Well, welcome to the real world, Mike! g I think a lot of things are
changing/going to change, in so far as the way technology is introduced.
Nobody want's to have their people blown to bits, and regardless that it
hasn't happened, it's still foremost in some minds because that's the way
Bush wants it. This is the biggest impediment to business that I've seen in
the last 30 years and yet the Bush administration wants Americans to keep
buying?

Nobody in their right minds buys because there's a product. They buy
because there's a product that fits their needs. What their needs are is
dependant upong what they are doing. Not a lot of people spending money on
what they want anymore. Just spending money with what they can justify the
expense, hence smaller shows.

Now I'm just a little ****, and so I realize it and I could be totally
wrong, but it's just my point of view.

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SirMusic Studio
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"Mike Rivers" wrote in message
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In article writes:

it's necessary to have a
lot of hype about a new product, but showing older products doesn't make
a
lot of sense if one needs to have additional costly exhibition space.

Even if you don't have a new product for a show, it's important for
some companies to just be there. Can you imagine an AES without JBL or
SSL or Studer or Neumann? When an expected company doesn't have a
booth at a show, people wonder what happened or when they went out of
business.

SAW, for example, has never been a participant in any show other than
NAB because
they were already entrenched in the radio/TV voice over world and they
haven't changed their focus even though the product is probably one of
the
best audio recording software suites out there.

I saw them first at AES, and they came to NAMM for a few years, then
became a no-show, at least at those shows. But by that time, there
were other programs from the bigger names that appeared on the surface
to do the same thing for less money, so I guess they moved into the
broadcast world. Mackie is sort of like that now - AES isn't their
really important show and for the last couple of years, I think
they've been there just to show that they haven't abandoned the pro
audio community. Winter NAMM is where they make their presence known
in a big way.

At this point, along with the concerns about a whole bunch of people
being
in one place at the same time, it makes sense and Bev proves the point.
Why
go out and learn something about products when you can simply download
something and try it?

In my case, I often don't have the hardware to support it, and if I
do, I don't have the patience to figure out how to use it enough to
get a sense that it's something that even interests me. And if I
install a demo on my computer, I have to worry about cleanly
un-installing it.



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