The Null Device Blog

Since Gearfest was a tradeshow, you know that there would be a lot of free “stuff” from vendors.

A few notes:

1) Rode gave me a tshirt.  They assumed I was a “large.”  While I’m flattered, I am not a large.  Sigh.

2) Moog gave me a tshirt.  They were out of anything other than XXL.  So it’s a bit big.  Oh well.  But the “Keep Your Hands Off My Theremin” slogan makes me giggle.  Okay, yeah, I’m a nerd.

3) The Moog Music pocket protector  is simultaneously the most useless and incredibly awesome giveaway ever.

4) Ableton and AEA both gave out mousepads.  They know their markets.  I already have an Ableton mousepad, though.

5) Sweetwater themselves gave us bags to keep it all in along with catalogs and schedules, and as a particularly nice touch, loaded the bags with candy.  Sadly, my candy was limited entirely to Tootsie Rolls and Bit O’Honey, while Dan scored a few rolls of Smarties, which is free-candy gold.

6) Have I mentioned how awesome free chilled bottled water was?

7) it’s not schwag, but I found it beyond hilarious that the SSL demo played Peter Gabriel.

And some blurry cameraphone photos (more on my flickr):

Dan tries out a Herman Li  guitar, and gets his inner Dragonforce on:

Dan, lost in gearland.

Blurry, but you get the idea of the scale of this place

With the toilet paper of tomorrow!

Linda, at the Moog booth, gives the Etherwave Plus demo:

The guys giving the mic workshop

A comical sandwich:

Next year, I’m bringing a better camera.