The 2017 NAMM Show, held January 19-22 in Anaheim, CA, was loaded with new-product introductions, from high-end monitors and microphones to bargain-bundle plug-ins and boutique processors. The editors of Pro Sound News and Mix, representing the NewBay Media Pro A/V Group, roamed the aisles and came away with our picks for Best of Show.
The Annual NAMM Show in Anaheim, CA was jammed to the gills as usual with the latest in pro audio and the MI world. There was tons of gear, hundreds of exhibitors and the occasional celebrity, too—Stevie Wonder wandered the show floor and then reportedly got on stage at the nearby Marriott bar for an impromptu jam that blew away the lunch crowd. Everything we saw, we shared on our social media (www.facebook.com/prosoundnews and @prosoundnews on Twitter). Here's some of the more interesting things that caught our eye (and if you haven't seen it yet, go check out Part 1, too!).
"If RIN [metadata format] gets adopted, it means you've got a vehicle to make sure the data about you as an engineer or producer follows the files. By the time it gets to the labels, there is much better, more well-formatted data about all of the people that are going to need to get paid at some point. [Currently, rights organizations are] sitting on a whole bunch of money; they don't know who to give it to, and the reason is because not enough data gets collected about who all the contributors are." - Mark Isherwood, DDEX
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