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AES 139 | Meet the Sponsors: Cycling '74

AES 139 | Meet the Sponsors: Cycling '74

Check out Cycling '74, sponsor of the Student Design Competition at AES 139

Cycling '74 creates software for the specialized needs of artists, educators, and researchers working with audio, visual media, and physical computing. They are best known for their work with the digital signal processing software environment Max. For more information about Max, please visit cycling74.com

 

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Posted: Tuesday, October 13, 2015

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Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 4: Scott Levine

Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 4: Scott Levine

Meet Scott Levine, one of our honorable judges of the Student Recording Competition at AES139 in New York.

Scott Levine is an engineer at Skywalker Sound in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a researcher, music mixer and frequent presenter for the Audio Engineering Society. Specializing in immersive theatrical sound, Scott works with sound designers, re-recording mixers and industry professionals to develop tools and workflows to create new audience experiences. 

Scott holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego and a Master’s degree from McGill University’s graduate program in Sound Recording where he was a member of the Virtual Acoustics Laboratory as well as the Small Environment Acoustics Researching & Testing Lab. He has previously chaired AES convention paper sessions, and has received a gold award in the AES student recording competition. 


Posted: Monday, October 12, 2015

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AES 139 | Meet the Sponsors: THAT Corporation

 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 is giving away prizes to ALL finalists of the Student Design Competition! 

THAT Corporation website


Posted: Sunday, October 11, 2015

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One Week to go for the Student Design Competition Deadline

One Week to go for the Student Design Competition Deadline

 

 

The deadline for the Student Design Competition is one week today!

The AES Student Design Competition is an opportunity for aspiring hardware and software engineers to participate in a worldwide contest and gain recognition for their hard work and technical creativity. Undergraduate and graduate categories are available for entrants.

Last year, Tomas Nowak's design presented at the Student Design Competition also got interest from Linear Audio and he managed to get his work published in Linear Audio. See http://linearaudio.net/volumes/2235 for his work.

 

Get your designs submitted now! 

Register here for the competition

 

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Posted: Sunday, October 11, 2015

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AES 139 | Meet the Sponsors: Acustica Audio

Acustica Audio logo 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.
The company's goal is to provide the most authentic reproduction of sampled vintage gear and other high end hardware devices, using the revolutionary technology "V.V.K.T." (Vectorial Volterra Kernels Technology) without the negative artifacts created by current convolution technology.
After years of continous work, this creative forward thinking group has developed to a team of experts in knowing what it takes to serve the best "of both worlds" (digital & analog).
 
Acustica Audio is giving away many prizes to winners of the Student Recording Competition again! 

Acustica Audio website


Posted: Saturday, October 10, 2015

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Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 3: Piper Payne

Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 3: Piper Payne

Meet Piper Payne, one of our honorable judges of the Student Recording Competition at AES139 in New York.

Piper Payne is a Mastering Engineer at Coast Mastering (formerly Michael Romanowski Mastering) in San Francisco. Piper is the newly elected Vice President of the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy and she Co-Chairs the SF Producers and Engineers Wing. She also serves on the Education Committee. In addition she is an active member of the AES and the Women's Audio Mission, as well as being the CEO of Giving Stage.

Piper is an audio educator and lectures often about mastering and recording. She is also a first-call for large venue concert and classical recordings. Piper began her career with a BFA in Audio from the University of Michigan, continuing her Graduate education in Audio at the University of Stavanger in Norway. Piper has apprenticed under some of the best Mastering and audio mentors in the world, including Bob Katz in Orlando and Michael Romanowski in San Francisco. Piper moved to San Francisco after working at the Banf Centre in Alberta, Canada as the Senior Audio Associate in a work-study program that had her climbing glaciers for film sound design and recording jazz orchestras in the same day!

Piper's focus is Mastering and she lives for quality and equality in audio.


Posted: Friday, October 9, 2015

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AES 139 | Meet the Sponsors: Women's Audio Mission

 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. 

Women's Audio Mission is generously giving away 5 one-year subscriptions to finalists of the Student Competitions at AES139 NYC! Thanks WAM! 

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WAM website


Posted: Thursday, October 8, 2015

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Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 2: Sean McLaughlin

Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 2: Sean McLaughlin

 Meet Sean McLaughlin, one of our honorable judges of the Student Recording Competition at AES139 in New York.

Sean McLaughlin loves /mixing songs more than anybody loves anything. After working in Los Angeles for the early part of the 2000’s with some notable producers (Andy Johns, Jimbo Barton, Carmen Rizzo) and artists (Rush, Elliott Smith, Marilyn Manson, Death Row Records) Sean returned to Boston in 2004 to open his own studio, 37’ Productions.

Since opening his studio Sean has been working on projects and with artists both regionally and nationally. Some of the artists with whom he has plied his trade are Matchbox Twenty, Queensryche, Dirty Vegas, Sarah Blacker, Kristen Merlin, Rafael Moreira and Dark New Day, as well as ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, MTV and ESPN.

In 2013, Sean had the honor of being named Producer of the Year by the New England Music Awards. Since the beginning of 2013 he has mixed over 500 songs. In 2014 he authored Mixing with iZotope, a comprehensive mixing guide for beginner to intermediate mixers. Sean also teaches Music Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music and Audio & Media Technology at the New England Institute of Art.


Posted: Wednesday, October 7, 2015

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AES 139 | Meet the Sponsors: Sonnox

 Sonnox is a market-leading audio software company devoted to designing innovative, high quality audio processing plug-ins. The award-winning Oxford Plugins are used by professionals worldwide for mixing Music, Film, Television, Radio and Live Sound.
 
The Sonnox Oxford plug-in range includes invaluable tools such as EQ, reverb, dynamics processing, loudness maximization and de-essing. In addition to these mixing plug-ins, Sonnox offers award-winning restoration software - Sonnox Restore suite for the removal of noise, buzz, clicks and crackles; and a pair of plug-ins developed in partnership with the Fraunhofer Institute for the real-time auditioning and encoding of audio to multiple formats, such as mp3 and AAC.
 
Sonnox plug-ins support most popular native DAWs including Pro Tools HDX and UAD-2 platforms.
 
Sonnox is giving away one of their Essential bundles and two Enhance bundles to winners of the Student Recording Competition! 

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Posted: Tuesday, October 6, 2015

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Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 1: David Bowles

Meet The Judges! Student Recording Competition - Category 1: David Bowles
Meet David Bowles, one of our honorable judges of the Student Recording Competition at AES139 in New York.
 
David Bowles, also known as "Golden Ears", is a classical and acoustic music recording engineer and producer. He has recorded all styles of music ranging from today's composers all the way back to the Medieval age. His recordings have won awards and acclamation for their vivid sound and committed performances.

Also known for high resolution recordings in surround+height, he has taught at the New York University Tonmeister programme for several years and participated in AES panels on immersive sound technology and application. Other institutions Mr. Bowles has taught at include Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory, the Royal Danish Academy of Music and the Banff Centre. He is a member of the AES, SPARS and the NARAS Producers and Engineers Wing.

 


Posted: Monday, October 5, 2015

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