Winter NAMM 2006

Our most successful show yet, Winter NAMM 2006 rocked! ISP Technologies was host to many musicians of every ilk, who came down to rock the booth. We had artists from the highly regarded Italian guitarist Massimo Varini, to keyboardists Delmar Brown and David Garfield, to guitar shredder Robert Marcello (Danger Danger), to guitar virtuoso Johnny Hiland, to Creed guitarist Mark Tremonti, all stop by the booth and rock out on both the amazing Theta Vector guitar setup and the ISP Pro Audio gear.

Guitarist extraordinaire Allen Holdsworth, who has worked with Buck Waller of ISP on many projects over the years, came by to check out the Theta 300 watt guitar head. Allen was so impressed with it, he took the Theta to a gig Saturday night and not only kept the head, but has agreed to work on a product project with ISP Technologies! Be sure to check the ISP website for further details.

Christian Wolburs (Fear Factory), an endorsee for both the Vector SL guitar subwoofer and the Decimator products, was in the booth on Friday signing autographs and drawing a large crowd. When he picked up the guitar to noodle around, that was it…no more free space in the booth! Thanks, Christian, for coming by!

Another endorsee, Chimaira, came by just to thank ISP for the Decimator products they use. They join a long list of users and endorsers of both the Decimator Pedal and Decimator Pro Rack G who can’t or won’t gig without their Decimators. With artists like Areosmith, GreenDay (thanks Greg Howard for the kind words!), Anthrax, Jerry Cantrell (Alice in Chains), Tommy Victor, Billy Duffy, Keith Nelson, Johnny Hiland, Robert Marcello, and Steve Stevens, using the Decimator, the question is not so much who is using it, but who isn’t?

We would also like to thank our newer up-coming artists and endorsees: Justin Corey and Chris Jones with A Dark Halo, Oppera, Devil Driver, Pete Joseph of The Absence, Steve Semich, Marcus Henderson, and Eric Mantel. Thanks for using and talking about the Thetas, Vectors, Decimators and Vector SL’s! We appreciate it!

The ISP Technologies Pro Audio sound also got quite the workout this show. ISP will be working with Delmar Brown and David Garcia to develop a keyboard monitoring system, something that Delmar has been after Buck to do for over 3 years. These guys love the ISP sound in the cabinets and want something as good for the keyboardist as ISP currently has for stage and studio monitors and live sound. They agree with Jamie Rio, reviewer for FOH magazine, that the fidelity, mid-range, and clarity of the ISP cabinets are awesome. You can read Jamie’s latest review of the ISP Technologies’ Mongoose system in the February issue of FOH.

Our Pro Audio line was also a big hit with several churches that happened to be at the NAMM show to check out new sound systems for their facilities. One church, West Adams Foursquare Church, was so impressed; they bought the two-box mongoose system with XMAX 118 subwoofers right off the NAMM show floor! Another church, Clarence E. McClendon Ministries, working with one of ISP’s awesome approved contractors (Tim Hill, Sound Hill Technologies) recently bought a building that they are currently renovating for a new 1900 seat facility and for which they needed new sound. They spent two days checking out all of the sound companies at the show for their new building After hearing the ISP Mongoose two box system with XMAX 212 subwoofers and 5 VMAX floor wedges in the Kurzwiel performance room, they were sold…ISP would outfit their new, renovated building. Yet another ISP convert and man of mystery, John Aquilino, took a listen in the Kurzweil booth, and purchased the whole system from the Kurzwiel booth. By the time the show was over, ISP didn’t have much packing to do! While ISP Technologies left a lot of gear behind, we also came away from the 2006 NAMM show with several new foreign distributors and dealers! You will now be able to find great ISP gear in the UK, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, Germany, Singapore, Russia, France, the Dominican Republic and Australia. ISP is also in serious talks with Ecuador, Japan, and Austria. ISP international and domestic business continues to grow! See you at NSCA and Summer NAMM!