Jeffrey Hawley
Dave Pensado, Herb Trawick
Pianist/composer Herbie Hancock presented in the music industry, as well as long-standing Jeffrey stated, “It was such an honor in 2019
the award this year to innovative producer, efforts to share their knowledge through their to accept the first TEC Award win for Allen &
songwriter and artist Joni Mitchell. Herbie global online show. Heath after 23 nominations. Our first win was
stated, “It’s hard to imagine a world without
for the SQ Series in Small Format Console
this courageous woman’s brave songs and Comedian, actor and musician Fred Armisen Technology. We earned a repeat nomination
records.” Joni (who has had health challenges took to the podium to host the evening and had and win this year for the SQ Series in the same
of late) remarked that she was “truly honored” some pretty funny gag gifts to share with the category, based on a major firmware update
for the award. Then several artists took the music industry audience. we issued which focused on monitor engineer
stage to offer the folk songwriting heroine a
feature requests. Quite cool to earn another
musical celebration worthy of her long and [WM]’s own regular audio columnist Jeffrey TEC Award for the same hardware twice in
revered career. One of those special moments Hawley (who works for Allen & Heath) got to a row — a testament to just how rockin' our
was singer Weyes Blood’s remarkable delivery step up to the microphone and speak on software engineering team back in Cornwall
of Joni’s 1970 song “Woodstock.” their behalf. has been lately. These wins mean a lot to us
and we’re excited to see what 2021 brings.”
Earlier in the evening, recording engineer Dave
Congrats to Jeffrey!
Pensado and record industry veteran Herb
Trawick, the creative duo behind the weekly web The 23 Technical Achievement winners -
series Pensado’s Place, were named recipients category, brand and models - are listed in the
of the 2020 TEC Hall of Fame award. Both were pages that follow...
honored for successful and impactful careers
Joni Mitchell
Herbie Hancock
March 2020
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