NAMM Audio Highlights

A quick piece for RedShark rounding up some of the more significant news from NAMM 2020.

Am afraid there’s not much more to say about this one. Most of the work in recent weeks has been very much under the radar without a byline attached.

One cursory excerpt coming up:

Such rearward facing digitisation is the audio world’s equivalent of film weave and a big part of the current industry. We’re moving on though to the point where we’re starting to pour early elements of the digital age into the retro blender too, as witnessed by the fuss surrounding AMS Neve’s reissue of the dominant 80s digital reverb unit, the RMX16. Responsible for more 80s audio effects than you care to imagine — it was the first to digitally replicate Phil Collins’ drum sound made famous on ‘In the Air Tonight’ — instead of the 80s rack mount it now comes in a 500 Series module and the company has made an effort to keep it as close a possible to the original’s circuitry.

Full thing over here: https://www.redsharknews.com/audio/item/6946-namm-2020-some-audio-highlights