Speakers
John Stuart: John has more than 30 years of experience in the recording and music business, as a musician, composer, producer, and engineer.  He has worked with such bands as Ella Fitzgerald, Gin Blossoms, Taj Mahal.  He was also a composer, producer, mixer and recording engineer of film segments for Sesame Street.  http://www.stuartaudio.com/

Bob Ludwig: Bob Ludwig is the owner and operator of Gateway Mastering & DVD in Portland, Maine.  Bob Ludwig and Gateway Mastering have been awarded with hundreds of Gold and Platinum records.  He has worked with bands such as Tool, Nirvana, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Beck, Led Zepplin and the list goes on. 
http://www.gatewaymastering.com/

Telefunken: Telefunken started out in 1903 as a German radio and television company.  Today, Telefunken continues to bring excellence to the audio field by building quality microphones, vacuum tubes, and by doing restoration work on their vintage microphones.  Telefunken came to NESCom and did a presentation of many of their new microphones.  http://www.telefunkenusa.com/

Barry Darling: Barry works at MPBN as Producer of the Weekend Morning Classical Music and as a weekend announcer.  Along with working at MPBN, Barry operates a recording service specializing in choral music, historic pipe organs, and chamber music.  He also produces many of the MaineStage presentations for the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, the DaPonte String Quartet, and other artists as well.  http://www.mainepublicradio.org/aboutmpbn/darling.html