FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 The Official Show Publication DAILY Wide world of gear The NAMM Show draws attendees from every corner of the globe, every segment of the musical products industry and every musical style known to man. Here are a few tastes of the global gumbo the UpBeat staff found on the show floor. 1. Tycoon and Hal Leonard expanded their Slayer’s Kerry King and Gary Holt, Anthrax’s distribution partnership. From left: Randy Charlie Benante and Frank Bello, Megadeth’s Foat, David Cywinski, Quincy Yu, Doug Lady, David Ellefson and Chris Broderick, and The Stephen Yu, Ivy Yu and Larry Morton. See Winery Dogs’ Billy Sheehan and Mike Portnoy 1 story on page 6. along with Samson’s awesome cast of thou- 2. JBL’s Brian Divine and Andy Flint show off sands! (Photo by Paris Visone) the new EON 615 on Wednesday. 5. Hohner’s Gabe Ireland and Clay Edwards 3. The Music People is celebrating its 35th pose with an 8-foot-tall replica of the Anacleto anniversary during NAMM, here with the series accordion yesterday morning. “Ana- U-Mount iPad stand. From left: Sharon Hen- cleto accordions are handmade,” said Scott nessey, Jeremy Payne, James Hennessey and Emmerman, director of sales and marketing. John Hennessey at their booth Wednesday. “Each one is a work of art.” 4. Samson rocked the House Of Blues 6. Dave Smith, founder of Dave Smith Instru- Wednesday night with a sold-out Metal Mas- ments, highlights the Prophet 12 module and ters 5 show. This year’s masters class featured Mopho x4 on the show floor yesterday. See Pantera’s Philip Anselmo and Rex Brown, story on page 46. 2 3 4 5 6 breaking good! A hard-hitting session on how to grow your business in 2014 hosted by Barry Moltz, small business guru. Get to the Hilton Anaheim Pacific Ballroom for a free breakfast and Moltz’s timely advice. Breaking Good! Martin’s Custom Models Paul Gilbert’s Ibanez Fretlight 5 for Beginners GearLode Offers Free Listing Page 126 Page 26 Page 50 Page 74 Page 92 4 UBD January 24, 2014 Zildjian, LAN Music Partner Up Zildjian has partnered with LAN Music Corporation to represent the company in South and Central America as well as the Caribbean. LAN Music Corporation has more than 30 years of experience within the music in- dustry in various capacities including world- wide sales and marketing of a variety of in- struments. LAN Music’s experience in Latin America is extensive, having established Remo Vice President of Sales and Marketing Bob Yerby shows off Emperor Ebony drumheads. working relationships with major whole- sale distributors, artists and other key play- ers throughout the region. The team at LAN Remo Targets Caregivers, Unveils Heads Music has deep industry expertise in sales, artist relations and marketing. At Remo’s press conference yesterday, the Bob Yerby, vice president of sales and “We are honored to begin this new as- company unveiled new drumheads and an- marketing, unveiled Remo’s black Emperor sociation with the most remarkable brand nounced a plan to sell to caregiving markets Ebony drumheads, which are made of two in the cymbal category and look forward to outside the musical products industry. plies: 7.5-mm ebony and 7-mm clear films. building upon the company’s already strong “We’re not suggesting that the drum is a Remo’s durable Silent Stroke drumhead is presence in Latin America and the Caribbe- cure for anything,” said Remo President Brock available in sizes 6–24 and features a single- The LAN staff gets ready for NAMM. an,” said Richard Boveri, regional sales and Kaericher. “The drum is a tool that can be used ply version of mesh that gives it only 20 per- marketing manager at LAN Music. effectively by caregivers around the world.” cent of the volume of a traditional drumhead. Electro-Voice Rolls Harman Touts Out EXT Line New Products Electro-Voice held a press conference yesterday morning to announce its new EXT line of portable loudspeakers. “I think our track record that we’ve dem- onstrated over the last three years shows that we are making a very serious re-entry, and we are now one of the leading forces in this space,” said Jeremy Hockham, president of Harman’s David Scheirman introduces the sales for Electro-Voice. company’s new products yesterday morning. The EXT line includes a single-knob DSP Allen Vizzutti plays a Xeno YTR-8335G trumpet at interface with LCD, FIR-Drive performance the Yamaha booth yesterday. Harman Director of Knowledge Resourc- optimization and Signal Synchronized Trans- es David Scheirman presented some of the Electro-Voice’s Jeremy Hockham on the ducers (SST) waveguide design. show floor yesterday. company’s new products yesterday morning. $ Electro-Voice (electrovoice.com) Yamaha Gets Harman’s brands include AKG, Crown, dbx, Digitech, JBL, Soundcraft