NA MM TEC Awards 2020

NAMM TEC AWARDS 2020: THE WINNERS

The ceremony acknowledges a selection of products and personnel in the live touring industry.

Presented by The NAMM Foundation annually, the TEC Awards continues to recognise the exemplary achievements and innovations behind the world of professional recording, live performances, films, television, video games and multimedia. Overseen this year by compère Fred Armisen, the awards recognised the technical innovation, along with honouring artist Joni Mitchell, who was given one of the night’s most anticipated honours: The Les Paul I n novation Award. Also honoured during the evening was recording engineer, Dave Pensado and record industry veteran, Herb Trawick – the duo behind the weekly web series, Pensado’s Place – who were inducted in to the TEC Hall of Fame. Elsewhere in the ceremony, for the first time, the 2020 event saw three companies win two awards each in Outstanding Technical Achievement. First was Genelec for its Aural ID and S360 A SAM product; Universal Audio also was successful with Apollo X16 and Capital Chambers PlugIn; and API 2448 Console and the 550A 50th Anniversary Edition 3 band EQ product. In the Technical Achievement category, Shure picked up honours in Wireless Technology for its Axient Digital ADX Transmitter. For audio consoles, Solid State Logic’s Fusion was honoured with Signal Processing Hardware award, while Allen & Heath walked away with Small Format Console Technology for its SQ Digital Mixer Series V1.3. Avid was successful with Pro Tools 2019 for the Workstation Technology/ Recording Devices category. While in Large Format Console Technology, API was successful for the 2448 Console. The Microphone Preamplifiers category was taken by Rupert Neve Designs’ 5211 Dual Mic Pre, while from loudspeaker world, the winners included JBL Professional’s VTX A8 Line Array Sound Reinforcement Loudspeakers. With all the winners announced, attendees were treated to a collection of musicians, including Weyes Blood, Kevin Ross, Suzanne Santo and band Venice performing renditions of a selection of Joni Mitchell classics, all in the presence of the legend herself. TPi Photo: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for NAMM www.namm.org