AES Student Blog

There is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

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.

There is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.sonicstudio.com

Since the early 1980s, Sonic Studio workstations have been adopted worldwide by motion picture and recording studios, major record labels and high end mastering facilities. On award–winning motion picture soundtracks and more than half of all commercially released CD, Sonic Studio’s customers consistently win Grammy®, Emmy® and Oscar® awards for their exceptional audio work. Sonic Studio continues to lead the way to the ultrafidelity computer based audio of with the Amarra computer music player.

here is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.merging.com

Switzerland’s Merging Technologies is the manufacturer of hardware and software systems for audio and video production professionals, including the high-resolution multichannel Pyramix digital audio workstation, VCube non-linear HD video playback system, the Ramses MSC audio control surface and Ovation a Media Server and Sequencer. Merging’s products are used where reliability and the highest possible quality are of paramount concern. Merging’s clients include some of the finest recording studios, broadcast facilities, post-production houses and film dubbing suites in the world.

There is still some time left for us to present you another big name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.izotope.com

iZotope is a research-driven audio technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Its award-winning products and audio technologies are used by millions of people in over 50 countries, from consumers to musicians to major film, TV, and radio studios. Some of the diverse clients include musical giants like BT, Depeche Mode, and RZA of WuTang Clan; radio stations like Boston's iconic WGBH; and TV programming like CBS's Survivor, the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, the World Cup broadcast, and the GRAMMY awards. Through an extensive licensing program, iZotope technology is also directly integrated into products made by industry-leaders such as Adobe, Avid, and Sony; video games from companies like Harmonix and Ubisoft; as well as a growing number of mobile phone applications.

We present you another great name of audio, kindly sponsoring the upcoming Student Recording Competition in Rome. We are deeply grateful for their support and very exited to give away some awesome prizes to the winners!

www.reaper.fm

REAPER is digital audio workstation software: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. It will let you record audio and MIDI from multiple inputs simultaneously, layer recorded tracks and takes over previous recordings, edit recordings in almost any imaginable way, and much more. REAPER works with almost any hardware and can be used in combination with a vast universe of other software and plug-ins.

Seigen Ono - honorary judge for category 1 (traditional acoustic recording)

Seigen Ono is a composer, architectural acoustics designer and recording engineer working with DSD technology and mixing with surround height. During his 30 years of career, he has worked with renowned artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sadao Watanabe, John Zorn, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis and more.

As a recording and mastering engineer, Seigen Ono has started as an assistant at ONKIO-HAUS (Tokyo) 1978 and is a freelancer since 1980. As the audio supervisor for Sony's HDVS in 1991 and an endorser of Sony SONOMA DSD Audio Workstation and the reverberator DRE-S777 for the last twelve years, Seigen is a strong advocate for high resolution audio (DSD). He has been involved in R&D for the high end pro technologies of digital audio equipments developed by Sony, KORG and Yamaha.

 As an architectural acoustics designer, he was recently responsible for "silent spins" with Sakamoto Ryuichi and Shiro Takatani, which was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo in 2012 and the Sharjah Art Foundation in 2013. 

Brian McCarty - honorary judge for category 4 (sound for visual media)

Mr. Brian McCarty has a music and film recording career spanning over 60 Hollywood films, including participation in the team nominated for numerous "Best Achievement in Sound" Oscars (Altered States, On Golden Pond, Dick Tracy). He is the Chair of AES’s (Audio Engineering Society) Sound for Digital Cinema and TV Technical Committee and owner of Coral Sea Studios in Cairns, Queensland Australia.

Originally from Chicago, Brian started his music recording career in Denver, Colorado, after attending De Paul University. In addition to his career in film sound, Brian was a consultant and project manager at Bose Corporation managing the design and launch of a new professional audio product. This took him to Mainland China where he has been active in their film industry since 1984, assisting in the revamp of recording facilities there and teaching production sound recording.

Mr. McCarty is chairing a new technical committee established by the Audio Engineering Society named “Audio for Digital Cinema and Television.” "In simple terms, what is recorded digitally in the studio does NOT sound the same at the theatrical end," McCarty says. "As an art form, our goal should be consistency of sound quality. Acoustical design of theaters is typically incorrect for sound reproduction in large rooms. Current soundtrack EQ reproduction curves are inconsistent with large-room audio practice and with the rest of the audio industry. And, loudspeaker technology typically used in theaters has yet to be optimized for proper playback of wide bandwidth soundtracks. Basically," McCarty concludes, "the current digital cinema audio system is simply not the best we can do.” 

Michael Fleming - honorary judge for category 1 (traditional acoustic recording)

Michael Fleming is a Nashville-based audio engineer whose technical credits include album releases on Naxos, Justin Time, WEA, Centaur, Raven and Classic Concert Records, among others. An experienced broadcast producer and music engineer, Fleming has worked for organizations and clients including WGBH Radio, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Opera, and he has provided sound reinforcement, location recording and/or post-production services for the Tanglewood Music Center, motion picture clients and numerous summer festivals.

Michael is also an Associate Professor of Audio Production at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in studio and location recording techniques, digital audio technology, critical listening and audio mastering. Michael earned a degree in Physics from Carleton College and a Masters of Music in Sound Recording from McGill University.  

 Introducing Student Design Competition judge Patrizio Pisani of ZP Engineering!

Barry Marshall - honorary judge for category 3 (modern studio recording)

"Barry Marshall has toured and recorded all over the world as both a musical director for The Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame’s LaVern Baker, and as a record producer for Baker, Peter Wolf, and Ben E. King. He was a songwriting partner to the late Doc Pomus, and he’s shared the stage on gigs with everyone from Paul Shaffer to Bonnie Raitt to B.B. King.

Barry is an Associate Professor at the New England Institute of Art and at Emerson College where he teaches classes in music production, recording industry, and the history of media arts. Barry has also recently produced three albums for Cape Verdean artist Dany Silva and serves as the Musical Director for the One Planet Education Network, currently developing content for museums and video games."