AES Student Blog

 Interview with Gyorgy Barcosai (University of Lulea-Pitea) – GOLD Category 2

SDA:  How long did you work on your competition entry? Was this your first entry?

     GB:    I did the recording back in the spring of 2011. We did a whole record, so I mixed this track later in the fall. It took about 4 days, I think. Yeah, it was the first time for me.

SDA:  Tell us about the production of your entry. Stories? Inspirations?

     GB:    The biggest inspiration for the production was the record Battle Studies by John Mayer. That record just sounds amazing, so beautiful.

SDA:  What initiated your passion for audio? When did it start?

     GB:    I played in a rock band and we wanted to record some songs. I was never happy with the sound at the small studios, so I took over the engineering job. After a couple of crazy demos it began to sound okay. I think I was about 15 years old then, so I began to record other local bands in a studio in Vänersborg. It was a really great time; I just worked a lot and skipped school to mix and record.

SDA:  Funniest experience as an engineer so far?

     GB:    I was on tour with a rock band and they had a show in Brno, Czech Republic. At the venue, there was this house engineer who just couldn't let me do my work as Front of House engineer. During the soundcheck, we had a really big fight over gain structure and levels, and then he left. He came back drunk and did the first band, then I did the sound for my band. It worked really well, and this guy even came to me after the gig to say how great it sounded. Funny fellow.

SDA:  Biggest mistake you made during a production?

     GB:    I forgot to turn on the power supply for the Neumann U67. I just couldn’t understand why I wasn't getting any signal. I tried everything. Changed all the cables, checked everything. The solution was just this one knob!

SDA:  Favorite frequency?

     GB:    900 Hz, of course.

SDA:  Favorite mic, outboard box, and plugin?

     GB:    The Sennheiser MD 421 has to be the best mic in the world. Works on almost anything. Best outboard is the TUBE-TECH SMC2B multiband compressor. I don't have a favorite plugin.

SDA:  Best recording of all time?

     GB:    Has to be the record Battle Studies by John Mayer, or Suzanne Vega’s Beauty & Crime. The sound of those records just really inspires me.

SDA:  Do you play any instruments?

     GB:    Yeah I play the bass guitar, got a cheap Fender Precision. Maybe someday I will be able to afford a Rickenbacker. That would be heaven.

SDA:  Any other hobbies?

     GB:    Just music. Playing music, writing music, enjoying music.

SDA:  The best part of the 132nd AES Convention?

     GB:    The great atmosphere. It just felt like everybody knew each other!

SDA:  The best thing about the AES organization?

     GB:    All the people that are in it just love audio engineering.

SDA:  Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

     GB:    Hopefully I'll be working on records with great artist and bands. Maybe I’ll be on tour running live sound. I just hope I can work on music that I love with people that I love and use gear that sounds amazing.

AES student technical paper award coordinator Rob Maher has announced that Márton Marschall has been named the recipient of this year’s Award for his paper "Robustness Of A Mixed-Order Ambisonics Microphone Array For Sound Field Reproduction", co-authored with Sylvain Favrot and Jörg Buchholz.

The Award will be presented on Thursday, April 26 at the Opening Ceremonies at the Novotel Budapest Congress & World Trade Center. Marschall will present his paper at 10AM on Saturday, April 28.

A native of Budapest, Márton Marschall, received a diploma in electrical engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2006, and his MSc degree in engineering acoustics from the Technical University of Denmark in 2008. He then joined the Centre for Applied Hearing Research at the Technical University of Denmark, where he is currently a Ph.D student under the guidance of Professor Torsten Dau.

As part of his Ph.D project, he is working on recreating realistic acoustic scenes for hearing research and for the evaluation of communication devices, such as hearing instruments and mobile phones. His research interests include virtual acoustics, spatial hearing and models of auditory signal processing and perception. The Award also makes Mr. Marschall’s manuscript eligible for publication consideration in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.

 We would like to introduce 132 AES Student Recording Competition sponsors to you. 

We are going to mention them name by name because that are people who made SRC possible to realize and we want to say big THANK YOU!So let's meet Audiotech today! 

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Audtiotech sponsored SRC by giving Charter Oak headphones as a prize.

 We would like to introduce 132 AES Student Recording Competition sponsors to you.

We are going to mention them name by name because that are people who made SRC possible to realize and we want to say big THANK YOU!So let's meet Celemony Melodyne today!

Melodyne editor, with its Direct Note Access technology, makes possible what had previously been considered impossible: access to individual notes in polyphonic audio material. Correct wrong notes in a piano recording; change the chords in a guitar accompaniment after the recording is over; refashion a sample lick. Only Melodyne editor gives you the freedom to work like this with audio. And allows you to do things you could only dream of doing before.

