AES Student Blog

 Peterson Goodwyn began building his own audio gear in 2008 for one simple reason: he couldn’t afford to buy it. In 2011 he founded DIY Recording Equipment with the vision of making excellent audio equipment affordable and accessible to anyone who was willing to pick up a soldering iron. Since then, DIYRE has enabled thousands of musicians and engineers to build their own equipment, through hundreds of DIY tutorials, designs, and blog posts.

DIYRE donated an L2A Reamplifier kit and a Primary Colours Bundle to lucky finalists of the Student Competitions! 

DIYRE website

 Real Industry is an online course and mentorship network to educate students on the roles and needs of the music and audio technology industry, in preparation for upcoming internships and full-time jobs. Students learn about the tools, teams, and skills behind leading how products go from ideation through mass commercialization at companies like Adobe, Pandora, Sonos, Smule, Universal Audio, LANDR, iZotope, and more!

Real Industry website

Women's Audio Mission is a San Francisco-based, non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in music production and the recording arts. In a field where women are chronically under-represented (less than 5%), WAM seeks to "change the face of sound" by providing hands-on training, experience, career counseling and job placement to women and girls in media technology for music, radio, film, television and the internet. WAM believes that women's mastery of music technology and inclusion in the production process will expand the vision and voice of media and popular culture. WAM trains over 1,200 women and girls a year in music production and the recording arts in the world's only professional recording studio built and run by women. 

Follow WAM on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram (womensaudiomission) or their website. 

Long time sponsor Women's Audio Mission gave away five SoundChannel accounts to these winners of the Student Recording Competition! 

WAM website

  Linear Audio publishes technical articles about technology, developments and the state of the art in audio and perception from a technical perspective.  

It is meant for anyone who is interested in technical audio developments or who wants to contribute. Being employed in audio engineering is not a requirement. 

Above: some lucky Student Design Competition finalists show off their recently acquired Linear Audio prizes.

Below: Linear Audio's Jan Didden announces the second Linear Audio issue to feature an article on a Student Design Competition submission: Zachary Weiss's 'Intuitive Time Delay Spectrometry'. 

Linear Audio website

 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, low-noise 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.

THAT Corporation website

 Since the birth of Nebula in the summer of 2005, a dynamic collaboration was born between forward thinking developers, beta testers, audio engineers and equipment samplers from around the world. The research and development has gone through many stages and possesses innovative processes and technologies as of yet unheard of in other products or devices.

Acustica Audio donated some of their amazing plugins to winners of the Student Recording Competition!

Acustica Audio website

Thank you Sweetwater, who donated gift certificates to the winners of the Student Recording Competition!

Sweetwater began business in 1979 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and is the USA's most respected dealer in high-technology equipment for musicians, recording studios, and broadcasters - from microphones and digital recording systems to electric guitars to electronic keyboards and electronic drums. Sweetwater customers range from beginners to rock stars. The company's equipment can be found in Los Angeles, New York, and Nashville recording studios, TV and radio stations all across the country, as well as in tens of thousands of home recording studios nationwide. Sweetwater is built on a commitment to the highest level of customer service in the music technology industry.

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Thank you D16 Group Audio Software, who donated plugins from their SilverLine Collection to the winners of the Student Recording Competition!

D16 Group Audio Software officially launched in 2006 with the aim of producing virtual instruments and effects for producers and musicians who required top quality and inspiration in their music. Today, D16 Group Audio Software have become a premium audio plug-ins vendor.

Continuously high level of quality and will of improvement allow us to deliver virtual instruments that set the new standard of sound perfection and effects that take creativity to the next level. Solid trust from audio community and respect for products fruitful in many rewards make the D16 Group Audio Software company of choice for many musicians around the globe.

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Thank you Auralex Acoustics, for your donation of a variety of acoustic treatment solutions for the winners of the Student Recording Competitions!

Auralex Acoustics was founded over 20 years ago on the belief that there had to be a much better alternative to the expensive acoustic foam panels available at that time. Indeed there was; not only dramatically less expensive, but also with significant performance advantages. Today Auralex takes great pride in offering a full line of acoustical products based on the “better price/better mousetrap” principle. The great initial success of Studiofoam quickly led to other innovations including our industry-leading Venus and LENRD Bass Traps. When no reasonably priced diffusors existed, we developed the high-performance T’Fusor and MiniFusor. When our customers demanded a modular, absorptive, expandable, and, most importantly, portable solution, we introduced the MAX-Wall (the first acoustical product to ever be featured on the over of a major industry magazine) and Stand-Mounted LENRDs to great widespread acclaim! When there were few low-cost, effective construction and isolation products, we answered with SheetBlok, U-Boat Floor Floaters, PlatFoam, and other affordable solutions. Most recently, our staff has created specialty products such as the GRAMMA (Gig & Recording Amp & Monitor Modulation Attenuator) and our hot new MoPAs that answer critical isolation needs and result in dramatically truer sound. While some may try to imitate us, they fall way short.

For more Information, visit www.auralex.com