Meeting notice archive
Meeting notices
from past meetings. If it's not there, it likely doesn't exist. If you have a meeting topic that you'd like to see covered,
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Meeting Recaps: 1993 through 2009
Note that the Meeting Recaps follow the calendar year (the year that the meeting actually occurred in).
n.b. Meeting reports and recordings exist for many past meetings. Audio recording of meetings is a relatively new thing, so those don't exist beyond maybe year 2000 or so.
The archive is spotty, but if there is a meeting that you'd like more info on, and there isn't a distinct page on it, do inquire and it just might appear.
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2009 PNW AES Section Meetings
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December 2009:
There was no December Meeting this year.
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November 2009: How Do They Make THAT Chip?
The PNW Section's November meeting featured Bob Moses, IC Program Manager for THAT Corp, speaking about the designing and manufacturing of audio ICs. 11 AES members and 18 nonmembers attended. The next meetings were announced; January 2010 would be Sean Olive and Floyd Toole, February tentatively would be on modular analog synthesizers.
Bob Moses, IC Program Manager for THAT Corp. and a past AES President, spoke about designing and manufacturing audio integrated circuits. Bob started with a little background of THAT Corp and showed slides of the headquarters in Massachusetts. read more...
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October 2009: A Memoir of Classic Recordings with Frank Laico, CBS Records (ret)
Frank Laico spent 30+ years as one of the main staff engineers at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in Manhattan. In that role he recorded many of the most famous artists of the day, recordings which have stood the test of time and become fundamental components of our musical vocabulary. As a staff engineer, he recorded whatever came through the door, and gave every project the same attention that he gave the giants. It is hard to imagine a world without Frank's work. PNW Committee members Dan Mortensen and Bob Smith facilitate a comfortable chat with this extraordinary engineer. read more...
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September 2009: Personal Listening Environments - Headphones/Headsets/Earphones
For the September 2009 PNW meeting, Rob Baum of Microsoft presented a tutorial on headphones and other personal listening devices. The meeting was held at Microsoft Studios in Redmond, WA, with 15 AES members and 19 nonmembers attending. Rob provided a thorough review of all things headphone and earphone, reminding us that many factors need to be considered in a given design. read more...
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August 2009:
A Cardioid Subwoofer Array - Theory vs. Practice
An unusual summer opportunity arose, and the PNW Section took advantage of Dansound's sound system at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo to investigate medium format outdoor subwoofer arrays. The meeting was held Saturday afternoon, August 8, 2009, and 6 AES members and 8 non-members attended. The group met on the performance stage for the formal presentation by Dan Mortensen of Dansound, and then roamed the stage area to participate in testing several arrays of subwoofers. read more...
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June 2009: Aspects of Hearing: Ears, Conservation and Hearing Aids
The PNW Section held its June general and business/elections meeting at Shoreline Community College in Shoreline, WA, north of Seattle. The featured speaker was John Young of Puget Sound Hearing and Balance, discussing hearing, hearing conservation, and hearing assistance devices featuring a local case study, retired CBS Records engineer Frank Laico. Many attendees were from Shoreline's audio technology program. 16 AES members and 9 non attended (25 total)
John started by distinguishing between research audiologists and clinical audiologists such as himself. He works with a medical doctor. Then he showed how hearing is measured with the audiogram, the chart showing the person's hearing response deviation from normal. Such a chart may seem obvious to an audio person, but many ordinary patients never have this explained to them, or told what it means for their treatment. Any loss is described variously as "mild, moderate, severe, profound" The typical testing stops at 8k-12kHz. read more...
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May 2009: Evolution of the Universal Audio Architecture in Windows 7
The May 2009 meeting of the PNW Section featured a description of the audio architecture of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system by Jerry Smith, Senior Program Manager on the Windows 7 Sound Team. 11 AES members and 16 non-members attended, at the Microsoft Research building in Redmond, WA. PNW Chair Steve Turnidge opened the meeting, and attendees introduced themselves. Section Vice-chair Rick Chinn mentioned the passing of local audio engineer John Ross.
Meeting coordinator Ivan Tashev then introduced Jerry Smith. Many of the audio changes in Windows 7 are not necessarily obvious to the end user, but operating system refinement and accommodation of desired new features. Thus, the discussion was perhaps more familiar to those versed in OS software development. read more...
