AES Student Blog

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank iZotope for their generous support.

iZotope makes innovative products that inspire and enable people to be creative.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, iZotope has spent over a decade developing award-winning products and audio technologies for professionals and hobbyists alike. Used by millions of people in over 50 countries, iZotope products are a core component of GRAMMY-winning music studios, Oscar and Emmy-winning film and TV post production studios, and prominent radio studios, as well as basement and bedroom studios across the globe. Through a robust licensing program, iZotope also powers products made by industry partners such as Adobe, Avid, Microsoft, and Sony. iZotope was recently honored with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Development for its flagship audio repair suite, RX.

For more information visit www.izotope.com.

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank DSP-Quattro for their generous support.

DSP-Quattro is an extremely powerful Audio Editor/AudioCD Mastering Application with extended real-time and off-line support of AU/VST plug-ins for MacOS X. It is a highly innovative product that utilizes the latest technological advances of computer-based audio editing. It benefits from more than 15 years of development and professional use in the audio production community. DSP-Quattro is designed for the most discriminating professional users. However, because of its simple and intuitive interface, it is also an ideal product for novices in the field seeking to discover the world of digital audio. It allows for professional results, it is simple to use, and with plug-in hosting capabilities, offers seemingly endless possibilities.

DSP-Quattro is the complete solution for Audio Editing, AudioCD Mastering and Plug-in Hosting for the MacOS X.

For more information visit www.dsp-quattro.com.

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank D16 for their generous support.

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.

For more information visit www.d16.pl.

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank Cycling '74 for their generous support.

Cycling '74 creates software for the specialized needs of artists, educators, and researchers working with audio, visual media, and physical computing. 

It was formed in 1997 by David Zicarelli and has approximately 29 employees and consultants worldwide.

For more information visit www.cycling74.com.

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank Crane Song for their generous support.

Crane Song is the the company of designer and engineer Dave Hill who crafts hardware and software with exceptional attention to detail.

Dave Hill's intimate knowledge of analog electronics, as well as decades of experience as a recording engineer have spawned a large range of very useful and musical products that deliver top-of-the-line quality throughout.

For more information visit www.cranesong.com and www.davehilldesigns.com.

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank Cockos for their generous support.

Reaper is multi-platform digital audio workstation software: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. It works with almost any hardware and can be used in combination with a vast universe of other software and plug-ins.

Cockos Incorporated was founded in 2004, beginning an effort to build quality software that would benefit people throughout the world. 

The company's goal is to develop software sustainably while preventing profit rationale from forcing engineering compromises. By doing so, the engineers at Cockos can keep their product visions intact, giving maximum benefit to their users.

They lovingly craft the software that they would want to use.

For more information visit www.reaper.fm and www.cockos.com.

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank Bettermaker for their generous support.

Bettermaker aims to create flexible devices with distinct sonic characteristics and a clean sound. 

Besides their purely analogue signal paths, the company's products have full digital recall. Bettermaker's engineers pick the best classic designs and modify them to improve the workflow in everyday use of audio professionals. As audio engineers are required to work faster and faster every day, they need to have high quality equipment that allows them to satisfy their clients' ever growing demands. 

Bettermaker combines the advantages of the digital and the analog world to provide just that.

For more information visit www.bettermaker.eu.

The Student Delegate Assembly wants to thank Audiofile Engineering for their generous support.

Audiofile Engineering build apps for musicians and engineers, because that's what the company consists of: musicians and engineers. 

Founded in 2004, they are among the most experienced audio software developers for Mac OS X and iOS with a long history of industry-firsts to their name. 

The people at Audiofile Engineering strive to create beautiful and powerful apps that everyone can afford.

For more information visit www.audiofile-engineering.com.

The Student Delegate Assembly would like to thank AEA for their generous support.

Wes Dooley's longtime passion for audio has infused his company, Audio Engineering Associates (AEA), with a well balanced blend of creativity and technical expertise for forty years. At the core of AEA is a genuine interest in the art and science of audio.

Since its inception AEA has created products to help resolve problems commonly encountered by recording engineers. In the fall of 2003, Wes was awarded the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Silver Medal Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of audio engineering.

AEA is family owned and operated in beautiful Pasadena, California.

For more information visit www.wesdooley.com.

Experienced audio professionals are the backbone of our competitions.

The judges of the Student Recording and Student Design Competition at the 136th AES Convention in Berlin really had their work cut out. Not only did they have to review 70 (!) submissions, judging them and choosing the finalists was particularly tricky as the quality standard was exceptionally high throughout.

The judges' commitment didn't end there, though. They were also deeply involved during the main presentations of the finalists' projects and discussed them in great detail in front of a live audience. On top of that they happily answered questions of anyone who took part in the competition outside of the scheduled events.

They really went above and beyond and the Student Delegate Assembly is extremely grateful for their dedication, and hard and thorough work! 

Many thanks to: