AES@NAMM Points a New Way Forward for Pro Audio Co-located shows offer younger demographics to AES, larger audience for pro-grade tech By Dan Daley, Audio Editor
Monday, January 29, 2018 - 12:28 pm
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The AES Show, professional audio's main expo, may have found its 21st century stride in a first-ever co-location with The NAMM Show, the musical-instrument expo. Last week's AES@NAMM, as the initial partnership was dubbed, gave the former access to the younger demographics of the latter, helping expose its members to a wider range of professional audio pathways, including broadcast, while putting more professional-grade audio technology before a larger audience.
The 2018 AES@NAMM Pro Sound Symposium: Live & Studio sessions emphasized practical content, offering access to more than 500 panels and presentations over four days, as well as a chance to meet audio professionals working in a variety of verticals.
Clear-Com's President Bob Boster (center) and Regional Sales Manager Jay Wallace (left) accept the National Association of Music Merchants Milestone Award from NAMM President/CEO Joe Lamond.
For audio professionals, networking is typically first thought of in a technical sense, but networking with people is more important than ever, observes AES@NAMM Executive Chair Michael MacDonald, president, ATK/Audiotek. From my perspective, The NAMM Show is one of the biggest networking opportunities in our industry. The AES@NAMM Pro Sound Symposium has been designed to help AES members and non-members alike expand their human network.' Our program is formatted to merge in-person networking opportunities with hands-on training and expert tutorials about relevant topics affecting our industry today.
Says AES President David Scheirman, director, global concert and rental business, Bose, With the professional-audio industry growing and changing rapidly, it makes sense for our society's in-person gatherings to evolve as well. Considering the advances taking place in the technologies and tools we use as audio professionals, nothing can replace direct, in-person exposure. This event has been designed to provide a sampler of knowledge and hands-on training along the entire signal path, from microphone to speaker. We're grateful to see the enthusiastic response and solid support from across the audio-equipment-manufacturing industry for this inaugural event.
Sponsoring AES@NAMM Pro Sound Symposium: Live & Studio 2018 were Apogee, Adamson, Allen & Heath, Alteros, Bose Professional, DAD (Digital Audio Denmark), dB Technologies, EAW, DiGiGrid, Eventide, Focal, Genelec, Lectrosonics, Meyer Sound, QSC, Sennheiser, Ultimate Ears, Waves and Yamaha.
Also at The NAMM Show, intercom developer Clear-Com was presented with the National Association of Music Merchants Milestone Award for 50 years of service in the music-products industry. Presented annually, the Milestone Award recognizes music businesses that have flourished through changing business environments to reach a noteworthy anniversary.
The dramatic development of live-music-production values in recent years, including cutting-edge lighting, video, choreography, robotics, and other special effects is possible only with sophisticated and reliable communications, said Clear-Com President Bob Boster in accepting the award. Our company is honored to be part of this development and to be recognized by NAMM with this prestigious award.
The expo filled every bit of the Anaheim Convention Center's 1.8 million sq. ft. - including 200,000 sq. ft. of new exhibit space that opened in September - added convention space that allowed NAMM to grow attendance by as much as 10% percent over last year's nearly 107,000 visitors, according to NAMM President/CEO Joe Lamond. Here's a look at some of what attendees got to experience there.
Sony's third-generation DWX Series of wireless mics delivers ultra-low audio latency of 1.2 ms with extended bandwidth and high-density multichannel operation, with a high-dynamic-range RF circuit and four-diversity-antenna configuration, and supports Dante digital audio networking. The new DWX components include the smaller and lightweight DWT-B03R digital wireless bodypack transmitter, the DWR-R03D digital wireless rackmount receiver, the BC-DWX1 battery charger, and the ECM-77LM miniature, omnidirectional electret condenser microphone. The new DWX also includes the new ECM-77LM miniature, omnidirectional electret condenser microphone, which now uses the small three-pin connector.
At The NAMM Show, Sennheiser announced that it will be expanding its XS Wireless 1 series with the addition of a new two-channel receiver, the EM-XSW 1 DUAL. The receiver will be available separately or as part of two XSW 1 DUAL Sets, which combine it with two wireless microphones using either the e 825 or e 835 capsule. The new XS Wireless DUAL two-channel receiver features automatic frequency management with one-touch synchronization, antenna-switching diversity for reliable reception, and intuitive, icon-based controls. Each receiver has up to 10 compatible, preset channels in eight frequency banks and provides balanced XLR and unbalanced jack outputs. The XSW 1 DUAL Sets are available in various frequency ranges within the UHF band (A: 548-572 MHz, GB: 606-630 MHz, B: 614- 638 MHz, C: 766-790 MHz, D: 794-806 MHz, E: 821-832 MHz plus 863-865 MHz, K: 925-937.5 MHz) and will be available globally in April. Sennheiser also announced major upgrades to its Digital 6000 wireless microphone system, including free firmware update for all EM 6000 receivers that enables a command function that lets users set up a talkback channel with suitable transmitters.
Genelec showcased its new 8341 and 8331, the world's smallest three-way coaxial monitors and part of the 8351 three-way
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AES@NAMM Points a New Way Forward for Pro Audio Co-located shows offer younger demographics to AES, larger audience for pro-grade tech By Dan Daley, Audio Editor 
