NAMM Report


"Nothing is ever like you ever imagine it to be" (Famous quote from James)

Both Paul and I have attended NAMM shows in the past, but this one was somewhat 'underwhelming.'
Many of the major vendors seemed to be at a loss to include anything dazzling or new, although we did
get to see and hear some cool new plug-ins and some interesting remote control surface which we will
tell you about soon.

The noise level in the convention center reaches very high volumes at times with all these competing
companies blasting out music so it's very easy to get tired traipsing around from booth to booth.
It's a great place to people watch with many of the assembled resembling the bar scene from the first
Star Wars movie crossed with the actors in "Spinal Tap" (Although I like the guitar, the number of 'shredders'
started to grate.)

The highlight of today, was meeting various luminaries of the recording industry. Paul introduced me to
Roger Nichols, whom he'd previously met in Vancouver. Roger I was told, engineered all of Steely Dan's albums.....how cool is that? Very in my opinion.

We also got to 'press the flesh' with Paul White, the main reviewer of Sound on Sound magazine from the UK.
Tomorrow will bring fresh surprises, so stay tuned.

Cheers for now,
James and Paul.


Blue microphones - USB Snowball mic.



Apple/Apogee's Ensemble 192 kHz/24 bit audio i/o



Doepfer modular analog hardware - Anyone wanna go old school?



James preparing his iPod nano

Posted: Fri - January 20, 2006 at 10:35 PM          

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