Melodyne editor will change the way you work with audio. The note-based approach and intuitive operation of Melodyne editor will soon seem so natural to you and so much a matter of course that you will no longer regard audio as something fixed and given but quite simply as music. As music you can shape and refashion virtually at will. To correct and optimize or fully restructure in order to make new ideas reality. This is how we picture thefuture of audio editing. And with Melodyne editor, this future is yours already today.

It is important to mention that Celemony Melodyne prize was sponsored by Music Marketing Canada.

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 We would like to introduce 132 AES Student Recording Competition sponsors to you.

We are going to mention them name by name because that are people who made SRC possible to realize and we want to say big THANK YOU!So let's meet Amarra today!

Amarra supports up to 384 kHz sample rates and provides a seamless integration of multiple rates and music formats. Features include RAM-based Cache Playback, Sonic EQ, background DSD conversion, and much more... 

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Come share your unique experience as a student of audio!

The revised Education Forum will be held on Friday, April 27 from 9:00-10:30 am in the Brahms room at AES 132 Budapest. Previously, educators shared their thoughts and feelings about audio education, discussing curricula and program structure. At AES 132, we want to hear from YOU – the students! What has your education done for you? What needs to be changed? How do activities like the ones sponsored by AES contribute to your experience?

Students, faculty, alumni, and industry professionals are invited to join our discussion. If you're an AES student leader, be at the AES Budapest Education Forum!

Longtime music business professional Gary Gottlieb refers to himself as a music generalist.

A professional musician since age 13, he worked in radio on and off for 25 years, and was a music critic for 9 years. As a recording engineer, live recordist and music producer in New York, Gottlieb's long and distinguished career includes work with numerous Grammy Award winners and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees in a variety of venues.

Along with his history as a music critic, entertainment writer and disc jockey for a major modern rock station in Manchester, Vermont, Gottlieb owned and operated a mobile DJ service and was a Venue Director for numerous X Games and Winter X Games for ESPN. In 2002 he accepted a teaching position at Webster University where he rose to Chair of the Department of Audio Aesthetics & Technology.

Of Gottlieb’s three books published by Thomson (including Shaping Sound in the Studio & Beyond and Recording on the Go), his most popular book, How Does it Sound Now? went on to win the 2010 Association for Recorded Sound Collections' Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research.

Currently a Governor for AES, Gottlieb is also a member of SPARS, APRS, ARSC, AAUP, and the P&E Wing of NARAS. Busy touring as a guest speaker throughout the US and Europe, Gottlieb has recently focused his energy on the St. Louis Audio Project, a non-profit organization devoted to community outreach and early education in quality audio.

— If you are attending the convention in Budapest, Gary would like to invite you to join his panel entitled, "How Does it Sound Now? The Evolution of Audio", featuring Jim Anderson, Andres Mayo, Darcy Proper and Ronald Prent —

Jürg is a Swiss Tonmeister and former chief sound engineer of Swiss Radio.

Being in the audio field for more than 50 years, Jürg has been recording mainly classical music
productions for the Deutsche Grammophon, Columbia Records, ECM and many others.

His innovations like the electrostatic Headphone, known as the "Jecklin Float" as well as the stereo recording technique known as the "Jecklin disk" also contribute to his high profile upon the audio industry.

He is teaching at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and is giving lectures, workshops and presentations of his latest innovations all over the world.
 

We would like to introduce 132 AES Student Recording Competition sponsors to you.

We are going to mention them name by name because that are people who made SRC possible to realize and we want to say big THANK YOU!So let's meet Reaper today!

REAPER is digital audio workstation software: a complete multitrack audio and MIDI recording, editing, processing, mixing, and mastering environment. 

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REAPER works with almost any hardware and can be used in combination with a vast universe of other software and plug-ins. 

Take advantage of REAPER's full functionality using only your current computer and a microphone, or use REAPER to drive an entire professional recording studio.

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 We would like to introduce 132 AES Student Recording Competition sponsors to you.

We are going to mention them name by name because that are people who made SRC possible to realize and we want to say big THANK YOU!

So let's meet Gobbler today!

Gobbler is an indispensable service for backing up, sending, and organizing digital media files. Gobbler puts the power of the cloud in the hands of digital media creators, providing secure, on-demand storage and processing throughout the creative process. Gobbler’s transfer technology is one of the fastest and most reliable available on the market today. Every aspect of Gobbler is designed to provide solutions and tools to enable intelligent storage, collaboration, and project organization for digital media creators. By combining these tools into one comprehensive service, Gobbler solves many of the most frustrating challenges and pitfalls of the digital creation workflow.

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