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April 2009
Anatomy of a Session: The Technical Aspects.
The PNW Section took the unusual step of presenting nearly the same meeting twice in a season. Despite the title, a presentation that was part retrospective, part interview, part tutorial, and perhaps part "This Is Your Life", featured retired CBS Records staff engineer Frank Laico and his career and techniques through a magic time in the recording business in New York. From the 1940s to the 70s, Frank recorded some of the most famous musicians and songs ever, such as Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Carmen McCrae, Andy Williams and many others. read more...
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March 2009: Home Theatre vs Cinema Audio Production: the Technical Aspects
The PNW Section's March meeting was held March 25, 2009 at Opus 4 Studio, Bothell WA, with James D. (JJ) Johnston talking about spatial perception in audio and home theater versus cinema. After remarks from PNW Chair Steve Turnidge and venue host Dr. Michael Matesky/Opus 4 Studios, attendees did self-introductions. 20 AES members and 21 non-members attended.
JJ discussed how producing good multichannel audio for a home theater should be different than for a cinema. He showed that long known acoustic and psychoacoustic principles and modern production tools make it possible to utilize a home theater audio system more effectively compared to cinema, but that this makes home theatre production more complex. read more...
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February 2009: Current Legal Events and the Future of Our Music Industry
The PNW Section's Feb 25, 2009 meeting was held at the Art Institute of Seattle. Kevin Jablonski, an attorney with Graybeal Jackson of Seattle and AES PNW Section Committee member conducted a discussion of legal issues, and a panel on future trends such as social networking websites for the music industry. 15 AES members and 15 non-members attended. Kevin started with a legislative update for 2009 for the Music Industry, beginning with the PRO-IP Act of 2008, read more...
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January 2009: High Quality Termination and Project Management Fundamentals for Studio Design
The first PNW Section meeting for 2009 featured Aaron Gates of JW-Tel-Tronics on high quality wire/cable terminations and project management. 21 attendees (7 AES members) were present at the Tashiro Kaplan Artists Lofts in Seattle WA. Aaron Gates has been working in the broadcast systems integration field for over a decade and has participated in many large scale projects including ESPN high definition broadcast recording facilities, Microsoft XBOX sound design labs, nationwide DirecTV projects, mega yacht entertainment distribution systems and much more. read more...
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2008 PNW AES Section Meetings
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December 2008
Anatomy of a Session, with Frank Laico
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November 2008: Mastering for Television
Section Chair Steve Turnidge spoke about Mastering for Television, with some real-life experience to keep things interesting.
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October 2008:
How Does Your Portable Music Player Work?
James (JJ) Johnston, of Neural Audio (formerly Microsoft & Bell Labs) discussed the elements that all portable music players need to work, without discussing proprietary brand specifics. read more...
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September 2008: Inside a Remote Truck
The PNW Section September 2008 meeting was a tour of a new local remote recording truck run by Jeffrey Bruton of JMB Technical Corp. of Sequim, WA. The truck was parked at Easy Street Records in the West Seattle neighborhood. Attendees gathered at the Easy Street Cafe for an introduction, and signups for groups of four at a time inside the truck. 13 AES members and 8 non-members attended. Jeffrey Bruton gave an introduction to his truck and the main concepts of remote truck operation. read more...
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July/August 2008: The section did not meet other than for planning purposes during the summer months.
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June 2008
An Evening With Frank Laico
Frank Laico worked for CBS/Columbia as a mixer/engineer between 1940 and 1982. The depth and breadth of his work during that time is both
incredible and everlasting.
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May 2008: Architectural Acoustics 101 For Audio Nerds
An introduction to basic architectural acoustics was the topic for the PNW Section's May 2008 meeting. It was presented by Mark Rogers, Director of the AV Department at the Greenbusch Group, a Seattle acoustical consulting firm. Mark gave a survey of three topics; room acoustics, sound isolation (or transmission reduction), and HVAC (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) problems (i.e. noise and vibration control). read more...
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April 2008: Adventures in Live Surround Performance
Noted author David Miles Huber joined us in April to share some "Adventures in Live Surround Performance." Some 22 AES members attended along with 37 others. The meeting was held in the theater space of the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center, a relatively new elementary school conversion to artist community in West Seattle. PNW Committeeman Jake Perrine introduced David and would act as the host and emcee.
