Who stood out at this year’s NAMM show, that festivus of gear that brightens our winters from Anaheim? We’ve given you some idea with NAMM and LA’s Buchla & Friends. Here, in images, are our favorites from NAMM, as captured by LA photographer Mehdi Hassine and veteran Berlin hardware guru Gösta Wellmer.
About the photographers:
Mehdi Hassine, Los Angeles – www.instagram.com/mehdihassine/
Gösta Wellmer, Berlin – music technology expert (former Director of Design at Native Instruments and ex-CEO Elektron) – see also a video discussion with Gösta below!
Thanks to Nadia Says for assembling the NAMM coverage, including a feature article on NAMM and Buchla & Friends, with portraits of artists and industry professionals.
Gösta Wellmer
ASM and Leviasynth
Casio
Fender
Korg
Wolff Audio
Mehdi Hassine
Bob Moog Foundation
Roland
Arturia and UDO Audio (shared booth)
Best of show picks: (as selected by our NAMM team coverage)
Roland (plus Roland Future Design Lab)
AlphaTheta
InMusic (Akai Professional, RANE, and more)
Wolff Audio
Eventide (with Music Mouse)
Bob Moog Foundation
Fender
Soundtoys (showing new SpaceBlender build)
Ashun Sound Machines
Arturia and UDO Audio
Eternal Research (also at Buchla & Friends)
Casio
HEDD Audio
PMC Speakers
KORG
….plus, of course, our favorites from Buchla & Friends. Check all the portraits of artists and exhibitors at both shows:
And here’s Gösta talking about what goes into instrument design — check Wojtek Ozimek‘s excellent program series:
And here’s Mehdi in the studio capturing the joy of that moment of creation: