Chair - Rick Chinn

Rick is It at Uneeda Audio, a pro-audio consultancy, and has served the PNW section in various capacities since its inception over 25 years ago. He served as volunteer and technical liaison for the 14th International Conference in 1997, volunteer at the 121st Convention in 2006, and AES Standards SC05-05 and SC-05-02 since 2000. In 2003, he was a panelist on the Grounding and Shielding Tutorial at the 114th Convention in Amsterdam. In addition to his Section work, he is a consultant specializing in audio systems design and troubleshooting, live sound mixing, recording, technical writing, and web design..

Previously, Rick has worked for nearly every pro audio company in the local area, the sound crew at Seattle Center, and is currently working on projects for Benaroya Hall, Teatro Zinzanni, and several area churches. Rick is also a freelance live and studio mixing engineer as well as the current PNW AES webmaster. He holds one US Patent as well as Commercial Radiotelephone and Amateur Radio licenses. He does not do ladders or lights.
www.uneeda-audio.com 

Vice-Chair - Steve Turnidge

Steve Turnidge is a noted mastering engineer at UltraViolet Studios with dozens of albums and thousands of licensed music tracks to his credit. His latest project is to co-produce and master the upcoming Jellyfish Tribute Album.

He has over 20 years experience in the Pro Audio electronics industry specializing in mixed digital and analog printed circuit board design (with a specialty in FireWire audio designs). Steve taught a year of Audio Recording at Shoreline Community College, and is currently assisting in the design and documentation of the new XBOX Studios at Microsoft.

In addition to being the Vice-Chairman of the PNW Section Audio Engineering Society committee, Steve is a voting member of the Recording Academy and plays bass in The Nervous Freemasons.

Steve is also a founder of Shared Media Licensing  and co-host of the Krimson-News podcasts. 
www.arsdivina.com 

Secretary - Gary Louie

Gary has been the recording engineer for the University of Washington School of Music since 1979, previously earning his BSEE at the UW. He has served as AES PNW Section Chair, Vice Chair, Committee, and most recently, Secretary since 1993. Gary is also the co-author, with Glenn White, of the Audio Dictionary 3rd Ed.

Treasurer - Dave Franzwa

Dave has been employed in the audio manufacturing industry in the Seattle area since 1979, having worked at TAPCO, Carver, Spectral, and currently at Mackie where he is Technical Documentation Manager. He graduated from Cogswell College North in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering Technology. He enjoys playing music and working with audio and sound reinforcement equipment in his spare time.

Committee - boB Gudgel

boB, K7IQ, has has worked with, or for many Northwest audio companies, including, Phase Linear, TAPCO, Spectro Acoustics, AudioControl, Mackie, and Symetrix. He presently works for MidNite Solar and Magnum Energy designing inverters/chargers for the alternative energy market, as well as spending time at side jobs related to audio and his home recording studio. He also currently serves on the PNW section committee. boB runs a web forum for defunct Northwest audio companies that can be found at
http://www.bob.gudgel.org 

Committee - Aurika Hays

Aurika is currently a full time teacher specializing in a curriculum of Kindermusik, gymnastics, ballet, tap, piano, educational computer software, and mouse techniques for little fingers. Although her 4 year old son can play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Chop Sticks, and Happy Birthday on the Piano, he believes that music is primarily useful only as a background to gymnastics and dance moves. In her spare time, Aurika is the current AES PNW Database Maven. Before being promoted to the title of "Domestic Engineer and Child Development Specialist", Aurika spent several years at RealNetworks in Seattle, where she worked as an Audio Software Engineer, an Audio Quality Specialist, and as a Program Manager in the Tools and Authoring Products Group. She first became involved with the AES at the tender age of 13, when she spent countless hours at AES HQ in NYC doing research in violin acoustics. She graduated from Stanford University with a BS degree in Audio and Acoustical Engineering. At the University of Miami, she was the first woman to earn an MS in Music Engineering Technology. Aurika had hoped to one day return to a life of math more advanced than "I love you Googleplex much", but she is currently waiting for the finalization of a new acquisition (Baby Hays version 2.0).

Committee - Dr. Michael Matesky

Dr. Michael Matesky is the designer and owner of Opus 4 Studios (audio and video recording) where he also engineers. Born and raised in Los Angeles, where his father worked in the studios, he has a BM and MM in cello, and also a DMA in conducting from the University of Washington. He is a composer and arranger, President of Opus 4 Music publishing company, studio musician, music contractor, founding cellist in Opus 4 String Quartet, and occasional Gypsy jazzman with undeniable traces of evidence found at www.opus4studios.com.  Dr. Matesky is currently serving on the PNW section committee.

Committee - Dan Mortensen

Dan is President of Dansound Inc., which specializes in live sound reinforcement and is Washington State dealer for Meyer Sound Laboratories, among other dealerships. He is current AES PNW Treasurer, past Section Chair, Vice-Chair, & Committee member. He is the current Executive Director of the Washington Association of Production Services. After more than 10 years, Dan continues to find that serving on the AES PNW Committee is one of his favorite things.

Committee - Bob Smith

Bob has a BSEE from the University of Washington and has worked in the Biomedical industry for over 30 years. The last 12 years he has spent developing acoustic research and audio engineering disciplines for Medtronic / Physio Control to improve speech intelligibility for medical device voice prompting and voice recording systems in noisy environments. He is responsible for voice prompting in 30+ languages. The department now handles acoustic measurements of components such as drivers , microphone capsules and system measurements including Thiele-Small parameters, polar plots, waterfalls, frequency response, impulse response, several speech intelligibility methods, etc. He also runs an acoustic lab / project studio called BS Studios recording local musical talents, has recorded local school concerts for 10+ years, does remote recordings, acoustic consulting and is currently working on automotive interior noise assessments and their effect on speech intelligibility.

Committee - Dr. Ivan Tashev

Dr. Tashev works on creation of novel sound capturing and sound rendering devices and audio processing algorithms in Microsoft Research. He created and implemented the algorithm for the microphone array support in Windows Vista. He has published more than 50 scientific papers and has 15 submissions for US patents. Four of them are already granted and all are in the area of novel audio processing algorithms. He holds Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (1990) and Masters Degree in Electronics (1984), both from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria.

Committee - Dave Tosti-Lane

Dave is a theatrical sound designer, lighting designer and technical director, and is a founding faculty member and Chair of the Performance Production Department at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Dave holds a BS degree in management and an MFA degree in Lighting Design and Technical Direction from Virginia Tech, but his real audio education began when handed his first tape recorder at age 10. He is Chair of AES Standards Committee Working Group SC-05-03 on Audio Connectors, Vice-Commissioner for Education in the Sound Design Commission of the US Institute for Theatre Technology, and the associate editor for sound of TD&T, the journal of the USITT. He is a past Chair, Vice Chair and Committee member of the PNW AES Section.

Last modified 5/16/2007.