Greg, you’re off the Electric Gnat Ranch acreage in Illinois and running around Anaheim…What have you seen, what do you know?

Conflicted news runs rampant in the aisles–is attendance really down, are we feeling the impact of the credit crunch? My response: Aisles are reasonably jammed today (Saturday 1-18), with people who count. My own casual, non-scientific research (based upon listening to the wisdom uttered by 27 years worth of contacts in this business while doing PR, and the insight of this, my 25th NAMM Show) shows things may not be growing as much as we’d like, but it’s not getting worse. Sail on, everything has its correction. Next year will post the numbers everyone is looking for now.

Look around in the pro audio ghetto (Hall A) and despite any misgivings about the health of the economy, you’ll find your fair share of new product intros and lively booth activity. On a closing note, happy anniversary wishes need to go out to QSC for surviving and thriving over the course of 40 years in this business, and special thanks to Shure Inc. for lending the legislative, moral, and technical support needed to guide us all through the current “White Spaces” maze in D.C.

So long for now–gd