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Clapton Production Teams Take Top Honours
The engineers, sound editors and other audio professionals behind Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival, Ray Charle’s Genius Loves Company album and Universal Pictures’ Ray, were among the many winners at the 21st Annual Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards, held at the New York Marriott Marquis.
In addition to 24 awards for Technical and Creative Achievement, a sell-out crowd comprising the pro audio industry's finest creative talents witnessed the induction of legendary producer/engineer Arif Marden into the TEC Awards Hall of Fame, and the presentation of the prestigious Les Paul Award to David Byrne. Atlantic Records founder, Ahmet Eregun presented the Hall of Fame Award to Mardin, who produced chart-topping hits for artists such as Aretha Franklin, the Bee Gees, Bette Midler and many others. Highlighting the presentation was a surprise performance of “Through the Fire”, by Chaka Khan, in tribute to Mardin. The Les Paul Award was presented by the much-loved recording innovator and guitarist Les Paul, and was accepted by Byrne’s friend and fellow Nonesuch recording artist, Laurie Anderson. Byrne, currently in Europe for another project, sent a “thank you” video which was screened at the show.
Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival came away with two TEC Awards, with the WNET/Sirius radio broadcast winning for Remote Production, and the DVD taking honors for the newly-created Surround Sound Production category. The team behind Ray Charle’s Genius Loves Company won the TEC Award for Record Production/Album; as the film sound crew of Ray won in the category of Film Sound. Other winners for Creative Achievement were the production crew of Green Day’s “American Idiot” (Record Production/Single or Track); the sound crew for U2’s :Vertigo” tour (Tour Sound Production); 24 (Television Sound Production); as well as the design team behind New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center Studio (Studio Design Project).
In the category of Technical Achievement, the 16 winners included the Solid State Logic AWS 900 (Large Format Consoles); Mackie Design’s Onyx 1640 (Small Format Consoles) and Big Knob (Ancillary Equipment); the Yamaha PM5D (Sound Reinforcement Consoles); Digidesign’s Pro Tools 6.7 (Workstation Technology); the Waves L3 Maximizer (Signal Processing Technology/Software); Apogee Electronics’ Rosetta 200 (Digital Converter Technology); Shure’s SLX Series Wireless (Wireless Technology); and Harman Pro Group’s Crown Commercial Audio Series (Amplifier Technology), AKG C414B-XLS/C414B-XLII (Microphone Technology/ Studio) and JBL VerTec VT4888DP (Sound Reinforcement Loudspeakers).
10th October 2005
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