See our engineers behind the TF series

Here is a picture with TF series engineers at the Yamaha HQ in Hamamatsu. The half of them were digital mixer experts but others were new at the time of the beginning.

I tried to maintain a good balance between challenges and traditions of Yamaha digital mixers in the TF series. The engineers helped me to realize it!

Shaun

Yamaha official channel on YouTube

Yamaha has our official channel on YouTube.
Power Amplifiers are featured this time. Please check it out!

Most of casts are from our marketing team. (working in the same office with me in Hamamatsu)
Volume 4 through 6 are following. Enjoy!

Tech support to the rescue...Meet Ty

Ty is one of our tech support guys and when we realized we needed some help in Orlando he was the perfect guy to travel with us. He has been working really hard all week and getting to know the people coming to our seminars and he has been helping them with questions and computer issues.
Thanks for coming out with us and for your support during our last stop.
See you Monday morning at the office.

It is a very sad week for us...Shaun is moving...

Believe it or not Shaun is going back to Japan. His last day with us will be Friday October 10.
Shaun has a new assignment back at our headquarters in Hamamatsu Japan.
If you had the chance to meet him you know how much he cares about the end users and providing the best information available . Shaun came to the US to Manage the training department back in 2005, and for the last 3 and a half years he spent most of his time on the road talking to people and teaching seminars.
He will be posting information here once in a while, but we will not have him again with us during our seminars.
Please make sure you say goodbye.
Stay in touch friend...

Meet Jon Peirson, DM for California

Meet Jon, new District Manager for Yamaha Commercial Audio. Jon comes with a lot of experience in sales and he is covering the California and Hawaii area.
We just had the chance to spend a little bit of time at AES and he will be traveling with us to our seminars in Calgary.
Please help me welcome Jon.

Meet David Hatmaker, R&D "Dude" for Yamaha

David Hatmaker is our R&D guy here in California. "Dudester" as I call him has been with Yamaha for a couple of years.
He is a lot of fun and a great resource of knowledge and experience.
...hold on dude, I have another post...

Have fun David.

King of Desserts?!!

For those who don't know, Jose LOVES dessert. I mean Loves it! Dessert with lunch. Dessert with dinner. He even sneaks a candy bar or two to his room every once in a while. But, lately...there's been something strange going on. Jose hasn't had a dessert since Friday, August 15. That's over a week with no dessert! And its not like he was turning down bad stuff either. There was an awesome carrot cake at lunch in Chicago. Some great desserts available at the Park Grill. He's walked by the Cold Stone at least 3 times here in Boston. But nada. Flan, Key Lime Pie, Boston Creme Pie...he's turned them all down!

I'm going to start a pole this week. How long will Jose go without dessert? Look for it tomorrow! The winner will get a cookie. =)

Meet Mike Eiseman... District Manager for WI, IL, IN

Mike is our district manager here in the Chicago area, and as you can imagine we got stuck with him while in town...just kidding.
We had a lot of fun with him and it was great to come back to Chicago now that we have a new District Manager here. He has been with Yamaha for around 9 months now.
Thanks for your help and support Mike, you really worked hard to get the people here.
See you soon.

Peter Robinson -- Speaker Product Manager

This is Peter. Peter is one of our Speaker Product Managers at Yamaha. Since I've joined the training team, I've learned a few things from Peter that will definitely help me be more successful in the world of commercial audio. Like how to take a man down by his thumb and how to apply the right amount of pressure when you have someone in a headlock.

Oh...you didn't know Peter teaches self defense courses to the staff?!! Well, now you know. Maybe next time you'll think twice about asking me if the class is full! >:)

YCJ Staff visits the YCATS team in Minneapolis

The picture above shows Jose, Mr. Nao Kohyama, Mr. Hiroshi Hamamatsu and me in front of the M7CL at our seminar in Minneapolis. Posing in front of the M7CL was the perfect choice, as both of these guys were involved in the development of the console. Thats right Minneapolis, the guys who helped build one of your favorite consoles were there and available to answer your questions.

Thanks again to Nao and Hiroshi for joining us in Minneapolis. We'll see you again soon!

No pictures please...No pictures!!!

When I interviewed for the YCATS position, they told me about the hard work, they told me about the amount of travel....but they forgot to mention the paparazzi. Apparently, our seminars our so popular, we travel with our own photographer. Now I know how the celebs feel.

Meet John Conard...District Manager in CA & HI

"Canario" as I call him is our district manager for California and Hawaii.
We actually get to spend a lot of time with him because he is also based out of California.
We get to see him often at the office or when we have seminars at the office.
He loves to take pictures and he also know how to look good in one.

See you soon John.

Meet Hiroaki Fujita from Yamaha Japan (YCJ)

"Hiro" as we call him is one of our software engineer. He designs the specifications of our digital products.

Not too long ago we met at our Buena Park office for a few meetings and as you can see in the picture we had a great time.
Come back soon Hiro.

Meet Shinji Takahashi from Yamaha Japan (YCJ)

All our digital mixers have an analog part, and someone is responsible for it.
Mr. Shinji is one of the electrical engineers for the analog part of our digital consoles. An expert of sound tuning of our consoles.
Do you like the way the console sounds?
Now you know who is behind that sound.

Meet Masaaki Okabayashi from Yamaha Japan (YCJ)

"Mick" as we call him is the Product Producer for most of our Digital Mixing Consoles, including M7CL.
Mick was also one of the software engineer for original 01v.

We get together with Mick a few times a year during trade shows, or when he visits the USA for work.

It is always good to sit down with him and talk about future updates and the feedback we get from all of you guys.

Meet Leland Green, our new trainer

Leland just joined the department a couple of weeks ago and he is on the road with us.
Leland comes from SAE where he was a teacher helping students get into this business that we all love.
We are really happy he joined the department and he is getting up and running really fast.
Don't forget to welcome him, maybe at a class or just here.
Welcome to the family Leland.

Meet Mike Ball.

Mike Ball got to Yamaha around a year ago and has been working with our marketing department helping with trade shows, demos and helping our speaker guys.
He is always trying to get me to enjoy his music but I am not a big fan of the Fat Boys, maybe one day.

Meet Ryan, the "Everything guy at Yamaha"

Ryan has been with Yamaha for a few years now and when I think about getting things done around his name always comes up. Ryan takes care of everything and everyone when it come down to shipping equipment, getting gear for trade shows, having demos, etc...
He is just a great guy and will get things done one way or another.
Thanks Ryan

Meet Randy, Distric Manager

Randy is our District Manager for Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Washington State,Alaska, Oregon,Idaho, Colorado, etc.
As you can imagine he is always on the run with all the places he handles.
Randy has a lot of experience and it is a well respected monitor engineer with a lot of years on the road.
He always has a new joke for you and is a great cook.
Hope to see you again soon Randy.

Everyone knows Kyle

Kyle is the guy we deal with when it comes down to transportation.
He is based out of Nashville and handles our account for Stage Call.
He is just a great sales person, great sense of humor and a nice guy.
If you have the chance to hang out with him you will see that everyone knows who Kyle from Stage Call is.
Stage Call moves our equipment in the USA and Canada.
Thank you guys.
www.stagecall.com