AES New York 2017 Presenter or Author
Paul Special
Primary Affiliation: Special Audio Sevices - Wantage, NJ, USA
Secondary Affiliation: ABC/Disney Television - New York, NY, USA
Paul Special is an award winning audio engineer and studio designer whose expertise extends into many different aspects of professional audio. Whether he is engineering record and music projects, doing broadcast music mixing for national TV shows, recording and mixing audio for concert DVD's or recording and mixing national television and radio spots, Special has had the opportunity to work with many mega-star music acts and big time corporate clients. An abbreviated list includes Billy Joel, Aerosmith, Paul Simon, Stone Temple Pilots, Incubus, Robert Palmer, Carrie Underwood, Nike, Volkswagen, Grey Advertising, Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide, ABC, CBS, NBC, Disney, USA Networks, Oxygen, CMT, MTV,VH-1, BET, etc.
Special's work has earned him multiple RIAA Platinum and Gold Record awards, Billboard Magazine's #1 and Top Ten chart awards, Mix Magazine's TEC (Technical Excellence and Creativity) awards, EMMY awards as well as GRAMMY award nominations.
Currently, Special can be found most days engineering the Broadcast Music Mix for #1 rated morning show Good Morning America, recent acts this summer have included, Green Day, Demi Lovato, Bleachers, Chainsmokers, Imagine Dragons, etc. He is also serving as an Adjunct Professor for the City University of New York teaching audio engineering and music production in studios that he designed and installed for the school.
More Info: http://www.paulspecial.com
Session List
Oct 18:
BAE04: Music Mixing for Broadcast (Presenter)
Oct 18:
BAE05: Broadcast Music for GMA (Presenter)
Oct 18:
SA02: Riding the Faders: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve in Immersive Audio (Presenter)