2008 Nominees for
Outstanding Technical
Achievement
Listed below are
the nominees in 17 categories of Outstanding
Technical Achievement as selected by the
2008 Nominating Panel. The 24th Annual
TEC Awards were held October 3, 2008, in
San Francisco. Winners are in Blue.
ANCILLARY
EQUIPMENT 
Bag End E-Trap
• Dangerous
Music D-Box
Frontier Design Group AlphaTrack
Primacoustic Recoil Stabilizer
SE Electronics Instrument Reflexion Filter
Sensaphonics 3D-HW Active Ambient IEM System
AMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGY
Aphex HeadPod
Hot House Pro Audio Four Hundred SV
Lab.gruppen PLM 10000Q
PreSonus HP60
• QSC PowerLight 3 Series
DIGITAL CONVERTER TECHNOLOGY
• Apogee
Duet
Digidesign Mbox 2 Micro
MOTU 828mk3
PreSonus FireStudio Project
Prism Sound Orpheus
TC Electronic StudioKonnekt
MICROPHONE PREAMPLIFIER TECHNOLOGY
Focusrite Liquid 4PRE
Groove Tubes Supre
Millennia Media HV3R Remote Controllable Preamp
• Rupert Neve Designs Portico 5015
SSL X-Rack VHD Pre
Universal Audio DCS Remote Preamp
MICROPHONE TECHNOLOGY/SOUND REINFORCEMENT
AKG GN ESP Series
Audio-Technica PRO 92cW
Audix M1250
Beyerdynamic
TG-X 930
Heil PR-35
• Royer
Live Series
MICROPHONE
TECHNOLOGY/RECORDING
(TIE)
Audio-Technica AT2020 USB
Brauner Phanthera
• Earthworks PM40 PianoMic
Sennheiser MKH 8000 Series
Soundfield DFS-2
• Telefunken|USA
Ela M 260
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY
AKG IVM 4
• Audio-Technica
SpectraPulse Ultra Wideband System
Electro-Voice REV Series
Kaltman Spectran HF4040 RF Analyzer
Mipro ACT-51
SOUND REINFORCEMENT LOUDSPEAKER TECHNOLOGY
Adamson Metrix
JBL VRX932LAP
Mackie SRM450 v2
• Meyer
Sound UPJunior
Nexo GEO S12
QSC WideLine-8
STUDIO MONITOR TECHNOLOGY
Blue Sky EXO 2.1
Dynaudio Acoustics BM12A
• Genelec
SE DSP System
Klein + Hummel O 410
KRK VXT Series
Mackie HR824 mk2
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT TECHNOLOGY
• Dave
Smith Instruments Prophet 08
Digidesign Structure
Korg M3
Propellerhead Software Reason 4
Waves iGTR
Yamaha Motif XS6
SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY/HARDWARE
CEDAR DNS 3000 Dialogue Noise Supressor
Chandler Germanium Compressor
Elysia Mpressor
Empirical Labs DerrEsser
Solid State Logic Duende Mini
• Universal
Audio 2-LA-2
SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY/SOFTWARE
Antares Harmony Engine
Roger Nichols Digital SPL-izer
Solid State Logic X-Comp Plug-in
Universal Audio SPL Transient Designer
URS Classic Console Strip Pro
• Waves
The API Collection
WORKSTATION TECHNOLOGY
Ableton Live 7
Apple Logic Studio
Bias Peak Pro 6
• Digidesign
Pro Tools 7.4
Solid State Logic Pro-Convert
Steinberg Nuendo 4
RECORDING DEVICES
• ATR
Master Analog Tape
Fostex PD606
Korg D888
M-Audio MicroTrack II
Sony PCM D50
Tascam X-48
SOUND REINFORCEMENT CONSOLE TECHNOLOGY
Allen & Heath iLive-80
DiGiCo SD7
Roland RSS V-Mixing System
Soundcraft FX Series
Studer Vista 5 SR
• Yamaha PM5DV2
SMALL FORMAT CONSOLE
TECHNOLOGY
Allen & Heath MixWizard³ 12M
Dan Dugan Sound Design Model E-1
Digidesign C|24
• Euphonix
MC Mix Controller
Mackie Control Universal Pro Series
Soundcraft GB2R
LARGE FORMAT CONSOLE TECHNOLOGY
Euphonix S5 Fusion
Lawo mc²90
• Rupert Neve Designs 5088
Solid State Logic C300 HD
Stagetec Auratus
Trident 8T-32 RTB
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