 It's a massive humanity here at NAMM 2018 here in Anaheim we had a really good time this year Oh, we sure did. We had a great crew a great team You know, it's just we've covered so much in so little time We got to spell each other and we just saw a ton of great stuff in a short amount of time Yeah, lots of unique stuff to things that you might not normally see and you'll get a chance to see all those videos But we met some interesting people saw some stuff that Perhaps nobody would have thought about before or even knew about so it was great to To meet some of these people and see products that perhaps were not familiar to the American market Some acoustic stuff some some studio monitors and interfaces things like that. So a lot of interesting stuff What was the big surprise of what we've seen that stood out to you? Well, there was the thing we started off with today the The spire spire spire you the little multi-channel interface not that it would have a whole lot of Utility for voice actors, but but we did get to see the mixer face finally and see the functionality on it That was the big surprise for me because we've seen prototypes of it over the last few years and it looked Totally different. So seeing it today. They had a different form factor different control. It was totally different Yeah, I mean he completely went back to the drawing board revamped it and he's Ramping it up for production now stuffed an awful lot of do a thing smaller than the pack of cigarettes Pretty pretty impressive like if he releases it for anything close to what he says he may charge for it We can't say yet because it's not official It's gonna be a pretty darn good deal. Yeah, and also the acoustic panels that we saw with Ron Yeah, I'd never heard of them before but stuff was very Aesthetically pleasing which a lot of our clients are really appreciative. There's aesthetically pleasing and it had Functions and design that were kind of unique to us and again at a price point that was surprising as well Yeah, and and yesterday we saw a lot of great stuff as well Yeah, we I finally got to be inside a studio bricks Right you're seeing video of it and hearing lots of people talk about it And it is indeed as good as they say it is absolutely. Yeah, what about you? What was your highlight? Well that universal audio booth was pretty darn cool You got to go into a Western scene and it looks like you're inside a saloon And you got to do a classic shootout of analog to versus Digital processing not as easy as it seemed. How did you do universal audio? It's pretty good at duplicating analog gear. Yeah, I got three out of the four actually One of them I was a total total guess. Yeah, the base on the LA too. It was a hard one total guess The others had subtle things, but how did you do? They said I got one out of four, but I know I got two out of four because I was with me got two out of four And you put down the same things so Yeah, that's pretty fascinating. Yeah, again all the stuff that we we use in voiceover Primarily is designed for Creating music which is what NAMM is really all about this musicals instrument and electronic manufacturers that make this stuff Well smash mouse for example when he first came up with the idea We saw him here a year ago if the smash mouse founder and his product was squarely for musicians Obviously is what he was thinking right when we came to him and I saw him last year and said hey This would be great for voice actors in a booth that want to control their software with their foot Right be hands-free. He was like oh, that's interesting. Well here He is this year with a prototype and he's saying he's getting all this interest from the voiceover community and expect Yeah, so it was great to see that thing coming along and we'll see how it goes We'll definitely get one of those to try out and in a voiceover booth and see how utilitarian how helpful it is Yeah, really I mean because I'm always in my booth and I'm far away from the computer I usually have a mouse or something but yeah to have a Bluetooth mouse on the floor that you can just operate Roll back punch in whatever it is pretty sweet. Yeah, that would be nice Yeah, you know and there were a couple of microphones that were sort of voiceover specific like that the the Bach 195 you know 195. Oh, yeah, beautiful microphone and a lot of stuff at really good price points Which we know is important to you. Yeah, so I'd say all in all This was a very successful venture heading out here to Anaheim for two days It was totally worth the effort a lot of driving a lot of waiting in traffic a lot of crowds Waiting for you know, everything here is a wait But I think it was worth it. I hope you guys found it to be worth it, too All right. Well look for all the videos. We'll be having them posted online on Facebook and on our website and stuff So thanks for joining us here at NAMM 2018. I'm Dan Leonard and I'm George Whitton and we're from voiceover Body shop or VO B. S