Nashville, TN (May 16, 2023)—This 12 months marks the Silver Anniversary of the annual AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament in Nashville. Once once more bringing collectively trade gamers and sponsors—together with Mix and this week’s Mix Nashville: Immersive Music Mixing occasion—the annual golf outing serves as the principle fundraising occasion for the Nashville Engineer Relief Fund (NERF), and can happen May 18 and 19 on the Harpeth Hills Golf Course.
A spotlight of the match every year is the designated visitor VIP for every day of play—this 12 months, its storied stay sound engineer Chris Taylor on day one and recording engineer and educator Mark Rubel on day two. Each shall be making his manner across the golf course, giving each gamers and sponsors a possibility to satisfy and greet some hometown heroes who’ve helped form the Nashville audio neighborhood and past.
AudioMasters “Live Day” VIP Chris Taylor is an trade veteran with greater than 40 years of expertise mixing a wide range of fashionable touring acts, in addition to spending practically twenty years working for Yamaha Commercial Audio in product growth and purposes. Taylor has executed excursions with an astounding record of shoppers, together with Charlie Rich, Ronnie Milsap, Conway Twitty, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Janet Jackson, Joe Cocker, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jewel, Michael Jackson and Barbra Streisand, amongst others. Taylor has additionally labored on quite a lot of high-profile broadcast occasions, together with Garth: Live from Central Park, the Bob Dylan HBO Tribute Show, Hit Man: David Foster & Friends, the Josh Groban HBO particular, and the Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam, in addition to award exhibits such because the CMT Awards, Dove Awards, and the sixtieth GRAMMY Awards present at Madison Square Garden.
The AudioMasters twenty fifth Anniversary “Studio Day” VIP, Mark Rubel, has produced and engineered 1000’s of recordings with shoppers together with Alison Krauss, Rascal Flatts, Jeff Coffin, Henry Kaiser, Fall Out Boy, Ludacris, Adrian Belew, Los Lobos, Calexico, Ani DiFranco, The National, Junior Brown, Derek Trucks, Taj Mahal, Bill Frisell and plenty of others. Rubel serves as a panelist, moderator, lecturer, workshop chief and recording decide at quite a few audio conferences, and works as an audio professional witness and forensic audio specialist. He is at the moment Co-Director of Education and Instructor for The Blackbird Academy and has taught audio, music know-how, music enterprise and the historical past of rock to 1000’s of scholars since 1985. Currently, he’s co-writing The Great American Recording Studios, a historical past of recording studios of the Nineteen Sixties and 70s, for Rowman & Littlefield,.
The AudioMasters anniversary may also play host to the rising record of supporting sponsors, together with Live Day title sponsor DiGiCo, in addition to API, the Audio Engineering Society, Audio-Technica, Black River Entertainment, Blackbird Studios, Clair Global, Clyne Media, Corky’s Ribs and BBQ of Brentwood, DPA Microphones, Design Technik, Earthworks Audio, ErgoLab/Stealth Chairs, Froggy’s Fog, Genelec, Live Sound International, Loeb & Loeb, Mix Magazine, The NAMM Show, Nashville Recording Supply, RF Venue, The Recording Academy Producers and Engineers Wing, The Recording Studio Insurance Program, Shure, Solotech, Sound Emporium, Sound Image, Trew Audio, Teegarden Audio, VEVA Collect, Vision 2 Marketing (HARMAN), and Welcome to 1979 Studios, with new sponsors PRG (Production Resource Group) and QSC additionally supporting gamers on the course.
The AudioMasters Nashville Benefit Golf Tournament serves as the first funding mechanism for the home-grown 501(c)(3) non-profit Nashville Engineer Relief Fund. The match is produced by the AES Nashville Section with occasion coordinator Karen Dunn of KMD Productions. Complete particulars, participant registration and sponsor alternatives can be found on-line with the most recent updates obtainable by following the AudioMasters Nashville on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.