NAMM 2008

Whew, we made it. Despite a few bouts of chronic exhaustion along with near misses with colds, stomach viruses, and a little known disease called Hangoverous, we managed to get to the end of this marketing expedition intact.

Sunday was spent with more of the same kind of things: People coming by, us telling them about the site, and in general, getting a very enthusiastic response.

We also managed to go upstairs and shmooze with some of the more established outfits. There's "someone" in every major DAW company that knows who we are and what we are up to.

Today was filled with more of the same. We're getting adept at giving the site demo and it's been great to field all the questions from everyone. It's been a learning experience, for sure!

Our neighbors on the other side of us are really great folks with video tutorials of all kinds of music programs. Check them out at Askvideo.com!

The highlight of the day was a visit and hearty endorsement from DJ Mark Luv of the Zulu nation (!).

Halfway through! Man, we are wiped. When we got back to hotel tonight, Ron crashed into a "prayer to the bed" position (see attached photo). After another run to Whole Foods, we got rejuvinated.

We had a lot of visitors today. And response has been positive. It's great to meet other musicians, composers, and industry people - all working different sides of this crazy music business.

Oh yeah, did I mention the tradeshow babes/bimbos? (TSBs) They were definitely out in force today. Uh, maybe some photos of that to come...

Action scenes from today:

No vacuuming last night. Damn. It was 9:15am and we could see the crowd gathering at door by our booth, simmering like holiday shoppers on the day after Thankgiving, at 4am, in the rain, and waiting for Macy's or whatever to open.

So myself and Alex (bless his heart) got down and picked it all up with our fingers.

The sunflower shells were dry.

We picked up Alex, our senior audio producer last night from the airport. The crew is all set. We ended up driving around greater Tustin, CA for a while in search for a Whole Foods that had moved recently. We eventually found it, and like most things Southern California, it was freaking huge!

We've had a great start to the NAMM show. At 9:30 AM, the proverbial flood gates were opened and it's been all things BeatHive for the rest of the day. I'm starting to kind of feel like talking about, um, ducks or something else besides music production, but it's a good problem to have.

We had a good demo of our neighbors' wares this afternoon. Brian and Micah of Pure Magnetik have quite a few great sounding sample packs for Ableton, Kontact, EXS24, Logic and Garageband. Check 'em out!

They are from NYC and good looking to boot! Check out the photo attached...

I picked up our Director of Technology, Ron Dennison, at the airport this morning. My sweet dreams of a clean carpet were quickly banished by the sight of the spent sunflower speeds, still sitting in the same location from which they were original spat upon. But then, to rub salt into the wound, was a friendly note to make sure to ORDER CARPET CLEANING SERVICES (see attached photo). OK, I know I'm getting dramatic about this, but hey, we're here, and we're excited, and want to make sure everything is tight and and representing our producers and our site the best we can.

I just pulled into the Anaheim convention a few hours ago and have started setting up. Despite it being in Hall E, aka, the Basement, our booth is in a pretty decent location - right by one of the main registration desks. Alas, the banner has been raised!

We'll be at the NAMM show next week. If you are attending, please stop by! We are at Booth 1003 in Hall E.

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