David Miles Huber has written such books as the classic Modern Recording Techniques (www.modrec.com), The MIDI Manual and Professional Microphone Techniques. He's also a producer and musician in the chill and downtempo genres. Huber began by playing one of his surround pieces on the theater surround system. read more...
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March 2008: Copyright Law and Music/Recording Issues
The PNW Section held its March 11, 2008 meeting at Opus 4 Studios in Bothell WA. The featured speaker was Michael Matesky II, an attorney with Portland OR based law firm Klarquist Sparkman, who spoke on "Copyright Law and Music/Recording Issues." 11 AES members were among the 27 total attendees. Matesky's lecture demonstrated that there is a lot of excruciating detail in U.S. Copyright law, and our long evening would be but a primer. read more...
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February 2008 Using Arrays of Loudspeakers for Focusing or Diffusing Sound
The PNW Section visited Microsoft Research in Redmond WA for its February 27, 2008 meeting on " Using Arrays of Loudspeakers for Focusing or Diffusing Sound." 23 AES members and 41 nonmembers were counted. Mike Seltzer, Jasha Droppo, Ivan Tashev, and JJ Johnston spoke about and demonstrated the use of loudspeaker arrays for creating a very noticeable hot spot within a room and for creating a diffuse source that was not readily localizable. read more...
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January 2008: Acoustic and Psychoacoustic Issues in Room Correction
The PNW Section's January meeting took place at Microsoft Studios in Redmond, WA. It featured James (JJ) Johnston and Serge Smirnov of Microsoft Corporation speaking on "Acoustic and Psychoacoustic Issues in Room Correction." There were about 82 attendees (23 were AES members) in the standing-room only crowd.
James (JJ) Johnston began the presentation with some basic acoustic and psychoacoustic issues regarding room correction. He described the acoustic characteristics of a room, then some of the problems. If you want to correct the room-speaker combination for good imaging and timbre, exactly what do you correct and how? Long-term or short-term frequency response, or some combination? What about interchannel matching? read more...
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2007 PNW AES Section Meetings
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November 2007: An Evening With Roy DuNann
The PNW Section's November 2007 meeting was a very special evening with an unrecognized giant of the recording engineering business, Roy DuNann. Long retired and living near Seattle, a chance meeting with Mike Matesky and the discovery of an April 2002 Stereophile magazine article on him by jazz writer Thomas Conrad led to this meeting. Conrad was enlisted to be the meeting host/interviewer, and an RSVP audience of 50 (23 being AES members) gathered at Opus 4 Studios in Bothell, WA. read more...
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October 2007 TV Whitespace
Chris Lyons and Luis Guerra from Shure Inc. gave an in-depth look at what is likely to happen after February 19, 2009 when the FCC throws the DTV switch and the upper portion of the UHF TV band is no longer part of the TV Whitespace.
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September 2007: Audio Technology from the Legal Perspective
The PNW Section met September 18, 2007, to hear about legal aspects of intellectual property (IP) from an audio perspective. The speakers were Kevin Jablonski and Toussaint Myricks, of the Axios Law Group in Seattle. About 26 attendees (including 12 AES members) met at the University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Theater in Seattle.
Kevin D. Jablonski earned the BSEE (Gonzaga), JD (Seattle Univ.), and Audio Production (Art Institute of Seattle) degrees, and his practice involves aspects of intellectual property law such as patent procurement, copyrights, and trademarks. He is also a member of the Recording Academy: Engineer's and Producers Wing, and the Audio Engineering Society, and plays drums in an 11-piece soul band.
Toussaint Myricks received the SBEE (MIT), MSEE (Univ. of Wash.), Master of IP and JD (Franklin Pierce Law Center) degrees, and concentrates his law practice on patent, trademark, software copyright, trade secret and related licensing matters. read more...
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August 2007
Although we usually take the summer off, Dan Mortensen offered to take us on a tour of his medium format live sound system while it was set up for an actual event at Woodland Park Zoo.
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June 2007: Inside a Solid State Logic Mixing Console
The PNW Section June 07 meeting featured an in-depth look inside a typical large-format mixing console along with maintenance and repair strategies. The presenter was Phil Nickolay, a former employee of both Neve and Solid State Logic (SSL) and now an independent console consultant with his Virtual Earth Professional Audio company based in Vashon, WA. The meeting was held at the Art Institute of Seattle in their Studio A, with its SSL G+ series console as the guinea pig. read more...
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May 2007: Sound Design for Live Theater
The PNW Section's May meeting topic was "Sound Design for Live Theater." The meeting was held Wednesday, May 9, 2007, at the Ned & Kayla Skinner Theater in the Raisbeck Performance Hall, on the campus of Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle WA. Sound Designer and PNW AES Committee member Dave Tosti-Lane gave an engaging introduction to the world of sound design for the legitimate theater, from history to planning and artistic decisions to hardware. Dave is a founder and Chair of the Performance Production Department of Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts, where he has taught for 25 years. read more...
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April 2007: Recording The Beatles - The Book An Evening with Authors, Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew
The AES PNW Section's April meeting featured an evening with the authors of the book, Recording The Beatles, Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew. The meeting was arranged by the AES PNW Section and presented with the local chapter of The Recording Academy and the Experience Music Project in the EMP's JBL theater. Opening remarks were made by AES PNW Chair Dan Mortensen, EMP's Bill Hayes, The Recording Academy's PNW Chapter Executive Director Ben London, and primary event arranger, AES PNW Section Vice-Chair and Academy member Steve Turnidge. The authors, Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew, took the stage with the Academy's Steve Mack acting as host/emcee. read more...
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March 2007: Newgrass in the Big Apple
The PNW Section's March 2007 meeting featured a presentation on producing a commercial "newgrass" music album using only two spaced omnidirectional microphones. The presenter was Matthew Gephart, a staff engineer at Sage Arts recording studio in Arlington, WA. This project concerned mandolinist Chris Thile (also known from the group, Nickel Creek) and other musicians collectively known as "the How to Grow a Band" recording the album, "How to Grow a Woman from the Ground"
at Sear Sound in New York City.
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February 2007: Sound Man - From WWII to MP3
This meeting featured a film by Scott Budman and Don Hardy,
Sound Man,
about the life and times of Jack Mullin. Jack was a Smart Guy who had the curiosity and position to investigate just how it was that the Germans were able to broadcast (WW2 timeframe), in high fidelity, material that was obviously recorded somehow. This is the story of a fateful left turn that brought about the birth of the tape recording industry in the United States. After the film, Steve Turnidge and Rick Chinn presented a short tutorial on magnetic recording. read more...
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January 2007: Digital Filtering Workshop - An In-Depth Examination
The PNW Section's January 2007 meeting was an all-day Saturday workshop on digital filtering. About 30 persons (21 members) attended. In the morning session, "JJ" Johnston started with a simple analog filter as an example and expanded on the discussions that started with the Section's prior workshops on FFT's and on digital-to-analog conversion. In the afternoon session, Steve Hastings and boB Gudgel described how to find and install freeware computer software that help design and implement filters, and showed what happens to actual audio signals when you do. read more...
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2006 PNW AES Section Meetings
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December 2006: Arraying Loudspeakers - Do's, Don'ts, and Maybes
For our December 2006 meeting Dan Mortensen and Mark Rogers presented a meeting on arraying loudspeakers. Approximately 43 persons attended (of which 21 were AES members). The meeting was held at the Art Institute of Seattle. Dan is owner of the reinforcement company Dansound, Inc and also currently chair of the AES PNW Section. Mark is Director of AV for the consulting firm The Greenbush Group and an AES PNW Committee member.
After a little AES business and group introductions, Mark Rogers started with a revue of the concerns when arraying loudspeakers. One wants to cover the audience - not walls, ceilings, mikes, etc. if possible. One also doesn't want destructive interference between speaker boxes. read more...
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November 2006: An Evening with Jack Endino, Veteran Indie Producer/Engineer
The PNW Section met November 15, 2006 to spend an evening with a veteran independent music producer/engineer. About 35 persons (16 of whom were members) attended the meeting, held in conjunction with Shoreline Community College at their Music Building in Shoreline, WA. Jack Endino, producer/engineer to the stars, spoke to us about recording, techie things, tape machine performance, especially at high speed, and tales of gory (or is it glory?) days from the trenches. Endino has hundreds of albums to his credit over the last 20 years, including work with Nirvana and Soundgarden. He told of his start in the 80s after earning a BSEE degree from the University of Washington in power engineering and working at Puget Sound Naval Shipyards. At the time, he used an analog 8 track and edited with razor blades, of course. Today, he recounts how historic this seems, as students and writers now try to contact him for advice on term papers and articles about those heady days. read more...
