Line 6 garners second consecutive Best In Show “Company To Watch” award, plus
Electronic Musician Editors’ Choice Award and coveted TEC Award
CALABASAS, Calif.—January 29, 2012—Line
6, Inc., leading manufacturer of innovative solutions for musicians,
won top industry honors at the 2013 NAMM show for its innovative
StageScape™ M20d and StageSource®
live sound ecosystem and POD® HD Pro guitar performance and recording
solution. Line 6 also won a NAMM Best in Show “Company To Watch” award
for the second year in a row.
Electronic Musician magazine awarded their “P.A. with a Big Brain”
Editors’ Choice Award to Line 6’s new live sound ecosystem—comprised of the
StageScape M20d digital mixer and
StageSource L3-series powered
loudspeakers—at an award reception on Wednesday, January 23. “Line 6
seems to take great enjoyment out of reinventing the ordinary into
something extraordinary,” said the Editors in an award
statement. “And now, they’ve pulled the same kind of trick for sound
systems by reinventing the mixer, the speakers, how they interact, and
even the way you operate them. In the process, the P.A. has gone from a
sound system to an ecosystem.”
At a gala event on Saturday, January 26, the TEC Foundation gave Line 6 the prestigious
TEC Award for Outstanding Technical Achievement in the “Musical Instrument Amplification & Effects Technology” category for
POD HD Pro. This is the first-ever TEC Award for Line 6, and
represents the highest honor from top audio producers, engineers,
editors, designers and other sound professionals.
At the traditional Sunday-morning NAMM University breakfast panel on January 27, Line 6 was awarded the
NAMM Best In Show award in the “Company To Watch” category. “They
are integrating all their equipment where it all talks to each other,
and everything connects together,” said Donovan Bankhead, vice president
of Springfield Music, Springfield, MO. “These
guys are going to revolutionize the industry.”
“These three awards
represent the highest accolades from dealers, the press, and our peers,”
said Line 6 CEO and President Paul Foeckler. “Together, they validate
Line 6’s approach to solving our customers’
problems with solutions that address their evolving workflow and
creative needs while delivering the absolute highest sound quality.
Congratulations to the team here at Line 6 for all their hard work and
commitment to this shared vision.”
For more than two decades, the
Electronic Musician Editors' Choice Awards have recognized the
best new production tools in the music recording and performance
industry. This year, they selected winners in 30 categories ranging from
microphones to software to personal P.A. systems.
Founded in 1985, the
Technical Excellence & Creativity Awards is the foremost program
recognizing the achievements of audio professionals. Presented annually
by the TEC Foundation for Excellence in Audio, the
TEC Awards recognizes the individuals, companies and technical
innovations behind the sound of recordings, live performances, films,
television, video games and other media.
The NAMM University
holds an annual Breakfast Session the final morning of the NAMM show.
This year the host, Frank Alkyer, publisher of
Music Inc, was joined by panelists Mike Guillot of Mississippi
Music, Donovan Bankhead of Springfield Music, Brad Boynton of Rhythm
Traders, Billy Cuthrell of Progressive Music Center, Ted Eschliman of
Dietze Music, and Alan Friedman of Friedman, Kannenberg
& Co. who awarded products and companies in four categories: Best
In Show, Company To Watch, Gotta Stock It, and Best Accessories And
Add-ons.