Finalists for this year’s Pro Sound Awards revealed

The Finalists for the inaugural Pro Sound Awards have been announced.

The event will be held on 19 September at Ministry of Sound nightclub in London, with an exclusive after party also held at the world famous club.

A panel of independent judges from the pro-audio will be pouring over the shortlisted nominations with just two over two months left to decide the winners.

The finalists for this year’s Pro Sound Awards are:

LIVE/TOURING SOUND
Engineer of the Year

Ben Hammond
Antony King
Jim Warren
Ben Findlay

Tour Sound Production
Audio Electronics Mattijsen for the coronation of King Willem-Alexander, Amsterdam
Capital Sound for Mumford & Sons UK arena tour
Adlib Audio for The Script arena tour
SSE Audio Group for Jesus Christ Superstar

After-sales Support
Mark Saunders, Sennheiser
DiGiCo
Soundcraft
Midas

STUDIO
Engineer of the Year

Simon Rhodes, Abbey Road
Mark Winterburn, Edge Recording
Alalal (Al O’Connell)
Toby Alington

Recording Production of the Year
Andre Jacquemin for A Liar’s Autobiography
David Wrench for Sunless ’97 Aurora EP
Ben Drew, Eric Appapoulay and Al Shux for Playing with Fire (single)
Mark Ronson for Bruno Mars, Unorthodox Jukebox (album)

Studio of the Year
Snap, London
British Grove, London
Astar Studios, Lancashire
Wisseloord, Netherlands

INSTALLATION
Team of the Year

Wigwam Acoustics
Soliflex Svenska (Jan Setterberg & Fredrik Setterberg)
Stage Electrics
‘Friends Arena’ team (consultants Steve Liddle & Ingmar Olsson, Integrator James Hurst Of LBI Projects, David Howe of Bosch Prosound UK)

Permanent Installation Project of the Year
L-Acoustics for Hollywood Bowl
Sonic Emotion for Aura club, Zurich
Tileyard Studios, London
Funktion-One for toboggan run for Winter Olympics, Sochi 2014

Temporary Installation Project of the Year
Optocore for Kuwait’s 50th Constitution Day Celebrations
L-Acoustics for the Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London
Universe of Sound Birmingham
Sennheiser for David Bowie, V&A, London

BROADCAST AUDIO
Team of the Year

Conrad Fletcher + Team for NTLive
The X Factor sound team
The BRIT Awards 2013 team
Red TX for Strictly Come Dancing Live at Wembley Arena

Broadcast Event of the Year

ITV Yorkshire for the Live Episode of Emmerdale, October 2012
Riedel for the Red Bull Stratos Project
Red TX for Sound of Change Live, Twickenham, UK
Sennheiser for the Eurovision Song Contest

Facility of the Year
Goldcrest
Hackenbacker
BBC S&PP
Evolutions Post

MARKETING INITIATIVE / CAMPAIGN OF THE YEAR
L-Acoustics
d&b audiotechnik
DiGiCo
Soundcraft Studer

RISING STAR (the winner will be selected by Audio Pro International)

James Hill, Steel City Studio/Hangman Productions
Julian Pirrie, Goldcrest
Karen Down, Solid State Logic
Xavier Stephenson, Metropolis Studios

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

(to be announced by Pro Sound Awards team)

GRAND PRIX

(to be announced by Pro Sound Awards team)

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