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October 2006:
There were two meetings in October 2006
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October 24, 2006: Audio vs. Video - What's the Difference?
The PNW Section met for a second time in October at Opus 4 Studios in Bothell, WA for an interesting diversion comparing perception of audio and video, presented by James (JJ) Johnston of Microsoft. Since the final target for almost all audio and video is a human being, it seems that the way the human being perceives audio and video signals is paramount to understanding how to treat each kind of signal. 18 AES members, including AES President-Elect Bob Moses, and 15 non-members attended. read more...
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October 14, 2006: Audio? Got Questions? We've Got Answers - a Q & A Panel Discussion
The PNW Section tried a small experiment for one of its October meetings. PNW Committeeman Daniel Casado arranged a Saturday teen-oriented session of "stump the band," with the idea that attendees could ask any audio question and the PNW Section officers and committee would discuss and try to answer. The meeting was held at the Old Fire House Teen Center in Redmond, WA, which is really a former fire station. Filling out the panel were PNW Committee members James Johnston (JJ), Rick Chinn and Daniel Casado, Section Secretary Gary Louie, Ryan Finley of McCauley Sound, and surprise guest Rick Fisher of RFI Mastering in Seattle. read more...
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September 2006: Some Lesser Known Facts About Digital Audio
The PNW Section September meeting featured Dan Lavry, of Lavry Engineering, discussing digital audio. Some 47 people attended at Glenn Sound studios in Seattle. Lavry's work goes back to the early 70's designing circuits for telephone traffic measurement gear. Some of his work included high speed IC test systems for IBM and Toshiba, a time interval generator for Hughes, an AD converter (8 bits at 100MHz) for EH Research, a programmable filter and isolated AD for Nicollet Biomedical, and an array of AD and DA converters for instrumentation, medical and telecom industries (HP, ITT, ATT, GE, Siemens and more). read more...
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No meetings during the summer months!
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June 2006 Audio on the PC - Inside the guts of the Windows Audio Subsystem
The PNW Section held its last meeting of the season June 19, 2006 at Microsoft Studios in Redmond, WA. The featured speaker was Elliot Omiya, a Microsoft Software Architect, discussing the Microsoft Windows audio subsystems. Nearly 100 persons attended. The Section also held its business meeting, and elected the next season's officers.
Audio on the PC. Elliot Omiya, of Microsoft, described the guts of the audio subsystem of the Windows Vista operating system.
Mr. Omiya started with a Powerpoint slide of the venerable Heathkit AR-15 receiver, and described how his interest in audio began by watching his father solder the Heathkit. After hearing a fair number of attendees say they used a PC, he joked that back in the LA area, PC users would seldom admit to using one. read more...
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May 2006: "Born Digital": Will recordings survive the 21st century?
Approximately 60 persons met at Glenn Sound Studios, Seattle WA for the PNW Section's May 2006 meeting on digital archiving issues with John Spencer of BMS/Chace. The meeting was held in conjunction with a national conference of the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) being held in Seattle. Spencer, of BMS/Chace, discussed the implications of various forms of data management and long term storage. Like any religion, the topic has its believers, disciples, and non-believers (or at least those who are in serious denial). read more...
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April 2006: "Loudness vs. Intensity, What's the Big Deal?"
On Tuesday April 25, 2006, about 30 members and guests of the Pacific Northwest section of the Audio Engineering Society enjoyed a presentation by James (JJ) Johnston entitled "Loudness vs. Intensity, What's the Big Deal?" Johnston, an Audio Architect with the Microsoft Codec Group, is a member of the Section's programming committee and a frequent presenter for the PNW Section. He worked 26 years for AT&T Bell Labs and its successor AT&T Research Labs, and is a pioneer investigator in the field of perceptual audio coding, one of the inventors of the MPEG 1 & 2 Audio Layer 3 and MPEG-2 AAC. Most recently he has been working in the area of auditory perception of sound fields, ways to capture sound-field cues and represent them, and playback for both captured and synthetic performances. Committee member Dr. Michael Matesky graciously provided the venue for the meeting at Opus 4 Studios, his warm and inviting facility in Bothell, Washington. read more...
