In preparation for the Winter NAMM show, PreSonus hosted our sales reps and international distributors for a series of very exciting kick-off meetings. In the US, our sales reps play a big part in interfacing with our dealers and customers to help them reach their creative goals.

2019 Distributor of the Year—EMEA: Tuerk Technologies, South Africa L to R: Eugene Greenan, Peter Tuerk, Paul Clarke

2019 Distributor of the Year—APAC: Modular Display, Inc. Philippines L to R: Laz Harris, Helen and Alvin Quisumbing, Rick Naqvi

2019 Distributor of the Year—Americá Latina & Caribe: YAMAKI, Colombia L to R: Andres Ibarra, Oswaldo Rueda, Gus Lozada

In recognition of outstanding performance during the year awards were presented to the following reps for their achievement:

• The Rep Firm of The Year was presented to Sonic Sales, which serves the Northern California, Northern Nevada Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Alaska Territory.
• The Individual Rep of the Year award was presented to Tim Dykes of Bencsik associates in Florida.
• The Demo God award went to Dave Batson of Cowser Marketing for his work in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Eastern Texas.
• The E-Commerce Excellence award went to Chris Hutnick and Lienau AV, in Metro New York and New Jersey.
• Cadon Technical Sales was presented with the Studio One Champions award for their hard work and inspiration in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Southern Illinois.

2019 True Southern Gentleman: Jerry Silhavy, Mavric Inc.

2019 Studio One Champion: James Gast, Cadon Technical Sales

2019 Sales Rep of the Year: Tim Dykes, Bencsik Associates

2019 Rep Firm of the Year: Sonic Sales L to R: Mark Stone, Ed Simeone, Joshua Caruthers, Joel Grubbs, Johnny McAndrew

2019 E-Commerce Excellence: Chris Hutnick, Lienau AV

2019 Demo God: Dave Batson, Cowser Marketing

Look—we like to be humble, but come on—it’s nice to be noticed. And we got noticed at NAMM this year to the tune of five awards from various industry honchoes. We’re flattered, and it looks like we might need to be upgrading the old trophy case if this trend continues into next year. Here’s a recognition-roundup from The Loudest Show on Earth.

TEC Award Winner – Best Mobile App:
Capture for iPad

NAMM U – Best in Show / Gotta Stock It
AudioBox Music Creation Suite

Not pictured: Michelle’s “Hostess with the Mostess” trophy.

Not to brag or anything. But this is newsworthy, right? Fact is it’s nice to be noticed, and it would seem that we turned a couple heads at NAMM. We got so many trophies and atta-boys that we couldn’t even fit them in our suitcases to go back to Baton Rouge, and they had to be shipped separately.

Here’s what we’ve won recently:

On the table, from left to right:
Visual Grand Prix Audio Excellence Award 2013, DAW category: Studio One 2
Electronic Musician, 2013 Editors Choice Award, category “Feature Creep Can Actually Be Good”: AudioBox 1818VSL
Music & Sound Retailer, 2013 Music & Sound Award, category Best New Mixer: StudioLive 16.0.2
Pro Audio Review, 2012 PAR Excellence Award: StudioLive 16.0.2

On the wall:
ProSoundWeb & Live Sound International, Readers’ Choice Awards 2013: StudioLive 24.4.2
ProSoundWeb & Live Sound International, Readers’ Choice Awards 2013: Studio One Professional 2
ProSoundWeb & Live Sound International, Readers’ Choice Awards 2013: Virtual StudioLive
ProSoundWeb & Live Sound International, Readers’ Choice Awards 2013: ADL 700
Music & Sound Retailer, 2012 “Show Us Your Tubes” award: Zombie attack video

Not in the photo but awarded at or immediately after NAMM:
AudioMedia Gear of the Year: Studio One Professional 2
Music Inc., Best in Show, Companies to Watch: PreSonus
SonicScoop Pick for NAMM: Sceptre CoActual monitor speakers  and the StudioLive 32.4.2AI.
Church Production’s NAMM Top Five for Live: StudioLive AI PA speakers

Not a bad haul! We also were nominated for four TEC Awards but we didn’t win any. Again.