, Jamaica
Cream Recording Studios, London
Inner Machine, Buffalo, NY
Red Bull Studio; Red Bull North America, Santa Monica, CA
Setai Recording Studio, South Beach, FL