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March 2006: Indistinguishable from Magic: Ableton Live
The PNW Section held its March meeting at Shoreline Community College near Seattle. 47 attended, many of them audio students at Shoreline CC. Chair Dan Mortensen began the meeting with greetings and general business, including upcoming meetings and elections. He passed the mike and had all attendees briefly introduce themselves, and state whether they had done any analog recording. Some had, while many had never recorded anything but digital. Next, PNW Committeeman and meeting organizer Steve Turnidge related how impressed he had been when shown the capabilities of this software. He felt that this evolution of music software was now blurring former boundaries of software use - and to those not familiar with this evolution, may seem a bit "magical." He introduced the presenter, Matt Frazier of M-Audio. read more...
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February 2006: Concepts and Practices for Evaluation of Rooms and Sound Systems Using FFT Analysis - Part II with Meyer Sound Labs
The PNW Section braved the region's worst windstorm in 9 years to meet Saturday, February 4, 2006, for a day-long workshop in our continuing in-depth examination of acoustical evaluation using popular FFT analysis methods and products. A previous day-long workshop (2003) centered on the TEF system; this meeting featured Meyer Sound Labs and their SIM3 (Source Independent Measurement) FFT method. The Meyer Sound Labs (MSL) staff took a bit of a tag team approach, trading off on certain topics during the day and helping each other answer questions and do demonstrations. Their staff consisted of Gavin Canaan, MSL Educational Programs Manager; Todd Meier, MSL Design Services Manager; John Monitto, MSL Technical Sales Support Manager; and Dr. Roger Schwenke, MSL Staff Scientist. read more...
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January 2006: Audio Production and Integration into X-Box Games
On Monday, Jan 30, 2006, over 65 attendees met at the Art Institute of Seattle for a presentation on audio production for computer games. After opening remarks by PNW Chair Dan Mortensen, David Christensen, PNW Vice-Chair and Meeting Coordinator this evening, introduced the presenters. In addition to being an AiS faculty member in Audio Production and the AiS/AES Student Section advisor David and AiS Audio Production Director Steve Barsotti have been working with Bungie on adding game audio to their curriculum.
David introduced Marty O'Donnell, Audio Director, and Jay Weinland, Audio Lead at Bungie Studios. Marty's background includes a Masters degree in Composition from USC; TV, radio and film scoring work; and many best-selling computer games like Riven, Myth, Halo and Halo2. Jay's background includes a BA in oboe and MMT in music teaching from Oberlin, and work on many games from Manley, Electronic Arts, and Bungie such as Need For Speed, ONI, Halo and Halo2. read more...
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2005 PNW AES Section Meetings
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December 2005: Hearing Loss Prevention and Education
The PNW Section met December 13, 2005 at Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in Bothell, WA to hear Dr. Lori Mercer speak on hearing, hearing loss and prevention. Dr. Mercer began with some observations about audiology - a bit of a mixture of science and art, and how hearing can be so important for human relationships. You don't hear, you tend to have trouble communicating and relating to the people around you. read more...
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November 2005: Microphone Techniques for Orchestral and Other Classical Recording
PNW Chair Dan Mortensen opened with AES business and planned future meetings, and had the approximately 78 attendees introduce themselves. He then introduced Al Swanson, recording engineer for the Seattle Symphony. Al began with a little philosophy on recording, and the concept of preserving sound "in context" as opposed to studio recording with manipulations. He stays away from sound reinforcement and studio recording - 8 channels is a big deal for him. He mentioned the aesthetics of classical recording: perhaps to "simulate the ideal listening experience in the ideal seat." read more...
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October 2005: Apple Computer Applications for Audio Production
Meeting coordinator/PNW Committee member Dr. Michael Matesky introduced the evening's speakers, Ed McNichol and Clark Schroeder. Ed spoke on his experiences as a video producer using the Apple Soundtrack Pro software for video productions, using examples on his laptop. He cited the precision audio editing, sweetening capabilities, and integration with other software like video editors as some reasons why he liked it.
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June 2005
Our June meeting was an all day discussion about Virtual Synthesizers.
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May 2005
Bill Whitlock talked about balanced interfaces and connecting anything to anything.
