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TEC Awards Win Support of 33 Companies
The Mix Foundation for Excellence in Audio has announced that 33 leading companies in the professional audio and technology industries are now lending their support as sponsors of the 20th Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards. The awards, which will be presented 30th October, 2004, at the San Francisco Marriott, honor outstanding technical and creative achievement in professional audio production and product design. The ceremony is being held on the third night of the 117th Audio Engineering Society Convention.
AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), microprocessor manufacturer and digital technology leader, will again sponsor the 16 categories of Technical awards; and Gibson Guitar Corp., one of the world's premiere manufacturers of guitars and other instruments, is sponsoring the Les Paul Award for the eighth consecutive year. Other Platinum Sponsors include: Dolby Laboratories, the leader in both noise reduction and surround sound technology; Harman Pro Group, encompassing many of the industry's most respected brands of high-end audio products; founding sponsor Mix magazine, the leading trade publication covering professional recording and sound production; and Shure, one of the world's largest manufacturers of microphones and audio electronics.
Gold Sponsors include Allen & Heath, Audio-Technica, The Burst Collective, Digidesign, Ex'pression College for Digital Arts, Guitar Center, Mackie/EAW, MOTU, Meyer Sound, the Recording Academy, Remote Recording, RØDE Microphones, Solid State Logic, TC Electronic and Yamaha Corporation. Twelve Silver and Bronze sponsors complete this year's line up.
"We are enormously gratified that so many prominent companies are stepping forward to support the TEC Awards on this milestone anniversary," said Hillel Resner, president and general manager of the Mix Foundation. "Not only does it demonstrate a widespread recognition of the importance of this event, but it insures that funding will continue for causes important to all of us."
Besides the presentation of TEC Awards in 23 categories of Technical and Creative Achievement, filmmaker George Lucas and producer/engineer Elliot Scheiner will be inducted into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame, and the production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis will receive the Les Paul Award, presented annually for the creative application of audio technology. Proceeds from the awards ceremony are donated to organizations working for the prevention of noise-induced hearing loss, including House Ear Institute of Los Angeles and Hearing Education Awareness for Rockers (H.E.A.R.) of San Francisco, as well as to numerous scholarship programs for students of the audio arts and sciences. To date, the Mix Foundation has contributed more than a half-million dollars to these worthwhile causes.
1st September 2004
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