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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.

The first version of Gobbler is built for digital audio creators and seamlessly integrates into their unique work-flow. Gobbler supports all major digital audio workstations (DAWs), enabling any media creator who works with audio to effortlessly manage their digital assets, regardless of format or location.

Visit their website! www.Gobbler.com

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 Telefunken today!

TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik strives for absolute perfection. By offering historic recreations of classic microphones alongside our own proprietary designs based around the distinctive tube mic sound, we have established a product line that perfectly blends vintage style and sound with the reliability of a modern-day microphone. Our commitment to both the sonic excellence and quality of all of our products is rivaled only by our dedication to provide the BEST possible service to each and every one of our customers.

Want more about Telefunken? Visit their website!  www.telefunken-elektroakustik.com

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 IGS Audio today!

IGS AKA Igor Sobczyk is well known producer in Poland. He was one of the first in the country to spread Hip-Hop nationwide. His first music projects (Ekspedycje 1999, Alchemia 2000) are considered as the foundation of contemporary polish Hip-Hop, especially in the Silesian region. The artists whom he recorded and produced are amognst others: Tede (3H), Abra Dab (Kaliber 44), Fokus (Paktofonika), Gutek (Indios Bravos, Mustafarai), Jajonasz. Currently he is producing the debut album for Poland's fresh pop/r'n'b talent Losza vera.

Igor is also an outstanding engineer. IGS Audio is now one the most desired studio equipment brands in Poland and it is continuously expanding internationally. The original IGS Audio products qualify as pretendants to no.1. Clones of other brands produced by Igs Audio are accurate and excellent. 

IGS is all about happiness in success. 

IGS Studio has been operational since 1997. The IGS Audio brand was created in 2003.

Want more? Visit their website! http://www.igsaudio.pl/

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 SCHOEPS Mikrofone today!

The SCHOEPS name enjoys great respect worldwide, and is associated with products that are impressive in their excellent quality, simple elegance, and ingenious practicality. Without a doubt SCHOEPS is one of the most innovative and original of microphone manufacturers.

The SCHOEPS company can look back on a tradition of 60 years in which it has specialized completely in building condenser microphones and accessories of the highest quality. In one of the oldest buildings in Durlach, 35 co-workers develop, build and distribute the entire product palette, and take care of customers from all over the world.

The sonic transparency of the microphones has always been at the forefront of all our concerns. It is thus no surprise that SCHOEPS has many adherents in the realm of classical music, as well as film and television audio.

If you would like to know more about SCHOEPS visit: www.schoeps.de

Category 4 judge Andres Mayo is the cream of the crop. With an incredible number of albums under his belt and several major awards, his perspective is sure to inspire attendees of the RC finals!

Andres is a multiple award-winning stereo & surround Mastering Engineer with strong recording and sound post-production skills, and a DVD producer, with wide knowledge of interactive platforms.

He pioneered the art of CD and DVD mastering in Latin America since 1991, with credits in more than 1500 albums by many of the best known artists in the region, and currently runs his own facility Andres Mayo Mastering, with high resolution 5.1 mixing and mastering capability.

As an audio Engineer, Andres won five Carlos Gardel Awards to the Technical Excellence in 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2011 and several nominations to the Latin Grammy ® Awards and MTV Music Awards since 2002. As an independent producer, he has won 2 Latin GRAMMY ® Awards in 2008 for his 7-DVD collection “Buenos Aires, Days and Nights of Tango”, winning in the categories of Best Tango Production and Best Recording Packaging.

Having been involved with the AES as Vice President for the Latin American region between 2005 and 2009, Andres is currently Chairman of the Strategy Advisory Group (SAG) and Vice Chairman of the TC-ARMS (Audio Recording and Mastering Systems Technical Committee).

As keynote speaker, he has participated in more than 60 International Conferences in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Canada and the US, including also the AES International Conventions in Munich (2009), New York (2009), New York (2011) and the coming Budapest (2012). Andres was also Member of the Jury at the following Student Recording Competitions: San Francisco (2004), Vienna (2007), New York (2007), Munich (2009), London (2010), San Francisco (2010).

 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 Looptrotter Audio today!

Looptrotter Audio is Polish producer of high quality studio equipment. Their debut and most famous product is Monster Compressor. For now they offer also some great saturation gear (Satur-8).