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April 2005: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Gain Structure
The PNW Section held its April meeting on gain structure at the Loud Technologies (aka Mackie Designs) corporate office training facility in Woodinville, WA. About 65 persons attended. Section Treasurer Dave Franzwa opened the meeting with Section business and notice of elections. Mark Rogers, PNW committee member and Director of the AV Department at Seattle consulting engineers The Greenbusch Group went through the basic elements of practical analog gain structure and gain balancing in audio systems for best performance. Next, James Johnston (J.J.), PNW Committee member and Audio Architect, Codecs Group, Microsoft, covered performance issues of gain control in the digital domain. read more...
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March 2005: Audio Anecdotes
Forty-six attendees met March 31, 2005 at the DigiPen Institute of Technology in Redmond WA (in the Nintendo building, and near Microsoft HQ) to participate in a presentation on the series of books titled, Audio Anecdotes.
AES PNW Section Chair Dan Mortensen began the meeting, and had all attendees briefly introduce themselves. This meeting was co-sponsored by the Seattle Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGGRAPH (graphics special interest group), for which Steve Hollasch spoke briefly. AES PNW Committee member and meeting facilitator Steve Turnidge introduced the books' co-editor Ken Greenebaum (co-edited with Ronen Barzel).
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February 2005: Subjective Microphone Comparisons
On Monday, February 28, 2005, around 60 attendees enjoyed an excellent presentation on "Subjective Microphone Comparisons" by Juergen Wahl of Sennheiser/Neumann Microphones held on the Art Institute of Seattle campus. The event was hosted jointly by the Pacific Northwest Section of the Audio Engineering Society and the AES Student Section at the Art Institute of Seattle. Mr. Wahl is a Fellow and Life Member of the AES, and has been principal applications engineer for Neumann and Sennheiser microphones in the USA for many years. read more...
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January 2005: The Invention of Optical Digital Recording
Gary Louie, PNW Secretary and MC for the meeting, explained that he attended the 2003 AES Convention in NYC and saw an exhibit about the history of digital recording, which included a presentation by James Russell, a scientist who worked at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Richland, Washington developing optical data storage techniques. Then, on Nov. 29, 2004, he saw an article in the Seattle Times about Mr. Russell pointing out how he invented the underlying technology that led to the development of CDs and DVDs, but made no royalties from his invention. Since Mr. Russell now lives just outside of Seattle, Gary saw an opportunity for an informative meeting. As a result the January 2005 meeting featured James Russell, inventor of optical CD recording, telling us about the origins of CD recording. Jim Russell received his Physics degree from Reed College in 1953. He worked for General Electric at the Hanford Nuclear Facility in Richland, WA, Battelle Labs in Richland, Digital Recording Corporation in Salt Lake City, and Optical Recording Corporation in Toronto, Canada. He is currently semi-retired and an independent consultant/inventor in Bellevue, WA. He holds over 50 patents. read more...
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2004 PNW AES Section Meetings
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- September 2004
Our
September meeting
was a special screening of the documentary film,
Tom Dowd and The Language of Music.
- October 2004
J. J. Johnston
on Hearing, Acoustics, and Soundfields: What can we hear and what can't we hear?
- November 2004
Dana Troxel of Rane Corporation
discusses the how and why of acoustic feedback and demonstrates Rane's feedback killer
module as used in their DragNet™ line of DSP-based audio signal processors.
- February 2004
From Hear to Eternity - Sampling, Conversion and the Limits of Hearing.
An all-day seminar
with James Johnston, Dr. Melissa Harrison, Dr. Richard Cabot, Steven Green, and Bob Moses.
- April-May 2004
The Science and Voodoo of Electric Guitars.
We held three meetings covering various aspects of guitar pickup electronics, pickup construction, and guitar amplifiers.
- June 2004
Dave Gunness of EAW
described and demonstrated their new Digitally Steered Line Array speaker.
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2003 PNW AES Section Meetings
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- November 2003
Richard Erwin takes us on a tour of
Marion Oliver McCaw Hall
at Seattle Center.
- September/October/ 2003
The PNW Section hosts a panel discussion on
CD Mastering
at Shoreline Community College.
- June 2003
Dennis Bohn and Rick Jeffs from
Rane Corporation
talk about active filters, equalizers, and crossovers.
- May 2003
Mike Overlin and John Strawn talk about Yamaha's
mLan
music oriented LAN.
- April 2003
Bob Smith, Medtronic-Physio Control demonstrates the
importance of good audio
in a non-traditional audio application, a defibrillator.
