Meet Merging, the company that brought the incredible DAW Pyramix into the industry, and one of our sponsors for the student recording competition!
Merging Technologies is the world’s foremost manufacturer of high-resolution digital audio recording systems. The list of customers reads like a who’s who in the recording industry and recordings made with Merging Technologies’ systems regularly receive the recording industry’s prestigious Grammy® Award.
The company was founded in 1990 in Chexbres, Switzerland by Claude Cellier; an electronics graduate of the Institute of Technology in Lausanne Prior to this, Claude worked for the famous Swiss audio maker Nagra Kudelski for 10 years. Within a short time of its founding, Merging quickly established a reputation for their expertise in digital signal processing and associated hardware, and with their Pyramix Virtual Studio, was one of the first companies to produce a DSD recording system.
In 2007, Claude Cellier was presented with the Audio Engineering Society Fellowship Award for outstanding contributions to the development of high-performance, high-resolution audio workstations. Merging Technologies currently has over 20 employees with offices in Switzerland and the UK.
Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017
Steinunn Arnardóttir - Head of Software Development | Collaborations and Academic Affairs at Native Instruments.
Steinunn has been a part of NI's Research team as a DSP Developer for over seven years and has worked on audio effects for whole NI’s product range, including Maschine, Traktor, GuitarRig and Kontakt and currently heads research collaborations between NI and other partners. Steinunn holds degrees in Electrical Engineering and Music Technology from University of Iceland and Stanford University.
Posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017
From groundbreaking audio consoles to innovative video production systems, Solid State Logic has evolved to become the world’s leading manufacturer of analogue and digital audio consoles and provider of creative tools for film, audio, video and broadcast professionals.
With more than 3000 SSL-equipped studios and facilities operational today, the excellence of SSL consoles is universally recognized for unrivaled sonic quality, superb ergonomics, outstanding automation and an international support infrastructure second to none.
Founded by Colin Sanders in 1969, SSL has since expanded to its present 15 acre science park in Oxfordshire, England. SSL's unrivalled resources, including R&D, manufacturing, training, service and product support, operate in a unique high technology, customer oriented environment. The company invents, designs and manufactures technology for the creative manipulation of sound. Users and industry experts from all over the world visit SSL's Oxford HQ to consult with SSL audio experts and evaluate SSL equipment. There are more than 3000 SSL systems in service around the world.
Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Interfacio provides a unique, global and specialist recruitment service within the Audio, Music, Broadcast and Film technology sectors. We identify and introduce suitably qualified and experienced commercial, technical and management personnel to our clients. Our specialized recruitment, search and selection service addresses the difficulties of recruiting for roles which need a very specific skill set and technical background. We have many years of working within the Professional-Audio industry and so we know and understand the space and have an established network of connections. We are committed to working closely and honestly with both candidates and clients, and as such, candidate fit and the long term success of our placements are our ultimate goals.
Posted: Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Designer Dave Hill has always had an interest in electronics, and started designing and building devices at an early age. He was building analog synthesizers from scratch and started doing professional sound recording and equipment maintenance while still in high school. After high school Dave continued to pursue a career in electronics and enrolled in a local technical college. After his first year he was asked by the college to take over teaching duties in the program. He taught analog and digital electronics for 8 years while continuing his involvement in pro audio.
Dave continues to do studio and film sound recording, as he has since 1972. Early in the 1980's Dave was asked if he could design a tube compressor that would have the sound of vintage tube type devices. The result of this request was the Summit Audio TLA-100. Due to the success of that design Dave went on to design and set up the manufacture of all Summit Audio products until September of 1994.
Posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2017
THAT Corporation, founded in 1989, designs and sells high-performance analog integrated circuits for professional audio manufacturers. THAT’s ICs include analog input and output stages, digitally controlled preamplifiers, and its original line of voltage-controlled amplifiers (VCAs) and RMS-level detectors – all used throughout the pro audio industry. The company also licenses patents, trademarks, and other intellectual property to the TV broadcast and reception industries. Under the dbx-tv® brand name, THAT offers Total Sonics™, Total Surround™, and Total Volume™, TV audio enhancement technology and digital (Verilog®) implementations of legacy TV audio receiver standards covering all parts of the world, including BTSC, A2, NICAM, and EIA-J. The company is headquartered in Milford, Massachusetts, with offices in Tokyo, Japan and Milpitas, California.
Posted: Monday, October 9, 2017
The AES Student Party will happen on Thursday, October 19, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm at the Jungle City Studios, 520 West 27th St. New York, NY 10001 and is open to any 143rd Convention participant with an ALL ACCESS STUDENT BADGE - a great opportunity to meet fellow students from around the world. Tickets should be picked up at the Student Delegate Assembly desk on Wednesday 18th, at 2pm.
Genelec invites you to come experience The Ones at Jungle City Studios for the official AES student social event of the show. Refreshments and food will be served, and guitarist extraordinaire Gary Hoey will be performing live in the studio.
All event attendees will be entered for a chance to win a pair of Genelec 8331’s when they register at the door. As a secondary giveaway, there will be a drawing for a limited-edition pair of Genelec 8030’s in red. This drawing is open only to U.S. residents who have subscribed to the Genelec USA Learning Channel on YouTube by Nov 30, 2017. Subscribers must share their YouTube subscriptions publicly to be included in the drawing.
See you there!
Posted: Monday, October 9, 2017
For more than 30 years, TASCAM has developed products for every segment of the sound and music industry. From the high-end audio professional in a major post-production studio to the novice or hobbyist at home, TASCAM is everywhere. We are a company committed to providing our customers audio/video solutions that enable breakthroughs by using sound in ways that are as exciting as they are accessible. In short, we provide tools that let people translate their creativity into reality.
Posted: Thursday, October 5, 2017
Founded in 1974, Jensen Transformers Inc. researches, develops, manufactures, and distributes products for use by audio and video professionals worldwide. Along with over 100 standard models of high performance audio and video transformers, Jensen pioneered the ISO-MAX ® line of ready-to-use audio and video ground isolators for solving interfacing and hum & buzz problems in Professional, Commercial, & Residential Audio/Video systems.
Posted: Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Mathew Lane audiotools are innovative new solutions, created when no other hardware or software could be found suitable for the task.
The DrMS spatial processor is Mathew Lane's first product, already widely accepted by audio professionals as a unique plugin. It's being used by top producers and engineers on songs by well known artists such as Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay and many others. Legendary mix engineer Dave Pensado is a fan and has been showing the use of DrMS on several of his Pensado's Place Into The Lair videos.
DrMS is a unique spatial processor, available as AAX/RTAS/AU/VST plugin, with a wide range of applications for mixing, mastering and post production - going from simple MS (Mid-Side) encoding/decoding, over stereo field width and depth enhancement, to fixing mono compatibility issues and more.
DrMS now also has little brother called StereoDelta. And even more, Mathew Lane has recently gone hardware by introducing the OnTheMoon SPACECRAFT, a unique analog spatial processor based on his spatialising technology.
Posted: Tuesday, October 3, 2017
