Editorial Contact: Marco Alpert Antares Audio Technologies Tel: 831.461.7800 marco@antarestech.com Antares Microphone Modeler Wins Technical Excellence and Creativity (TEC) Award Microphone Modeler Selected as Outstanding Technical Achievement in Signal Processing Software (Los Angeles, CA, September 23, 2000) - Antares Audio Technologies today announced that their Antares Microphone Modeler has won the TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) Award in the category of Outstanding Technical Achievement in Signal Processing Software. The TEC Awards were established by MIX magazine in 1985 to honor outstanding achievement in the professional recording and sound production industry. They are currently administered by the Mix Foundation for Audio Excellence. The nominees are selected by a panel of approximately 200 audio industry professionals. The award winners are selected by a vote of Mix Magazine readers. The Microphone Modeler, which is available in versions compatible with virtually every computer-based professional digital recording platform, uses Antares's patented Spectral Shaping Tool (SSTĒ) technology to provide digital models of a wide variety of microphones, from historical classics to modern exotics. The user simply tells Microphone Modeler what microphone they are actually using and what mic they would like it to sound like. The plug-in then references the stored models of both the source and target mics and processes the input to create the sound of the desired mic. "We are tremendously honored by this award," said Stephen Tritto, Antares President and CEO. "While the Microphone Modeler has been acknowledged as a tremendous technical achievement by the market as a whole, the readers of Mix in particular represent the highest level of recording experience and expertise. Its selection by so knowledgeable a group of industry professionals is extremely gratifying." The TEC Award winners were announced at a ceremony during the 109th Audio Engineering Society Convention in Los Angeles, California. Antares Audio Technologies Antares Audio Technologies is renowned as a developer of innovative, DSP-based audio software and hardware, including the ATR-1 Intonation Processor and AMMĐ1 Microphone Modeler, as well as the award-winning Auto-Tune (Pitch Corrector), Antares Microphone Modeler, MDT (Multi-band Dynamics Tool) and JVP (Antares Voice Processor) DSP plug-ins. Antares Audio Technologies is located at 231 Technology Circle Scotts Valley, CA 95066. Tel: 831.461.7800 Email: info@antarestech.com Web: www.antarestech.com - end -