Looptrotter Audio is a choose of many sound engineers and producers all over the world (to name few of them: Justin Chancellor, USA; Magnus Linberg, Sweden; Adrian Sherwood, Eddie Stevens, UK, Michiel Eilbracht - Nutsville Noise Lab, Netherlands, Adam Toczko, Andrzej Karp, Jacek Antosik, RecPublica Studios, Sound and More, Poland).

You need to visit their website and feel their "yellow" power! looptrotter.com.pl

Category 4 judge Mark Drews is a living AES legend. He has been engineering classical records since the 1980s and knows his stuff. Competition critics don't get much better than this!

Mark Drews is director of music production and recording studies at the University of Stavanger, on Norway’s southwest coast. He began his professional recording career in 1983 recording classical music and jazz for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company. From 1984 thru 1995, he was senior audio engineer/lecturer at the Syracuse University School of Music and was an active independent recording engineer and musician in Central New York. He is author of New Ears: The Audio Career & Education Handbook.

Drews has recorded thousands of concerts and other music performances in the United States and Norway for radio and commercial release. He also has designed and installed a variety of audio facilities for music recording and sound for picture.

In addition, he’s had a senior Fulbright research fellowship to Norway, an audio research residency at the Banff Centre’s music and sound department in Canada and an international visiting scholar position at the University of Michigan’s School of Music.

Drews has been involved with AES student activities for years having been on the first panel of judges at the Amsterdam convention in 1998 and several others since then.  

An advocate for the support and advancement of audio education, Mark is an active member of the Audio Engineering Society, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and the Society of Professional Audio Recording Services. He also is a board member of the Norwegian Institute for Recorded Sound.

In his spare time, he is busy with family and friends on both sides of the Atlantic, he is musically active as bassist in the Stavanger Big Band. Just by coincidence, his wife’s name is Tone.

The combined AES 132 Education and Career Fair will take place on Saturday, April 28 from 11am to 12:30pm. Check the main AES 132 Convention page for an up-to-date location!

Companies 

Looking for the best and brightest minds in the audio world? No place will have more of them assembled than the 132nd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society to be held April 26-29 in Budapest, Hungary. Companies are invited to participate in our Education and Career Fair, free of charge. This is the perfect chance to identify your ideal new hires!

All attendees of the convention, students and professionals alike, are welcome to come visit with representatives from participating companies to find out more about job and internship opportunities in the audio industry. Bring your resume!  

Companies signup here

Schools 

One of the best reasons to attend AES conventions is the opportunity to make important connections with your fellow educators from around the globe. Of course, the 132nd Convention of the Audio Engineering Society to be held April 26-29 in Budapest, Hungary will not disappoint!

Academic Institutions offering studies in audio (from short courses to graduate degrees) will be represented in a "table top" session. Information on each school's respective programs will be made available through displays and academic guidance. There is no charge for schools/institutions to participate. Admission is free and open to all convention attendees. 

Schools signup here

Category 2&3 judge Marek “Maro” Walaszek is a master of the mix, working with big artists and multinational corporations. You'll want to hear what this man has to say at the RC finals!!

Marek “Maro” Walaszek is a mixing/recording engineer and music producer with over 15 years of experience. Throughout his career, he has worked with major record labels, artists, and advertising companies from all over the world. Rather than limiting himself to one artistic arena, Walaszek collaborates with artists from a variety of genres including hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, jazz, rock, and even ethnic music. His mixing skills can be heard on studio records as well as live performances, film soundtracks, film sound design, commercials, and web-based media. Marek collaborates with companies, artists and record labels from Angola to Sweden to Jamaica to the Middle East, thanks to his online delivery platform pro-mixes.com. He has had the privilege to work with artists like The Rza, Method Man, Jadakiss, Raekwon, Ghost Face Killah, Redman, Masta Killa, and Capone, and has worked as a sound designer for companies like Coca-Cola, Citi Bank, Ferrero, Millennium Bank, C&A, Unicef, and many more.

Marek regularly lectures about mixing at schools such as the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology and Swam institute, and to various AES Student Sections. He also runs The Bettermaker, a company that produces High End studio hardware.

We would like to introduce you some of our 132 AES Recording Competition Sponsors!

Want know more about them and their products? Here you are:

Amarra http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/

Celemony Melodyne http://www.celemony.com

D16 http://www.d16.pl/

IGS Audio http://www.igsaudio.pl/

Looptroter Audio Engineering http://looptrotter.com.pl/

Reaper http://www.reaper.fm/

Telefunken http://www.telefunken-elektroakustik.com/

Schoeps http://www.schoeps.de

SoundChannel http://www.soundchannel.org/

@ Sponsors - We are very thankful for your help!