AES New York 2019 Presenter or Author
Helmut Wittek
Primary Affiliation: SCHOEPS Mikrofone GmbH - Karlsruhe, Germany
AES Member Type: Member
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Dr. Helmut Wittek was born in 1973. At the age of 6 he joined the renowned Tölz Boys Choir, becoming a soprano soloist and later a singing teacher. After studies in musicology in Munich, he studied sound and video engineering at the Fachhochschule and the Robert-Schumann-Hochschule in Düsseldorf, receiving the Dipl.-Ing. degree in 1999. He joined the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (IRT) in Munich in 2000 as a research engineer and worked with Günther Theile on Wave Field Synthesis, Stereo and Surround recording techniques and binaural audio. Aside his official job he started a PhD at the University of Surrey (Dr Rumsey, Dr Theile) in 2002. In 2008 he was awarded a Ph.D. at the University of Surrey. Since 2005 he has been with SCHOEPS Mikrofone GmbH, Germany, as a Sales and Development engineer. In 2007 he was appointed Head of Engineering and in 2009 he became co-CEO of SCHOEPS Mikrofone GmbH.
Wittek is member of the VDT and the AES, and has written a number of papers for their international conventions. He frequently is giving lectures and practical seminars and he works as an associate professor.
Furthermore, he is the host of the Website www.hauptmikrofon.de and the host of the two-yearly ProAudio convention "SCHOEPS MikroForum".
More Info: http://www.hauptmikrofon.de
Session List
Oct 16:
RP04: Spatial Audio Microphones (Moderator)
Oct 18:
EB1: Recording and Production
Why Microphone Arrays Are Not Better than Single-Diaphragm Microphones with Regard to Their Single Channel Output Quality (Author)