The main reason I go to Winter NAMM every year is to meet musical instrument (MI) & pro-audio product suppliers. We talk about current business, Philippine market, new products, sales forecasts, purchase orders, etc. It is not exactly fun for me to attend meetings during NAMM. I always get pressured by suppliers to order more products. To give you an idea on how busy I was, just take a look at my schedule below:
day 1 - Harman Pro (HPro) international conference in Pasadena
day 2 - HPro conference, Pasadena & QSC global sales meet, Costa Mesa
day 3 - HPro conference, Pasadena & QSC global sales meet, Costa Mesa
day 4 - Digitech anniversary & Samson Audio int'l sales meet, Anaheim
day 5 - Shure wireless mic seminar & meetings w/ 11 suppliers at NAMM
day 6 - Rane breakfast, meetings w/ another 11 suppliers, & Shure dinner
The HPro group consists of 9 brands of audio products -- JBL Pro loudspeakers, Crown power amps, dbx signal processors, Lexicon effects processors, Soundcraft mixers, AKG mics, Digitech sound processors, and BSS Audio dsp systems. They are currently developing highly advanced audio equipment using CobraNet to distribute realtime and uncompressed digital audio over Ethernet.
Whew!