- March 2003
The
Surround Sound
Seminar, presented by Mike Sokol of Fits and Starts Productions visits our corner of Paradise once more.
- February 2003
Mark Rogers revisits our old friend,
the Decibel.
- January 2003
Concepts and Practices
for Evaluation of Rooms and Sound Systems using FFT Analysis. An all day workshop with Daniel Casado, Bruce Main, Mark Rogers, and Blair McNair.
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2002 PNW AES Section Meetings
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- December 2002
There was no meeting in December.
- November 2002
Bill Whitlock,
Jensen Transformers Inc., tells a capacity crowd about the Top Ten Signal Interconnection Myths.
- October 2002
A look at
Music for Film
from the composer's perspective with noted film music composer Hummie Mann.
- September 2002
Taking a cue from the Los Angeles Section, we present
An Evening with Greg Mackie.
- June 2002.
The Soundbridge
at Benaroya Hall is a multimedia experience designed to connect listeners with the symphony orchestra.
- May 2002.
Internet Audio Networking
with Bob Moses, Island Digital Media Group.
As the dust settles from the dotcom hoopla, one thing is for sure - Internet Audio is here to stay. Some industry pundits predict that online consumption of audio/video media will eventually eclipse brick and mortar commerce. But critics point out that online music sounds bad, and such a tremendous transformation will take years, perhaps decades, to complete. Moreover, downloading music to a PC and listening to it while seated at a desk is not exactly a replacement for listening to a CD in the comfort of the living room. Bob Moses spoke aboutt the lastest advances in the business and technology of Internet audio. He reviewed the trend toward home networks so that audio and video can be digitally transported around a home along with other computer data. We listened to a variety of audio compression formats.
- April 2002.
Mark Rogers
takes us through the ins and outs of the current National Electrical Code, especially with regard to how it affects audio systems wiring and performance.
With
photos
- March 2002.
Opus 4 Studios
uses Lexicon LARES to break down the walls of the traditional studio environment to provide an acoustically comfortable recording environment for a variety of musical genres. Steve Barbar of LARES takes us through an unusual application of a remarkable tool.
With
photos
- February 2002.
Trimpin
mixes art, music, and computers. We visit his studio for this meeting.
With
photos
- January 2002.
A house of worship
sound system design. Rick Smargiassi, Integrated Light and Sound Inc. takes us through a recently completed installation. Daniel Casado, manufacturer's rep for Electro-Voice discusses the Asymetrical Coverage loudspeaker used for this install and Rick takes us through the high points of the Sabine DSP audio processor.
With
photos
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- November 1997.
EASE and EARS electroacoustical modeling software
Presented by Ron Sauro
Video frame captures
from this meeting.
- November 1997.
Streaming Audio and video on the Internet
at RealNetworks.
Video frame captures
from this meeting.
- October 1997.
Mackie Digital 8-bus Mixer
preview and factory tour.
Photos
from this meeting.
- June 1997.
Tour
of KIRO, KIRO-FM, and KNWX radio studios.
Photos
from this meeting.
- June 1997.
Preliminary pictures from the
Internet.Audio conference,
June 13-15 at Bell Harbor Conference Center, Seattle.
- May 1997.
The IEEE 1394 Firewire Serial Bus
with Bob Moses of PAVO.
Photos
from this meeting.
- April 1997.
The Art and Science of System Troubleshooting.
A Panel discussion with Mac Perkins, Cal Perkins, and Rick Chinn
Photos
of the three presenters (troublemakers?).
- March 1997
Tour of the LCS (Level Control Systems) Sound System
at the Seattle Repertory Theatre's Leo Kreielsheimer Theatre.
Photos
from this meeting.
- March 1997
The Business of Recording in the Pacific Northwest: Past, Present, and Future.
Presented jointly by the AES PNW Section, The Society of Professional Audio Recording Services (SPARS), and the Art Institute of Seattle.
Photos
from this meeting.
- February 1997
Saint James Cathedral sound system
featuring Peavey Mediamatrix.
Presented by Brian Bylenok.
Photos
from this meeting.
- January 1997.
AES/WAPS Large Format
speaker workshop.
Co-presented by the PNW AES Section and the Washington Association of Performance Services.
Photos
from this meeting/extravaganza.
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