by Steve Harvey SSE Audio Group won for Best Sound at the UK's Festival Supplier Awards for the second consecutive year at the end of January 2016, almost exactly four decades after the company officially launched in Nottingham, England. The award, for SSE's 2015 Reading Festival production, was just the latest in a long list of honors recognizing the company's achievements in not only professional audio but also business over the years.
The upcoming AES Convention in Los Angeles next month promises to have some momentous offerings, including its first International Conference on Audio for Virtual and Augmented Reality, but you can't move forward without learning from the past, and that's where the convention's Historical Sessions track comes in.
"A lot of the comments we're hearing from the crowd is how emotionally involving it is. Quite a strong thing goes on at the shows—it's a tangible thing that happens." - Tom Howat, monitor engineer, Above & Beyond
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