and EON. Passionate “None of our divisions here, from my point of view within Harman Professional — Hitoshi Fukutome, president of Yamaha whether it’s microphones, signal processing, Roland Ups Keyboard Ante Corp. of America, welcomed visitors to the amplification or loudspeakers — are stand- Roland introduced an aggressive lineup company booth yesterday and talked about ing still,” said Scheirman. of new products Wednesday — including the company’s theme for the 2014 NAMM “We’re having a lot of fun working workstations and electronic pianos — and Show. “The theme is ‘passion and perfor- more closely together, taking vertical mar- teased the launch of a new brand aimed at mance,’ which embodies the essence of our kets, packages of products from the differ- the electronic dance music (EDM) market. company,” said Fukutome. “‘Passion and ent brands, and putting an interdisciplinary At the top of the launch pad were the performance’ influences every product we team together to make sure that these prod- FA-06 and FA-08 music workstations featur- build, every customer we serve and every ucts, as they unfold on our road map, actu- ing a large selection of Roland’s most popu- music lover we delight. ‘Passion and perfor- ally relate well to each other.” lar sounds, a 16-track sequencer, DAW in- mance’ also applies to our valued dealers, Harman’s JBL Professional division an- tegration, an easy-to-use sampler and more. artists and music educators.” nounced the latest edition of its EON brand The FA-06 has a 61-note, velocity-sensitive Tom Sumner, senior vice president, said, with the 600 series of portable loudspeakers. keyboard, while the FA-08 has an 88-note, “Yamaha acts like a collection of boutique Scheirman touted the product’s “purposeful Ivory-feel G Keyboard with weighted action manufacturers that are really unified by the Scott Tibbs with the Roland RD-800 Stage Piano. design” and said it would appeal to a broad derived from Roland’s high-end pianos. quality, design, manufacturer quality and range of customers. The company also unveiled an entire line customer support that Yamaha is known for. JBL also unveiled its new LSR310S 10- of mid-range and high-end digital pianos in- called “the ultimate stage piano built for live “At Yamaha, we love introducing new inch powered subwoofer. The product is cluding the DP90SE and DP90E models. performance.” technology, and it’s especially exciting when ideal for emerging electronic producers and DP90E features new SuperNatural sound In demonstrating the RD-800, Roland’s that new technology is in a product that is hitmakers. engine technology and PHA-4 premium Scott Tibbs demonstrated some of the in- literally 300 years old,” Sumner added, re- $ Harman (harman.com) keyboard, said Chris Halon, Roland direc- strument’s piano sounds and 1,100 addition- ferring to U1TA piano with TransAcoustic tor of marketing communications. And the al tones in the instrument. technology. The instrument reproduces all DP90SE has the PHA-4 concert keyboard. “The thing I really like about the RD is sounds, including the acoustic piano, from Both keyboards employ the company’s Su- that it’s really like a collection of vintage poly- the soundboard rather than from a tradition- perNatural piano technology geared to de- phonic keyboards, so there’s Farfisas, there’s al speaker. liver the dynamic, complex sound of an au- mellotrons, there’s all kinds of very, very use- Yamaha also introduced the redesigned thentic acoustic grand piano. ful polyphonic keyboards,” Tibbs said. Xeno trumpet line, the next generation of A variety of Roland’s other new digital of- The company also took the opportunity MG series compact mixers, the revamped ferings employ SuperNatural technology, in- to tease a new product line called Aira. While Stage Custom Birch drum set and the Abso- cluding the HP500 series and the HPi50E, a not showing what the product is until Febru- lute Hybrid Maple drum set. home instrument aimed to bring piano play- ary, the teaser already has Internet bloggers “A very important thing about the new ing enjoyment to the family. predicting a new slant on the company’s clas- line of Xeno trumpets, besides the quality Andy Flint, Harman’s senior manager of marketing for Portable PA, shows off the new EON 600 series. On the professional front, Roland intro- sic drum machines. and the price point, is that you can play myr- duced the RD-800 Stage Piano, which Halon $ Roland (rolandus.com) iad styles,” said trumpeter Allen Vizzutti. 6 UBD January 24, 2014 Briefs Taylor Celebrates 40th, Eastman Gets Smokin’ Introduces 800 Series Eastman’s new T184MX-LS “Lil’ possibly think of, and this is reaching real far Smokey” thinline electric is a sleek, back, real old technology for some things.